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Stinky The Clown

(67,799 posts)
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:02 AM Jul 2013

Right wing traits that no self respecting liberal seems able to stomach

Fawning allegiance to a "leader" manifested in juvenile terms more suited to a fan club. Bush's swagger was so manly. Reagan started the wood chopping thing. The adoration of their families as if they were royalty.

The reflexive need to defend at the slightest hint of criticism whatever their leader says or does. The steadfast adherence to the principles of IOKIYAR. Upholding St Ronald's Law about speaking ill of party members, no matter what. The Hastert Rule. Etcetera.

Projection

Add to the list. What right wing traits and behaviors do YOU despise?

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Right wing traits that no self respecting liberal seems able to stomach (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Jul 2013 OP
The "cult of personality" thing isn't the exclusive province of the right... Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #1
I'm sure you aren't referring to fellow DUers when you make that thinly veiled accusation, right? nt stevenleser Jul 2013 #2
Read into it what you like... Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #6
Yep, it stands as an attempt to make a broad brushed attack on a large segment of the DU community stevenleser Jul 2013 #16
That's your interpretation of what I said... Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #18
RC seems to agree down below. It's not thinly veiled. And as I said, I was being generous. stevenleser Jul 2013 #22
No, I'm simply turning your ill-thought-out words back towards you. Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #25
You forgot to add a wink and 'You betcha" to the end of your post Sarah. nt stevenleser Jul 2013 #26
There we go! THAT is a personal attack! Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #33
LOL. Yep it was. On Sarah Palin, and on anyone who might emulate her. Are you saying that's you? stevenleser Jul 2013 #37
No, it was a defacto PA on me - a weak attempt to equate me to Palin... Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #43
LOL, you dont even see how I have trapped you in a massive hypocrisy here! nt stevenleser Jul 2013 #44
I'm pretty sure no one can... Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #45
Don't forget RandiFan1290 Jul 2013 #76
I honestly didn't know that! Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #78
You are starting to sound like one of those ... JoePhilly Jul 2013 #9
let's ask him to take a loyalty test to find out nt markiv Jul 2013 #11
Thinly veiled? RC Jul 2013 #12
I was being generous and offering them a way out of what ostensibly would be a hide-worthy act. nt stevenleser Jul 2013 #17
Truth and facts are hide worthy? RC Jul 2013 #19
No facts are being offered, only personal attacks based on emotion and personal animus. nt stevenleser Jul 2013 #24
Please alert on my post if you feel a "personal attack" has taken place. Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #30
See my #23 below. stevenleser Jul 2013 #31
I did. I repsonded. Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #34
They why are so many here OK with the continuation of bu$h's policies. RC Jul 2013 #32
Name some folks who are. nt stevenleser Jul 2013 #36
So you can or one of your friends alert on it as a call out? RC Jul 2013 #38
Nope, I've done this before and simply asked the accused person to respond. And what you will get is stevenleser Jul 2013 #42
Check this out. RC Jul 2013 #46
And you think that is evidence of that person being happy with the continuation of Bush's policies? stevenleser Jul 2013 #51
Do you agree with the Admin/owners of this site on this? RC Jul 2013 #57
Do I agree with them on what? stevenleser Jul 2013 #58
Anything. RC Jul 2013 #61
I see nothing posted there by Skinner, EarlG or Elad. I have no idea to what you are referring. nt stevenleser Jul 2013 #62
Sorry, wrong link RC Jul 2013 #64
Ah, then my answer is, partially. stevenleser Jul 2013 #69
Alert on it, Skippy! Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #20
