End of Democracy

[TNRighty]

In a related story, I wouldn't dare purchase Madonna's new album until I read the Wall Street Journal's review.

HAAA!!!

[midcan5]

TNwrongly,

You too should be a liberal it is why we are a free country. The WSJ has good business advice, poor opinion, but not sure you want to use them for music recommendations, but that's up to you.

And if you loved the Rolling Stone I'm sure you'll love Molly.

www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/11/ma_559_01.html

"Take any area -- environment, labor, education, taxes, health -- and go to the websites of public-interest groups in that field. You will find page after page of minor adjustments, quiet repeals, no-big-deal new policies, all of them cruel, destructive, and harmful. A silent change in regulations, an executive order, a funding cutoff. No headlines. Below the radar. Again and again and again. Head Start, everybody's favorite government program, is being targeted for "improvement" by leaving it to the tender mercies of Mississippi and Alabama. An AIDS program that helps refugees in Africa and Asia gets its funding cut because one of the seven groups involved once worked with the United Nations, which once worked with the Chinese government, which once supported forced abortions."

[TNRighty]

Perhaps you didn't catch the sarcasm in my last two posts. Anyone who looks to the Rolling Stone for their news is as dumb as someone who reads the WSJ for music reviews.

And by the way, I will never be a liberal, and the liberalism you practice today is not what made us a free country. Liberalism today goes against everything that this country was founded upon. Everything that has made our country strong is under attack by liberals, and to some extent so-called conservatives...faith, family, freedom, and military.

Perhaps our founders would have called themselves liberal 250 years ago, but if you read the Constitution and the Federalist Papers (in my opinion the true founding philosophy) you'd be left with the belief that our founders fall on the conservative side of modern politics...and they'd find all sorts of problems with both Democrats and Republicans today.

Any true constitutional scholar can find more than enough justification for slapping W around. If our founders knew his budget as a percentage of GDP they'd probably begin impeachment procedures. They'd be equally abhored with Democrats.

I guess what I'm trying to say is we need to get away from our allegiance to political parties, and get back to our allegiance to our founding philosophies which have been skewed for political gain, and worse forgotten altogether.

[midcan5]

Oh I caught the sarcasm I'm not as dumb as I look. It is the writer and not the publication that makes the work. You are right we are neither completely. Funny how all these words change. Liberals are not attacking these things, life is, it is the complexity of modern life. It is jobs, technology, freedoms, and there is also something false about the idea that somehow things were better in an imaginary past. I know too many liberals who believe all the things you mention to think it is a political label that is attacking those institutions. I would add equality, law, and an attempt at fairness to your list.

[TNRighty]

midcan5 said:

Oh I caught the sarcasm I'm not as dumb as I look. It is the writer and not the publication that makes the work. You are right we are neither completely. Funny how all these words change. Liberals are not attacking these things, life is, it is the complexity of modern life. It is jobs, technology, freedoms, and there is also something false about the idea that somehow things were better in an imaginary past. I know too many liberals who believe all the things you mention to think it is a political label that is attacking those institutions. I would add equality, law, and an attempt at fairness to your list.

Medican, I don't know if you're as dumb as you look because I don't know what you look like. For what its worth I don't think you're dumb. You actally sound like a very intelligent person. I just think the paradigm that steers your intelligence is a bit off.

As for your allusion to an "imaginary past", nothing about our nation's founding documents is "imaginary". The men who wrote them are not imaginary. The concepts of individual liberty, rule of law, limited government, and personal responsibility are not imaginary. The fact that you can make of yourself whatever you want in this country is not imaginary. Those are the foundations of this country whether you realize it or not, and they are just as relevant today as they were 250 years ago.

[Patriot]

Medican, I don't know if you're as dumb as you look because I don't know what you look like

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rofl, classic, classic.

I'm going to start a new thread of rantweb's most classic lines. That one is going to head the list.