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In Praise of FR's freedom - from a progressive
by ClassConscious aka SoLongCrooks ^

Posted on 02/06/2006 7:52:43 PM PST by ClassConscious

Edited on 02/07/2006 3:38:17 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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Earlier thread by this poster under another name before he was banned, linked above also:

Bye-bye Delay! So long crooks! Goodbye world, I'm gone by ZOT!

Posted on 01/08/2006 8:43:32 PM CST by SoLongCrooks

Yaa, you repukes are not doing so well, huh? Imagine, you repukes control the presidency, both houses of Congress, and appointed 7 of the 9 Supreme Court justices. Yet the Supreme Court thre out sodomy laws in all 50 states and recognized the right of government to seize land for any reason. And you couldn't pass your Social Security changes could you? Sorry, that was your last shot. Come November, we're going to start seeing more Democratic faces in the House. It's the end for you guys. You guys are celebrating when Bush's numbers go *up* to 45%. Then Faux News trumpets this like it's some kind of victory.

I should add I am not a Democrat, I am a communist. And I know one day the workers will control the means of production, and all the capitalist idle class parasites you guys love will be eliminated as a class. But I also recognize, like the CPUSA, sometimes you must enter a front with the liberals for tactical reasons. We had fun sticking it to the liberals with Nader and the Greens in 2000, 2002 and 2004, but this year we're switching gears. Evo Morales in Bolivia, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, plus all are other Latin American comrades, and the Left Party in Germany, the Socialist Party in Spain pulling the troops out of Iraq. It's a come back for the workers of the world, BIG TIME. Sorry to all you capitalists and sycophants, or Jesus-believing loonies.

Oh yaa - Bye bye Tom Delay. We control nothing in the government, yet we still control so much! Gramsci was right to make a long march through the institutions. Too bad your shot at power amounted to so little! At least you got your estate tax cut...for a few years anyhow.

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The first thing I will say up front - I am a progressive, not a conservative. This message is about the freedom of Free Republic, versus the party line of Democratic Underground.

If you look at Democratic Underground's rules ( http://www.democraticunderground.com/forums/rules_detailed.html ), one is "Democratic Underground may not be used for political, partisan, or advocacy activity by supporters of any political party or candidate other than the Democratic Party or Democratic candidates." Note, this doesn't say Republicans, this doesn't say "progressive candidates", it says Democratic candidates, period. Now let's compare this to Free Republic's posting guidelines ( http://www.freerepublic.com/help.htm ) - "Broadly stated, the goals of this site are to further conservatism, expose political corruption, and recover a truly constitutional form of government." No mention of the Republican Party. No jihad against you if you make up your mind to vote for Pertouka. No "party line" from the Republican leadership. Significantly, even though DU and FR are compared often, that is a (unofficial) Democratic Party site, you are a conservative site.

I just made two posts saying positive things about the Green party, talking about how people like Clinton and Kerry do not represent working class people and so forth. This was after 200+ posts there by me on other topics. Both of my threads were locked and I was directed to the above mentioned rules, which say those who don't follow the Democratic Party line are not welcome. I then posted a thread saying Free Republic had more freedom of expression than Democratic Underground, and that that was a shame. That was erased.

While my discussion of this was banned on DU, I don't think it will be banned here. I can't believe I am more free to discuss my support of the Greens, or talk about freedom of political discussion on Free Republic than Democratic Underground. And as I said before, the fact that you are a conservative site, not a official or unofficial Republican Party site is probably due to this. The party that runs the White House, Congress and 7 of 9 Supreme Court seats allows people to support Pertouka over Bush on its main political board. The main discussion board for people of the progressive movement declares all must follow the Democratic Party line, and any other discussion is locked and erased. I've even seen people banned before.

This is not going to make me a conservative or Republican. I am a working class person and hate capitalists. Note, I hate capitalists, not conservatives. I know plenty of conservatives, but am not a regular at the mansions of wealthy heirs. Anyhow, my point is this will not make me like capitalism any more, but I am very fed up with the Democrats and places like DU. They restrict freedom, make people follow a party line - and lose. You allow discussion, allow people to choose between Pertouka, Bush and whatnot - and win. Very sad.

I should close this by saying I agree with nothing the Republicans or conservatives are for - except one thing. I am a complete supporter of the Second Amendment. I have been on the left for a long time and the scariest people around are the gun control people. Not the soccer moms who the leaders of gun control people try to appeal to, but the leaders themselves, the people who want more and more gun control. I have heard people like this talk about how they are scared that people up in Appalachia and in the South have so many guns. I am always puzzled like this. For myself, I feel pretty SAFE knowing people in Appalachia, the South and so forth have guns. Why would someone be scared that the working people in rural areas have rifles, shotguns and so forth? The people who say this usually aren't working class people, they are usually liberal yuppie types. So all you second amendment supporters - you're more right than you know, if you heard how these people talk, you'd be more freaked out by all this gun control stuff than you probably already are. The gun control people are the creepiest, scariest people on the left and in the Democratic party. Meaning not the soccer moms and so forth they try to appeal to, but the people masterminding the fight on that. In fact, if you look at DU polls - many many DUers are more pro-2nd amendment than pro-gun control. So who are these gun control people? So keep fighting on this, at least one party supports the 2nd Amendment. Other than this, I don't agree with conservatives or Republicans on anything, especially in terms of the working class. Hopefully this post will shame some DU admin into allowing more freedom of expression for progressives there. You guys can discuss problems in the conservative movement while we can't - we're only allowed to praise the Democratic party, otherwise, hit the road. I hope I shame some DU admin into making changes with this, but I doubt I will.


