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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 04:19 PM Original message |
What is it about the left that bothers people? And what's so appealing about the Center/Right? |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. Combination of DAMN KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!.... |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. can't answer, but can recommend |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. Left means change. Right means no change or regression. |
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iamahaingttta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
4. We are a nation of "rugged individualists"... |
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KSCFAN (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 05:47 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I'm a libertarian so I'll shed some light. |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 05:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Someone that games the system to live off of other peoples hard work. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 05:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. So, basically, you want to control how other people spend their money. |
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KSCFAN (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 06:08 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. No. I want to control how I spend my own money. |
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iamahaingttta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 07:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
20. Ah yes! The Libertarian... |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:34 AM Response to Reply #5 |
37. The old welfare vs work argument |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
6. Calling yourself an "independent" means you (supposedly) think for yourself. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 05:58 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. The center hasn't been at the center for forty years. n/t |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 06:05 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I agree with that. And calling yourself a "thinking independent" doesn't make you one either. |
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pink-o (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
8. I think there's also the snobbery.... |
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KSCFAN (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 06:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Sacrifice? |
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pink-o (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 08:57 AM Response to Reply #14 |
28. "Sacrifice" being a loaded term |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
13. Emotion...we were warned of leaning too heavy on Emotion..Art Koestler JANUS |
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CANDO (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
15. Repetition, repetition, repetition. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:34 AM Response to Reply #15 |
36. And what's wrong with Socialism?? The Pilgrims were socialist. Did YOU know that? |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
16. i can tell you the |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 06:29 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Okay, shoot. |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 06:56 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. "same old toe the line crap that I hate "... "Okay, shoot." |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 09:54 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. sorry, I'm crampy |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 10:11 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. bah hahaha.... lol. inevitably |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 10:18 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. sometimes I just have to unleash my insane thoughs... |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 10:36 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. i hear ya. 3 |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 06:38 PM Response to Original message |
18. Because the far right own the corporate media and they get to tell the story |
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LiberalPersona (679 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
21. Nothing |
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newmajority (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
23. Media brainwashing. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-09-08 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
26. The left talks about facts and events that actually happen, however uncomfortable they may be. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
29. The balance has shifted so far to the right that the "center" is almost fascist |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
30. The left is scary to Americans |
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SergeyDovlatov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
31. socially liberal / fiscally conservative / anti-war -- is it center? |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:18 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. In other words they are yuppie or wannabe yuppie elitist NEOLIBERALS |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
32. Of course, the Clintons are even further right and are flogging Rightwing Pseudo Populism everywhere |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
34. My television says the Left is bad. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
35. Most of my TX / Midwestern relatives (including Yankee transplants) are virulently individualist |
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CK_John (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
38. Many people are more comfortable with the devil they know than the unknown. Change |
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