Hippies still trying to ruin the country

[Back]

Found this editorial in the Lexington Herald-Leader from Kentucky. Its really so out-there that its funny. This lady makes some right wingers look like pussy(cat)s.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hippies still trying to ruin the country (http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/editorial/15986574.htm)

By Jenean Mcbrearty
CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST


America won't win another war until the 1960s flower children are pushing up petunias.

Radicalized, the flower children morphed into lefty loonies who now masquerade as social progressives. No matter what they rename themselves, however, their agenda hasn't changed.

They still want utopia, and it wouldn't be worth mentioning except that their naivete has aged into a persistent denial of reality that may have devastating consequences.

For example, consider their continued belief that America's armed forces are neo-Nazi stormtroopers who delight in burning babies to further the aims of imperialistic corporations.

Such nonsense, now treated as legitimate by the left-leaning media, denigrates the patriotic values and sincerity of half the nation. It undermines the war effort, insults the dead and the survivors of battle and their families, and supports the aims of the enemy. Translated into immigration or national defense policy, it is an invitation to the world to destroy our country.

Yet, this Vietnam-era idee fixe about the military, despite 40-plus years of proof to the contrary, is understandable when analyzed in the context of the flower children's religious zealotry.

To renounce their military fictions would mean facing bigger, more important truths: Marxism doesn't work. Love is not all you need. Western culture is worth defending because it protects freedom, tolerance and the greatest material good for the greatest number. Government can't solve every problem. The American taxpayer has no obligation to support the rest of the world's exploding population.

Without the military-industrial complex to blame for humanity's ills, the lefty loonies lose their basis for faith in a socialist utopia. Terrorism is tortuous for them only because it forces them to pursue the political goals that will allow them to redistribute America's wealth by pulling the nation together and relying on the hated military for protection.

Oh, the unfairness of irony.

[xtc]

I don't remember Marx telling people love was all you needed? Perhaps she is confusing Marx with Jesus and even he didn't say that, (I think).

She is a shoe in to be the next guest on O'Reilly.

[Some Rogue]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a64/lrenzo2/arnold-CYBERCLONESEATDIRTYHIPPIES.png

[Hulkein]

I don't remember Marx telling people love was all you needed? Perhaps she is confusing Marx with Jesus and even he didn't say that, (I think).

She is a shoe in to be the next guest on O'Reilly.

You realize that line was tongue in cheek; it's a Beatles song.

I think the editorial is pretty accurate in a lot of areas. Marxism doesn't work. Our military isn't evil. Most of the progressives today are from the Flower Power generation.

[Artha]

Accurate but not precise.

[Gan]

Dont you mean that Hippies are NOW running the country?

[ElanthianSiren]

I believe, you see a 50/50 split among young people presently. That's a testament to how divided the "uniter" and co, (including this author), have made us. The attack that people who oppose the war oppose the individuals serving therein lost any merit it had after vietnam. Please stop connecting the criticism of a politican (just because you consider him to be a "commander") to a person's opinion of those actually serving in the armed forces.

Conservatives lost the independent vote when they fear mongered too long and catered to the RR and pushing the RR agenda in government while systematically defying it in their lives. They lost power because they spend worse than liberals, not because there was a vast hippy movement.

Long live indepedent voters.

-M

[Artha]

Conservatives lost the senate by what, 8k votes in Virginia and 3k votes in Missouri? That's hardly evidence of a great independent swing.


That's a testament to how divided the "uniter" and co, (including this author), have made us.
This sentence is just as correct if you replace ""uniter" and co, (including this author)" with "democrats". It takes two to tango, and it takes two to decend completely into partisan backbiting.

[ElanthianSiren]

Conservatives lost the senate by what, 8k votes in Virginia and 3k votes in Missouri? That's hardly evidence of a great independent swing.


This sentence is just as correct if you replace ""uniter" and co, (including this author)" with "democrats". It takes two to tango, and it takes two to decend completely into partisan backbiting.

It's funny to say that since for the longest time the Republican attack against Democrats has been that they don't engage. -So which is it? They don't engage or they do? I wish they'd engage more personally. We'll see in any case, depending if Bush can work with dem chambers and dem chambers can work with Bush.

It's evidence of a big swing, however, when you look at the 2004 election. My point was that hardline democrats are going to vote democrat regardless. Hardline republicans are going to vote republican regardless. If you know 33% of each is going to vote, what you look to appeal to is the middle demographic (independents), which is why democrats ran people like Casey instead of ultra liberals. The republicans continued to run their ultra conservative Brownback types. That is a significant ideological swing (toward moderates) when you consider 2004.

