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2014-01-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Sorry Bill, but you have lived too long in California... you can't seem to bring yourself to say Democrats, instead it is the Progressives, don't hide tell it like it is Democrats... as for the rest of this soliloquy...

Posted by Black Charlie 2014-01-07 01:47|| 2014-01-07 01:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Progressives=neo-Marxists

redistribution, collectivism, overpowering central government with massive intrusive central planning

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-01-07 08:47|| 2014-01-07 08:47|| Front Page Top

#3 You can't seem to bring yourself to say Democrats, instead it is the Progressives, don't hide tell it like it is Democrats

Not all Democrats are progressives. If one is trying to win over those Democrats, it usually makes sense not to demonize them. Ron Reagan figured that out.

Then again, strategy and far-sightedness do seem to be in short supply here (though the lame graphics have not as of late.)

Posted by Pappy 2014-01-07 10:21|| 2014-01-07 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't believe that crap about there being 1 Democrat party and 2 Republican parties.

There are, at least, three legit groups who vote Democrat.
1. The Democrat, who believes that social net programs are a net benefit but also knows the bills have to be paid in order for those benefits to have funding.

2. The Liberal, who believes that social net programs are a net benefit, and they need to be in place now and the costs will be tallied later. Sort of a charge of the light brigade.

3. The Progressive, who believes we are all of one hive and like insects should have a caste system with thinkers and doers, with morality defined by at the moment human thinking.

That does not take into consideration the preservationist, the little big man, the voting dead, the peer pressured, the strong arm pressured, and the plantation tyrants.

Just saying as someone who knows plenty of people who vote democrat; same destination different routes. Many of them have the problem of playing stud when the game is draw, lump voting along party lines is an insect's game. Vote party line sure, but to do so based on knowledge.

The real concern is the half of the population who does not vote at all. Somebody needs to take a horse on a rowboat across the Delaware River in this weather just to show a small penny of the cost of our freedom, and people can't find 1 hour every four years to choose their boss, whether apathy or disgust, both need to be brought into the fold. Its like watching a football game where only five players from each team are playing.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-01-07 11:57|| 2014-01-07 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 swksvolFF, you forgot 2.

4. The Democrat who comes from a long line of voting Democrat and just never considered voting for the other party because they are 'yucky' even if honest would find they agree with the other party more often than not.

5. The Democrat who is a union worker and knows the Dems will protect his pension and exempt him from obamacare and somehow the country will survive.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-01-07 14:44|| 2014-01-07 14:44|| Front Page Top

#6 As a young man I was dating a young lady out of a US big city (who modeled for Hyatt Regency ads at that time) when we decided to visit my parents in Texas. They treated like she was one of the girls in the family.

She had never been fishing but when she dropped her first hook into the private pond with a minnow that I had to bait for her she caught her first fish before I could lean over an grab my pole to fish too. She was catching fish so fast I ordered her to bait her own hook so I could have fun fishing too, and she gladly did so. She was having a fun.

The next day we went shooting for the first time in her life and my father taught her how to shoot a rifle, shot gun and hand gun. I did not know how that affected her. She was raised hate guns.

On the way back out of Texas back to the big city I asked her how she liked shooting. She started bawling like a baby. Said she never had anyone take time to teach her so much the way my father taught her things down in Texas. Meant more to her than the fishing or the shooting. It was the people and their love for freedom to do all things and their willingness to share their love of life with her with out abandon.

A man once said about the word "Texan", its a word that is hard to describe to other people.

Posted by Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-01-07 15:06|| 2014-01-07 15:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Did you Marry her? Sounds like a real catch.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-01-07 16:16|| 2014-01-07 16:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Yep Red, she was a keeper. The hook was set, I had myself a big catch, but I didn't reel her in. I was young, too full of piss and vinegar to make the right decisions about relationships. She had a scholarship and so I let her get away a few weeks later when she headed off to another year of college. Regretted that for several years.

Posted by Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-01-07 17:29|| 2014-01-07 17:29|| Front Page Top

#9 loved the video, I think the best line is the one about puking in the Priuses. finally found a use for them....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-01-07 21:57|| 2014-01-07 21:57|| Front Page Top

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