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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:37 PM
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Why do Republicans always have to desecrate memorials for Democrats?
It's like they're afraid that these moments are going to galvanize the party, so they do whatever they can to disrupt them. They did it to Lantos and to Wellstone. This is really sick on their part.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:39 PM
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1. Because their response to anything outside their control is destructive.
It is sick. Remember what they did to Paul Wellstone's memorial? They excoriated grieving people.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:44 PM
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5. What is really scary is, that it is a sign of how much they have dehumanized
Democrats. That is something that Democrats should keep in mind.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:14 PM
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19. Agreed. It's not just rivalry or contention.
It really is dehumanization and it's quite dangerous. I think that's right.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:41 PM
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2. Because they're the party ...
... of good Christian moral values?

:shrug:
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:41 PM
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3. Because they're pieces of putrid, fetid feces?
:shrug:
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:41 PM
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4. Something to do with their toilet training.
I think they believe we're trying to steal their fecal deposits. Which are sacred.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:45 PM
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6. Because like the Phelps Klan, they're shitbags.
That's really all there is.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:49 PM
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7. Look at a three year old throwing a tanter tantrum
and the ME factor...

And add to it the ever so popular authoritarian personality

And mix it with dehumanizing the enemy... don't think you are not, and there is your answer
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:53 PM
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9. And then they expect the democrats to
act like someone with the battered wife syndrome

I did a paper on this back in 04 on the smirking chimp after studying it
with my background in psy that got a lot of play back then.

Good point! nadinbrzezinski
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:55 PM
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11. Actually let me correct you... not battered wife syndrome, worst
Helsinki

With your background in Psy you will get why I make the distiction
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:59 PM
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13. Well, I put that one in also on my essay too
so I have no disagreement with you...

I wish I could find it right now.
It was one of my better rants backed up by data, inferences and links.

Their data bank got wiped out by a Mod a couple of years ago.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:07 PM
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18. Sad part is... we have gotten to the point that I don't trust any politico
since hostages do behave the way they do
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:50 PM
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8. Because they are evil
and cruel.

And they hate America.
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:55 PM
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10. Leftism is pluralism; Rightism denies the right of other beliefs to exist
Conservatism is inherently exclusionary; they have the correct answers, and differing opinions are, by definition, wrong. Those who hold them should not be tolerated. The heart and soul of reactionary thinking is at one with religious certainty, xenophobia, prejudice, privilege and marginalization or outright destruction and exiling of those who differ.

When you're correct in the face of hoards of barbarians, tolerance is akin to destruction of all you hold dear; it's the duty of the conservative to destroy inclusive or progressive thought. Liberalism admits its own failings; such weakness is destructive to civilization in the mind of the hidebound.

'Nuff said?
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:57 PM
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12. I'd have to ask what type of conservatism? Burkian Conservatism
allowed for more give and take... now authoritarian, fascistic conservatism (the type that dominates the GOP right now) is exactly what you describe. But NOT all conservatives (just like not all liberals) are this intolerant... and I realize I am more than just splitting hairs... since I can distinguish between Burkian Conservatives, Classic Liberals, and the modern types
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 05:35 AM
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21. It explains why so many Republican voters would sit idle by as
George Bush wrecks havoc on the Constitution. They are so sold by their politics, that they believe that Republicanism is America, so if a Republican president breaks the law, it's for the good of the country.

You can almost see the seeds of Nazi Germany emerging.
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U4ikLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:01 PM
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14. Can someone provide a link to the story.
I would like to share this with my Rethug friends.
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U4ikLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:05 PM
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16. Okay, nevermind...I must get my eyes checked.
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:06 PM
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17. 'Rethug friends' are not your friends
Edited on Thu Feb-14-08 11:06 PM by Ichingcarpenter
They are your acquaintances,
it is a contradiction on the definition of friendship




a person who acts as a supporter of a cause, organization, or country by giving financial or other help : join the Friends of Guilford Free Library.
• a person who is not an enemy or who is on the same side : she was unsure whether he was friend or foe.
• a familiar or helpful thing : he settled for that old friend the compensation grant.
• (often as a polite form of address or in ironic reference) an acquaintance or a stranger one comes across : my friends, let me introduce myself.
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U4ikLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:23 PM
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20. Very true. I should have said "acquaintances".
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gemlake Donating Member (535 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:04 PM
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15. Ron Brown, too
Didn't the Republicans snub Brown's funeral service, and then questioned whether Clinton was sincere in his tribute to Ron Brown?

It's par for the course for them. Disgusting.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 05:40 AM
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22. Ron Brown too.
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