“The way I answer that question is: It is mainly cultural. It is not party-driven; it is not a “political action committee.” It is devoted to the articulation, propagation, and preservation of the conservative philosophical principles — cultural, economic, constitutional — that are at the very root of American order.”
At least at its inception, it was both. There was great political activism on behalf of George Bush for President and to get Republicans elected to Congress. There was great unity of purpose. Remember the Freeper’s Ball? The Dan Rather blow up, the FR Cookbook? How you can say it is not a political site when over half of the threads posted on FR are, is beyond me.
And I think the Class of 1998 was one of the best ones on FR. Now, there has been great turnover on this website, and a different breed of Freeper now rules the threads. Lots more Libertarians, and Republicans in general seem to now be persona non grata. I’m not sure what it has evolved into as far as a lot of those that now post here. I do know it is quite different from what it started out to be, especially in tone.
I might add, I have always been against abortion. It is immoral. And I can never understand the selfishness of women who choose abortion when at most it is 6-7 months out of their life, and still they can’t manage to follow through on the pregnancy in order to give a baby a chance at life. Most women until recently when more refined tests allow for more quick results, didn’t even know they were pregnant until about 2-3 months into it.
Women don’t have to keep their babies, they can have them adopted, and women know that. There are so many families who for one reason or the other can’t have babies and would love to be able to adopt. Plus there are many groups out there now who will make sure a woman’s bills will be paid if they choose to go to term with their pregnancy rather than abort. There just aren’t any good excuses anymore.
Let me try to explain it this way:
The "political discourse" we get on FR has a commonly shared root that ultimately has nothing to do with political labels. It has to do with the great fear of We the People that we are losing control of our Constitution, therefore of our Republic and our daily lives.
Hard-Left Progressivism as manifested by the Obama Administration is not the "soft" Liberalism of the past, as exemplified by, say, Tip O'Neill or Teddy Kennedy.
People generally do not realize that this is an attack on American culture, so to take a wrecking ball to the American middle class. Meanwhile, the poor get poorer, and the rich — increasingly defined as "Friends of Obama" — get richer.
I am apoplectic over the idea that FR will repeat the same mistakes it made in the last presidential election. We definitely reaped what we sowed back there: the return to office of a satanically-disposed president, who as a natural-born anarchist thinks he has to "wipe the slate clean" before he can build his own monument on the razed ground, as the Ozymandias of his Own (narcissistic) Age. He will be the new god....
Obviously, he cannot be stopped by the regular institutional measures built into our rule of law. For one thing, no one will impeach him — even though as a person who routinely lies — that is to say, his "deeds" do not live up to his "words" — and violates his constitutional oath with every breath he takes — is eminently deserving of Impeachment, as a faithless public executive who does not faithfully execute the Constitutional duties of his office.
So: How do you STOP him — not to mention his ilk??? "They are Legion."
Do you really think there is a "political solution" here???