1 year ago6 points(+0/-0/+6Score on mirror)1 child
I used to think that I should yield some to maintain peace when I was young. After I had my first child, my idea changed, we must stand firm, we must be unyielding, because children know when they can take advantage of parents' love.
Now they are just children. Imagine our enemies. After that I became radical.
1 year ago5 points(+0/-0/+5Score on mirror)1 child
> The "conservatives" who are scared of the "radical right" are the leftists and liberals of yesterday that were thrown out of today's left because they went too far left for their taste, so they try to hijack the right instead ...
Absolutely. Considering them "stealth RINOS", for lack of a better term. They're dead weight holding us back. They were left behind by the DNC and they're only wish is to see us become like the party that left them behind. No different than California Liberals who can't afford to live there, move elsewhere, and then immediately start voting Blue again.
> They want the right wing to forever be on the defensive and never be on the offensive.
I knew this back in the 90s, especially when the media was stirring up a moral panic by pumping out story after story of "right-wing militias" and "Christian Theocrats" hiding around every corner. Notice all throughout the last three decades that Republicans are ALWAYS -- *without exception* -- ALWAYS reacting to Democrat policies and Democrat-made "controversies".
Dems set the agenda and Republicans dance to the beat they're given. Not once, save maybe for the Tea Party, which was a genuinely grassroots movement, have Republicans even been out in front setting the terms. And when Dems cheat, Republicans do nothing but cry on the sidelines. When Dems are in office, it's non-stop carnage. When Reps. have the House and Senate, they sit on their hands!
The teaparty stuff was interesting, but they co-opted and shut it down almost immediately and quite effectively. They chartered those Tea Party Express busses and bussed around a bunch of retarded geriatrics and gave them signs to wave with inane messages like "Hands Off Our Medicare".
Shape shifting u/#topkek