-M

[Back]

Conservatives lost the senate by what, 8k votes in Virginia and 3k votes in Missouri? That's hardly evidence of a great independent swing.

The over-all percentage was something like 53% democratic vs 41% republican. Thats a 12% difference compared to Bush’s win margin of 1% in which he claimed a “mandate” and “political capital.” I’ll also bring up the 2000 victory which was less than -1%. Don’t even give me shit about that either because the numbers are there.

This democratic win was far more of a mandate than the last 4 elections combined.


This sentence is just as correct if you replace ""uniter" and co, (including this author)" with "democrats". It takes two to tango, and it takes two to decend completely into partisan backbiting.

Not in my opinion. Criticizing you for lying is not the same as you calling me an asshole.

[Latrinsorm]

That is a significant ideological swing (toward moderates) when you consider 2004.Did you happen to see Artha's article in one of the "these" sort of threads where both elected Democrats and elected Republicans actually shifted to the "right"?

[Hulkein]

What happened this election is historically what happens during wartime. It's not a shift in anything.

Not to mention most of the Democrats who won are 100% more conservative than Backlash, anyway.

[Artha]

Criticizing you for lying is not the same as you calling me an asshole.
No, but making mountains out of molehills for political gain is at least as bad as making the molehill in the first place.

[Back]

What happened this election is historically what happens during wartime. It's not a shift in anything.

And denial is not a river in Egypt.


Not to mention most of the Democrats who won are 100% more conservative than Backlash, anyway.

No, I am not conservative. Proud of it. Just because I like to wear jeans, don’t go to church every Sunday, and listen to rock and (some) rap music doesn't mean I’m not an American who cares very much about this country and its people.

[Back]

No, but making mountains out of molehills for political gain is at least as bad as making the molehill in the first place.

Are you trying to say that criticizing someone is as bad as the someone fucking up in the first place? Try telling that to your boss the next time. Let me know how it goes.

[Artha]

No. I'm saying taking something small and making it something huge for political gain is a) annoying, b) intellectually disingenuous and c) divides.

You can not remove the adjectives for size from this statement and maintain the same meaning.

[Hulkein]

And denial is not a river in Egypt.

They were showing the stats on like ABC cuz, you don't need to search to find them.


No, I am not conservative. Proud of it. Just because I like to wear jeans, don’t go to church every Sunday, and listen to rock and (some) rap music doesn't mean I’m not an American who cares very much about this country and its people.

I wear jeans, listen to rock and rap too. I'm talking about your warped views on the issues, not the way you live your daily life.

[Back]

No. I'm saying taking something small and making it something huge for political gain is a) annoying, b) intellectually disingenuous and c) divides.

You can not remove the adjectives for size from this statement and maintain the same meaning.

I can agree with that. 100%.

What you and I call molehills and mountains is another story.

[Back]

I wear jeans, listen to rock and rap too. I'm talking about your warped views on the issues, not the way you live your daily life.

Do you honestly think I want to drop a nuke on some city in the USA? Or that I would not respond aggressively to someone doing so?

My views are about peace and prosperity for ALL people.

And you call me warped?

[Artha]

What you and I call molehills and mountains is another story.
Yep, that's the crux of it.

[Hulkein]

Do you honestly think I want to drop a nuke on some city in the USA? Or that I would not respond aggressively to someone doing so?

My views are about peace and prosperity for ALL people.

And you call me warped?

I'm talking about your views on how to best handle the economy and federal budget.

PS. No, I obviously know you don't want people to die, but I think your views on National Security would create a better chance of that happening. Not that you desire that, it would just be the end result.

[Back]

I'm talking about your views on how to best handle the economy and federal budget.

PS. No, I obviously know you don't want people to die, but I think your views on National Security would create a better chance of that happening. Not that you desire that, it would just be the end result.

Well then you've been sold by dumbasses. I'm sorry you are stupid, but I can help. We are on the same side, no matter what stupid asses tell you.

[Keller]

Found this editorial in the Lexington Herald-Leader from Kentucky. Its really so out-there that its funny. This lady makes some right wingers look like pussy(cat)s.

Nothing personal -- but I've seen you say much more far-fetched shit than that.

Sure she over-simplifies society, but there is a lot of truth to what she says. I don't agree with her, but I see her perspective.

[Hulkein]

Well then you've been sold by dumbasses. I'm sorry you are stupid, but I can help. We are on the same side, no matter what stupid asses tell you.

I haven't been sold anything and I'm not stupid. I've seen the stuff you say regarding how our government should protect the country.