WHY THE GOP IS IN DECLINE: WORDS FROM A TYPICAL REPUBLICAN VOTER

Yes indeed more conservative fertilizer from Blogs4Victory a place where dissent isn’t tolerated but religion based conspiracy theories are!

This is the response from Jeremiah who for quite a long time has been thumping his Bible and praying hard that A BRUTAL THEOCRACY WOULD RISE UP FROM THE ASHES OF SOME MAJESTIC CIVIL WAR FILLED WITH MIRACLES HAPPENS. Of course all the screaming and shouting aside this isn’t going to happen because America is fully a corporate oligarchy today and it will be a progressive corporate representative democracy in 20 years or so despite Jeremiah’s prediction of an Imam being elected President in a generation. And anyway what would be wrong with that? I thought the Constitution said whomever got the most electoral votes wins the election and that there was no religious test to hold office. Maybe Jeremiah has a different allegiance more similar to radical theocracy than he’s willing to admit. It doesn’t matter what religion you are a fanatic of religious fanatics are dangerous to any form of representative government with a free population.

I agree, Spook.
I call bull butter on Ms. Bloch’s predictions.
Saying there will be “no chance” of another Conservative presidency after 2014. Nah.

Polls are now agreeing that a majority of Americans do not trust the government, and for good reason considering the latest developments concerning the IRS, the NSA, and Benghazi.

As far as her statements regarding religion, she is just repeating the liberal mantra cooked up by the likes of Bill Maher, and her other handlers.

I do believe that at the rate we are going that America will be a majority Islamic nation in 20 years considering how fast it is infiltrating our colleges and universities. Some predict that in 20 years there will be enough Muslims in America to elect an Imam for President. But even that is questionable if America has a major turning point in a more positive direction.

All of this prediction poopy by the likes of the far-left libs who visit here get kind of old. They like to make those predictions here to make themselves feel good about their side, and their hopes for an America to the liking of Germany when it was controlled by the Nazis and Hitler in the 1930s, yet thinking they will not be the target of such a type of government. While true that Christians, Jews, and other ethnicity groups would be targeted by such a regime in Washington, those advocating for such a takeover do not realize the repercussions for such a regime change. Most of those advocating for such a type of government in America reside in other countries, and are immune from such a catastrophic regime…though they are lucky, because they have escaped the sword of the Muslims in their own country.

While it wouldn’t surprise me to see the American flag replaced by such as say, a Chinese flag, or Muslim flag…I still have faith that America won’t allow it to happen. If it were to transpire that America comes under such tyranny, I can only say that it is because Americans failed to follow God’s Word. And if such a time were to come, we can only hope that we are following Jesus Christ, because without Him we won’t stand. I mean, how can we expect to stand without Him?

Here’s my comment that got Jeremiah’s undies in a bunch:

Cluster you are half right. America will not become a true oligarchy but by 2028 it will be a a nation controlled by one political party. That party will be the Democratic Party. The problem for the GOP is that they never took any opportunities to reach out to those they would need to be elected that many years down the road. Government works for the voters I have been told many times and the Democrats are the party of handouts and hope for those who have had little voice in America for the bulk of its existence.

The 2014 midterms will be your last hurrah if you are a conservative. Hopefully enough far right conservatives will win in gerrymandered districts that were safe anyway to give the Right an even deeper and more false sense of electoral security. That will lead to more gaffes on women’s rights, gay rights and immigration that will further alienate those fast growing groups plus the American voter between 18 and 25 from your beliefs.

You likely will have the hinterlands well into the middle of the century but as we all know nobody really lives in the hinterlands. The goal should be to win back New York and California but you all know that is impossible. Pennsylvania is now blue as is Michigan. Florida is growing bluer by the day even north of Orlando. Texas, by 2020 will be a blue state as Latino kids who are now eleven years old will be of voting age then. What could your side possibly offer them if their parents are undocumented that would make them vote for your side? Nothing. At best the GOP by then will be a regional party having lost both the House and many governorships nationally. In seven years this will be all over and even you Cluster will have tired of talking about a political battle that cannot be won without a major catastrophe taking place. It’s this simple when Hillary Rodham Clinton announces her candidacy the GOP gets taken off life support and those who support that party can start to plan both the party and how to divide up the estate.

