Liberals deal with reality
Conservatives deal with and accept their own opinions instead of reality

Now .. if that isn't a load of BS.

I guess reality means a Utopia where everyone in the world can be equal on every level. Keep smokin' that stuff, because that type of reality belongs to Cloud 9.

sympathy
I was in your state of denial and a believer of rightwing bs
until Barry Goldwater got kicked out of amerika's communist party (republican)
because he refused to give up support FOR the USConstitution.

You have my sympathy.
May you one day escape the cult of conservatism like I did and return to thinking for yourself.

Originally posted by himself
Liberals deal with reality
Conservatives deal with and accept their own opinions instead of reality

No seriously...

Good lord, we've officially entered Looneyville. The sad thing is that I think you really believe this.

Guess what, we ALL deal with reality. Your problem is that you've so bought into this "my party is righteous, your's is stupid" philosophy that you've put your opinions on a pedestal. What even sadder is that the rest of you get right in line behind "himself" and affirm this idiocy.

Deny ignorance?? Not happening in this thread.

Originally posted by BlueTriangle

Guess what, we ALL deal with reality.

Not expecting to convince anyone.
Replying to communicate with others who may read this thread.

When I left the (R) party, it was like leaving a cult.
I read vitriol printed against others more famous who have also left that party.
Cult like also in that members listen to and believe only their fellow party members.

As the origional post in this thread indicated, there is a concerted effort to make this a one party rule (R) nation.
Justice department has weeded out Democrats during every (R) administration since Nixon.
Reality:
Half of potential voters don't bother.
Of the other half about one third belong to either party and one third are Independents often fooled by one party or the other into voting with them.
eg: Reagan Democrats

Your leader:
On his most popular day, dubya was supported by only about 26% of Americans of voting age.
That party claims to be the majority party in a massive denial of reality.

Originally posted by BlueTriangle
Your problem is that you've so bought into this "my party is righteous, your's is stupid" philosophy that you've put your opinions on a pedestal.

I listen to all sides and form my own opinions only after studying each issue.

I still agree with Barry Goldwater on most issues.
Support FOR the Constitution for example.

The big spending, big government, spying on all our electronic communications, meddling in our private lives, (R)party that kicked Goldwater out still has many good people.

Like President Clinton said at the height of the persecution he endured:
"Many Republicans are fine decent people."

Unfortunately those fine decent people lockstep to the orders of their leaders.
Your neo-con leaders are not fine, not decent, and most consider us people a commodity to be used and discarded.

I don't trust Democrats either, but they are the lesser evil.
Since each of them believes s/he is the only person who has the correct answers, they refuse to do that lockstep that Republicans do so often.

If Republicans would abandon collectivism and return to support for our Constitution I would rejoin them.
My in-laws voted 'yellow-dog Democrat' their entire lives. Now dead and buried in Mississippi, they are listed as having voted in every Republican Primary since they died, so I guess I'll be voting Republican along with the rest of the cemetary some day also.
Cemetaries have been the (R) most loyal voting bloc since the civil war, except for that one time a few voted for JFK.

(Lincoln having been re-elected by dead soldiers began that tradition)

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