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hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
23. They are kooks, but very dangerous, well-funded kooks.
Thu Aug 23, 2012, 02:59 PM
Aug 2012

These kooks who believe that they have the One True Answer from their Imaginary Being in the Sky tend to band together for the purpose of taking over the country and turning it into whatever medieval hell on earth would be the result of their rancid, paranoid and kooky belief system are out of control.

They would be perfectly willing to kill you, me, or anyone else who questions (blasphemes, in their tiny little minds) their kookery. They are a clear and present danger to the republic.

The 1% are free to do as they will to assert their own self interest. Murder, the impoverishment of millions, flat out theft and fraud. All is just fine in their tiny minds.

The rest of us, on the other hand, are free to be fired for no reason, free to be homeless and broke, free to have no health care - unlike the citizens of every other industrial democracy, free to be brutally assaulted or killed by militarized cops for looking at them the wrong way, free to be searched without suspicion, free to be reduced to utter poverty so that the Romneys of the world can own god knows how many homes, free to be treated like a second class citizen if you happen to be female, gay or non-white and above all else, free to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up while your "betters" pursue their own self-interest at your expense. You are also free to grovel before the one percent like Willard Romney because they are just plain better than the rest of us peasants.

Their ideal world is a totalitarian theocracy for the 99% and the Divine Right of Plutocrats for the other 1%. IOW, neo-feudalism.

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Yes and people vote for these assholes. MrSlayer Aug 2012 #1
Appeasing them or trying to reason with them only makes it worse Philosoraptor Aug 2012 #2
I agree but how? MrSlayer Aug 2012 #3
Expose them, by name and by agenda Philosoraptor Aug 2012 #4
+1. Have talking points. Be calm. Let discussants froth. Enhance cognitive dissonance. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2012 #9
Your use of Lincoln as an example is ironic! HenryWallace Aug 2012 #18
Of course rhetoric failed then. Are you saying we should give up and go home and tune out? Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2012 #20
+1,000 freshwest Aug 2012 #21
Exposing them as ridiculous by parody and satire is a good way. Nobody wants to endorse a joke. nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2012 #5
Especially a sick joke like todd akin Philosoraptor Aug 2012 #6
Parody runs counter to my Lincoln examples, but is good for impersonal (internet) exchanges. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2012 #12
True Colors dolt201 Aug 2012 #7
In a way, akin has done us all a favor Philosoraptor Aug 2012 #8
Welcome to DU. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2012 #13
"one effective weapon in our arsenal" Hubert Flottz Aug 2012 #15
We need sound bites, talking points and repetition! We also need to keep quickly debunking Dustlawyer Aug 2012 #10
Agreed K&R nt avebury Aug 2012 #11
Just remember the 24/7 media, polling, and propaganda machines.. ananda Aug 2012 #14
succinct and well put DaveJ Aug 2012 #16
the gop deserves them, america does not spanone Aug 2012 #17
.............. Philosoraptor Aug 2012 #19
Post removed Post removed Aug 2012 #22
They are kooks, but very dangerous, well-funded kooks. hifiguy Aug 2012 #23
....... Philosoraptor Aug 2012 #24
overtook =/= took over but reccing anyway. nt eppur_se_muova Aug 2012 #25
Maybe they thought GOP was really GOD. Thinkingabout Aug 2012 #26
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