Anyway to eliminate the far right nutbags?

[Hayabusa Rider]

This is something of a pickle, if you ask me. We have one group, liberals who can be reached by reason and science, and conservatives who cannot. Both sides can buy into some fanatical beliefs but only one side can ever be reasoned out of it. Thus, although we can have two different groups that pose dangers, for one side the condition can become permanent. The lunatic fringe in this group just voted to send the US into economic tailspin because they are worried we will go broke. This is like drinking poison because you fear food. We don't allow the insane to run around town with guns. We lock them up and pump them full of drugs. We are a humane society, no. Thank God for bleeding heart liberals. The Spanish Inquisition was conservative inspiration.

I see two groups M.
One is willing to learn. One is not. I have seen an increase in the latter regardless of ideology. That one is not fully insane but working to get there isn't exactly the best that could be hoped for.

I just quoted this in another thread. It's spoken by Gregory Peck in Moby Dick.

Look ye, Starbuck, all visible objects are but as pasteboard masks. Some inscrutable yet reasoning thing puts forth the molding of their features. The white whale tasks me; he heaps me. Yet he is but a mask. 'Tis the thing behind the mask I chiefly hate; the malignant thing that has plagued mankind since time began; the thing that maws and mutilates our race, not killing us outright but letting us live on, with half a heart and half a lung.

There isn't enough of some kinds of hate.

 

[nehalem256]

4%+, 5M vote margin and 61% of the electoral vote with a very mediocre economy and the most centrist candidate they could fine is, effectively, out of business. Yes. At least in modern politics of the last 20 years.

Romney was a craptastic candidate. I believe Democrats were calling him the worst major party candidate in a century... at least before Romney beat Obama in the first debate

And I am pretty sure that Romney is only a centrist candidate because he took both sides on every issue, so by cancellation he would be in the middle

 

[raildogg]

I'm sure they want to eliminate the extreme liberal nutbags too. There is no difference between you guys and the so-called right wing extremists. You both worship different things but you still worship. And worship without knowing is dangerous and leads to bad things. Such as what is going on in the world and America.

 

[raildogg]

As to the OPs comment.

I blame right wing talk radio and Fox news for this upsurge of crazy (talk radio supporting the crazies and Fox mostly supporting the mainstream). It was bad enough with Rush Limbaugh, but has gotten worse with Hannity and more recently Glenn Beck.

Beck caters specifically to the tea party and libertarian types and spoon feeds the masses with some of the worst drivel I have ever heard. Add to that Citizens United which allows anonymous big money donors to pump money into these groups. That allows a body to control a whole party when it only makes up 1/5 of that party. I see it only getting worse as "The Blaze" becomes more popular. There is no equivalent machine on the Left.

The talk radio guys increase fear and anger since it will lead to a greater audience. However, the Democrats have their media outlets too. It goes both ways. The people who worship the government were crying nonstop during this stupid government shutdown. It's like their lives were dependent on the federal government. It was on the news, wasn't it?

It isn't one side or the other. Both sides are wrong. In fact, we humans are wrong and this is the world we have created.

This is America's political scene:

Two parties who oppose each other always with loyal followers who repeat the the party line. All backed by corporations. All in the name of what's good and decent. Sure.

 

[Tom]

Democrats and Republicans both do gerrymandering.

I think the Republicans may have caused themselves some problems though because they seem to have made quite a few districts so conservative that a normal Republican, the kind that helps them with the majority of the country, is getting replaced by radicals that the country see as extremist.

 

[gingermeggs]

Madness is something that takes people over slowly and a bit at a time. Republicans have gone more and more insane with each stage building on the last. When the insanity reaches kinds of extremes as it has today where the whole nation is endangered it becomes more difficult for folk who are behind the curve in their own insanity to take such a giant step. The number of true believers and absolute fanatics begins to wane. The energy of the psychotic explosion gets spent and insanity starts searching around for new and fresh cults in which to grow. The sick can be twisted and twisted but fresh meat becomes harder to obtain. Religious fanatical cults like the Republican party run out of sheep because they build a bridge too far.

You've watched too many Pro-American, cold war propaganda movies......insanity is the end result!

 

[Moonbeam]

You've watched too many Pro-American, cold war propaganda movies......insanity is the end result!

Funny. I don't watch such movies at all so I'm not really sure what you are seeing or saying.

 

[CanOWorms]

Well you have canoworms who wants a Final Solution and the NSA violating Constitutional principles so you have your rational counterbalance.

Weird. Outlawing gross abuse of white privilege is not a Final Solution.

What I propose is making gross abuse of white privilege a felony. It is extremely dangerous to society and if people cannot control themselves then they should be given rehabilitation. They can be detained and provided proper education, released, and then given sufficient social services to ensure that they assimilate into modern society.

 

[dmens]

Weird. Outlawing gross abuse of white privilege is not a Final Solution.

What I propose is making gross abuse of white privilege a felony. It is extremely dangerous to society and if people cannot control themselves then they should be given rehabilitation. They can be detained and provided proper education, released, and then given sufficient social services to ensure that they assimilate into modern society.

Your post gave me cancer.

 

[Pray To Jesus]

Isn't "eliminate" just a synonym for killing? You have a political movement you disagree with and you want to murder them?

Seriously, I thought this is what he meant from the title.

 

[Pray To Jesus]

So wait, your complaint is that the places where all the people live would have more influence in a democracy? Uhmmm... duh.

Rural areas are already handed preferential treatment in the Senate and the Electoral College. What is your rationale for preferential treatment in the House as well? Can you be specific on the merits as to why you think a voter in a rural area should have more effective representation than an urban voter?

USA is a republic, not a democracy.

Democracy = tyranny of the majority = mob rule.