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To: RandallFlagg; Admin Moderator
Please keep this one.

Agree strongly

181 posted on 02/06/2006 8:37:13 PM PST by zip (Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough become truth to 48% of all Americans (NRA)))
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To: Fred Hayek
HATEBUSHHATEBUSHHATEHATEHATEBUSH.
182 posted on 02/06/2006 8:37:36 PM PST by zeugma (Muslims are varelse...)
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To: nopardons

You seem to be very cranky tonight! Perhaps you need to take a break. Too much piss and vinegar makes you sour and, well, pissy... 8^)


183 posted on 02/06/2006 8:38:10 PM PST by BreitbartSentMe (Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*)
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To: A message

Oh, do not despair. He'll join us - sooner or later. We're just a lovely bunch of coconuts...


184 posted on 02/06/2006 8:38:15 PM PST by immigration lady (there are no atheists in foxholes.)
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To: The Old Hoosier
Some of us post how much we hate Bush every day. And we don't get zotted! Of course, it's only because he's a government-expanding socialist, but...

Not sure if you're kidding, but I'm going to take you seriously and say that I agree with you on this. I don't think Bush is real conservative on most issues.

185 posted on 02/06/2006 8:38:22 PM PST by Maximus_Ridiculousness (patriotdreams.net)
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To: mdittmar

bttt


186 posted on 02/06/2006 8:38:30 PM PST by nopardons
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To: ClassConscious

Want to discuss this hatred of capitalists?

The term "capitalism" was coined by Karl Marx to describe a free market system. Capitalism is the opposite of statism, or rather free-market capitalism (basically our economic system) is the exact opposite of state capitalism (what Marx supported).

When you say that you "hate capitalists", what you are really saying is that you hate our economic system, yet, it is that very system that has secured this nation's liberties and an above average standard of living for quite a long time for her citizens.


187 posted on 02/06/2006 8:38:33 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: ClassConscious

You might get some cheers because of your comments regarding the "freethinking" DU...I'll just say congrats for thinking. I'm not a registered republican, and although we're likely to disagree on many methods we might agree on some goals. Best of luck to you.


188 posted on 02/06/2006 8:38:50 PM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: ClassConscious

A lot of "working people" see themselves as capitalists.

OTOH, the term "Progressive," which was chosen some years ago as a disguise for "socialist" or "communist," is perfectly in keeping for one who "hates capitalism." Socialism and communism are not cool.

IB4TZ.


189 posted on 02/06/2006 8:39:11 PM PST by Sam Cree (absolute reality) - ("Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein)
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To: pcottraux

yeah, they weren't left enough for him. I'd still watch for lightning bolts overhead.


190 posted on 02/06/2006 8:39:44 PM PST by darkangel82
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To: ClassConscious
There is a book you (and everyone) should read and perhaps review: Thomas Sowell's A Conflict of Visions.
191 posted on 02/06/2006 8:40:19 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Trteamer

Hey, pal. How ya been?

I gotta kinda give hope that he/she'll be changed by our words. I'm a lone voice on another board getting hate, insults, venom and rage for posting the good news in Iraq. I'm hoping I can change some over there as I've done on previous boards.

As I said on my post #56: "Rush has often said that a lot of liberals become conservative, and the opposite hardly ever happens."


192 posted on 02/06/2006 8:40:56 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: Bush_Democrat

Nope, not "cranky" in the least. Fed up with the horde of damned troll invaders, and those who are cheering for a self proclaimed ecoterrorist supporting Commie, is all.


193 posted on 02/06/2006 8:41:49 PM PST by nopardons
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To: GOPJ
There was talk about this site hooking up with Republicans, but most of us thought it was a bad idea.

Thank God - we dodged a bullet there; look how Big Stupid Republican Government is turning out.

194 posted on 02/06/2006 8:42:08 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Eva
"The Soviet Union proved that Socialism doesn't work. It's a proven failure and many Russians would laugh at you if you told them that you were a socialist."

Not to mention that socialism is inherently totalitarian!

;-)

195 posted on 02/06/2006 8:42:20 PM PST by Sam Cree (absolute reality) - ("Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein)
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To: nopardons
nopardons,

Count the yea's versus the nay's on the thread about whether he should be zotted. Your voice is the most strident voice calling for zotting. Please don't take it as a personal affront because the majority of us think we may be able to make some headway with this newbie.

How do you know he has a closed mind? He's had a shock tonight finding out the so-called big tent party really isn't. Funny thing about shocks, they can jolt loose preconceived notions and open a mind.
196 posted on 02/06/2006 8:42:56 PM PST by Sally'sConcerns (Native Texan now in SW Ok.)
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To: NapkinUser
Why not tell me what he has done to get some here so riled up?

He has willfully allowed himself to become a tool of the left.

197 posted on 02/06/2006 8:43:06 PM PST by bad company (There is no devil but Allah, and Mohammed is his porkchop.)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

I'm hoping for someone to replace the stale Murrymom..


198 posted on 02/06/2006 8:43:23 PM PST by Darksheare (Aim low! They got knees!)
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To: facedown
Then you are obviously a moron. Buh bye.

Wow. That was an eloquent, intelligent, sophisticated argument to win newbies over with.

199 posted on 02/06/2006 8:45:17 PM PST by Maximus_Ridiculousness (patriotdreams.net)
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To: immigration lady
We're just a lovely bunch of coconuts...

Who I like and am like. :-)

200 posted on 02/06/2006 8:45:21 PM PST by A message
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