Democrat Website Shunned July Warning - Banned Dem Prophet!

freerepublic and a certain rat cellar | July 2002 | tlbshow originally

[parsifal]

"We substitute canards and slogans for thought."

Yes, but our canards and slogans are better than theirs and represent the results of thought, not substitutes for thought. Would that fit on a bumper sticker? parsy the curious.

[Poser]

I tried to engage the same people with honest advice about what I think is wrong with their party. No name calling, just polite observations.

Personally, I am sick of negative campaigning and personal attacks on all candidates. It would be nice to see a real debate about ideas between all factions of both parties.

I was banned after 4 posts. I guess the Republicans are going to continue to do well for the foreseeable future. The liberals on that site are not interested in debate. They simply want to rave on about how evil Republicans are ruining the earth. It is their right to do so, but I think it is to their party's detriment.

[Verginius Rufus]

Anyone know any good right-wing moron websites?

[Jonathon Spectre]

I even began to question whether I still believed in income redistribution, affirmative action, and gun control.

The horror!

At least this self-avowed idiot liberal began to question. That puts him at the very, very, very high end of the liberal bell curve.

[parsifal]

Well, I am kinda partial to this one. parsy the moron.

[poindexter]

Except that he only took a few sentences to call us morons. Did he proofread his own work?

[thingumbob]

I agree with your comments....thank god the democrats know how to eat their own....

I was getting worried there for a moment, especially since she still refuses to join our side. We definitely do not want her to educate her pals on how to whoop us.

[Cold Heat]

Dang! good post parsy!

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

It's hard to believe a genuine liberal wrote that article. I'd guess it was a conservative mole.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

I bought the book ("SLANDER") read it, laughed so hard I got a hernia, and now I am loaning it out to friends and co-workers who show any spark of political awareness (I work with 90% liberals).

I'll have the hernia fixed next week- anyway, it was worth it!

[Cold Heat]

I agree with your comments....thank god the democrats know how to eat their own....

So do we!

[vbmoneyspender]

A few months ago on this site, I was having an argument with a new poster who self-identified himself/herself as a liberal. The argument involved whether Vietnam would have been better off if the South Vietnamese had beaten the NVA. As the argument was getting going, I challenged the poster to name one country in the world where it had ever happened that the Communists had taken over and then voluntarily relinquished power. I pointed out that this scenario had happened with a number of U.S. back authoritarian regimes, such as in Taiwan, South Korea, Chile, the Phillipines, etc. The Communist regime, however, had ever come close to voluntarily relinquishing power in the way that pro-Western regimes had. The liberal's response was that of course the communists had done. He/She then proceeded to cite as examples East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, etc., after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Once I read that response, I stopped responding because I figured it was pointless to continue the argument.

[copycat]

Hey, I'm not saying we on the right do that, the left substitutes slogans for thought. I just wanted to reinforce that notion.

Sorry, I should have put that in quotes or something.

[parsifal]

You might be right. It sounded like the writer was trying a little too hard in spots, (for egs., 'it made me question income redistribution') but then again, willpitt over at *U, gets awful preachy at times, too. All in all, I think kangas there was being sincere, but who knows. parsy.

[Paradox]

I recognize those symptoms, they happened to me while I was evolving from a liberal into a conservative. That nauseated feeling where deep down in your gut, you know that the other guy is right. No matter how you "feel" about him and his agenda, you _know_, somewhere, somehow, that he is right. Its a reeling feeling, as the shackles of cognitive dissonance are shed.

It is difficult to work through, and I admire this person for getting this far. As a former liberal, I always had felt that the right wingers were a bunch of mean spirited people... I still believe that many of them are, and even some people who post here on FreeRepublic would meet those standards, but the LEFT has taken the cake in that respect. That part of the realization had me feeling ill as well.

To the liberal in the midst of The Change, I offer you comfort. Not all conservatives are bad, you can still feel compassion for your fellow man, and be a conservative. You can still revel in your high IQ and be conservative. I urge you to make the final step. You need not fundamentally change your views about love, life, and happiness, you just have to use reason as your primary tool, and accept the data and information that is out there, and has been out there, for years.

[parsifal]

I don't think we are that bad, I have only been banned once here, for being a little too naughty, but over at *U I have been banned about a half dozen times for expressing genuine democrat thoughts. I even accidentally got my future neice in law banned when I went in one night under her password. Those *U guys are complete thought nazis. parsy.

[thingumbob]

Bravo!!!...Well said.

[Leto]

If kangaskhan followed up their reading of Slander by reading Vision of the Anoited his/her head would really be spinning. I think this person is trying to get it but hasn't purt all the pieces together.

I not suprised he/she was banned at DU, thinking is very dangerous and not to be tolerated only the party line and vitriol towards conservatives is allowed.

[Arkinsaw]

If the other side points out that the program isn't working, then we should thank them. What vested interest do we Democrats have in a program that doesn't work? None.

Ah, but they do have vested interest in programs that don't work.

[parsifal]

If I remember right, kangaskhan's thread was locked down by the *U moderators, and I never saw another kangaskhan thread or post again. A freeper mole there said there was a tombstone on kangas's *U profile page. I think kangas got sent to Bellaabzug Concentration Kamp by the *U thought nazis. parsy.