Maybe you don't miss it; I don't know. You can say you love the US and don't want to see it "brought down". Okay. Sorry to have offended you. This would make you a "moderate", I suppose, even though, with the Left having gone so far to the left, a "moderate" could be considered a conservative. The political "middle" is now on the Right.
But too many of those on your general side are NOT moderates, and DO want to see the US brought low. They work diligently, in many different ways, at whittling away our governmental system, our resolve and our ideals. Then, when We The People do raise a stink, they skillfully go on the defensive, and claim it's us that's doing it. They purposely make us question ourselves in a time when we, as a people, can't afford that luxury...and they realize this fact. They exploit it. And by not standing against them, Lucas, you support them. Just like the "Moderate" Muslims you referred to somewhere above. By not coming out in the streets and demonstrating against the nutcase, violent zealots in their faith, they help them. They embolden them. Yeah...one or two Imams might come out and say "This shouldn't be happening....it's an abomination to Allah and the Islamic faith." But there you have the vast majority of Islamics, just standing by and letting it happen. Silence gives assent. |
No worries, just becareful who you paint what. Not everyone is as you think; get to know them, and then decide who/what they are.
Yes, a moderate left winger/liberal, etc... The reason i call myself liberal, is becuase...definition wise, i am, for "progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs," and "favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible," etc... I don't follow modern liberalism, i know that. I'm still reading up, and forming my stances...then i will know what type of liberal i am. i.e. whether i follow classic liberalism, or what not.
Granted, one could...but then there comes choice. Then, "what has happened" becomes defunct, because a person could easily say they are liberal, for one reason or another. It might not fit, or make sense...but, when are humans sensical?
Fine, but I'm not one of them.
Why can't we afford to question ourselves?
Those muslims i speak of, want to live life. They don't want to speak out, and in the end, get killed. They are like every other human being.
Remember, conservatives..."traditionalists"...all thought the world was flat, and the earth was the center of the universe.

It's easier that way. Are you saying most--okay, most TRUE--liberals don't see us conservatives in the same way? Painted with the same broad brush? We're all just stodgy, warmongering Capitalists; God-and-gun-loving crazies, anchored to the past, who want to exploit, oppress and silence the Little Guy (I myself know many, many "Little Guys, however, who are conservatives), all the while building our empire of greed and death on his back?
Do you deny that elements on the Left are constantly working to undermine the morals and twist or sublimate the traditional faiths, perspectives and opinions of the nation? It's all over the place, Lucas, and has been for years and years....all you have to do is open your eyes. There's a book I want you to think about picking up sometime soon. I's called "Hoodwinked---How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture"; it's by Jack Cashill. Look it up, please.
It's a very good read. It details the way the cultural Left, starting in the 1920s and even earlier, and under the guidance of the Soviets, infiltrated American cultural institutions and continued on into the other levels of our society, and how it continues to this very day. Most of it was built on smear tactics (something, I might add, which they decried loudly was employed against them in the McCarthy Era), outright lies and conscious misrepresentation or blatant ignoring of established facts. Not surprisingly, one of the main branches they started with way back then was the shallow, self-loathing, egotisitcal---and useful---idiots in Hollywood. It's like they never left. |
I admit, that there is a so called "war" between your kind, and your counterparts on the left. I admit that I have stepped back, and looked at this...farce, and shaken my head, because...it will, in the end, destroy us. We are unable to tolerate each other, and are either naturally ignorant, or willfully ignorant that we are a nation of diversity...and hence that, there are different morals, traditions, faiths, perspectives, etc...
Until we --i'm sorry--...YOU, those who are "at war" against those "evil lefties," and your counterparts who are "at war" against "those evil righties," pull your heads out of your asses...and stop perpetuating things,there will be no peace, no..."united we stand."
In fact, "United we stand," is the biggest irony/paradox/misunderstanding in history. We are not united, we are most certainly devided.
Yes, I will check out that book, as will i check out one just as equally biased. (Yes, biased...if it is one thing i have learned in my history classes, is that EVERYONE has bias.) I will read them both, and make my decision then.
| Now....no it isn't....we've had some nice conversations in the past, in between telling each other how right we are and how wrong the other is. |
Hmm, I don't remember those times, my apologies.
*Laughs his ass off*
You know, your comment,
"starting in the 1920s and even earlier, and under the guidance of the Soviets, infiltrated American cultural institutions and continued on into the other levels of our society, and how it continues to this very day.
Most of it was built on smear tactics (something, I might add, which they decried loudly was employed against them in the McCarthy Era), outright lies and conscious misrepresentation or blatant ignoring of established facts," sounds just like those whom some of you decry as "loony lefties," when they say "it's a government conspiracy." That sounds awfully "conspiracy theorist" like.
What I find funny...is that liberalism, "an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value," is, as you say "your enemy/rival" etc... why so?
Why is it so wrong, to question things, to limit corporations so that people are treated fairly, to demand equal rights for all, etc...?
THAT, is what being liberal is all about. That is what I abscribe to.
We should wait until they use their nukes on us or an ally? When you see the storm coming, you take steps to prevent yourself from getting wet. Of course, when the storm comes and we DO get "wet", those who protested for so long that we should just talk and try to work things out will take no responsibility at all. They'll simply blame the Bush Adminstration for not taking action sooner.
Yes, though, if I had my way, Iran would, at the very least, have already been subject to such severe conventional bombing that nothing would be left to use in building nukes. What we fail to grasp is that these people respond only to force. Shock and Awe isn't enough. You have to follow it up with brutal war of attrition in which you give no quarter and kill as many of them as you can. This they will respect. Negotiation and working at winning all the hearts and minds is viewed as weakness. They laugh at us for our foolishness.
When Iran test fires their first nuke, we should hit them with at least the biggest conventional bomb we have. It's just a little less in explosive power than the Hiroshima bomb, and even looks like a nuke when it goes off. Drop it out in the desert ten or twelve miles from Tehran. Let them know that next comes the Real Thing. Tell them if they don't back off, we'll turn the whole damn country to radioactive green glass. They'll be holding firecrackers compared to what we have, and they'll know it. |
This is something I've wondered....would they really use them? In fact, are they really trying to obtain nuclear weapons? (Don't give me propagandic/biased rhetoric, just links/facts)
If they truly, as they say, are aiming to obtain energy for demographic use, (electricity, etc...) then so be it. Numerous other countries do so.
| It's easier that way. Are you saying most--okay, most TRUE--liberals don't see us conservatives in the same way? Painted with the same broad brush? |
I can think of several liberals I know who do not, i myself don't. Face it, not all do, and to group us together, when clearly not one person is the same....is unethical, and wrong.