Posted on 11/02/2012 6:53:53 AM PDT by Sicvee
It would be easy for me to dismiss Obama supporters as mentally defective but for one inconvenient fact: my mother, sharp as a tack at 92, is voting for him. And so is my sister, a San Francisco attorney who is no slouch in the brains department. I’m not sure where my brother, a municipal employee, stands, but neither am I eager to find out. There is no bridging the political gap between us, and so we simply avoid discussing politics. The same goes for old friends, although newer ones are another matter. One of them walked out on our dinner together in a huff when an innocuous remark I’d made about Abe Lincoln evidently bruised his self-righteously liberal, morally perfect heart . Good riddance. It is far better friends than he that I am worried about. Will they draw the line when I let slip my support for the right to bear arms, even concealed? A few of my wife’s closest friends are unmitigated liberals, and it’s unclear how much longer we’ll be able to tiptoe around the political rough edges when we get together socially. (more at the link)
(Excerpt) Read more at us1.campaign-archive2.com ...
I’ll bite. How can you be violent on facebook?
For an effort to address the cultural divide, Alternative Views.
William Flax [Romney/Ryan--Next Tuesday]
Don’t you know, it’s the tone of what you say. If they don’t like the tone, it’s violence. The whole hate speech industry is built on that.
And to what are you referring when you say "If you are a free-individual believer, test that belief against what you would prohibit others from doing. How does it directly harm *you*?"
see post 29 when you get a chance please.
thanks for the link and I agree with all you said
In 1994, I would have agreed with you. Today, not so much. In the last few years I’ve even seen a number of calls for the repeal of the 21st Amendment. That’s an issue that I thought was settled once and for all.
Yes it true. His racism is what will bring him down.
At 92, that’s unlikely. Although possible. The proto-hippy Jack Kerouac would only be two years younger.
See my tag line....
Interesting site. However, the author lost me with the racial overtones in many of the articles. It reminded me of the stealth racism found in groups like the CoCC.
Don't insult my intelligence. There is no serious call of any size for repeal of the 21st Amendment. You can find a few nuts here and there calling for anything...but really? That the best you got?
I know exactly what you mean. Short of threats promising real violence, I just can’t associate violence with words. But I’m old enough to have heard “sticks and stones” thousands of times before leaving grade school.
Conservatives need to pound home the idea that liberals are ethically and morally crippled.
Typically, when they do so, they phrase it in religious terms, and while this is technically accurate, it allows liberals to both curse religion and pretend religious, or lack of religious persecution.
So instead, conservatives need to point out that liberals are, from a *secular* point of view, ethically and morally crippled.
To effect that, “Just because you do not believe in God is no excuse for you to behave like brutish animals.”
This matters, because liberals have long cherished the idea that the lives of animals are *better* than the lives of humans.
“Animals are as one with nature.”
“Animals are amoral, they do not believe in good or evil.”
“Animals are sexually “free”, without repercussions to their sexual behavior. They can choose any kind of sexuality they like, as all such sexuality is “normal”.
“Humans are overpopulated and must be returned to the ‘state of nature’, by killing off 90% of them, and stripping the rest of technology, history and learning, so they remain like animals. Except, of course, for the elites who keep them that way.”
etc., ad nauseum.
Liberals need to be taught that these philosophies, and more, are indeed evil, and cruel, and stupid, no matter how much they want them.
Be honest, you meant for her to hear. You recount far too many stories of encounters with strangers for it to be unintentional that many times.
What I see today that is worse in division than in the past, is that Americans used to at least agree about the constitution being the rule of the land.
We differed on what it meant; but no one threw it in the trash and named themselves smarter and better than America’s constitutionally designed government like liberals are doing today.
Without that fabric of freedom’s basic ideology which wove Americans together, there is nothing. If conservatives exist in power, the ideals of liberalism’s marxist ideals dies. If liberals survive in power, the American Republic dies. Globalists like us being weak like this.
It is possible to be smart...and still be broken.
And here I didn't even realize I was being argumentative. I'm not sure why or how, but you've certainly taken something I've said out of the spirit in which I said it.
When you elect a president who denies American exceptionalism, then in a sense you’ve proved his point, haven’t you?
We are slowly taking on the features of a sclerotic Euro-state. We now have government health care, the last piece of the puzzle will be a VAT. Our debt levels already resemble those of the failing Eurostates.
The only major difference between us and Germany or France is that we have a very large pro-liberty political movement, but it is one is long-term decline. (If you doubt this, just imagine telling your typical voter in 1988 that in 25 years the Democrats would nominate a black radical with open Communist ties to the presidency and that conservatives would be fighting to win states like Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina).
I believe that the chasm will only grow. By the 2030s at the latest, there will be a serious secessionist movement afoot in this country. You can see the beginnings of it in our recent elections, in which two-thirds of the states are already solidly red or blue, with little or no contest. A nation not united by blood needs some set of values to unify it. Without that unifying set of values, we aren’t one nation.
Out of curiosity, what do you say when the liberal in question doesn't behave a like a brutish animal?
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