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MITCHETHEKID EXPLAINS IT ALL

A daring post from a Liberal commenter both here and at Blogs4Victory. This should be any Progressive’s first read this morning:

Thanks for mentioning our conversations Cluster. I appreciate it. I think that Amazona is correct in saying that social issues should not be the focus of any government, let alone one based upon conservative precepts. To take that statement to its logical conclusion, we all should be libertarian, as long as we do not devolve into anarchy. Unfortunately this is not the case. There are many, to many IMO, that are obsessed with social issues and use the government and it’s law making and law enforcing power to enact both restrictions and allowances. I am not a constitutional expert. I have a DAR manual that I look at from time to time but mostly for a point of clarification. I agree that it is a brilliantly written document and that the authors had enough forethought and enlightenment to be cognizant of the future. But it is also a product of it’s time, written by human beings who were every bit as complicated and flawed and brilliant and tragic as anyone living today. The essence of all words, as a conveyance of thinking, is metaphorical. (A word itself.) And as such, the words are subject to interpretation. An argument can be made that the “intent” that Amazona mentioned, is nothing more than learned guessing. (Emphasis on ned in learned.) One of the functions of the Supreme Court, is to interpret the meaning of the language that comprises the Constitution, by way of a shared consensus of opinion between a quorum of justices.
But in a representative government, if a social issue is a concern, then it does become subject to legislation. This has been a fact throughout human history. We do not live in a vacuum (no pun intended towards those who doubt my aviator skills) and in 2013 there are over 300 million people who live in the US. In 1776 there were ~ 2.5 and were primarily agrarian.
I think that conservative principals are the best choice where the issue(s) are economic in nature. But I do not disparage a degreed economist who happens to have a more fundamental understanding of the dynamics of a multi-trillion economy and how it interacts not only with those that have a dollar in their pocket, but now amongst the entire planet as well.
As I see it, it is not the educational system that is to blame, or the inherent bias that all people and businesses possess that is the root of the problems conservatism is experiencing, it is the behavior, the claims and the reporting of it. A few examples exist on this blog alone. Retired Spook going on about transformation. Society, culture and politics are fluid, not static.Please provide some specific examples Retired Spook, of how our country is suffering from the progressive nature of time and the changing attitudes of the population. There are very few examples that my feeble brain can come up with that verify your conviction that an uber left even exists, let alone paint with such broad strokes this “intense dislike of how America was founded.” Just how was it founded? Not why, but how. And why do you stereotype? Not all “liberals” are America hating. In fact, most people desire a better America, not a worse one.
Amazona’s use of inflammatory adjectives as a method of demeaning and undermining alternative points of view. And her obsession with spelling, grammar and punctuation. (I write the way I speak, commas substituting for pauses.)
I won’t even address Neo. There isn’t a better representative for the fanatical, fringe extreme that gives conservatives a bad reputation than he. Conservatism isn’t the problem. It’s conservatives.
I am a supporter of smaller government. I do not think excessive regulation(s) are a good thing. I think local control is superior to national but I also recognize the duplicity that currently exists on the right, how traditional conservatism has been eviscerated by a pandering to a certain type of uninformed and fearful individual and how tribalism has been exploited to further the monetary goals of others. This is the human condition. This is what Machiavelli often referred to and encouraged. I think that for conservatism to make a resurgence, it has to go through a metamorphosis. Unfortunately for those currently experiencing this change, it is a difficult process and it is perfectly understandable to want to blame those that don’t subscribe to the ideology, whom are not fixated with blaming the “media” or contemporary popular culture for their poor and declining image. There is a difference between cooperation and capitulation. This demarcation applies to all sides of the political grid. Self examination is a positive. A refusal to accept the need to change is not. And this applies to everyone on both a personal level and as a member of a group.
OK. I think I will slither back into my hole now.

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MY FINAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION GLOAT: ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN OF POST CONSERVATISM

I just had to wait for the right time to post this and since tomorrow is the end of the Mayan Long Count I thought it would be an apropos time to mark the end of Conservative political power in the American government with a graphic that says it all.

