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The Anger Of The Left (Thomas Sowell)
Townhall.com ^ | May 15, 2007 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 05/14/2007 9:09:51 PM PDT by jazusamo

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1 posted on 05/14/2007 9:09:54 PM PDT by jazusamo
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2 posted on 05/14/2007 9:11:50 PM PDT by jazusamo (http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
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It’s called FACISM.


3 posted on 05/14/2007 9:14:05 PM PDT by anonsquared (WHAT'S MADE IN CHINA, STAYS IN CHINA!)
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To: anonsquared

The left became mighty pissed off at Reagan, simmered while the Republicans went after their guy for lying on the stand and tried to claim it was about sex, went completely off the deep end when their guy didn’t win the 200 election and then went nucking futs when they didn’t beat Bush in 2004.

Entitlement to elections is their MO


4 posted on 05/14/2007 9:20:52 PM PDT by misterrob (Yankees Suck!)
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To: jazusamo

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5 posted on 05/14/2007 9:24:06 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there)
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To: anonsquared
t’s called FACISM

correct. If you give the left in this country the power that Hitler or Stalin, they would make them look like amateurs. The left is consumed with power. They are determined to impose a totalitairian dictatorship. It is looking more and more than 2008 will be election to decide the fate of this Republic. If the left wins, the US will cease to be a Republic. God help us if Hillary wins.

6 posted on 05/14/2007 9:25:09 PM PDT by sand88 (q)
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To: misterrob
Entitlement to elections is their MO

good points, but I think their goals very sinister. Much of their efforts are funded by the most evil human alive on Earth today-- Soros. If the DemoRats had following choices 1) Hillary for President, or 2)Hillary as dictator for life, which would they choose? Without a doubt, 2. The evil left hates Liberty and Capitalism.

7 posted on 05/14/2007 9:29:00 PM PDT by sand88 (q)
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I think that I sort of understand where all the anger of the left comes from...

Something that I’ve observed over the years is that conservatives look upon the “rank and file” of the left as well meaning, but misdirected people who want good things to happen, but are going about it the wrong way...

On the other hand, the left typically look at themselves as people who only want the best for others: Who are trying to make changes in society to make the world a better place for everyone. Who are simply trying to do good. And they see conservatives as people who are putting up road blocks as far as getting those changes enacted.

It’s a very short step in seeing conservatives as not just seeing things a different way, but in opposing what the left wants, they’re opposing that which is good, hence conservatives are bad, or even evil.

And it doesn’t help when they get beaten when their ideas are put up for votes (they think either that the vote was rigged, or “the masses” simply don’t know what’s good for them), or their plans wind up screwing things up worse than they were before (those damned conservatives didn’t let us implement it completely, or the wrong people tried implementing it)... Either of these adds to their anger...

Mark


8 posted on 05/14/2007 9:33:56 PM PDT by MarkL (Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
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To: jazusamo

leftists do not think, they emote.

they judge everything by appearances, not by facts.


9 posted on 05/14/2007 9:34:33 PM PDT by ken21 (it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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To: sand88

except it’s fascism with an “s.”


10 posted on 05/14/2007 9:36:15 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sageb1
except it’s fascism with an “s.”

LOL, you are correct...

11 posted on 05/14/2007 9:38:48 PM PDT by sand88 (q)
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To: sand88

Normally, I don’t correct misspellings, but fascism is such an important word when it comes to leftist totalitarianism. I’ve been plugging it in as a keyword a lot lately - as in ecofascism. :)


12 posted on 05/14/2007 9:43:52 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: ken21

>leftists do not think, they emote. they judge everything by appearances, not by facts.<

By George, I think you’ve got it! Seems as though we have a few of those among us on FR, too.


13 posted on 05/14/2007 9:47:59 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: jazusamo
Lower tax rates have led to higher tax revenues many times, both before and since Keynes' statement -- the Kennedy tax cuts in the 1960s, the Reagan tax cuts in the 1980s, and the recent Bush tax cuts that have led to record high tax revenues this April.

If lower taxes result in greater revenues for government, why do big-government liberals oppose tax cuts?

They answer is that taxes weaken the economy and inflict pain on business. By promising selective tax relief, a politician can extort campaign contributions or support for dubious projects.

A weak economy is useful if it can be blamed on the other party. If the opposing party is in the White House, they get the blame.

14 posted on 05/14/2007 9:49:07 PM PDT by Dan Evans
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To: misterrob

They remind me of a very spoiled brat that gets enraged when someone older and wiser points out one of their mistakes or tries to offer a suggestion to prevent another mistake.

It isn’t the conservative choices that bush makes that enrages them. It is the fact that conservativism exists in the first place that enrages them. It is the fact that when conservatism acheives and produces, it is proof of liberalism’s lies. That’s what enrages them.


15 posted on 05/14/2007 9:50:13 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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Many of the lefties I talk to (not always willingly or welcomed)get into spitting fits over the so-called right wing religious zealots who ‘want to make everybody worship God’ (capitalization mine, of course!), and of course they hate it that President Bush is a Christian.

Funny, you’d think the aim of the muzzies, to put us all under Sharia law, would get to them in the same way, but it doesn’t!


16 posted on 05/14/2007 9:52:15 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (You are my tagline, my only tagline, you make me happy when skies are gray...)
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To: anonsquared

Spell check is very useful.


17 posted on 05/14/2007 9:53:08 PM PDT by Bullish ( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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To: jazusamo
They're angry because people stubbornly resist their efforts to control them. For the Left, any one who rejects their leadership over the masses is an enemy.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

18 posted on 05/14/2007 9:56:08 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Theresawithanh

And add into that womens rights and gay rights, there’s no such thing under Sharia law and those are big points with lefties.


19 posted on 05/14/2007 9:58:20 PM PDT by jazusamo (http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
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To: jazusamo

Liberals are almost always bitter, hate-Filled little people ....
Think about the Liberals YOU know....

Short, fat, ugly people of questionable sexuality, enraged at the world for some percieved slight or insult, like the non-acceptance of gays, thier tiny schlong, or they were beaten by the jocks in high school while the pretty girls laughed....

That rage translates into borderline insanity, and a desire to be confrontational to everything, without regard for whatever damage it might do.

They hate the boss, they hate the landlord, they hate the cop that stopped them from trolling for boys in the park, etc,etc...


20 posted on 05/14/2007 9:58:59 PM PDT by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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