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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 07:30 PM Sep 2014

Right thinks Left surrendering all freedom to authoritarian government in exchange for free love.

What do conservatives think of liberals today?

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Here’s the view from the Heritage Foundation: Liberalism creates self-indulgent, licentious hedonists willing to cede every other kind of freedom to an increasingly authoritarian government.

“Give up your economic freedom, give up your political freedom, and you will be rewarded with license,” said Heritage’s David Azerrad, describing the reigning philosophy of the left. “It’s all sex all the time. It’s not just the sex itself—it’s the permission to indulge.”

Liberals, said editor Bill Voegeli, want to create “the United States of Feeling Good About Ourselves.”

What’s more, they think that those who disagree with them ought “to imprisoned—not to be debated, to be locked up on criminal charges and imprisoned,” said the National Review’s Kevin Williamson, citing stray calls from the left to “arrest climate change deniers.”


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Right thinks Left surrendering all freedom to authoritarian government in exchange for free love. (Original Post) kpete Sep 2014 OP
No shit. I got accused of being in Madison for the "free love" back in early 2011. If only. Scuba Sep 2014 #1
Well, they gotta lot of talent, but they fail to see... Eleanors38 Sep 2014 #2
This is a classic case of the RWNJ pot calling the lefty kettle black meow2u3 Sep 2014 #3
Projection. xfundy Sep 2014 #4
Lets get something straight.... JaneyVee Sep 2014 #5
I'm not quite sure just what sort of ... surrealAmerican Sep 2014 #6

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)
3. This is a classic case of the RWNJ pot calling the lefty kettle black
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:08 PM
Sep 2014

Projection at its best. The right-wing elite are masters at accusing liberals of their own authoritarian bent.

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
5. Lets get something straight....
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:13 PM
Sep 2014

THERE IS NO BIGGER AUTHORITARIAN MINDSET THAN TELLING PEOPLE WHAT THEY CAN DO WITH THEIR OWN BODIES, WHO THEY CAN LOVE AND MARRY, AND STATE SANCTIONED MURDER.

surrealAmerican

(11,361 posts)
6. I'm not quite sure just what sort of ...
Wed Sep 24, 2014, 08:19 PM
Sep 2014

... "economic freedom" and "political freedom" they think they are protecting. The "freedom" to starve on the streets and the "freedom" to be denied a vote hardly qualify.

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