The world is very different now.”–President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural address, 20 January 1961.

Pax Terra!

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THE WORD THAT CONSERVATIVE BLOGGERS DARE NOT MENTION

Every morning I awake and trudge to the office at my flat here in the 71st arondissment of Dis and turn on my computer. My hour or so of research before I head Uptown to the main office begins with conservative blogs. Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, RedState, Fox Nation and the Blaze. occasionally, I visit Atlas Shrugged and Malkin if I’m feeling particularly frisky.

This morning was no different than any other in an election year; I am looking for trends in the speech of the opposition. If you hadn’t noticed I’m a social and economic Progressive. Gotcha politics is easy for people who don’t think; making connections in how the opposition speaks to the issues is like panning for gold. This morning I found a really big shiny nugget in my pan.

The US economy is not really winning any gold medals right now. I’m a firm believer in the policies of Barack Obama will bring the economy out of its sluggishness sometime in Q2 2014 as our in house economic expert Carl Pryor has been saying for nearly three years. Actually, Pryor has pushed his full recovery date [Pryor measures this with the rate of unemployment being below 6%] back from Q3 2015 a few months ago when Romney became the de facto GOP nominee noting, “There’s no way this man will win and this being the case the Affordable care Act is in no jeopardy.” This makes me wonder though. If I were running as the challenger to a man that’s presiding over a nation that is since 1946 been used to having a wasteful abundance but finds itself in a employment challenge recovery I would be hammering the incumbent on his failure to create jobs.

There’s a problem with this though. Mitt Romney is the candidate. A man, who to quote one of the least intelligent men on the Internet, Mark Edward Noonan, has never been in the business of “make, mine and grow.” Now this distributist belief of Mark Edward Noonan isn’t a tongue in cheek homage to penis enlargement ads it’s really a tenet of his brand of Roman Catholicism. Romney is a very wealthy man and despite this there are going to be millions of people in that 47% about which the candidate cares nothing that are going to give him their vote because they would do anything to deny President Barack Obama a second term. The real problem here is that Romney doesn’t have a voice that can clearly state what he would do to give Americans the jobs they crave and need.

The nugget I panned this morning is that across the conservative blogosphere on the front pages there are only two mentions of the US economy. Out of a biblical torrent of words and images only two, The Blaze and RedState mention the word. Conversely, here at the Dis Brimstone Daily Pitchfork there are four mentions. Why is this? Well fellow traveler I will tell you! Romney’s wealth is a burden on his campaign. I know the man is a generous giver to charity but the word economy makes people think about taxes and tax rates. America is no longer a nation with an expanding middle class. While this isn’t Mitt Romney’s fault it is the fault of people who worked in the shadows of capitalism to make money out of the investment game. Lower middle class Americans have voted in their minds already. They like ObamaCare as it has been dubbed even if they won’t tell a pollster on their tracFone that they do.

Even now, the lovely and talented Mika Brzezinski and the erudite Joe Scarborough are shaking their heads at Romney trying to lead a “Romney Ryan!” cheer at a campaign stop. No one was cheering back. That’s because it is known that Romney doesn’t see America as being populated with people; he’s a human resources guy not a human beings guy. He hasn’t had the humanizing experience of having to come up from poverty and live outside of the US as anything other than an America citizen of privilege. Barack Obama, like him or not has been blessed with the ability because of his upbringing to meet people and talk to them as a living breathing Human being with a Soul. Mitt Romney isn’t connecting because when he meets a person he’s assessing their value to him.

In Hindsight

That is my take on why conservative bloggers are staying away from the economy; Romney’s wealth makes him an easy target for things like taxes so they dare not go there. Romney’s Internet surrogates would rather do the 1950s all over again conflating the anti-West uprisings in the Middle East with some foreign policy failure on Obama’s part. The news flash for Breitbart et al is that the people who would point and scream at this are already in the Romney fold. There are still roughly 7% of voters who haven’t made up their mind and many of them are in places like Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia; states that Romney currently trails in and must win to achieve the Oval Office. If Romney doesn’t change his tack and stop pandering to the white male bigots who hate Obama not based on policy but based on his race he will not only cost himself the White House but possibly cost his party the Senate and put the House back in play. If Romney does tack to the center, he will become the 21st century incarnation of a Republican Walter Mondale. The GOP will fracture by 2014 into an establishment party and those who will blame the establishment for not running conservative enough candidates. In this case a three party system will become a one party state in two election cycles. Democrats will own the House in perpetuity after the recovery of 2014 because TEA Party politics will demand a harder shift to the Right and that is a recipe for disaster for the unicorn of American politics–the Republican moderate.

