Posted on 01/02/2012 8:05:11 PM PST by birddog
As I’ve written about before, America’s election season degrades mainstream political discourse even beyond its usual lowly state. The worst attributes of our political culture — obsession with trivialities, the dominance of horserace “reporting,” and mindless partisan loyalties — become more pronounced than ever. Meanwhile, the actually consequential acts of the U.S. Government and the permanent power factions that control it — covert endless wars, consolidation of unchecked power, the rapid growth of the Surveillance State and the secrecy regime, massive inequalities in the legal system, continuous transfers of wealth from the disappearing middle class to large corporate conglomerates — drone on with even less attention paid than usual.
Because most of those policies are fully bipartisan in nature, the election season — in which only issues that bestow partisan advantage receive attention — places them even further outside the realm of mainstream debate and scrutiny. For that reason, America’s elections ironically serve to obsfuscate political reality even more than it usually is.
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Looks like if I were a Commie Pinko or a Leftist, I would be excited about Paul. Unfortunately for this long winded writer, I am neither and have absolutely no interest in the fraud.
Which eight or ten? The parts about tracking us with our money and converting to a single card? The sentences in each newsletter warning about the Trilateralists? The sentences from an M.D. warning us that AIDS may have been created by the government? Or that ones that say AIDs can be transmitted by kissing? Or through the skin?
Or the whole Ten Militia Commandments, about how many members to have, where to hide your guns, how to select your members, how to avoid wiretaps, and how to keep things from your wives and girlfriends?
All of the comments about the New World Order?
The ad hominem insult to Martin Luther King in almost every newsletter?
The suggestion that the Mossad was behind the first World Trade Center bombing?
The bit about how the government was spreading disinformation about how crack was bad for you? Or about how crack should be legalized?
All of the racial comments, such as how a city named for blacks should be called Rapetown? Or how gatherings of blacks should be held at a crackhouse or welfare office?
All of the references to Haitians as HAIDstians?
The part about how the Panama Canal treaty was the result of an international blackmail scheme involving Trilateralists?
I could go on and on.
But which eight to ten sentences were, in Paul's opinion, bad? Because the negative pregnant of his statement is the rest of that crazy cr*p he is standing behind. Should we read that stuff, too?
Well, I read it and it actually is a pretty good piece.
Being a Jew hating ,9-11 truther, calling our troops war criminals,
Cheering on Iran getting the bomb, trashing Reagan , supporting Code Pink is sheer lunacy and will get us all killed .
Ron pauls views have changed.
He’s a CAREER POLITICIAN who leads useful idiots around by their noses.
He claims to be against the NAFTA superhighway, yet he earmarked millions of dollars for it.
He claims to be against government intrusion into private lives, yet he earmarked money for surveilance cameras, as well as the establishment of a child tracking system.
He claims to be againt earmarks, yet every election cycle he earmarks hundreds of millions of dollars for useless projects that the federal government has no business funding.
He was all for term limits yet he’s in his what 14th term in congress.
Just like your hero, who supports george soros, barney frank, and dennis kucinich?
So much division in the GOP that we might have to prepare ourselves for another 4 years of Zero.
Neither I nor you, apparently, have any idea what the hell you are talking about. It’s interesting that you like to attack and lie about Dr. Ron Paul, a military veteran, while pretending to honor the military on your profile. I will have to forward your ridiculous comments to my father, a decorated Korean War veteran, so he can get a good laugh out of it too.
Greenwald is a first class ass clown. He is constantly nailed for either being wrong to.out right fabrication. If he supports Paul that is all the more reason to NOT support. You know a man by his friends.
“The only person in this election who will work to preserve our country and our freedom is Ron Paul.”
Beck, is that you Glenn?
I especially like the mental gymnastics liberals have to endure with Ron Paul’s agenda. As for his reception amongst Freeperdom, you must understand that reverting to 1773 principles has a shock effect of sorts. I’ve taken time to peruse much material on all the GOP candidates, and Ron Paul seems to be most in accord with my convictions to date. The price to be paid: corny graphics portending doom at the behest of Viking Kitties, and some sharp insults here and there. Oh well.
That giraffe graphic rocks!
It is not easy to adopt a maturity willing to assimilate and assess contrary points of view and respond in kind, so please cut some folks around here a break. I'd encourage you to stick with FR for the duration, if only because there are tons of folks here with great ideas, others to challenge yours and mine, and the principles espoused by our founding father: "working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah!"
Admit it. It's fun have your post submitted to a rash of inane cartoons, followed by one or two cogent responses.
I can comprehend this lead comment by birddog without even reading the excerpt, let alone the article.
OTOH, the article is an interesting read, which shows the man reasons Progressives should prefer Paul over Obama.
So, is it wrong for a Conservative site to be upset about a poster, whether Old Timer or noob, advocating for Paul?
Seems like Jim has weighed in on this several times.
I have no idea what your talking about. It’s not my quote and your response had nothing to do with #11.
BTW, you’re free to cry and whine about something someone else posted, just don’t ping me to your tantrum.
I’ve notice there are a whole lot of people, that either don’t bother to read, or just can’t comprehend what is written.
11 posted on Mon Jan 02 2012 21:22:11 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time) by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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