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Opinion: America Already Has a Centrist Party. It’s Called the Democrats.
New York Magazine ^
| October 18, 2018
| By Eric Levitz
Posted on 10/18/2018 1:06:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Today’s democrats are dead center, midway between national socialists and soviet socialists. The vocal majority of their party’s leaders are at that special place in the socialist spectrum where they want absolute power and don’t care what justification they use to control all the little people - for our own good, of course.
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posted on
10/18/2018 1:57:45 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
He should follow his name on the column with PDS (Pretty Damn Stupid).
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:00:31 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Damn, when did pajama boy get a writing job?
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:02:23 PM PDT
by
KevinB
(If I'm ever arrested, I'm switching parties.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
This is what you get when communists write articles.
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:04:52 PM PDT
by
Trump_the_Evil_Left
(FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
To: All
Well they are in the center of the international socialist movement, so maybe that’s what he meant. /s
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:12:04 PM PDT
by
Peter ODonnell
(In the alternate universe, John McCain was a one-term president and Sarah Palin a two-term president)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:14:27 PM PDT
by
Kazan
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If your only source of information about American politics in 2018 were the GOPs campaign ads, you would think that the Democratic Party was a radical left-wing organization, whose principal constituents were anarchists, misandrists, literal terrorists, and acolytes of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. If you supplemented those 30-second spots with Donald Trumps stump speeches, and Fox News prime-time lineup, you might further conclude that Nancy Pelosi was the chair of The House Antifa Caucus. If your primary source of information about American politics in 2018 came from watching the Kavanaugh Hearings, you would know that the Democratic Party is a radical left-wing organization, whose principal constituents are congress people, Senators, union thugs, anarchists, misandrists, literal terrorists, and acolytes of socialist and communist failures. All people who believe in mob rule.
If you supplemented the Kavanaugh hearings with news items about Republicans being assaulted, you might further conclude that Nancy Pelosi and her ilk should be in orange jump suits awaiting trial for inciting violence, and for violating their pledge to follow the Constitution.
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:14:51 PM PDT
by
olezip
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Centrists? Sorry, you are at least a decade too late to even hope to get away with that fraud. These people are at best Neo-Marxists, at worse nihilistic terrorists with big party money. Bubble dwellers no longer make good political analysts.
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:16:04 PM PDT
by
Richard Axtell
(So, this is the Third World! What happened to the first two?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The actually existing Republican Party, on the other hand, is an extreme, reactionary formation that champions procedural radicalism, nativism, voter suppression, far-right militia movements, the stigmatization of the Islamic faith, sheriffs who habitually violate the law and their constituents civil rights, the subordination of federal law enforcement to Donald Trumps whims - and, unlike the vast majority of Americans, a smaller and less generous social-welfare state, lower taxes for the rich, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, fewer regulatory protections for consumers and the environment, and various reforms aimed increasing Wyatt Kochs share of economic growth.The actually existing Democrat Party, on the other hand, is an extreme, socialist accretion that champions radical and reality-inverting infinite 'genders', globalism, voter fraud, far-left Antifa 'brown-shirt' violent movements, the loving embrace of radical terrorist Islamics, an abiding hatred of the Constitution and the ever-present desire to quash and minimize it, baseless accusations in kangaroo-court show-trials, hatred and oppression of the white race, antipathy to the long traditions of the Americas, a desire to strip the populace of any ability to resist tyranny by firearm, suppression of free speech, an overarching nanny-like cradle-to-grace social-welfare state, absurd levels of taxation, the abolition of personal property, unlimited slaughter of infants (both in the womb and out), oppressive regulation that stunts every natural business and personal activity, the hoarding of power for the sake of grinding others under their heel, absurd predictions of 'global warming' in a world rapidly entering a mini-Ice-Age, and an ever-present march to outright Communism.
Oh look. TWO people can write outlandish rants against their enemies!
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:22:07 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The News Misleadia will be held accountable for their lies.....on the eleventy-first of Nevervember.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Accuse the opposition of that which you are guilty.
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:27:10 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Democratic socialism is when the majority of people vote to steal your property.)
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:27:43 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I mean, the dude just went on an unhinged rant, so I thought I’d show him what a PROFESSIONAL can do.
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:30:29 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The News Misleadia will be held accountable for their lies.....on the eleventy-first of Nevervember.)
To: Kazan
Is this satire?Nah. It is deep hatred, surfacing.
And his hatred is met equally by mine.
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:31:47 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The News Misleadia will be held accountable for their lies.....on the eleventy-first of Nevervember.)
To: doorgunner69
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:36:31 PM PDT
by
Celerity
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Articles like this have me wishing I had a subscription so I could cancel it.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yeah yeah yeah...........BS
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:41:01 PM PDT
by
heights
To: Lazamataz
You beat me to it. Laz!
Great essay! I cannot say it any better!
And, a TRUE expose of Demonrats!
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:42:00 PM PDT
by
Taxman
(We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Democratic Party is centrist? Oh really.
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posted on
10/18/2018 2:50:28 PM PDT
by
GuavaCheesePuff
(I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
To: Oldeconomybuyer; LS; Impy; BillyBoy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA
Stalinist cuckdouche sez whut ?
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posted on
10/18/2018 3:05:48 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: BitWielder1
My handy-dandy Newspeak media translation guide for political ideology labels:
Media labels vs. Reality:
Blue = Red
Socialist = Stalinist
Liberal = Marxist
Moderate/(Centrist) = Socialist
Conservative = Liberal
Far-Right = Moderate
Ultraright/Racist/Bigot = Conservative Mainstream
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posted on
10/18/2018 3:09:19 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
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