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Re: Vote against/for...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:37:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> *You* could be in the majority too if you'd pull your head out and join the
> Republican party to work for getting liberatarian agendas implemented, rather
> than support the go-nowhere, impotent Losertarian party.
Yeah, Larry--you should join the NRA/Christian Coalition/Enron whore known
as the GOP.
And John, since you're fond of overlooking reality when it favors your
agenda, let's not forget that you can make no true claims of majority.
Voter turnout for this election was around 40%, so you can at best only
verify a ~21% hold over the eligible voting body. Unless you want to lay
claim to Nixon's "silent majority" then you should be careful in claiming to
be backed by the will of the actual majority.
> It's about getting things done.
Not quite--it's about doing the *correct* things, compromising when
necessary, and always respecting those not in the majority. The Republican
notion of bipartisan compromise is to have both parties agree to do what the
Republicans want. The problem (and this is why the Dems lost on Tuesday) is
that the Dems simply rolled over rather than fighting W and his mysterious
anti-charismatic popularity.
> The Republicans have some elbow room to start getting some positive things accomplished.
This is actually the absolute best outcome of the elections, though not
for the reasons you probably think. Now, with Absolute Congressional power,
the Republicans have no excuse for not fixing *every single ill* in society
that they've spent decades blaming on the Democrats. Further, the
ridiculous far-right agenda of the Republican Theocracy can no longer remain
camouflaged, but it will instead be seen front-and-center for the extremism
that it is.
It's also funny that you should invoke "elbow room" as justification for a
Republican agenda. Schoolhouse Rock had one vignette about the imperialist
Monroe Doctrine and O'Sullivan's so-called "manifest destiny," and the theme
song of the vignette was "Elbow Room." This is especially fitting,
considering the Republican overseas expansionist policies in regard to trade
in general and oil in particular, not to mention their domestic expansionist
policies of legislating Christian ideological morality.
Dave!
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| (...) That was my point. (...) *You* could be in the majority too if you'd pull your head out and join the Republican party to work for getting liberatarian agendas implemented, rather than support the go-nowhere, impotent Losertarian party. You are (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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