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Originally Posted by DTK
I truly feel sorry for people like this, too. I mean, the cognitive dissonance must be tremendous. Just like ObamaBots who refuse to accept that he's governed as a Center-Right corporatist with a neocon foreign policy.
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Agree 100 percent
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Originally Posted by **********
Robby, Vendzilla :
You guys have a really great president. You need to stand up to the righties at Fox and and other media and stop slamming him so much for stuff that was never anything to do with him to begin with.
One reason why people outside of your country give a damn is because what Americans do affects us. The GOP is polluting the hell out of the planet thanks to the Koch brothers and there ever-lasting war things like the EPA. Republicans are taking away voter rights, women's rights, marriage rights, etc. Taking money away from the public school system will guarantee a dumber bunch of young adults who will have zero job skills. Stand up for fuck sakes and do something about it. Make sure EVERYONE can vote, and vote those fuckers out.
Have a good weekend.
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You're a good dude Mark but you show a little naivety. Vendzilla and Robbie and Minte and the other "Conservatives" on this board are zebras that will never change their stripes. These types of guys go wayyyy back, back to the days of Jim Crow (wiki it if not familiar).
Conservatism is at its core: Pure Unadulterated Racism.
But that is an over simplification - because conservatism is even much worse than that - it's a loose knit coalition of hate based groups. They hate Women, LGBT Persons, Poor Elderly, Poor Young people, all Minorities, and poor White People - but no one gets more hate and venom from Conservatives than African Americans.
It's very telling that Robbie comes in this thread and says he's not a Republican but rather a Libertarian - there is only one group in the US more overtly racist than Libertarians: The KKK.
The Libertarian "Movement" (it's declining so the movement is backwards) is 99.999 all white - there are so few black Libertarians that if you are one - you become an instant celebrity in the movement and are offered all kinds of interviews and speaking engagements, thats how rare Black Libertarians are.
When we elected Obama it stirred to life deep dark and ancient racial resentments from all those old families where fathers have handed down to sons the idea that black persons were, and should still be, our subjects, servants, or even slaves - this manifested itself in the form of the hate group known as the "Tea Party".
Fox News (the misinformation propaganda arm of the Republican Party) together with the Koch Brothers and other right wing hate funded organizations injected money, air time, and organizational efforts to make the Tea Party come to life and have a radical impact on the Presidency of Barack Obama. They managed to take hold of enough congressional seats in 2010/12 that enabled them to block nearly everything Obama has wanted to accomplish and they have set the astounding record of becoming the worst congress of all time:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...congress-ever/
The most interesting thing about the All White (nearly) Tea Party is that the vast majority of them are poor (and nearly all uneducated). So the policies they are advocating for work directly AGAINST their interests. Only the forces of bigotry, racism, and sexism, can overpower a families desire to put more food on the table. Like the anomaly of a Black Libertarian - a middle to lower class Tea Partier (or Republican) is involved in an organization that exists solely for principals that will make their lives WORSE in the form of higher income disparity.
Now there is all out war between the "mainstream" Republicans (the old guard who actually governed) and the Tea Party who exist solely to obstruct Obama - but both of them share the same principals of greed and overt racism and sexism (anti-abortion being the most violent form of of sexism) - the stated positions of "smaller goverment and fiscal responsibility" are a total sham...they abandon these principals in a heartbeat and spend like crazy if that money goes into the pockets of the rich...SO what is happening now is we have a lot of these guys, smart guys, like Minte, Robbie, Vendzilla and other GFY venom spitters left out in the cold ideologically - if you are smart you can see that the Republican Party is soon to be a dead relic of the past - Libertarianism is a racist utopian fantasy that could never gain ANY traction in a multicultural nation..of course they hate the Green Party and most deny global warming...Democrat is a dirty word...so where do they go - where do they belong - where can they direct their white entitled hate? Plan on seeing them on GFY for a long time to come shaking their fat fists at the clouds and screaming DAMN YOU OBAMA!