tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post6884303501437635700..comments2024-03-12T16:31:22.046-03:00Comments on Viable Opposition: The Growth of Political Polarization in AmericaA Political Junkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342345936277964422noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-42011003443305505372012-10-18T17:04:10.234-03:002012-10-18T17:04:10.234-03:00I think you will find that most of the crime in th...I think you will find that most of the crime in these states occurs in the inner cities which are controlled mostly by, wait for it, liberals. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-69012655045741357152012-10-18T01:16:41.074-03:002012-10-18T01:16:41.074-03:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07923875099856749140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-14431703950858820742012-08-24T18:13:07.529-03:002012-08-24T18:13:07.529-03:00... The rampent crime that does happen in the Sta...... The rampent crime that does happen in the States is near exclusively in areas, cities, communities, etc. that are and have been controlled by Leftists ...<br /><br />The ten most violent states per capita: Mississippi, South Carolina, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Arizona, Nevada, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana. 9 conservative states and one swing state.<br />Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-33852240502470743412012-07-25T10:47:15.166-03:002012-07-25T10:47:15.166-03:00It's strange that people have polarized so muc...It's strange that people have polarized so much since the 1980's. With the exception of NPR, US news stations now spout either left or right biased opinions like they are facts. It's easy to catch; simply ask your self, did you learn anything new (new information) from the program you just watched or heard beyond the headline? In most cases, no. So, I think the polarization is probably due to the political discussions forgoing informing the public of the actual debate on hand, including BOTH perspectives, and what each perspective thinks is important. Pundits on both sides of the aisle should be side-lined for more balanced and informative coverage of specific news and current issues, instead of giving us sound bite sophism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-34602653342644496182012-07-12T01:28:29.294-03:002012-07-12T01:28:29.294-03:00You wrote: "Nice try, except I'm Canadian...You wrote: "Nice try, except I'm Canadian. You know, a country that you guys often call "leftist", yet we have far better education and far lower crime than in your country. Look it up. So don't blame me for your problems."<br /><br />Nice try, but you're ignoring context, and so truth. Why? You must know that the Left in America has educated most of our kids, and been in near total control of education for over 40 years now. (since at least Carter and the start of the public teacher's unions). <br />It's the same with crime. The rampent crime that does happen in the States is near exclusively in areas, cities, communities, etc. that are and have been controlled by Leftists (Or, let's say those who make the decisions, 98% of the time vote for one party over the other. But I am talking about those who hold to the values, beliefs, faiths, dogmas, etc. of the ideology called Leftism.)<br /><br />You are also forgetting that much of Canada's cultural reality (and achievement culturally)is from and living off the fumes of a distinctly Christian and conservative history and culture, which the secular Left vehemently, daily rejects outright. <br /><br />Also, I don't get your point at all in mentioning Goldwater and Reagan. They were great, reasonable and good Americans who believed in Americanism over Leftism. (ie. prioritizing individual liberty over our decent instinct for egalitarianism...growing the State.) Your perception and feelings response to their names, have largely been shaped for you by a culture which is overwhelmingly secular Left, or statist, or collectivist, or marxist, or socialist, etc. and so *must* demonize the person-hood of those people to stop their ideas getting out. <br /><br />The fact is, they were right. The bigger the government the smaller the citizen. The smaller the community, and country. <br /><br />And let's not forget that much of Canada's success in the last few years has to do with having a Conservative PM in office who is similar to those guys you demonize, in their value system. He is more an American, in his value system, than much of your country., lol. :)Jalopy Macfurrlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17221788232736484305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-28122011720708448492012-07-10T06:03:11.021-03:002012-07-10T06:03:11.021-03:00P.S.