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THE ISSUES THAT MATTER TO THE CONSERVATIVES IN AMERICA: ABORTION, RACISM AND THE WAR ON WOMEN

I read a Blogs 4 Victory post entitled, “The False Narrative” last night and went to bed with the words of a commenter turned poster Cluster ringing in my ears. That ringing turned to laughter as I thought of how I would reply to his positions on abortion, racism and the War on Women. Here’s the gist of his argument:

- Abortion –The party with the extreme position on abortion is the democrats. They currently support federal funding, partial birth, and live birth abortion, and essentially the right to kill the unborn without question at anytime. This position is far out of the mainstream, and voters need to know this. Conservatives support life with the rape/incest exception, which is optional, and that position is actually the real pro choice position.

- Racism – Honestly the political party that harbors racists, are the democrats. Most of them simply believe that people of a darker skin color are victims of this society solely because of their pigmentation, and that without government help, they are incapable of living a productive life. This mindset is deplorable and offensive. They also believe apparently that they need to be the protectors of our first black President, because obviously he is unable to withstand criticism of most any kind, due once again to the color of his skin.

- War on Women – Once again, the political party that is waging war against women is the democrats. How offensive is it for most women to know that Obama and Sandra Fluke believe that women are incapable of providing for their own contraception needs? How hypocritical is it for liberal feminists to say “keep your hands off my body” but then expect us to pay for their abortion and healthcare needs? How denigrating is it to believe that a pregnancy is an obstacle in a woman’s life? The fact is, women are incredibly strong and more than capable of determining, and paying for, their way through life without anyones help.

Here is my response:

Abortion—The facts on this are simple. The Democratic Party supports a woman’s right to choose when she has a child. Thereby, a woman to the Left has a right to choose to have an abortion that takes place within the time allotted by federal law. I repeat federal law dictates the time span of fetal development where an abortion is legal. In some cases, where the life of the mother is in jeopardy, an abortion is medically necessary beyond this federal limit. I woman cannot, in any jurisdiction in the United States of America have an abortion procedure beyond 21 weeks simply by saying she wants and abortion. I do not know anyone who supports partial birth abortion on demand. I also understand the law that says any viable fetus born alive even in an abortion clinic must be kept alive or the physician and anyone attending can be charged with murder. What you have written is hyperbole for the conservative base and nothing more.

