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Hayabusa Rider

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Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Liberals have no boundaries. That's their problem. They just want continual destruction of anything resembling morality or responsibility. The inevitable end of this ideology is anarchy.

If they merely defined limits or specific long-term agendas, the American people would know what they're voting for but, as it is, only Republicans are saying, "We will bring you this."

War in Iraq- Republicans
Patriot Act- Republicans
Arresting US citizens without charge or trial- Republicans.
Trying to figure out how to torture and not get in trouble for it -Republicans
Misleading us about WMDS in the Iraq war- Republicans
Lying about blacks and SS- Republicans.

Yeah I got more.
 
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Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Liberals have no boundaries. That's their problem. They just want continual destruction of anything resembling morality or responsibility. The inevitable end of this ideology is anarchy.

If they merely defined limits or specific long-term agendas, the American people would know what they're voting for but, as it is, only Republicans are saying, "We will bring you this."

War in Iraq- Republicans
Patriot Act- Republicans
Arresting US citizens without charge or trial- Republicans.
Trying to figure out how to torture and not get in trouble for it -Republicans
Misleading us about WMDS in the Iraq war- Republicans
Lying about blacks and SS- Republicans.

Yeah I got more.

How does argue my point that Democrats have a direction and Republicans have a place?
 

Hayabusa Rider

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Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Liberals have no boundaries. That's their problem. They just want continual destruction of anything resembling morality or responsibility. The inevitable end of this ideology is anarchy.

If they merely defined limits or specific long-term agendas, the American people would know what they're voting for but, as it is, only Republicans are saying, "We will bring you this."

War in Iraq- Republicans
Patriot Act- Republicans
Arresting US citizens without charge or trial- Republicans.
Trying to figure out how to torture and not get in trouble for it -Republicans
Misleading us about WMDS in the Iraq war- Republicans
Lying about blacks and SS- Republicans.

Yeah I got more.

How does argue my point that Democrats have a direction and Republicans have a place?


"They just want continual destruction of anything resembling morality or responsibility"


Just wanted to point out that no party has a monopoly on immorality.
 
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Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Liberals have no boundaries. That's their problem. They just want continual destruction of anything resembling morality or responsibility. The inevitable end of this ideology is anarchy.

If they merely defined limits or specific long-term agendas, the American people would know what they're voting for but, as it is, only Republicans are saying, "We will bring you this."

War in Iraq- Republicans
Patriot Act- Republicans
Arresting US citizens without charge or trial- Republicans.
Trying to figure out how to torture and not get in trouble for it -Republicans
Misleading us about WMDS in the Iraq war- Republicans
Lying about blacks and SS- Republicans.

Yeah I got more.

How does argue my point that Democrats have a direction and Republicans have a place?


"They just want continual destruction of anything resembling morality or responsibility"


Just wanted to point out that no party has a monopoly on immorality.

#1 Most of the things in your list are unabashed speculation or opinion or just plain false.
#2 Fighting for and practicing morality are two separate things. Even preachers sin, but that doesn't mean they should stop preaching.

In all fairness, Republicans would be equally frightening if they had no boundaries too, but, for now, they do. I.e. If they wanted to further narrow the definition of marriage beyond a man and a woman.
 

SuperTool

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Republicans stopped having boundaries long time ago. Didn't they make a "Contract with America?" Well, they are in default. Where is the balanced budget ammendment they promised?
 

Tab

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Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Liberals have no boundaries. That's their problem. They just want continual destruction of anything resembling morality or responsibility. The inevitable end of this ideology is anarchy.

If they merely defined limits or specific long-term agendas, the American people would know what they're voting for but, as it is, only Republicans are saying, "We will bring you this."

War in Iraq- Republicans
Patriot Act- Republicans
Arresting US citizens without charge or trial- Republicans.
Trying to figure out how to torture and not get in trouble for it -Republicans
Misleading us about WMDS in the Iraq war- Republicans
Lying about blacks and SS- Republicans.

Yeah I got more.

How does argue my point that Democrats have a direction and Republicans have a place?


"They just want continual destruction of anything resembling morality or responsibility"


Just wanted to point out that no party has a monopoly on immorality.

#1 Most of the things in your list are unabashed speculation or opinion or just plain false.
#2 Fighting for and practicing morality are two separate things. Even preachers sin, but that doesn't mean they should stop preaching.

In all fairness, Republicans would be equally frightening if they had no boundaries too, but, for now, they do. I.e. If they wanted to further narrow the definition of marriage beyond a man and a woman.

That right folks! Turn around! There is no war in Iraq happening at all!
 

gutharius

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Originally posted by: Ldir
The OP lost its credibility when it claimed far-left politics by the Democrats. Only right-wing extremists believe that. The only far-left in American politics is third parties.

 

Steeplerot

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As someone who has volunteered for the green party for 14 years now since before I could vote I have to say if anything the democrats in the past decade have left me pretty damn disenfranchised and the republicans are so far right now in dictatorland somewhere rubbing their hands together greedily while the Democrats have followed suit to a certain degree.
Democrats radical left my big toe...
 

Moonbeam

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Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Liberals have no boundaries. That's their problem. They just want continual destruction of anything resembling morality or responsibility. The inevitable end of this ideology is anarchy.

If they merely defined limits or specific long-term agendas, the American people would know what they're voting for but, as it is, only Republicans are saying, "We will bring you this."
Because people don't realize they know nothing about themselves they fancy they are looking at the world when all they really experience is a projection of unconscious feelings. Take the above quote, for example:

What the author is really saying is that he was beaten into a mental prison as a child and made to guard his own cell as we see in the Stockholm Syndrome. All the rage and hate that is bottled up by fear of a jail break gets projected outwardly on people who were never or are no longer themselves in jail. Such people, their inner freedom, actually, terrify the jailed because of the tremendous pain they yet have to experience, re-experience, actually, to themselves be free. So the jailer, whom he instead identify with as the self, hates such people with intense passion because they scare him to death.

The sick hate the healthy. It's what it means to be sick. And they call it good, because they truly believe that it is fear of punishment that makes man good. No, it is just fear of remembering how one was punished that keeps one sick in a prison. The healthy liberal is good because he has no repressed urges secretly earning for revenge.
 

Ldir

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Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Liberals have no boundaries. That's their problem. They just want continual destruction of anything resembling morality or responsibility. The inevitable end of this ideology is anarchy.

If they merely defined limits or specific long-term agendas, the American people would know what they're voting for but, as it is, only Republicans are saying, "We will bring you this."

War in Iraq- Republicans
Patriot Act- Republicans
Arresting US citizens without charge or trial- Republicans.
Trying to figure out how to torture and not get in trouble for it -Republicans
Misleading us about WMDS in the Iraq war- Republicans
Lying about blacks and SS- Republicans.

Yeah I got more.

You nailed it. Where is the article about the right playing the victim and always accusing the left of doing what the right is really doing?