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How I Went from Blue to Red by Not Holding My Breath in Outrage
Townhall.com ^ | September 7, 2011 | Lincoln Brown

Posted on 09/07/2011 8:14:17 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 09/07/2011 8:14:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
What is frightening is that they have no idea who is driving them, and that no good will ever come from them.

"Useful idiots."

2 posted on 09/07/2011 8:17:45 AM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: Kaslin

Mr. Brown, your parents, though liberal, raised a thoughtful caring young man. They are to be commended for that.

And you are to be commended for using the mind that God gave you, to think about the issues of the day, and concluding that liberalism falls short as a political ideology.

You are to be commended for saying that these liberals just don’t critically think about the issues. Too many liberals engage in “group think”.

I think your parents would be proud that you are an engaged, politically active citizen, even if not too happy that you are so conservative.


3 posted on 09/07/2011 8:23:10 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Kaslin
Free To Be You And Me

I remember having to watch these stupid movie in grade school and Jr High. Marlo Thomas was in them, right?

I had no idea what the message was at the time, most of us were happy when to be watching anything rather than having to do classwork.

4 posted on 09/07/2011 8:23:19 AM PDT by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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In short, the masses of New Left are incapable of seeing that they are being manipulated by people in power who wish to remain in power, and who wish to remain wealthy.

Half the population is below average.

5 posted on 09/07/2011 8:24:55 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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Great Franchise Opportunity


6 posted on 09/07/2011 8:27:54 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Muslims who advocate, support, or carry out Jihad give the other 1% a bad name)
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To: Kaslin

Leftists are of two types. Those that have been made leftists by their environment. They can be cured. Then, there are leftists that are genetic, hardwired that way. They are a lost cause and there is no point in trying to discuss anything with them.


7 posted on 09/07/2011 8:27:54 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Kaslin

I’m tired of the Red = conservative meme. I’ll be true blue til the day I die.

Red is a communist color. By sticking to this meme conservatives are going to confuse another generation who think liberals like individual liberty and conservative support the king.


8 posted on 09/07/2011 8:29:49 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Kaslin

“Welcome to the party, pal.”


9 posted on 09/07/2011 8:33:01 AM PDT by Tigerized
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“I was taught that Liberals don’t do that!”

Only another Liberal would teach their kid that.

Everyone else knows better, we know Liberals wrote the book on fraud, deceit, mendacity, etc.


10 posted on 09/07/2011 8:34:06 AM PDT by SMARTY (A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.)
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“I understand their passion and can even empathize with their rage. “

Rage will get you in trouble every time. God reserves rage to Himself. Liberals, being their own god, are of course entitled.


11 posted on 09/07/2011 8:38:11 AM PDT by TalBlack ( Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: SMARTY

Of all the people to whom liberals lie, the worst are themselves. Without the ability to ignore the facts before your eyes, you can’t stay a liberal for long.


12 posted on 09/07/2011 8:49:53 AM PDT by wolfpat (Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. -- Cicero)
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To: Kaslin
If one were to point out to them that some of the loudest voices calling for higher taxes on people who make over 250 thousand dollars a year are quite wealthy and avail themselves of tax loopholes and benefits, one would be met with a vacant stare


13 posted on 09/07/2011 8:51:17 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Richard Feynman father of Quantum Physics)
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My parents were big time leftists. Even as a young child I remember the things they would tell me didn’t make sense. I would read the biography of all the founding fathers and when I said my prayers at night I wuld thank God that I was born in this country. I love to hear other personal stories such as this one.


14 posted on 09/07/2011 8:51:31 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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I can understand all this. I too, am a recovering liberal. Well, I thought I was a liberal because I was “just not into politics” and my older sister and brother are die-hard liberals (lawyer & a teacher, imagine that).
9/11 was my epiphany. Learning how the liberal left really gutted our intelligence really burned me up. Then I started reading more on my own, discovering how liberals operated. That is what really drove me to be a conservative — thinking for myself.


15 posted on 09/07/2011 8:53:01 AM PDT by Londo Molari
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To: Kaslin
As the fad fades, many are quietly taking his posters off their bedroom walls and pretending they were never into him.


16 posted on 09/07/2011 8:59:46 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Kaslin

A true Liberal would never lock their front door.


17 posted on 09/07/2011 9:03:44 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party.)
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To: Rusty0604
My parents were big time leftists. Even as a young child I remember the things they would tell me didn’t make sense. I would read the biography of all the founding fathers and when I said my prayers at night I wuld thank God that I was born in this country. I love to hear other personal stories such as this one.

Thanks for sharing.

18 posted on 09/07/2011 9:05:29 AM PDT by GOPJ (126 people were indicted for being terrorists in the last two years. Every one of them was Muslim.)
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To: Kaslin

These people were subverted-—filled with cognitive dissonance since young children. When your foundation is that of lies (Marxism), you can’t think critically. Our education system was subverted by a socialist Dewey and his communist (progressive) friends.

The only “Critiecal theory” taught in schools for the last forties years was designed by Cultural Marxists to destroy and tear down that which is good. They replace it with nothing or trash—like The Beats or whatever, to corrupt morals and destroy loyalty in all relationships.

People raised on half truths—like Heather has two Mommies—will not grow up to be rational and able to think in a logical, reasoned manner. Their foundation is destroyed and it takes years to relearn the truth of nature, if they can at all—it is like they are mentally ill and can’t think. Emotions are elevated in the “lie” learning and no intellectual thought is practiced. They do not learn “how” to think, it is always “what” to think—and it comes right out of Marx and his “hierarchy of gender” cr*p. They use B.F. Skinner methods to reinforce and condition the ideas in children. They use peer pressure, humiliation of those who “think outside the box (non Marxist)” and other disturbing techniques that have been highly effective (BK Eakman).
Remember Marx was a self-loathing Jew who had an 8 year old servant whom he later fathered children with and kept in severe poverty and filth.

You can get a gist of what is going on now in American schools here....it is really bad enough where you should burn all public school books and abolish all state and federal government schools—reestablish them at the local level with parents hiring whomever for teachers (no “certification” required) and school board only controlled by the local parents—no outside “agents”.
Any teacher that believes in “feel good, do it”—any atheist....should never be hired. They do not believe in God-given rights and ‘dignity of man’ unless they have Judeo/Christian principles which believes man is not just a “trousered ape”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN0By0xbst8


19 posted on 09/07/2011 9:16:11 AM PDT by savagesusie
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...the masses of New Left are incapable of seeing that they are being manipulated by people in power who wish to remain in power, and who wish to remain wealthy.

Replace the words 'New Left' with 'unions' and you have hit the jackpot. Union goons are the epitome of the hard-wired liberal that has a 2 watt brain.

20 posted on 09/07/2011 9:22:19 AM PDT by Harley (Will Rogers never met Harry Reid.)
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