Republicans do a good job of dictating how we live as well. The smoking ban in Iowa would not have passed without Republican support.
Ah, the finger signal. This means that despite their incomprehensible “logic” they know far better than we how we can best live our lives. I call it “the Pelosi maneuver.”
The alluring but utterly false belief that we can regulate our way to paradise....
MADD and their ilk on the right, PETA and their ilk on the left. Makes me sick how we have devolved into a society that neither has the intelligence to think for itself or the guts to take back our country
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” CS Lewis
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>>> liberal conventional wisdom <<<
Oxymoron.
Truly a blood-curdling picture.
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Just pinging a few of you to an article that I find interesting. Here are a few snippets:
“...The Nazis mastered the spectacle of the crowd to project an aura of unity, equality and common purpose. Submitting yourself to the movement was sold as a cleansing, redemptive, fundamentally spiritual experience.
Such spectacles were made possible by the cult of personality, the faith that a great leader would rise from among ‘us’ and bring everyone together. Well, where have we recently seen enormous rallies of ecstatic followers?
According to The New York Times, Barack Obama’s own recruiters were trained not to talk about issues, but to ‘testify’ about how they ‘came to Obama’ the way one might normally talk about coming to Jesus.
‘We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,’ Obama told mesmerised crowds. ‘Unity is the great need of the hour,’ he insisted....”