Racism—It is easy to throw this term around but I find this very dangerous. I think America has progressed concerning race more in the period from 1950 to 2000 than it has at any other time in its history. Since 2000 however, there has been a turn from the institutionalized racism of the last century to a reactionary bigotry over the last 12 years. One has to understand the difference between bigotry and racism to even engage in this conversation. Racism needs power to fuel it. The power comes from politics. If those in charge all come from the same racial demographic then it is far more easy to keep another racial demographic at bay with laws that segregate them. The post Civil War Democratic Party in the South, made up of the most ardent conservatives of the time, saw the opportunities they had once the Reconstruction ended to initiate laws that would secure them power for what they thought would be forever. Those conservative Democrats could not have seen the Federal Government ever exercising its power below the Mason-Dixon line again and for over one hundred years they were right. So instead of having the vision for the future that Grant held blacks were put into a lower caste by the ruling white elite in the South and life for them remained that way until 1946 when the first stirrings for a second emancipation began. By the time the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed and signed by President Lyndon Johnson the white powerbrokers in the South realized they needed a new strategy, one less embarrassing than the overt bigotry supported by racist thinking that has been broadcast to the world by CBS News night after night. It took four years for a savior to come to the conservatives in the South who while Democrats were more than willing to shed that label to keep the suffering status quo in regard to the Negro. President Nixon utilized the animus between working class white and working class blacks in the South to march to victory in 1968. Reagan in his very first campaign speech did the same in Neshoba County, Mississippi and reinforced the new ethic of conservative views on race with his alliance with the Moral Majority in 1980. Race was cast aside in the late 1980s by President George H. W. Bush in the name of continuing economic prosperity. Demographers, however, knew that in a generation a great decline was going to take place among the white electorate. Younger white voters were becoming more and more liberal. Black voters had allied squarely with the new Liberal post-Kennedy Democratic Party led by Northern Liberals and Midwestern moderates. The GOP once a party of Ed Burke of Massachusetts and Barry Goldwater was now the party of Strom Thurmond and David Duke. The overt race baiting politics of the 1930s and 1940s no longer had a place among the Conservatives as it was no longer socially acceptable. The bigotry had to come from a dedicated and older bloc of conservative voters who see blacks and Latinos as a drain on their wealth [keep our taxes low], see minorities as a violent threat to their personal security [flash mobs] and demand that any leader of the country be able to prove he is American even if it is clear he was born in the US [birtherism]. Conservatives don’t need Racism because as their demographics shrink over the next 20 years, with the dying off of the Baby Boomers having begun in earnest, the power base that would have driven it too will have died off. Young Conservatives will take a new more inclusive tack. They will put the moralizing and religious traditionalism behind them and work to make their party a more populist and albeit nationalist simulacrum of the moderate wing of the Democratic Party. The next fifty years will be very interesting politically for America. On December 31, 2064 the last Baby Boomer will be 100 years old. The country that you know now will be long gone. I imagine it will still be prosperous but that prosperity will be dominated by Liberal married couples made up of majority that is composed of those that conservatives most fear the most. Educated white women will marry outside their race more as more and more blacks and Latinos earn higher education degrees in a truly level playing field. Gay and Lesbian couples will become full citizens as their marriages will be recognized as marriage in every state in the Union. Abortion will become rarer as government provided contraception is made cheap and widely available as Obamacare proves to be as effective for the young worker as Social Security is for the elderly. Churches will once again be filled with people of Faith rather than peasants of Fear. I feel that America in 2064 might be in the shining diamond midst of a new global golden age and she cannot be that with retrograde racial thinking but only by the continuing efforts of Progressives to keep up the pressure on the wobbling old man of Conservatism.

The War on Women—Post Clinton America finds itself in that phase the demographers of the 1980s warned conservatives about. Not to beat the issue to death but the pro-life position on abortion, as a political issue, while cloaked in the sweet intentions of preserving life is really nothing more than the most desperate reaction to a societal failure by white conservatives. The birth rates of Latinas and black women outpace that of white women nearly 8 to 1. Double that number for college educated white women over the age of 30 while the same demographic of black and Latinas is still a 4 to 1 advantage. It is politically perfectly understandable why a group of people who wants to stay in power, to have the America that they want would turn to issues of abortion and contraception when they are being beaten in the breeding race by such a wide margin. Also, marrying race with gender, this gives the Right another canard they can use—that women are to blame for the loss of white conservative political power through their desire to hold positions of power in a world they see as a man’s domain. American women don’t like this and they don’t like Mitt Romney no matter how many times Ann Romney begs for America to get to know her husband.

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VIRGINIA STATE SENATOR LOUISE LUCAS D-PORTSMOUTH EXPLAINS IT ALL

Never have the Collective heard the issue of what is wrong with America put so very well. Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas D-Portsmouth [demographics] speaking on the John Fredricks Morning Show on WHKT AM 1650. Take a listen and tell us what you think.

After being called out for being racist by Senator Lucas, the conservative blogosphere is “outraged” on behalf of Mitt Romney. Breitbart tries to make the case that Lucas minced her words attempting to hide behind the word “fringe.” We, Ourselves disagree because the fringe among Republicans aren’t the vitriolic bigots, the haters of gays and blacks and Latinos– those bigots are the conservative base. The fringe in the GOP are the moderates who would like to find compromise on important issues and realize that the control issues and fearmongering do no good service to America as a nation.

