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pitcrawler
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 Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:16 pm Post subject: A truly unbiased article. |
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| http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/43611 wrote: | If ignorance is truly bliss then America should be the happiest country on the planet.
The one-time land of the free and home of the brave has morphed into the land of the ignorant and home of the misinformed.
America today is a nation of fools, brain-dead lemmings lulled into massive ignorance fueled by Internet-based misinformation, political party propaganda and lame conspiracy theories.
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While there are smart, informed voters out there and some of them offer reasoned dialog in political debates, the atmosphere by and large is poisoned by the malcontents, the screamers and the nutcases who have co-opted the political system and led this nation into the extreme fringes on both the right and the left.
What all this madness produces is an upcoming election in November pitting a monumental failure current serving as President against an empty suit that no one really knows.
But what other choices did we have? The Republican Party could not field one one credible candidate for office. Every candidate, without exception, is a miserable failure. In this primary season we had a tail chasing ex-food executive, a serial adulterer who also served as Speaker of the House, a series of right-wing flakes and a former racist publisher and conspiracy theorist masquerading as a obstetrician and Congressman.
No wonder Mitt Romney gets the GOP nomination. He’s the dog with the least fleas.
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Barack Obama deserves a whipping at the polls. As a candidate, he talked a good game. As a President he is a colossal failure. Not since Jimmy Carter has the Democratic Party produced a president so unfit for the job.
But, like George W. Bush in 1996, Obama may win re-election because no real alternative exists. Mitt Romney’s political directions change with the poll of the day. The Etch-a-Sketch candidate is a blank slate who has changed positions more often than Newt Gingrich has swapped wives.
What else can you expect from a political system that produces Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and Joe the Plumber.
Instead of the “best of the best,” we have to settle for the “least worst of the worst.”
We have a slate of unqualified candidates who depend on an uninformed, gullible electorate to win an election.
Little wonder the country is screwed.
In a democracy, it is said, voters get the government they deserve.
Sad, but true.
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In today’s political environment, we can change that to “the unqualified leading the uninvolved into unknown for the uninformed.”
I wish I had an answer. Somewhere out there, one may exist but I fear the decline has gone too far. We may never find the road back because our system is no longer capable of producing a leader who can lead the way. |
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Muso
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: A truly unbiased article. |
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| pitcrawler wrote: | | a former racist publisher and conspiracy theorist masquerading as a obstetrician and Congressman. |
Unbiased? 
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:21 pm Post subject: Re: A truly unbiased article. |
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| The Earth wrote: | | pitcrawler wrote: | | a former racist publisher and conspiracy theorist masquerading as a obstetrician and Congressman. |
Unbiased? |
seriously. |
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nomilieu
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't they mean Clinton in 1996? |
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BonezTheGoon
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | led this nation into the extreme fringes on both the right and the left. |
Um, I am unaware of any party that is extreme right anymore. Everything has shifted left, IMO. So, yeah the lefties are further left and I will agree with the author of the article on that note. However I don't see anyone that would qualify as a "republican" if you were using the say 1970 definition of the term.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: A truly unbiased article. |
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| The Earth wrote: | | pitcrawler wrote: | | a former racist publisher and conspiracy theorist masquerading as a obstetrician and Congressman. |
Unbiased? |
Totally.
In a tubular sort of way.
At least he is a former racist.
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| BonezTheGoon wrote: | | Um, I am unaware of any party that is extreme right anymore. Everything has shifted left, IMO. So, yeah the lefties are further left and I will agree with the author of the article on that note. |
Nobody mainstream in American politics is what was traditionally considered left wing. No one's calling for higher corporate taxes, significant expansion of social services (welfare, healthcare, education), and the other things that now are derided as socialism. Of course, no one in mainstream politics is really hard right, either. Everything has drifted so much into just party-vs.-party, with essentially the same actions, reactions, and goals -- acquiring and keeping power through (often corporate) money. You do get occasional 'extremes' on either side ("tea party", "Occupy Wall St.", etc.), but, while attention may be drawn to them in the media, they're not really in any position of political power.
It's really kinda depressing to watch. You have a bad choice and a slightly worse choice (which is which pretty much boils down to personal preferences). |
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pitcrawler
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:42 pm Post subject: Re: A truly unbiased article. |
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| The Earth wrote: | | pitcrawler wrote: | | a former racist publisher and conspiracy theorist masquerading as a obstetrician and Congressman. |
Unbiased? |
There's a lot of evidence that he did formerly publish racist articles. There's a lot of evidence of him pushing wacky conspiracy theories. There's a lot of evidence that he always stays in the running to make money. He even admitted it himself recently. Making a conclusion based on evidence is not bias. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| broken_chaos wrote: | | BonezTheGoon wrote: | | Um, I am unaware of any party that is extreme right anymore. Everything has shifted left, IMO. So, yeah the lefties are further left and I will agree with the author of the article on that note. |
Nobody mainstream in American politics is what was traditionally considered left wing. No one's calling for higher corporate taxes, significant expansion of social services (welfare, healthcare, education), and the other things that now are derided as socialism. Of course, no one in mainstream politics is really hard right, either. Everything has drifted so much into just party-vs.-party, with essentially the same actions, reactions, and goals -- acquiring and keeping power through (often corporate) money. You do get occasional 'extremes' on either side ("tea party", "Occupy Wall St.", etc.), but, while attention may be drawn to them in the media, they're not really in any position of political power.
It's really kinda depressing to watch. You have a bad choice and a slightly worse choice (which is which pretty much boils down to personal preferences). |
union politics is pretty much dead. "left" and "liberal" are no totally conflated in america. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:18 pm Post subject: Re: A truly unbiased article. |
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| Quote: | Little wonder the country is screwed.
In a democracy, it is said, voters get the government they deserve.
Sad, but true. |
Mention that next time you try to defend Barry
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I think the article is refreshingly neutral, politically, but without even offering a hint of a suggestion as to the way forward, it's hardly constructive.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:12 am Post subject: |
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | I think the article is refreshingly neutral, politically, but without even offering a hint of a suggestion as to the way forward, it's hardly constructive. |
because the suggestion would put the author on the no-fly-list.
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BonezTheGoon
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| energyman76b wrote: | | BoneKracker wrote: | | I think the article is refreshingly neutral, politically, but without even offering a hint of a suggestion as to the way forward, it's hardly constructive. |
because the suggestion would put the author on the no-fly-list. |
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haha, so true.
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Yeah, or get them blamed by the media the next time some politician gets shot by a wacko.
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