I rarely alert. I prefer to allow people to discredit themselves like you are doing. nt stevenleser Jul 2013 #23
Hmm... I'm not sure if you've noticed... Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #28
This is your way of asserting you aren't making broad brushed attacks based on personal animus? stevenleser Jul 2013 #35
Another PA! *snarf* I merely suggested you inventory the Greatest Page... Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #39
That's what I thought. At least RC above has the intellectual honesty and courage to try and back up stevenleser Jul 2013 #52
Yet another PA... Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #55
Surely you don't suggest that the OP is a thinly veiled attempt to invite CakeGrrl Jul 2013 #40
I know right! Well, as I said to RC, I was being generous. Thinly veiled it isn't, that's for sure. stevenleser Jul 2013 #49
Exactly...........nt Enthusiast Jul 2013 #75
I agree. Sheldon Cooper Jul 2013 #85
Deliberate and proud willful ignorance Fumesucker Jul 2013 #3
I agree with you. Because the refusal to accept common ground & objective facts gives them KittyWampus Jul 2013 #8
Making shit up? LondonReign2 Jul 2013 #41
You think the Bolivian pilot was making shit up when he said that? KittyWampus Jul 2013 #74
I think that you know that isn't why they landed in Austria LondonReign2 Jul 2013 #88
Please, do repost the objective fact of the flight path around Moscow! It will sure show them! idwiyo Jul 2013 #77
I think it was confirmed somewhere that Karl Rove said that. HughBeaumont Jul 2013 #14
Big Brother and The Kardashians are reality-based communities too dickthegrouch Jul 2013 #65
What I hate the most is their self-righteousness. femmocrat Jul 2013 #4
Thinking that the government is out to get them. JoePhilly Jul 2013 #5
Just a few...I despise their.. Vietnameravet Jul 2013 #7
uh oh, this is getting a little close to home nt markiv Jul 2013 #10
Pawning bike paths off as flight paths. The Link Jul 2013 #13
Dismissal of JustAnotherGen Jul 2013 #15
Constant victimhood despite everything going their way. HughBeaumont Jul 2013 #21
The RESPECT for AUTHORITY Octafish Jul 2013 #27
I think it's that we've been taught to believe that for 40-50 years, HughBeaumont Jul 2013 #29
Sanctimony ad nauseum lpbk2713 Jul 2013 #47
"You're with us or you're against us." CakeGrrl Jul 2013 #48
Oh my Aerows Jul 2013 #56
Mostly the willful, vicious, arrogant-yet-stupid need to DirkGently Jul 2013 #50
well, I can't say authoritarianism, because that has been shown to be an equal quinnox Jul 2013 #53
Never ending purity tests. Bobbie Jo Jul 2013 #54
The need for authoritarianism. Zen Democrat Jul 2013 #59
Sorry but that sounds like many here also. rl6214 Jul 2013 #60
Racism (veiled or blatant), xenophobia, homophobia, nativism, misogyny and "us vs them". pampango Jul 2013 #63
Misogyny Freddie Jul 2013 #66
Bullying tough-guy personas Populist_Prole Jul 2013 #67
being Hatriots! KT2000 Jul 2013 #68
IMO this worship shit started with the Kennedy's and the fucking Camelot spewdum. L0oniX Jul 2013 #70
Authoritarianism and hero worship have plenty geek tragedy Jul 2013 #71
Blatant favoritism, or the idea that the powerful are somehow above the law meow2u3 Jul 2013 #72
Returning to the same battle over and over and over again to prove they were right the first time sibelian Jul 2013 #73
K&R idwiyo Jul 2013 #79
How about pushing your agenda forward without any reagrd to the truth? baldguy Jul 2013 #80
This. Bobbie Jo Jul 2013 #84
This seems to have degenerated into a liberal circular firing squad. I thought such pampango Jul 2013 #81
All the God-talk. longship Jul 2013 #82
Wrapping themselves in a the US Flag think Jul 2013 #83
Everything and anything they do or say hell their mere existence makes my skin crawl! YeahSureRight Jul 2013 #86
They act like one day they are going to be part of the 1 per cent Boudica the Lyoness Jul 2013 #87
Right wingers often become deliberately obtuse when confronted with logic and/or fact that Zorra Jul 2013 #89
kick Zorra Jul 2013 #90
 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
1. The "cult of personality" thing isn't the exclusive province of the right...
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:06 AM
Jul 2013