And you Leftists are responsible for the geno...P.S.<br />And you Leftists are responsible for the genocidal nightmare that happened just after the Vietnam war, too. You statist kept shouting about giving peace a chance, so when the Left took over Congress, and lame duck Pres Ford (just after Nixon) had no power to deny them, you abandoned the French Peace accords and the South Vietnamese. Between Ho and Pol Pot (One of the very few Marxist educated Cambodians) went on to slaughter, drown and starve millions. These Communists gave your peace a chance all right. And again, it was hell on earth. Democrats have started most of the wars in the United States' history, and you have cause the most increase in suffering, cruelty and death on earth, and a relatively unprecedented decrease in prosperity for your own people. You have controlled the educating our kids for 40+ years, and controlled the communities of the poorest of the poor for just as long. The Left has utterly, inexorably failed. The evidence is in.Jalopy Macfurrlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17221788232736484305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-65118497848800272972012-07-10T05:37:44.254-03:002012-07-10T05:37:44.254-03:00You should be ashamed of yourself for denying the ...You should be ashamed of yourself for denying the dignity of the truth to those 100 million + that were murdered and force starved; re Anon's reminder. Stalin and co. (20 to 50 million depending on time line) was an ardent Leftist, in every sense of the word. He deliberately went after believers and those who supported Americanism, especially. Mao, the greatest mass murderer in human history (Mao, the Untold Story on Amazon by two historians...ie. 75 million people murdered and force starved) was also a Leftist, and outspoken Communist. So was Pol Pot, and Ho. Hitler was *anything* but a small government conservative. You Leftists just love to ry and put him in the Libertarian's camp, yet the truth is that he was all about growing the power of the centralized government just like any Leftist, except he was also a racist and an occultist. Point was, he acted like a Leftist in policy (furthering gun control, growing the size and power of the State.) Amd Anon's DDT scolding of the murderous Left, was absolutely, horrifically correct. Are you ready to apologize and hang your head perpetually in shame? They were mostly children, you know, who died! And at any given moment, during Mao's reign (You know, the guy you leftists name restaurants after) tens of thousands of parents were eating their dead children. Your precious, sacred even (to you) Leftism, literally brings hell on earth. And I'd bet my car you are not man enough to admit it.Jalopy Macfurrlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17221788232736484305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-88290697449470512632012-07-09T01:32:48.310-03:002012-07-09T01:32:48.310-03:00It's interesting reading some of the knuckle-d...It's interesting reading some of the knuckle-dragging postings here particularly the mind-numbingly crass posting of 2 July from "anon" (shame you've not got the guts, honesty and integrity to put your real name to your posting isn't it?!) when this ape stated: "P.S.<br />Oh, and Leftism is responsible for at least 100 million murdered and force starved in the 20th century alone..." Using the same blinkered and false logic, one could blame the right for Nazism and for the tens of millions of deaths arising from their excesses. This game of tit for tat can go on ad nauseam except that it is largely meaningless when played without reference to any historical context.Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12271050431077154309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-13307589676498397012012-07-07T22:45:45.717-03:002012-07-07T22:45:45.717-03:00"You've(the Left)controlled most of the e..."You've(the Left)controlled most of the educating of our kids for 40+ years now. You've near decimated it. You've controlled the communities of the poorest of the poor, and they are now war zones and there are more poor proportionately..."<br /><br />Nice try, except I'm Canadian. You know, a country that you guys often call "leftist", yet we have far better education and far lower crime than in your country. Look it up. So don't blame me for your problems.<br /><br />"Really? Did you forget about Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater?"<br /><br />Goldwater and Reagan? I was just a kid. A Canadian kid. AND, if you look at the chart with the data, this trend is taking place long after Reagan left office.Jeffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-62314583494338571212012-07-06T01:22:38.392-03:002012-07-06T01:22:38.392-03:00The reason the Left failed in their trying to comp...The reason the Left failed in their trying to compete with talk radio, is that leftism is emotion based. You need to manipulate feelings, contrary to logic, and truth, so reason itself becomes a threat. With talk radio, you cannot control the narrative from people like me. Yet to the real point, there is *nothing* stopping you leftists from competing with Dennis Prager and similar, except what I've just said. You cannot stand this, and so call names to dehumanize the people and so distract from actual argument. It is pathetic, and reveals a weak and intellectually dishonest thinker. Shame on you.Jalopy Macfurrlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17221788232736484305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-82561815733740175422012-07-06T01:14:11.326-03:002012-07-06T01:14:11.326-03:00Lol., as written by a leftist, obviously. Yet unfo...Lol., as written by a leftist, obviously. Yet unfortunately, for what you'd like to believe, the evidence is against you. On our side we have major commentators like Thomas Sowell, Dennis Prager, Walter Williams, George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Jonah Goldberg and on and on. Very, obviously intelligent and thoughtful people. On your side, for columnists or thinkers, you leftists have...err..whom exactly? Peggy Noonan? Some comedians? Certainly you don't compare people like Krugman to Walter Williams. Krugman simply repeats his same column ever time, insisting we should spend more of other people's earning to grow the government and "stimulate" the economy lol.