Where has the rational left of the 60s gone, and who has replaced them with these hate filled monsters?
Recently, every time I've started to write an article about the situation in New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina and surrounding events, I've gotten a few words down and then become distracted by something I read while browsing the internet. I've come on statements like these:…
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176 - Steve S
well, thanks Dave.
I think I might have an idea why it gets personalized, but I'm not positive although the Ayn Rand references are perhaps a clue.
One thing I have had to learn to live with, is a society where a HUGE number want the right to publicly condemn me, each and every opportunity they have. Perhaps that is what makes living under the name calling easier, it's everywhere.
I'd rather be accused of reading Ayn Rand, than have millions of television viewers hear that I'm responsible for Hurricane Katrina's wrath on the 'wicked city'! But what can you do, you have to learn to live with it all the time, some of us, anyway.
I know you have concerns of big government. And you know people have concerns of big corporations. Right now, all people have to do is think of gas prices, the impossible-to-live-on wages of wal-mart, the spiraling cost of insurance, home prices, sitting in a waiting room trying to navigate through HMO paperwork, etc. and people begin to really HATE big business. It's not something worth chirping about, really. So....next time you push for a pro-business bit of policy, listen to the arguments of those debating you, and then address them.
Do you remember some conversations we had aways back when I talked about the horrors of having to work for Ebeneezer Scrooge? No protection from long hours, not enough pay, etc.
I don't remember the context of the discussions at all, but I remember voicing my concerns of big business getting to run unchecked. In promoting your argument, you never addressed my fears, you never even commented on them. So my fears remained, and I did not come to see your side of the argument.
I have no idea if that is what is going on here, but you mentioned you are getting lumped in with Ayn Rand, so perhaps it's along that line. I now know you are speaking on behalf of a small run-from-home business, but you do speak like you are fighting for the rights of misunderstood PG&E against big bad Erin Brockovich sometimes. *shrugging* I don't really know, maybe it's somewhere along those lines.
177 - RogerMDillion
How ridiculous? Where's your outrage at the right? Your claims that you couldn't find similar quotes are unbelievable because there has been just as many vile comments from the right on this site, let alone the Internet. Or do you not mind terms like "feminazi" dehumanizing? If you don't like what the left has become, blame the voters. It's those same dehumanizing tactics that you decry that have worked for the right for the past decade. You want a serious debate, but if the politicians don't take part in one, why should anyone else?
It's all just a three card monte game to distract the masses, so the people who actually run this country can go about their business as usual.
178 - Dave Nalle
Roger, I can find similar quotes from the right - like your Feminazi reference - but not as many and not of the same severity when talking about this particular issue. The truly outrageous and extreme statements from the right tend to be of an entirely different nature, and come from clearly identifiable minority groups, like religious extremists. They're just as inexcusable, but their hate isn't in play here.
Dave
179 - Shark
Just for the record:
I don't see myself as a 'liberal' or a 'leftist' -- but I actually AM a hunched-over demon.
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Dan, re. other cinematic images:
I dunno, Dan, I see Dave as the Giant Blue Meanie (you're Max, of course) standing on a black & white mountaintop, eyes bulging, shaking his fist -- while "leftists" and "liberals" galavant in a colorful land below singing "All You Need Is Love".
(Bambineck and A. Grande would be part of the Four-Headed insane blue dog.)
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Speaking of Leftists and Liberals, I say The End is Near when -- after some 175 comments -- they still can't DEFINE THOSE TERMS.
feh. I want my own *party.
* Liberal Reactionary (which ironically, btw, both dave and dan could belong to!)
"Ad astra per aspera!" -- Shark's LR Party Slogan