..as I've come to discover lately.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
2. I'm sure you aren't referring to fellow DUers when you make that thinly veiled accusation, right? nt
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:09 AM
Jul 2013
 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
16. Yep, it stands as an attempt to make a broad brushed attack on a large segment of the DU community
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:29 AM
Jul 2013

one based on emotion and personal animus rather than fact.

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
18. That's your interpretation of what I said...
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:31 AM
Jul 2013

...one based on emotion and personal animus rather than fact.

You're FUN to play with!

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
22. RC seems to agree down below. It's not thinly veiled. And as I said, I was being generous.
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:33 AM
Jul 2013

And you are "playing" with me like Sarah Palin thought she was playing with Joe Biden.

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
25. No, I'm simply turning your ill-thought-out words back towards you.
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:36 AM
Jul 2013

Such a thing is fun (and very easy) to do when the accusations are weak. As yours are.

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
33. There we go! THAT is a personal attack!
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:42 AM
Jul 2013

Of course, I won't alert on it because then you won't be able to post on this thread anymore. And I'm enjoying this!!

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
37. LOL. Yep it was. On Sarah Palin, and on anyone who might emulate her. Are you saying that's you?
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:46 AM
Jul 2013

Hmmm, you might have a point there.



 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
43. No, it was a defacto PA on me - a weak attempt to equate me to Palin...
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:51 AM
Jul 2013

...because your interpretation of my initial statement apparently hit a nerve.

Oh, and you're just not using enough smilies, Skippy!

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
45. I'm pretty sure no one can...
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:54 AM
Jul 2013

...since you're just imagining stuff now. OK... I'll bite. What is this "massive hypocrisy" you're hallucinating about?

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
9. You are starting to sound like one of those ...
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:18 AM
Jul 2013

... "authoritarian types" I've started to hear so much about around here.



Around here lately, if your hair is not on fire, you are clearly part of the problem. And any number of folks will be more than happy to explain that to you.

 

RC

(25,592 posts)
12. Thinly veiled?
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:27 AM
Jul 2013

Cooley Hurd was pointing out a vivid neon billboard. The similarities he is pointing out are incongruous on a Democratic web site.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
17. I was being generous and offering them a way out of what ostensibly would be a hide-worthy act. nt
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:31 AM
Jul 2013
 

RC

(25,592 posts)
32. They why are so many here OK with the continuation of bu$h's policies.
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:42 AM
Jul 2013

You know, since the 'good guys' are doing them?

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
42. Nope, I've done this before and simply asked the accused person to respond. And what you will get is
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:51 AM
Jul 2013

a brief list from that person of their positions and how those positions disprove your assertions about them.

It's easy to make anonymous broad brushed accusations against people.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
51. And you think that is evidence of that person being happy with the continuation of Bush's policies?
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:59 AM
Jul 2013

Which policies in particular. Then I will ask them to respond to you.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
62. I see nothing posted there by Skinner, EarlG or Elad. I have no idea to what you are referring. nt
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 12:24 PM
Jul 2013
 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
69. Ah, then my answer is, partially.
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 01:24 PM
Jul 2013

1. The Appellate courts have always ruled (let me know if you want specific examples) that surveillance regarding national security issues, espionage, terror & sabotage, funded or inspired by foreign entities, etc., are an exception to the fourth amendment. They ruled that the President has broad powers and responsibility in this regard. This exception makes sense, IMHO, because a Constitutional right being used to allow the work of those attempting to destroy Constitutional government in its entirety doesn't make sense.

2. Before 1978, the above mentioned Appellate decisions meant that warrantless wiretapping in natl. sec. situations was legal. FISA, submitted by Ted Kennedy and signed into law by Carter, finally made that illegal and required one go through the FISA process to get warrants for those things.

So, I support a national and rational discussion on what the threats actually are and what is needed to meet them in terms of national security. I support a constitutional amendment to address those threats and to curb national security surveillance to ensure that only the surveillance needed to meet those threats is allowed.

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
28. Hmm... I'm not sure if you've noticed...
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:39 AM
Jul 2013

...but the Authoritarian and Cult worshipping arguments have not been winning here on DU.

I'm not worried in the least about being "discredited" here. I'm been here too long to worry about such rubbish. Your arguments, however, have been roundly discredited. Look at the greatest page, my friend.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
35. This is your way of asserting you aren't making broad brushed attacks based on personal animus?
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:44 AM
Jul 2013


Please continue!!!!! And by all means, don't forget the winks and the "you betcha's" at the end!
 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
52. That's what I thought. At least RC above has the intellectual honesty and courage to try and back up
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 12:00 PM
Jul 2013

what he is saying.

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
55. Yet another PA...
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 12:05 PM
Jul 2013


You're saying I'm not courageous, nor am I intellectually honest. I've been nothing but.

CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)
40. Surely you don't suggest that the OP is a thinly veiled attempt to invite
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:50 AM
Jul 2013

the labeling of other DUers as

* Lovers of the Police State
* Mindless Authoritarians / Authoritarian enablers who want to cling to the perfect image of Dear Leader
* Defenders of Stasi tactics
* Goebbels apologists
* McCarthyites


That would suggest that this site has devolved into a disturbing level of intolerance that speaks volumes to the ironic mindset of the accusers.

Perish the thought!

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
49. I know right! Well, as I said to RC, I was being generous. Thinly veiled it isn't, that's for sure.
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:57 AM
Jul 2013

Of course, it is an act of cowardice to throw an accusation out there like that without naming any of the folks you are talking about because then you dont have to worry about those people coming into the thread and giving fact based illustrations of their positions proving you wrong.

