Are you sick to death of the I-can-out-crazy-your-crazy screaming, the Obama-wants-to-kill-yo-mama infantilism, the he's-a-Kenyan-Nazi-Communist, America-doesn't-apologize, torture-shmorture, government-is-evil-except-when-it's-interrogating-Muslims, my-gun-gets-bigger-when-you-rub-it, and the O'Reilly-Beck-Hannity-Limbaugh Axis-of-Evil? If the answer is yes, I salute you. If the answer is no, I also salute you... with this one finger.
I have some advice for all of us. Stop trying to get these people to realize how wrong they are and how right you are. Stop trying to apply reason to the profoundly unreasonable. Stop trying to mitigate or explain their collective temper tantrum. Stop trying to curry their favor, their votes, their attention. They don't care about truth, right and wrong, good or bad. They care about stomping feet, crying victim, and pointing fingers. Barney Frank had it exactly right, it's like arguing with a dining room table. Enough is enough. Fuck Kumbaya.
I'm not sure what bothers me more, the profound and disturbing ignorance displayed by some, or the ones who know what's right but protest simply because what's right was proposed by the Left. Ironically, their elected representatives don't care about them any more than they care about us. They care about reelection, they care about influence and power, they care about themselves, and they mindlessly adhere to an antiquated ideology at our collective peril (see Sunday's Paul Krugman).
Don't be afraid of them. Don't let them question (or make you question) your basic instincts for goodness, decency, humanitarianism, and the attainable America you want and deserve. Don't let them intimidate you. Think of Vivian Jones and James Hood trying to attend their first day of college, facing those bloodthirsty crowds led by none other than the Governor of Alabama seething, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" Those kids didn't run. Martin Luther King didn't run when that same governor called him a communist threatening the fabric of America. If they didn't run at the first sounds of anger, the first sight of guns, the first smell of stubborn ignorance, neither should we. And neither should President Obama.
And, yes, I know that all conservatives are not dumb, nor all liberals bright, but I'd surely like to hear some sound from principled conservatives. What we're getting is Town Hall Screamers (a great name for a rock band, you'll have to admit) bellowing about Obama not being a citizen, comparing his initiatives to mutually opposed political philosophies (you can't be both a Nazi and a Communist...think, people!), and scaring up lies like death panels. You can't tell people these don't exist if they have chosen to believe in them and nothing anyone says can convince them otherwise.
Sarah Palin may actually be dumb enought to believe the lies, but Chuck Grassley isn't, and when he tells his contituents to be afraid of death panels, he's just manipulating them, and that's not good faith discourse.
Maybe if we had more dialogue and less demagoguing from those who offer no solutions other than to break Obama, the nation might be in better shape.
I've been saying this for a while.
Of course there are intelligent, sincere, rational conservatives who have things to say that are worth saying, and that I'd actually like to hear.
But where the hell are they?
Believe it of not, many of us on the right feel exactly the same way. It is just as difficult for conservatives to have a reasoned conversation with today's progressives. Had I written the article above, it would likely have sounded much the same, but with different names and instances. I couldnt help but smile when I read it.
Our position is correct. Your position is incorrect.
Frankly no one on this site cares exactly how you feel. Go share your feelings with Michelle Malkin.
wow, it still holds true. Stop them here, stop them now.
Hey, you're right. It still holds true.
Stop them here, stop them now.
I think the author was refering to the strength and character demostrated by the black students in the face of (in this case race-based) hatred.
I agree that we need to give everybody the benifit of the doubt, regardless of sex, race, creed, etc.
MHO
RT
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You are SO right! The entire Republican party is nothing but old furniture to be moved into the back room. It's time to quit listening to these people; and to move forward and pass real healthcare reform.
May Obama make Ted Kennedy's dream reality - and make him proud!
Was that what the republicans meant when they threatened the nuclear option if they didn't get their way with the Supreme Court nominations under Bush?
Or were we living in the third world then?
Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
-Mark Twain
The forces of darkness simply cannot be allowed to overrun America.
We should all know by now how that "victory" was manufactured.
If I scream twice as loud, my vote counted twice as much.