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The Sense of Losing Control
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| August 18, 2015
| Bill Murchison
Posted on 08/18/2015 9:50:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
08/18/2015 9:50:47 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
We need to go hard, hard right to redefine the middle position.
Leftists have pushed things to the point of insanity. If you ask for a man only restroom it’s a hate crime these days.
To: TigerClaws
What we need is a cleansing of Biblical proportions. With everything that implies.
Mordecai: What happens after?
The Stranger: Hmm?
Mordecai: What do we do when it's over?
The Stranger: Then you live with it.
from High Plains Drifter
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posted on
08/18/2015 10:21:44 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
(Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
To: TigerClaws
Leftists have pushed things to the point of insanity. That's a fact. That is also why, when the SHTF, it will be so much fun to shoot them.
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posted on
08/18/2015 10:37:35 AM PDT
by
ought-six
(1u)
To: Kaslin
Time to take America back!
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posted on
08/18/2015 10:45:00 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Biggirl
White people suck at civil disobidience. We are letting our country die. I don’t have the answers, but when folks talk about time to take our country back...what does this mean?
Sending emails to congressman? Tea party events? Voting? Calling?
The crooks up in D.C. are laughing at cocktail parties at average citizens attempts to exact change.
They have all the power, money, influence...and they damn well know it.
We (including me) belly ache on FR to what end?
To: servantboy777
White people suck at civil disobedience. We can do it. Remember when Gore tried to steal Florida?
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posted on
08/18/2015 11:04:30 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
(Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
To: servantboy777
See all the interest as of late in Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, very large crowds, that is the start.
2016 is coming, 2016 is coming.
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posted on
08/18/2015 11:04:55 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Mr. Jeeves
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posted on
08/18/2015 11:05:37 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: servantboy777
The “know-betters” I hold in comtemp.
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posted on
08/18/2015 11:07:24 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Biggirl
The establishment republicans and democrats along with corporate elites like Zuckerburg and the MSM is working overtime to derail the conservative voice.
This is exactly why I believe there are 17 republican candidates. Of course, it's not quite going the way they'd intended. I do feel we will end up with a squishy moderate in the end. Hope not, but my gut tells me so.
I just don't know what to think of Trump. I want so much to distrust the guy. I am for Ted Cruz, but if Trump makes it (big if) to the convention, I'll be surprised.
Something just doesn't feel right about Trump.
To: Biggirl
The know-betters I hold in comtemp. Some who know better use a "T" on the end of that word.
"Contempt"
Guess they know better English.
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posted on
08/18/2015 11:39:56 AM PDT
by
humblegunner
(NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
To: servantboy777
“The establishment republicans and democrats along with corporate elites like Zuckerburg and the MSM is working overtime to derail the conservative voice.”
Yet I sense a backfiring effect that is starting to happen. People are getting fed up.
Prediction: the establishment will have their rearends handed to them.
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posted on
08/18/2015 11:40:17 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: All
Folks, ignore posting number 12. As of now, I will not feed anymore TROLLS.
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posted on
08/18/2015 11:42:00 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Kaslin
We see this kind of thing all the time, often at a more general level, as when Justice Anthony Kennedy regaled us last June, in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, with the knowledge that "changed understandings of marriage are characteristic of a Nation where new dimensions of freedom become apparent to new generations."And then there was the Øbamacare ruling, in which they came right out and admitted "The law clearly says 'this', but we don't like 'this', so now, per our decree, the law says 'that'".
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posted on
08/18/2015 12:03:55 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Biggirl
I sure hope. At this point in America, I believe this is probably the most important election of my lifetime.
I thought the last one was, but we’ve been betrayed by congress. Now, this is kinda Custer’s last stand to turn this country around...in a civil way.
To: Biggirl
I will not feed anymore TROLLS. It takes a troll to point out your errors?
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posted on
08/18/2015 12:07:19 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
To: Kaslin
First IDENTIFY the DemocRATS PRETENDING to be Republicans !
EXPOSE THEM TO THE PUBLIC !
The word "neocons" is ONLY used by LIBERALS, trying to insult Conservatives.
The is no such thing as a "NEW" Conservative. Conservatives ARE Conservative, plain and simple.
But read
this"
Liberals, Conservatives, and Neocons Learn the Difference!
March 12, 2014
Almost everybody is confused about the word "neoconservative" and its shortened form, "neocon."
I find that liberals/Democrats seem to use it as a sort of disrespectful form of "conservative,"and probably have no idea the the words have distinct meanings.
On the other hand, I know of some conservatives who define it as "new conservatives,"meaning people who were formerly something else, but have converted to conservatism.
Both are wrong.
As near as I can tell, "neo-" doesn't apply to any other word that way formerly not X, but having become X.
No, "neo-" almost always refers to an ideology that is different from the root word in a significant way.Neoconfederates are not people who want to secede and become a separate country.
They want the ideals of the Confederacy to be applied to modern politics, more or less, but not all of them.
Neoliberal is a more vague term,but it specifically applies to people who may have SOME of the attributes of liberals,
but who contradict liberalism in their advocacy of free trade and privatization
and other ideas usually thought of as conservative.
And, finally, neoconservatives are mostly those moderate cold war LIBERALS who defected to the Republican party when the Democrats got totally flaky with McGovern and his ilk.