<br />It reminds me of how you leftists called beautiful, decent people like my mom in the tea party, dehumanizing, disgusting names for two years. Yet when you leftists started your own protests, within days there was already more evidence of low class, even racist and criminal behaviour on your side. You guys project, and often are what you hate. As in this example. You are accusing me of being stupid, (since I believe in Americanism rather than leftism...mutually exclusive, but distinct ideologies., ie. why we left Europe lol;) yet we see that it is you who have not thought this through. (Unless you can match up the leftist thinkers with the major conservative thinkers in the cultural ether; which you cannot. <br /><br />"the bigger the government the smaller the citizen."<br />Dennis PragerJalopy Macfurrlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17221788232736484305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-18625115793733288152012-07-04T09:55:41.997-03:002012-07-04T09:55:41.997-03:00"Conservatism is not the doctrine of the inte..."Conservatism is not the doctrine of the intellectual elite or of the more intelligent segments of the population, but the reverse. By every measure available to us, conservative beliefs are found most frequently among the uninformed, the poorly educated, and the less intelligent" <br />(McClosky, H. Conservatism and Personality. American Political Science Review, 52, 27-45.).nMycoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810219250804482121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-36568573033742311172012-07-04T03:15:05.995-03:002012-07-04T03:15:05.995-03:00tim...the dim one...pity such a losertim...the dim one...pity such a loserAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-39552717547042530832012-07-03T22:21:36.990-03:002012-07-03T22:21:36.990-03:00So........how many time have you actually listened...So........how many time have you actually listened to Rush Limbaugh....bet you dont even know what station he is on. The rascists, sexists, etc, etc, exist in the dem party. why dont you try restricting commentary to topics you actually have some knowledge of.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-16622547353893236672012-07-03T22:18:46.384-03:002012-07-03T22:18:46.384-03:00When Reagan blew up the Fairness Doctrine and talk...When Reagan blew up the Fairness Doctrine and talk radio politics became a home for rightwing idiots like limabaugh giving opinion for profits, that was the beginning of the end for intelligent political discourse. And its not as if the right wing dominance of talk radio has changed the elections, because since the late 80s, there have been two repubs in the white house and two dems. but conservatives are verbal bomb throwers who don't deal in nuance but shallow ideas that appeal to people's worst sides, racism, sexism, etc. It's loud noise for dumb people. the American Idol of radio. but it makes a ton of money being stupid and shallow and appealing to a non-existant black and white world. Rush Limbaugh has done more to f up this country.timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337410209248197049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-78272321542804785192012-07-02T04:46:30.470-03:002012-07-02T04:46:30.470-03:00If it wasn't for free talk radio, the US would...If it wasn't for free talk radio, the US would be much like Europe, and everyone would basically think the same and hold to Leftism. (I listen to Dennis Prager, though) <br />Personally I think the polarization has in part to do with how blatantly the Left has failed, and the evidence is now in. <br />You've(the Left)controlled most of the educating of our kids for 40+ years now. You've near decimated it. You've controlled the communities of the poorest of the poor, and they are now war zones and there are more poor proportionately; and their family cohesiveness is worse than anyone would have dreamed possible. You've supported more and more radical (and disgusting) policies., like all 9 months abortions, teaching gay sex to kids, etc. You've grown the power of the centralized State to unprecedented levels. We conservatives & Libertarians have every reason to be upset with the Left. The Left has increased suffering, cruelty and death, and nearly wiped out even the concept of dignity out of the cultural ether. Leftism is an utter failure. <br />P.S.<br />Oh, and Leftism is responsible for at least 100 million murdered and force starved in the 20th century alone. Oh, and the Left were warned in the 70's that if they banned DDT people would die en mass in Africa, and they did not care, and said do it anyway! To date, 40 million are dead because of the American Left; mostly children.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-27262347586935209662012-07-01T19:27:12.998-03:002012-07-01T19:27:12.998-03:00Really? Did you forget about Ronald Reagan and Ba...Really? Did you forget about Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399730406480392183.post-82109727489226430852012-06-21T08:18:39.639-03:002012-06-21T08:18:39.639-03:00Get rid of that first spam comment.
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