2046 Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 (edited) Is this considered "mainstream liberal opinion"? Edited June 19, 2010 by 2046 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyronus Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Is this considered "mainstream liberal opinion"? Hahahahahahahahaha. Ah, that's priceless. Painfully and utterly priceless. Not only did the man declare that Obama should act like a dictator, and not only did he do so in explicitly Orwellian terms ("Boot on the Neck"), but he flat out decalred that the Liberals should use their majority like a club. "No more olive branches," "No more bipartisanship," in other words "We now have a narrow majority and we should use it to do as we please to others regardless of the wishes of others." The man evokes tyranny of the few and the many in the face of the public! This has to be a hoax, right? No one would be that soul crushingly stupid? Right? ...Right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 This has to be a hoax, right? No one would be that soul crushingly stupid? Right? ...Right? Stupid? No, he's just playing to his base. He's saying out loud what a lot of people on the left are thinking, what they want. I don't understand why people seem surprised to learn that the left is/can be brutal and violent in its quest for more power. Come to think of it I can't for the life of me name a single solitary violent uprising, war or revolution since the rise of communism in 1917 that wasn't leftist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEgoist Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 We see this whenever which of the two sides is in power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aequalsa Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 We see this whenever which of the two sides is in power. I'm pretty sure I haven't ever seen calls from anyone for the president to act like a dictator and put his boot on the neck of industry. Do you have a particular example in mind? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitalistSwine Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 I'm pretty sure I haven't ever seen calls from anyone for the president to act like a dictator and put his boot on the neck of industry. Do you have a particular example in mind? I have seen it plenty. It doesn't need to be in the form of video and it doesn't need to be stated in a "right out there in the open" kind of way. Even if it did, there are plenty of examples, especially in text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aequalsa Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 I have seen it plenty. It doesn't need to be in the form of video and it doesn't need to be stated in a "right out there in the open" kind of way. Even if it did, there are plenty of examples, especially in text. Are you talking about the lack of bipartisanship idea, or the put his jack boots on the neck of private industry idea, because I see acceptance of the two on national television as implications of two distinct things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuringAI Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Stupid? No, he's just playing to his base. He's saying out loud what a lot of people on the left are thinking, what they want. I don't understand why people seem surprised to learn that the left is/can be brutal and violent in its quest for more power. Come to think of it I can't for the life of me name a single solitary violent uprising, war or revolution since the rise of communism in 1917 that wasn't leftist. What about Nazism, which wasn't distinctly leftist or rightist but some mad amalgamation of the two? Don't forget all those religious extremists who overthrew their more secular governments in favor of a theocracy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussK Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Stupid? No, he's just playing to his base. He's saying out loud what a lot of people on the left are thinking, what they want. I don't understand why people seem surprised to learn that the left is/can be brutal and violent in its quest for more power. Come to think of it I can't for the life of me name a single solitary violent uprising, war or revolution since the rise of communism in 1917 that wasn't leftist. Definitely not surprising. Just as I wasn't surprised when I heard Oliver Stone, on Bill Maher's show, say he wishes the United States had a south American dictator for a president. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2046 Posted June 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 (edited) Or don't forget when Maher himself (a self-proclaimed "libertarian") lamented that things are just plain easier to do for the people in a dictatorship, so jealous of the communist Chinese, as things are just more "efficient" for them: If there is ever a dictatorship in this country, so many of these people who claim to be "pro-civil liberties" and "liberal" and "tolerant" will be cheering it and attacking anyone who dares to speak out against it. Edited June 19, 2010 by 2046 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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