When you point that out, these folks fall back on "But if I named any folks, it would be alerted"

Of course, DU3 doesn't work that way. Personal call outs are not necessarily hidden, particularly if they are based on facts and what someone actually said. I think it likely a jury would let that conversation play out and that conversation would ultimately end in the humiliation of the initial accuser.

Sheldon Cooper

(3,724 posts)
85. I agree.
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 10:04 AM
Jul 2013

There are a number of them here, who unrelentingly attack anyone who merely disagrees with President Obama. They have this peculiar habit of filling their posts with lots of those laughing rolling smilies, which adds nothing to their message and, in fact, makes them look pretty foolish.

I recognize them because I was kind of like that with Bill Clinton, although I didn't have the internet at my disposal during his administration. I argued with anyone who dared to criticize Bill, because even though he had huge flaws, he was the best we had and I wasn't going to let anyone talk shit about him. I've since come to realize that criticism didn't have to mean hatred and he didn't need me to defend him in any case. It's a maturing process, I guess.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
3. Deliberate and proud willful ignorance
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:10 AM
Jul 2013
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
8. I agree with you. Because the refusal to accept common ground & objective facts gives them
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:17 AM
Jul 2013

advantages.

Making shit up and using emotive triggers in doing it can create powerful forces.

Rational thought and objective facts are left with fewer weapons.

LondonReign2

(5,213 posts)
88. I think that you know that isn't why they landed in Austria
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 10:19 AM
Jul 2013

But then again perhaps I am overestimating you

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
14. I think it was confirmed somewhere that Karl Rove said that.
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:28 AM
Jul 2013

Sounds like something that creeptastic slug would say.

dickthegrouch

(3,174 posts)
65. Big Brother and The Kardashians are reality-based communities too
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 01:04 PM
Jul 2013

And we all know how "real" they are.

I despise their hypocrisy in telling us they're oh so "Christian" and bearing false witness on just about anything you can think of. Which is another way of saying exactly what Fumesucker said "willful ignorance".

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
4. What I hate the most is their self-righteousness.
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:12 AM
Jul 2013

They know what is best and speak for "the country". Or they speak for "Christians". They do not speak for me.

And that they are a bunch of hypocrites!

 

Vietnameravet

(1,085 posts)
7. Just a few...I despise their..
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:17 AM
Jul 2013

war on women
war on science
war on blacks
war on Hispanics
war on minorities
war on gun control
war on teachers
war on public employees
war on majority rule
war on voting rights
war on gays
war on government (like some here)
War on poor
war on infrastructure
war on contraception
war on media
war on taxes
War on unions
War on judiciary
war on regulations
war on atheists
war on reason
war on compromise
war on tolerance
war on truth
war on President Obama and

their war on civility

How's this for openers?



HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
21. Constant victimhood despite everything going their way.
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:32 AM
Jul 2013

Their belief that they're temporarily inconvenienced millionaires.
Victim-blaming.
Zero empathy.
Faith-based economics. It figures, really. Faith is the result of someone else doing the thinking for you.
Refusal to acknowledge their own religious extremists . . . even accepting them wholeheartedly.
No care of life when it comes out the womb.
War hard-ons.
Their belief that a human's worth entirely rests in his wallet.
Manifest Destiny 2013.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
29. I think it's that we've been taught to believe that for 40-50 years,
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:40 AM
Jul 2013

. . . which is why we're made to feel shamed for demanding more human rights, better wages, more adequate schools, non-crumbling bridges and highways, etc.

Americans got away from monarchies and aristocratic rule; now they've come full circle to become a country dominated by a corporate aristocracy and dynastic political families.

Why not an allegiance to an ideal of FAIRNESS?

CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)
48. "You're with us or you're against us."
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:57 AM
Jul 2013

Intolerance for diversity of opinion.

Demanding that people march in lockstep with their attitudes: "Anyone who doesn't believe ____ is [something bad and odious in the accuser's mind]".

Demanding to know who's a "real" member of the accuser's party and who isn't.

Paranoia-based fear of the government despite the presence of rational explanations.

DirkGently

(12,151 posts)
50. Mostly the willful, vicious, arrogant-yet-stupid need to
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 11:58 AM
Jul 2013

shrilly wage war over any sliver of fact not 100% supportive of authority?
 

quinnox

(20,600 posts)
53. well, I can't say authoritarianism, because that has been shown to be an equal
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 12:02 PM
Jul 2013

opportunity force, as has been proven many times on Du, and not only recently either.

Hmm, maybe racism, that is common enough in the right wingers, and false patriotism. They are always acting as if they are super patriotic and use insults like anti-American and so on. That kind of "my country, right or wrong" is not seen really on our side, at least, nothing like it is with the right wingers.

