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The photo reminded me that i need to buy spackle.
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â⌠Con-ConâŚâ
Better known as the double-con, a derivative of George Orwellâs doublespeak â the act of saying one thing, but meaning the exact opposite.
So freedom and liberty come to mean âbelieving only what the Koch brothers tell youâ.
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âCon-Conâ, huh? Personally, I think you could ditch the hyphen and youâd have the truth about it all. This is just another astro-turfed attempt to get the sick, the stupid and the scared to rise up in the midterms, just like the Tea Party âmovementâ was in '10.
There is absolutely no difference between âconstitutional conservatismâ, âAmerican exceptionalismâ, or any of the other Frank Luntz-tested meaningless cath phrases the GOTP and its corporate allies have used to make old white people feel like they have power â when, in actuality, theyâre just helping the people who are really screwing them stay in power.
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The So-Called 'Libertarian Moment' Is Engineered By The Christian Right
I should think this was obvious: The core value of Libertarianism is selfishness.
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Iâm a Constitutional Conservative. But not nearly as rigid as Bachman there. Sheâs creepy. Iâm a bit Goldwater-esque with a dash of Reaganite, but not to the extent of Tea Party activist historical revisionism. So am a bit more realistic and sometimes ditch the social conservatism, homophobia and evangelicalism that plagues those types of cirlces and turns off the younger crowd (although I am pro-life) and Iâm against neoconservative foreign policy so Iâve adopted a bit more of a Millennial-libertarian âRandianâ worldview lately, but Iâm not that into isolationism and believe intervention is necessary in some circumstances, but not Iraq that was bad. Iâm also usually quite open-eared to establishment GOP.
/snark
I canât keep up. Canât we just go back to calling them âregressivesâ?
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The rightwinged nutjobs hijacked the GOP party AFTER Charles Koch lost his bid for US President.
Koch realized that in order for his BS platform to win nationally, he needed to hijack a major party & he picked the GOP.
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Churches are multimillion dollar businesses. Their unregulated, tax-exempt status is exactly what business people wants for themselves.
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This is a nice piece of work and should be distributed widely. Thanks.
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Letâs call them what they were known as 50-60 years ago: Birchers
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Their common God is Mammon.
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conservative Christian soldiers who despise government so long as they donât control it
This cannot be stated loudly enough nor often enough.
All the (non-existent) things they whine about will be back, trebled, and visited upon anyone not like them, if they ever gain control of all three branches of government
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Christian right invading the Libertarian party.
Iâll make the popcorn.
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Iâve been calling them Teavangelicals from the beginning. Except for the Catoâs gang of few BSâing in the Beltway , the majority of the grassroots support in Ohio came from the usual religious right suspects.
See Rep Jim Jordan.
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All of this is true, but few will read it. The Democrats need to point out how their programs are the ones that really give people freedom. They need to make the case that Obamacare liberates people to leave jobs they donât like go out on their own and still have health insurance. They need to show that Social Security liberates people from worrying about an impoverished old age. Itâs the old FDR Four Freedoms. He knew that was the way to sell it, something todayâs Democrats need to remember.
One area that Dems should get much more in front of is pot. I donât smoke it and donât think using it to excess is good for you, but the same is true of alcohol, tobacco, potato chips and dozens of legal substances. The same is true of gambling, yet blue states are building casinos just like the red states. The President should propose to remove marijuana from Schedule I and stop federal enforcement for simple possession in all states, not just CO and WA by executive action (as he has used prosecutorial discretion for the dreamers). If Republicans in red states want to send people to jail for smoking, let it be on them. And Democratic governors should stop putting roadblocks in the way of medical marijuana-Andrew Cuomo, Iâm looking at you. Why lose votes over this issue?
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I find Paul Krugmanâs recent comments on the âriseâ of Libertarianism to be on the mark
As I said at the beginning, you shouldnât believe talk of a rising libertarian tide; despite Americaâs growing social liberalism, real power on the right still rests with the traditional alliance between plutocrats and preachers. But libertarian visions of an unregulated economy do play a significant role in political debate, so itâs important to understand that these visions are mirages.
In other words, libertarianism is a crusade against problems we donât have, or at least not to the extent the libertarians want to imagine.
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The âshrewdâ Rand Paul? Manipulative, dishonest and grasping Iâll give you, but he doesnât display enough intelligence/wisdom to be shrewd.
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Nope. Because thatâs now what âconservativeâ means. Donât like it, take it back.
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âShrewdâ in the real world means ânot all that bright but manages to get away with stuffâ.
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How about Rand Paul is a âshrewâ? Works for meâŚ
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