Senator Lucas is the true American patriot here. In the end she spoke truth to bigotry in an age when bigotry is frowned upon as well it should be. The racists behind the curtain in the GOP, the modern day Grand Exalted Dragons of the Corporate Ku Klux Klan, the Koch Brothers, depend on both the petty and the hard bigotries of lower, middle and upper class whites that has been there in that political box since Nixon resigned from office in 1974. When Ronald Reagan ran for office he probed the box but he did not fully open it. He simply breathed some new life into that dark place but since the Right came to power in 1981 there was really no need to go back to the days of Klan marches in Washington DC as were seen in the 1920s.

Now with the election of the first person of color as Chief Executive in the United States after eight years of being conned by the neocons into thinking their religious, violent and bigoted beliefs held sway in the White House conservatives are engaging in what comes closest to a full throated racial slur campaign against a politcal opponent. We, Ourselves of the Collective denounce anyone who feels that based on the color of one’s skin they are superior to another. We denounce anyone who feels that they are morally superior because they are in a heterosexual relationship and that all same sex relationships degrade theirs in the eyes of a Deity. We denounce the idea that it is better to give the rich more billions of dollars in tax cuts in the hope that they will offer some begrudging alms to the American Middle Class as if those hard working Americans were an annoyance. We, Ourselves, denounce the idea that government should not restrict you from building an arsenal in your home but it should force you to carry a child to term.

We, Ourselves, of The Collective stand with Senator Lucas and each and every syllable that she spoke to John Fredricks because she was not only correct she has shone a blinding light in the eyes of bigots all across America no matter their social class.

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RUSH LIMBAUGH IS NOT STUPID BUT THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE HIM AND REPEAT HIS LIES ARE STUPID

First off I’m not an economist but I got a degree from Fordham University back in 1982 in political science in the hope that one day I might be a lawyer. Rush Limbaugh is neither a journalist, a historian or a lawyer. Mr Limbaugh is an entertainer no different that the guy that used to bark to the crowds imploring them to come and see the mermaid at the carny in Mount Kisco when I was a kid. usually it was a really smelly looking weird fish but sometimes it was a girl in a tank wearing a fin. You get what you pay for which is why I always snuck into the tent.

The most recent Internet meme trying to expose President Barack Hussein Obama as something other than an American politician is a snippet from a speech he delivered in Roanoke, Virginia last week, taken out of context. What appeared first in its entirety at the Washington Times “watercooler” blog written by Kerry Pickett that has been picked up by The Blaze, Rush Limbaugh and countless other conservative idiot ditches will be highlighted in its original context:

“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires. “

Here’s what Limbaugh had to say about the snippet, not the full quote:

“Successful people have not done it on their own. Successful people only exist because of the nameless, faceless, real, true hard workers. You know, before Marx there was no such thing as class-driven economics. If that guy had been aborted, we’d have a whole different world today.”–Rush Limbaugh, 16 July 2012.

Now there are two things that conservatives, who would rather be delusional about everything than deal with facts that make them recognize they are very close to the slow moving grinding stone of social change, “know” in their “hearts” because Rush said so. One, that President Obama hates their fantasy of the ubermensch, the self made man. Correction, the self made white conservative man. Two, that Marx invented class economics.

In Hindsight

Both, of course are totally fucking incorrect. The president of course is correct there is no self made man that is a myth. Even Bill Gates and Warren Buffet got help getting where they are so I’m sure your loocal dry cleaner, plumber and general contractor did as well. Two, Rush who got his degree from, wait where did Rush Limbaugh go to college? Southeast Missouri state for two semesters and a summer session. But it’s listed as his alma mater when really it was not his nourishing mother, but just some broad who’s tits he sucked.

Had Limbaugh gotten to take a medieval history course as I did and quite enjoyed at Fordham, he would have learned that feudalism was an economic, military, political and social control system designed to keep the rich and the Church powerful and everyone else in service to the two powers or dirt fucking poor. Class based economics at its finest starting in the 9th century nearly 1000 years before Karl Marx.

