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Originally posted by Hopechest
I seem to remember LBJ manufacturing a crisis in Vietnam.
Or do you overlook that one?
I got a bunch more if your ready to play however.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
reply to post by NorEaster
Indeed. A "black and white" view of a nation of grays. I remember thinking the same thing when I heard Bush utter, "You're wither with us or you're against us". This leaves no room for THINKING (there's your caps). No middle ground or shades of gray, Just an inclination to cleave to one's chosen ideology and hold on tight, taking sides against each other.
How can you divide a nation, when it's full of thinking people with positions of gray? You can't.
Originally posted by onthedownlow
Interesting post, but I wonder what makes your crisis list? Global warming, spotted owls, fossil fuel and not enough recycling? We all have crises, some peoples are just more important than others
Originally posted by Jeremiah65
I'm sorry, I do not fear the sequestration monster...my complaint is it does not do enough to address the issue of massive and insane deficit spending...
Originally posted by NorEaster
Originally posted by onthedownlow
Interesting post, but I wonder what makes your crisis list? Global warming, spotted owls, fossil fuel and not enough recycling? We all have crises, some peoples are just more important than others
It's the manufactured crisis. Yes, there are important issues, but the "War on Terror" has been roundly proven to have been a top-down crisis construct (think about all the car bombings in the US that occurred since Al Qaeda declared war on us - some terror threat they turned out to be), and there there the inane "emergencies" (like Terry Schiavo and her feeding tube crisis - which forced an emergency session of Congress) that littered the years of a Bush-led Conservative majority in both houses of Congress, as opposed to the real emergencies (like Katrina) and that blown well in the Gulf (was that 2010?...I forget) and how the conservative right (and their hired bomb-throwers) treated the manufactured emergencies as opposed to the emergencies that were imposed by nature or business practices or decades of infrastructure neglect. There's a difference
I think that most folks have a pretty good idea what I'm referring to ere - even if you're struggling with it.
Originally posted by TDawgRex
reply to post by sheepslayer247
I would say that both side use that tactic very effectively. It is very hard to push a rational persons buttons, but all to easy tp push a emotional one.
We all can't be Vulcans.
Originally posted by TDawgRex
reply to post by NorEaster
Truthfully, I have found this Admin to be more in crisis mode more than any previous Admin. Especially when it comes to the domestic agenda.
They are just clueless when it comes to Foreign policy.
On the fiscal scale, both sides seem to just keep kicking the can down the road.
Originally posted by sheepslayer247
Both sides to take advantage, but the Democrats are horrible at it!