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Willtell
reply to post by thesaneone
Nobody said anything about the downfall of America. Though you never know with fanatics.
Even though the “smallness” of the group is irrelevant since it could take one person to destroy the world, or a few with the technology we have, numbers are actually irrelevant.
It’s the inner power, distorted or not distorted, that can bring about the downfall of something. An idea that spreads inside that distortion, like Nazism, communism, radical Islam; I include Tea partyism amongst those negative poles of the human mind. That’s my opinion. And I believe I have proven my case.edit on 8-10-2013 by Willtell because: (no reason given)
Willtell
reply to post by sealing
True, this is a very conservative forum. My hope is to offer my conservative friends here an alternative way of thinking conservative, expanding it to include more empathy and compassion without giving up their principles.
There is, I believe, a middle ground were unity and peace can happen.
solomons path
Willtell
reply to post by thesaneone
Nobody said anything about the downfall of America. Though you never know with fanatics.
Even though the “smallness” of the group is irrelevant since it could take one person to destroy the world, or a few with the technology we have, numbers are actually irrelevant.
It’s the inner power, distorted or not distorted, that can bring about the downfall of something. An idea that spreads inside that distortion, like Nazism, communism, radical Islam; I include Tea partyism amongst those negative poles of the human mind. That’s my opinion. And I believe I have proven my case.edit on 8-10-2013 by Willtell because: (no reason given)
Actually . . . you are the one spouting rhetoric that sounds like Nazism . . . since you seem so familiar with their tactics, you should know about the "night of the long knives" very well. You know, what happens after people fall for the demonizing, dangerous rhetoric and excuse action against the opposition that dissent?
This is what I painstakingly have tried to educate the people on this forum about. This is not a partisan left/right paradigm dispute, but a dispute between reality and delusion. Sight and blindness, truth and falsehood. Just because the sight and reality and truth side happens to fall this time on the side of the Democrats shouldn’t stop people from acknowledging the truth, and that the GOP tea party are the essence of POLITICAL MADNESS!
damwel
solomons path
Willtell
reply to post by thesaneone
Nobody said anything about the downfall of America. Though you never know with fanatics.
Even though the “smallness” of the group is irrelevant since it could take one person to destroy the world, or a few with the technology we have, numbers are actually irrelevant.
It’s the inner power, distorted or not distorted, that can bring about the downfall of something. An idea that spreads inside that distortion, like Nazism, communism, radical Islam; I include Tea partyism amongst those negative poles of the human mind. That’s my opinion. And I believe I have proven my case.edit on 8-10-2013 by Willtell because: (no reason given)
Actually . . . you are the one spouting rhetoric that sounds like Nazism . . . since you seem so familiar with their tactics, you should know about the "night of the long knives" very well. You know, what happens after people fall for the demonizing, dangerous rhetoric and excuse action against the opposition that dissent?
Nazis and fascism are extreme RIGHT wing group and ideology
The Night of the Long Knives (German: About this sound Nacht der langen Messer ), sometimes called Operation Hummingbird or, mistakenly, sometimes in Germany, the Röhm-Putsch, was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders. Leading figures of the left-wing Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party, along with its figurehead, Gregor Strasser, were murdered, as were prominent conservative anti-Nazis (such as former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and Gustav Ritter von Kahr, who had suppressed Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch in 1923). Many of those killed were leaders of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary brownshirts.
Fascism /ˈfæʃɪzəm/ was a form of radical authoritarian nationalism[1][2] that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. Influenced by national syndicalism, the first fascist movements emerged in Italy around World War I, combining elements of left-wing politics with more typically right-wing positions, in opposition to communism, socialism, liberal democracy and, in some cases, traditional right-wing conservatism. Although fascism is usually placed on the far right on the traditional left–right spectrum, fascists themselves and some commentators have argued that the description is inadequate.[3]
Fascists sought to unify their nation through a totalitarian state that promoted the mass mobilization of the national community,[5][
and were characterized by having a vanguard party that initiated a revolutionary political movement aiming to reorganize the nation along principles according to fascist ideology.[7] Hostile to liberal democracy, socialism, and communism, fascist movements shared certain common features, including the veneration of the state, a devotion to a strong leader, and an emphasis on ultranationalism and militarism.
Fascism views political violence, war, and imperialism as a means to achieve national rejuvenation[5][8][9][10] and asserts that stronger nations have the right to expand their territory by displacing weaker nations
Nazis and fascism are extreme RIGHT wing group and ideology
Truth-there is no such thing as a "Neo-Confederate insurrectionist."
Liberal implies open to change
Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis) is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally they support ideas such as free and fair elections, civil rights, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, free trade, and private property.
American progressives tend to advocate progressive taxation and oppose what they describe as the growing and negative influence of large corporations. Progressives are typically in agreement on an international scale with left-liberalism in that they support organized labor and trade unions, they usually wish to introduce a living wage, and they often support the creation of a universal health care system. In the United States, liberals and progressives are often conflated, and in general are the primary voters of the Democratic Party which has a "large tent" policy, combining similar if not congruent ideologies into large voting blocs.
That's because you are both misusing the word/tag "Liberal".