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OBAMA’S VICKSBURG

One of the many things in American history that has always fascinated me was the War Between the States, or as the TEA Party folks would call it today “The War of Northern Aggression.” Most Conservatives today are reeling about the Supreme Court decision that has upheld The Affordable Health Care Act. What hurts the most is that it is, as Chris Matthews just said a few moments ago on MSNBC that “it cast in Constituional stone and was upheld with Chief Justice Roberts at the head of the majority.” The video below was likely the reaction of the Right when they heard their golden girl on Fox News announce that the law was upheld.

The fight for passage of this law with all the townhall nonsense and the rise of the TEA Party was Antietam for President Obama. It wasn’t a clear victory but it put the Right back at bay and gave them a chance to reverse their partisan polarization that I still feel has just as much to do with the president’s skin tone as it does his social policies. The fact that a Bush II appointed Chief Justice sided with the more traditionally left leaning justices has to be devastating to Americans who get their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh. For President Obama today was Vicksburg and the election in November is Sherman’s march and the firing of Atlanta.

In Hindsight

At the end of the day this is a great victory for the American president but it is only a victory in a major battle; the war is far from over. I just turned the sound up on the Fox news monitor and took out my good bottle of Basil Hayden’s and poured three good fingers. Chris Wallace was trying to explain to the millions of idiots watching that this really isn’t Chief Justice Roberts’ fault but it is. Clearly, Wallace had the look on his face of a man who desperately needed a change of underwear. Now Senator Marco Rubio is trying to scare the piss out of the white conservative middle class by saying the IRA will “be on your back” because the law was upheld. Of course this is horeshit but to people who watch Fox News it doesn’t matter as long as it is the opposite of whatever President obama is trying to do for the benefit of the country. Senator Rubio I will be counting how many right leaning blogs and pundits repeat your “chased by the IRS” meme. Oh dear Fox just trotted out Betsy McCaughey. If that doesn’t signify victory for President Obama I don’t know what the Hell does. She wants a 20 page bill that “the people can understand.” Hell I read the bill in 9 days and I was correct it is constitutional.

Pax Terra!

Fredrick Schwartz, D.S.V.J., O.Q.H [Journ.]
Managing Editor—Research
The Dis Brimstone-Daily Pitchfork
54 Shatter 2 AS

MORE PROOF CONSERVATIVES CAN’T THINK FOR THEMSELVES

I am all the things the Conservatives today loathe. I am a strong independent feminist, a community activist, a rational thinker, a pragmatist. I believe in the inherent right of a woman to determine what she does or does not do with her body. I am a Progressive.

News is a business that I thought I would never enter into. I prefer the rough and tumble of politics to the often times rigid nature of getting the facts to press. When I was asked to come here to write editorials about the decaying ability of Americans to set aside their Culture War differences to solve the problems of the moment I could not pass up the chance to have such a bully pulpit.

In both endeavors, press and politics, information is power. The most important thing whether one is polling the likely voters or writing an investigative story is getting one’s facts in order. That partisan idological blogs get the facts wrong sometimes at best or outright obscure the truth at worst is nothing new. As a Progressive dealing with those who are thrown into a huff by mentioning that the level of anger and vitriol has gone up considerbly since the election of the first American President of color has become increasingly more and more difficult. This is because no matter how skewed the facts the Right gets from its “news” sources unlike rational persons of all stripes, Conservatives can’t think for themselves on matters political when they feel they must “win.”

Think for a moment of the top ten sources of Conservative political and social “news” for the average joe in the street. Rush Limbaugh both online and over the radio airwaves comes to most Progressive’s minds first. But of course that’s not the only source. Some of the more religious of those in the base of the Right prefer Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, or Jim Hoft’s Gateway Pundit. If you begin your day early in the morning you can predict with a reasonable measure of certainty what the Right’s meme will be for the day by visiting a handful of blogs and reading the Drudge Report. Andrew Breitbart’s untimely death came as a shock to Conservative blog readers and points out the nature of the Conservative mind; yet Big Government roars on without him.

The Right is easily stunned into inaction by changes to their status quo. They are not students of history they are manufacturers of revisionism. To the Right things have to fit into their proper place and their is no room for thinking out of the box lest ye slide down the slippery slope of realization that the world isn’t really as they see it.