Bobbie Jo

(14,341 posts)
54. Never ending purity tests.
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 12:03 PM
Jul 2013

Latching onto half truths and outright lies to feed the need to demonize the target of their anger, however misdirected.



pampango

(24,692 posts)
63. Racism (veiled or blatant), xenophobia, homophobia, nativism, misogyny and "us vs them".
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 12:24 PM
Jul 2013

The "us vs them" mentality of those on the right does encompass, and flow from, all of the others. It can manifest itself as "Whites and Blacks (or any combination of Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Africans, etc.) are too different to live together and prosper." Or the corollary, "Americans and foreigners are too different to live together and prosper." And the same applies to straights and gays, to men and women, native-born citizens and immigrants, etc.

Freddie

(9,266 posts)
66. Misogyny
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 01:05 PM
Jul 2013

I'm sure they're out there but I haven't met many liberal men of the "barefoot pregnant and in the kitchen" persuasion. Rigid adherence to gender roles is a sure sign of authoritarian culture; it's also one of the warning signs of a future spouse abuser.

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
67. Bullying tough-guy personas
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 01:14 PM
Jul 2013

As if, all other things being equal, they'll prevail because being a conservative makes them tougher and stonger.

I get that shit all the time when I argue with the conservatives in my life: They're always quick to be angry, confrontational ( usually after you trounce their BS arguments ) and try to give off a "don't tempt me" vibe, which, while not a worded threat to a physical confrontation as such, is used to imply more or less "you never know what I might do....".

BAH!

KT2000

(20,577 posts)
68. being Hatriots!
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 01:21 PM
Jul 2013

got an email from RW neighbor this morning that is all about hatred for Jane Fonda.
Maybe their short term memory is so bad they only have their long term memory to work with.
They seem to pack away every single hatred and resentment as if it was valuable.

 

L0oniX

(31,493 posts)
70. IMO this worship shit started with the Kennedy's and the fucking Camelot spewdum.
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 01:29 PM
Jul 2013

Of course FDR was very well loved but that was not because of how they looked.

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)
72. Blatant favoritism, or the idea that the powerful are somehow above the law
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 01:48 PM
Jul 2013

In other words, legally sactioned privilege is anathema to a liberal and should be anathema to anyone living in a democracy.

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
73. Returning to the same battle over and over and over again to prove they were right the first time
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 01:52 PM
Jul 2013

even though a flatworm could see they've comprehensively lost.
 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
80. How about pushing your agenda forward without any reagrd to the truth?
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 08:34 AM
Jul 2013

What you disingenuously describer as "fawning allegiance" is really simply a love of truth. And the only "reflexive need to defend" comes from those defending the lies.

Fact: If you're a left-leaning, 4th Amendment loving, anti-corporate, anti-establishment libertarian - then people like Ed Snowden are not your friends.

But Barack Obama could be.

Bobbie Jo

(14,341 posts)
84. This.
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 09:53 AM
Jul 2013

And the willful disregard of facts.

They just don't give a rat's ass if they're pushing a half truth or an outright lie.

If this isn't a RW trait, I don't know what is.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
81. This seems to have degenerated into a liberal circular firing squad. I thought such
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 08:42 AM
Jul 2013

a practice was the domain of conservatives. Live and learn.

I know we smile when conservatives form circular firing squads. I imagine they do the same when we do it.

longship

(40,416 posts)
82. All the God-talk.
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 08:51 AM
Jul 2013

It really pisses me off when they invoke God when they're discussing their warped policies, as if they were blessed and that everybody who disagrees is against God.

 

Boudica the Lyoness

(2,899 posts)
87. They act like one day they are going to be part of the 1 per cent
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 10:16 AM
Jul 2013

No matter how hard up they might be now......they like to protect big corporations etc, for the ultra rich.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
89. Right wingers often become deliberately obtuse when confronted with logic and/or fact that
Fri Jul 5, 2013, 11:16 AM
Jul 2013

is counter to their dearly held beliefs.

Their frequent use of strawmen when they are confronted with indisputable evidence that counters theri dearly held beliefs are one way that they frequently display this deliberate obtuseness.

For example:

Zorra: "Look at this evidence presented by Alan Grayson in this video. It clearly points to the fact that the NSA has been invasively snooping into our private lives. How can you defend this?".

SquirrelChaser: "But there should be no expectation of privacy. Besides, Snowden is a traitor and a coward and has a girlfriend who is a pole dancer, and you are a doody headed paulbot!".

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