tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3529487466414938148..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-8342540644067828002012-07-06T07:56:33.868-04:002012-07-06T07:56:33.868-04:00Some might think the obtuse, selfish rage of the n...Some might think the obtuse, selfish rage of the <i>noblesse</i> helps our side.<br /><br />They make such awful spectacles of themselves and don't even realize it.<br /><br />They can't help themselves.<br /><br />That's just what they are.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01531570822624750279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-16811751308870040142012-07-05T10:44:36.049-04:002012-07-05T10:44:36.049-04:00They look at American liberalism (or even American...<i>They look at American liberalism (or even American centrism) and see totalitarian, North Korea-style communism, with enslaved citizens compelled to chant obediently while troops do scarily precise marches -- but it seems as if our right-wingers <b>want to do that kind of compelled chanting and marching,</b> except on behalf of capitalism.</i><br /><br />As they remind us ad nauseam over at <a href="http://www.sadlyno.com" rel="nofollow">Sadly, No!</a>, IT'S ALWAYS PROJECTION.Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-72838810591250944732012-07-05T10:04:42.862-04:002012-07-05T10:04:42.862-04:00Andersen is one of those Bill Keller-ish phony &qu...Andersen is one of those Bill Keller-ish phony "liberals," only too happy to echo right wing myths, in this case about the '60s. It's a grotesque caricature to label the liberation of the '60s as purely selfish and at all analogous to the greed beginning in the '80s. It leaves out the civil rights, feminist, gay rights and anti-poverty elements of the '60s and '70s.<br /><br />Doesn't this idiot realize that the heart of the right wing message is demonization of the '60s, not just because of dope smoking hippies but supposed liberal "excess" that included the Great Society?<br /><br />Smug idiots like Andersen are barely if at all higher on the scale of phoniness than the likes of David Brooks and Thomas Friedman.Peter Janovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07590229306105292675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-72454109105785324882012-07-05T09:44:43.151-04:002012-07-05T09:44:43.151-04:00Good one, Joe... and on December 21 magic moonbea...Good one, Joe... and on December 21 magic moonbeams are going to float down out of the sky and turn us all into Hippies. (far the more likely thousands upon thousands of monstrous spacecraft, vast slaughter-houses piloted by ravenous vaguely reptilian creatures... hungry lizards. We did, afterall, invite them to "Come, Eat!")<br /><br />The <i>Times</i> piece is such a crock of shit I had look Andersen up to see if he had actually lived through the sixties. He did, but only just barely. Born the same year as I, our "experience" of "the sixties" was through television - neither one of us are quite old enough to have been a part of the sixties, not quite old enough to to speak definitively of it. <br /><br />These people don't long for the good old days gone by, they long for the good old days gone by as represented by the movie American Graffiti. Which is, of course, just another fantasy.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-65073997888486694592012-07-05T08:25:12.196-04:002012-07-05T08:25:12.196-04:00Ronald Reagan warned us in 1965. Passage of Medica...Ronald Reagan warned us in 1965. Passage of Medicare would end American liberty and introduce tyranny and communism. And it did.<br /><br />Also, every computerized system in the world failed totally on January 1, 2000.<br /><br />The civilized world was wiped out.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01531570822624750279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-41148259848111161262012-07-05T08:19:11.092-04:002012-07-05T08:19:11.092-04:00Trying to explain things to Conservatives, is like...Trying to explain things to Conservatives, is like trying to instruct 'Talking Ken and Barbie Dolls.'<br /><br />You can talk 'til you're blue in the face, making the greatest argument in history, with charts and numbers proving the correctness of what you've explained - but, when you try to see if any of it stuck and you pull the string, the dolls still say what they were programmed to say, and nothing else.<br /> <br />And all of those words, charts and numbers, were wasted. Plastic ears and painted on eyes can't hear or see. <br />And even if they could, what would it matter? There's nothing in the doll's empty head's to process it.<br /><br />In the old days, you could at least discuss things with Conservatives. <br />You might vehemently disagree, and probably did, but they at least listened to you and your points, because they needed to think at least a little bit to find the chink in your Liberal armor and train of thought.<br /><br />Now, there's no discussion. <br />The minute something disagrees with what's been ingrained in their brain by the echo chambers of FOX News and talk radio, they don't have to think - they just spout oft-repeated talking points. <br />And ever increasing volume and rudeness is proof to them, of the correctness of their argument, and that they're winning.<br /><br />We're in, as someone else wrote, "A Cold Civil War."Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com