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For the record, I'm not a right-winger or left-winger, I'm more of a libertarian.
I don't get why people are so afraid of these people. Why does the media depict these people as badasses? To me they come across as being quite the opposite. Most of the people who I've dealt with who identify as being a right-winger aren't very intimidating as opponents. I don't get why the Obamarama crowd thinks Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin are a serious threat; to be honest both sides come across as effeminate sissies. I just think it's comical, like something off Mad TV when I see them at rallies and such.
"Oh, yeah, we hunt caribou and wolves, we be bad, nyuk nyuk nyuk..."
I've watched the both the Tea Party and OWS movements and rallies and I don't get where these people think that they're warriors or soldiers of any sort. Give me a break!
Society doesnt. Most of society is pretty conservative. Only PROGS and their media allies act like that. they act this way because they NEED to make conservatism seem extreme so they can invalidate it by association.
that is their only hope. They cannot debate the points and win. Americans wont buy the snake oil they are selling if this comes down to an actual showing of the truth.
For the record, I'm not a right-winger or left-winger, I'm more of a libertarian.
I don't get why people are so afraid of these people. Why does the media depict these people as badasses? To me they come across as being quite the opposite. Most of the people who I've dealt with who identify as being a right-winger aren't very intimidating as opponents. I don't get why the Obamarama crowd thinks Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin are a serious threat; to be honest both sides come across as effeminate sissies. I just think it's comical, like something off Mad TV when I see them at rallies and such.
"Oh, yeah, we hunt caribou and wolves, we be bad, nyuk nyuk nyuk..."
I've watched the both the Tea Party and OWS movements and rallies and I don't get where these people think that they're warriors or soldiers of any sort. Give me a break!
For the record, I'm not a right-winger or left-winger, I'm more of a libertarian.
I don't get why people are so afraid of these people. Why does the media depict these people as badasses? To me they come across as being quite the opposite. Most of the people who I've dealt with who identify as being a right-winger aren't very intimidating as opponents. I don't get why the Obamarama crowd thinks Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin are a serious threat; to be honest both sides come across as effeminate sissies. I just think it's comical, like something off Mad TV when I see them at rallies and such.
"Oh, yeah, we hunt caribou and wolves, we be bad, nyuk nyuk nyuk..."
I've watched the both the Tea Party and OWS movements and rallies and I don't get where these people think that they're warriors or soldiers of any sort. Give me a break!
It's not the Republicans that most Democrats are afraid of. No, it's the whirlwind of anti-intellectualism, fear, and hate that the far right currently embodies. Science and history have been under attack by those in the far right.
As much as the far right is afraid of America becoming a truly socialist state, the left is afraid of America becoming a seething cauldron of uneducated, irrational hate and terror.
It's what radical extremists do. They paint their opposition as the real threat by spreading lies and propaganda to the masses. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc. all used these tactics.
So many people walk around in such an intense amount of apathy and ignorance toward the issues that to snap them out of such a state of mind, political advocates have to use emotion, such as fear and hate to attempt to snap them out of it.
Right wing and left wing are two forces in contention. Much like a body with a left and right hand...as long as they have a mutual goal of some sort of co-operation. Fascism is to be feared. Fascism by description is either left or right to the ultimate extreme. Fascism is not partisan - It is a one party system- a dictatorship. People like Limbaugh are not conservative...He would be happy being a left wing advocate for gay mice if there was cash and fame in it.
Some play all sides- The most influential and powerful people do not play left or right- but are cut throat opportunists who go down the middle and play both sides for gain.
It's not the Republicans that most Democrats are afraid of. No, it's the whirlwind of anti-intellectualism, fear, and hate that the far right currently embodies. Science and history have been under attack by those in the far right.
As much as the far right is afraid of America becoming a truly socialist state, the left is afraid of America becoming a seething cauldron of uneducated, irrational hate and terror.
Nailed it. Plus 1 for that.
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Why does society act like right-wingers are to be feared?
