WOW Bill Kristol says raise taxes on the rich!

[buckshot24]

Tell me what candidates you define as "good". But you can do that research yourself.

In general, the more favorable a candidate is to the "tea party", the less favorable it is to anyone else. Pretty much the same with a hard-left candidate -- they will do fine only in regions where everyone has a similar viewpoint.

I'm sorry, but I thought you may have some in mind since you made the statement. It appears that you were talking out of your ass.

 

[Charles Kozierok]

I was speaking generally about the fact that the tea party is out of the mainstream. You can keep electing senators from deep red states -- as long as they aren't TOO idiotic or insane -- but your movement is and always will be on a shrinking fringe.

 

[Ausm]

If you don't think they want the same for America, why don't the Democrats ever repeal or put an end to anything the Republicans do, and why don't the Republicans ever repeal or put an end to anything the Democrats do? Why do both parties basically carry out the same policies? Why did Barack Obama campaign in 2008 on being the anti-Bush who was going to bring "change" and then, once he was elected, do nothing other than give us a third Bush term featuring more corporate welfare, more big spending, more war, more drones, and more police state?

The correct answer is it's a scam. You're being scammed. You're the proverbial professional wrestling fan who can't accept the fact that it's all fake. It's nothing more than a huge money making and power consolidation scheme.

Why do Reuglicants in the HOR try to repeal the ACA 33 times because they are in complete agreement to it...aaahhhh now I understand.

 

[Juror No. 8]

Why do Reuglicants in the HOR try to repeal the ACA 33 times because they are in complete agreement to it...aaahhhh now I understand.

Because it makes for good theater, that's why. If Hulk Hogan didn't try to kick, punch, and body slam Andre the Giant, the professional wrestling fans who bought a ticket to the show might start to believe that Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant are actually friends and disinterested in hurting each other. They might start to believe that it's not real, and that can't be allowed to happen.

The owners and promoters backstage make sure that the illusion looks as real as possible, and the same is true in Washington. But instead of kicks, punches, and body slams, the politicians attack the other party's legislation and "try" to get it repealed or overturned. Of course, they pretty much never succeed, but it's important that they appear to try, otherwise the voters (professional wrestling fans) might start harboring ideas that it's all fixed.

Wake up, dude, politics is theater. It's a show. It's a distraction. There's no real struggle taking place in Washington. Any struggle you see taking place is choreographed for the fans and cameras, just as the struggle between professional wrestlers is. None of it is real.

 

[ElFenix]

Nonsense****** any Republican who doesn't suck Grover Norquist's cock is a RINO and must be purged!

iirc, even norquist hasn't said millionaires must get their tax cut along with normal peeps to have the pledge upheld**

 

[zinfamous]

Because of the rape comments by two senate candidates?

that specifically cost the republicans two seats.

But don't for a second deny that the fact that the republicans adopted those comments as the party's official platform, at the same time as these comments, was not lost on the American people.

blinders.

 

[Ausm]

Because it makes for good theater, that's why. If Hulk Hogan didn't try to kick, punch, and body slam Andre the Giant, the professional wrestling fans who bought a ticket to the show might start to believe that Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant are actually friends and disinterested in hurting each other. They might start to believe that it's not real, and that can't be allowed to happen.

The owners and promoters backstage make sure that the illusion looks as real as possible, and the same is true in Washington. But instead of kicks, punches, and body slams, the politicians attack the other party's legislation and "try" to get it repealed or overturned. Of course, they pretty much never succeed, but it's important that they appear to try, otherwise the voters (professional wrestling fans) might start harboring ideas that it's all fixed.

Wake up, dude, politics is theater. It's a show. It's a distraction. There's no real struggle taking place in Washington. Any struggle you see taking place is choreographed for the fans and cameras, just as the struggle between professional wrestlers is. None of it is real.

It's real when they get voted out as some Teapublicants found out...

 

[Juror No. 8]

It's real when they get voted out as some Teapublicants found out...

Yes, just as real as when a professional wrestler gets pinned and "loses" his match, which is to say, not real at all.

The object of politics in America isn't concerned with who wins and who loses. Like professional wrestling, the object is making money and maintaining the illusion of fierce competition. Everything depends on you believing and partaking in the system. That lends it legitimacy which it otherwise wouldn't have.

Only your belief in it makes it real.