This is my first post here. I am a delicate flower so please be gentle.
We've all watched with various degrees of bemusement the smelly retards Occupying ZOMGEverything LOL™. As fun as it is to point and laugh, there is an underlying context that is decidedly not funny.
Follow along and tell me how you think this story ends.
When I was a little girl, there was a show on PBS called Firing Line. Despite the shockingly violent title, which no doubt inspired dozens of lunatics to shoot at Congressmen in parking lots, Firing Line was an erudite, rigorously intellectual political debate program. Each week William F. Buckley would hand economist John Kenneth Galbraith his ass using superior intellect, logic, debating skill and vocabulary.
Back then it seemed that political debate, whether on TV or around the water cooler, was sort of a pedestrian version of Firing Line, civil and polite.
Of course there were still stupid hippies, anarchists and the occasional domestic terrorist/college professor back then but you get the point.
That last link is safe for work if you work in a whore house.
Sometime a few decades ago the left lost the civil political debate of ideas in this country which is why they no longer engage in the civil political debate of ideas.
More recently they've lost much of their ability to lie through their stinking teeth to try and scare every demographic into thinking that Republicans want to set them on fire, chop their heads off and shove them in a wood chipper.
Their Jedi mind trick skills (TEH SCIENCE IS SETTLED!!1!) are laughably weak.
The left is so stupid and politically inept that they've rendered the rhetorical trump card (RACIST!!1!) completely meaningless.
It seems to me that their rhetorical bag of tricks is empty. So where does that leave them and in turn, us?
When you cannot achieve that which you crave by civil means then other means become necessary. I think that's where much of the left is today. If lying and name-calling can't get you what you want, violence not only becomes acceptable, it becomes necessary.
Being conservative our inclination is to avoid conflict, come to peaceful resolutions and mollify the screaming, spittle-launching douchebag yelling at us because Halliburton something.
For years liberals have taken advantage of most people's peaceful conservative nature by bullying them around in order to get what they want. The thing I like most about Andrew Breitbart, other than his mad-scientist hair, is that he's sick of the shit.
Here he is a few weeks ago.
The point he makes about us having the guns is one I've made for years.
In addition to the guns, we have the farmland, entrepreneurs, tax payers, chicks who bathe, Humvees, cheeseburgers, Ronald Reagan, Hank Williams, Jr. and a whole lot of unaborted babies.
They have all the soy milk, cars that run on poop, gender-studies graduates, patchouli, $10 light bulbs, drum circles, Al Gore, Barbra Streisand and a decades-long record of complete suck.
They're agitating for a revolution and they're going to war with that??
Do you think between now and the election we're going to see the radical left take that next logical step and turn violent on a large scale? Or will their better angels, to the degree they exist, prevail?
I'm of the opinion most days that the left in this country will start the war because they have nothing to lose and the right will win it because we do.
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