I get my news from newspapers of record and from the Associated Press, Pressju Hellac, National Public Radio and Reuters. I have never been to the DailyKos or Democratic Underground seeking hard data that I would repeat online. Diversity in ideas is important so from time to time I venture to the above Conservative sites and Fox Nation to see what’s happening from their point of view. Lack of diversity is why Jim Hoft can post this suspect article and have it be repeated across the Internet in comments at other blogs. Simply because it makes the President look bad therefore it must be true. There is little depth in thinking among Conservatives the same lot who still insist despite all the evidence to the contrary that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Qu’ul cuda praedex nihil!

Sarah Bloch, D.S.V.J., J.F., O.Q.H [Jur.]
Amici Bax Demvolu Comnu
Politics & Culture Wars Managing Editor
The Dis Brimstone-Daily Pitchfork
48 Shatter 2 AS

FROM THE DESK OF THE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR: A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

I was milling through some of the writings from the American Right this morning and came across this post, from Mark Noonan at Blogs4Victory. Once again, Mr Noonan looks at politics and society through a thin prism of a religion he hasn’t held all his life, but is comfortable to him in middle age. To anyone here in Hell, politics and religion stand on opposite sides of a clearly defined spectrum. Politics is public; religion is personal. And never should the twain ever meet.

This reply to a comment stood out to me because it defines why the Right are failing to attract moderates and young people to their ranks in these modern times:

It is a Biblical principal that those who do not work shall not eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10) – so, anyone who is capable of work must work, or starve. However, those who cannot work must be provided for in their entirety – regardless of cost and even if providing it has a detrimental effect on the overall economy. Additionally, those who can work but simply cannot find work must be provided for – though for such persons the level of support must be kept below what can be obtained by the least remunerative job available, lest people choose not to work because welfare pays as much as (or more) than working in some cases.

It is not possible for the federal government – remote as it is from the day to day lives of the people and lacking in sufficient knowledge of the needs and desires of the people – to intervene directly in the sustenance of individuals. But if a locality is stricken and unable to provide for all of the local people then it is the moral duty of the federal government to provide what aid proves necessary so that local individuals and groups can see to it that no one lacks the necessities of life.

Now Mr Noonan is a Catholic and from his writings I gather that he feels that America is a Christian nation and that all the citizens of that nation should be governed by laws that descend from Christian beliefs. Fine. Then I suggest that all laws be based this way and that they be carried out by the letter of that belief rather than by interpretation. That bit of scripture that Noonan uses as his cornerstone isn’t fluid or flexible it is brutally clear. “If you don’t work, you do not eat,” leaves no room for a social safety net. it also doesn’t leave room for those who are infirmed to be cared for as Mr Noonan suggests. It is a res ipsa loquitur mandate for those who believe as he does that eating is for the sound of body beacuase they are the only ones who can work.

Okay, let’s play this little game Mr Noonan. Now work is to mandated for all those who are able, men and women. Now with this directive comes an additional one–corporations must hire fully to meet this religio-political obligation. Now that would be a good thing to be sure! But think of all those people who cannot find work suited to them. There are so many things that need to be done but many if not most of the jobs do not pay high salaries or even ones that would allow for the middle class lifestyles that most Americans have come to be accustomed. Everyone can’t be a doctor or an engineer so many with the aptitude would find themselves working and earning but at unfulfilling jobs they are forced to do by a government trying to adhere to religious doctrine.

The Noonanites over at B4V are always going on about communism and socialism but this sort of thinking– one which directs society from the pulpit, is nothing more than a similar wolf in sheep’s clothing. This is the seed of fascism in its most glorious and conservative Sunday go to meeting suit. The problem with these sorts of ideas from the Right is they do not say who makes the decisions even in this simple example. The conversation isn’t at all about work but how much those on the Right love money and wish to keep theirs at the expense of the greater society. Noonan’s religious followers would have women and children dying in the streets based on biblical teaching while casting a blind eye to the most basic economics of the situation. In the end Noona replaces marie Antoinette with a cardinal who utters the same words, “Let them eat cake.”

Qu’ul cuda praedex nihil!