Their ultimate origin, however, is not the Democratic party but the Trotskyite movement.
Jack Kerwick elaborates.
Read
this:
Most "Conservatives" Are Secretly Neoconservatives
12 March, 2014, by Jack Kerwick, Ph.D.
A colleague of mine has drawn my attention to a Washington Post blog post Why Most Conservatives Are Secretly Liberals by a Professor John Sides, a political scientist at Georgetown University.
Sides agrees with fellow political scientists Christopher Ellis and James Stimson, co-authors of Ideology in America.
Ellis and Stimson CONTEND thatAmerica is, at bottom, a center-left nation,
for while 30 percent of self-described liberals are consistent in endorsing liberal policy prescriptions,
the same sort of consistency can be ascribed to only 15 percent of conservatives.
And another 30 percent of conservatives actually advance liberal positions.
In short, Americans may TALK the talk of conservatism, but they WALK the walk of liberalism.
That is, they favor Big Government.
Sides, Ellis, and Stimson, it seems clear to me, are liberals.
It doesnt require much reading between the lines to discern this.
That they associate liberals, and liberals ALONE, with such virtues as consistency and such lofty ideals as a cleaner environment and a stronger safety net is enough to bear this out.
Yet in peddling the ridiculous, patently absurd notion thatconservatives see the media as PROMOTING conservatism,
the verdict regarding their liberalism is seen for the NO-BRAINER that it is.
There is, though, another CLUE that unveils Sides, Ellis, and Stimsons ideological PREJUDICES:They equate the term liberalism with a robust affirmation of Big Government.
They treat liberalism synonymously with its modern, Welfare-Statist incarnation.
There is no mention here of the fact that, originally, liberalism referred toa vision that attached supreme value to individual liberty,
a vision in which government played, and had to play, a minimal role in the lives of its citizens.
And there is no mention of the fact that, if liberalism is now an ugly word,
it is because the very same socialists who made socialism an ugly word hijacked liberalism when it enjoyed a favorable reception
and visited upon it the same fate that they secured for socialism.
In other words, if Sides himself wanted to be bluntly honest, hed have to admit that liberals are secretly socialists.
Still, though their premises are bogus, Sides and his colleagues draw the correct conclusion thatmost conservatives are NOTHING OF THE KIND.
The truth of the matter is thatthe vast majority of contemporary conservatives are neoconservatives.
Now, neoconservatism is a term that hasnt the best reputation.
It has ALWAYS BEEN CONTROVERSIAL,
and most of its proponents have DISAVOWED IT to the point of, preposterously, condemning it as an anti-Semitic SLUR.
But George W. Bush and his party inflicted potentially irrevocable damage upon the label.
Conservatism is a more marketable label.
Nevertheless, the reality is that neoconservatism is indeed a distinct school of political thought.
Beyond this, it is fundamentally different in kind from classical conservatism.
Irving Kristol, the so-called Godfather of neoconservatism, an appellation that he readily endorsed, ADMITS this in noting boththat neoconservatism exists
and that conservative can be misleading when used to describe it.
Neoconservatism, you see, is THE INVENTION OF LEFTISTS like Kristol himself.
When the Democratic Party began veering too far to the Left in the 1960s, Kristol and more moderate leftists began turning toward the Republican Party.
So as TO DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES FROM traditional conservatives, they coined the term neoconservatism.
Neoconservatives, Kristol asserts, are not at all hostile to the idea of a welfare state even if they reject the vast and energetic bureaucracies created by the Great Society.
Neoconservatives ENDORSE social security, unemployment insurance, and some kind of family assistance plan, among other measures.
But whats most interesting, particularly at a time when ObamaCare has DIVIDED the country, is that Kristol reminds us thatneoconservatives SUPPORT some form of national health insurance.
In all truthfulness, however, neither a degree in political science nor an IQ above four is required to know thatneoconservatism has always championed Big Government
for it is its foreign policy vision more than anything else that distinguishes it from its competitors.
For neoconservatives, America is exceptional in being, as Kristol puts it, a creedal nation,the only nation in all of human history to have been founded upon an ideology of equality, of natural rights.
The U.S.A., then, has a responsibility to promote this ideology throughout the world.
And it is by way of a potentially boundless military i.e. Big Government that this ideological patriotism is to be executed.
Had the foregoing political scientists been looking in the right places, they would BE FORCED TO CONCLUDE that most conservatives are secretly neoconservatives.
So, you see that those WHO THEY CALL
"neoconservatives", are really nothing more than
the old moderate side of the DemocRATS.
It's just THAT SIMPLE .
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posted on
08/18/2015 12:11:38 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: servantboy777
Civil disobedience in the MLK sense no longer works. The powers that be would happy to throw half of the population in jail and tax the other half to pay for it.
Judiciously disregarding edicts and loudly speaking truth to power on the other hand....
Well, that’s just good fun.
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posted on
08/18/2015 12:36:01 PM PDT
by
RKBA Democrat
(The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools)
To: Mr. Jeeves
I remember that very well. We need our own people to stand up and mouth off to those in power. Our own “rent-a-riot”
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posted on
08/18/2015 12:50:13 PM PDT
by
RKBA Democrat
(The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools)
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