RE: Let's give it up for the Douchbags!
March 11, 2011 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2011 at 2:45 pm by theVOID.)
(March 11, 2011 at 2:13 pm)binny Wrote: I miss Keith.
Binny!
Same
He was freakin entertaining.(March 11, 2011 at 2:20 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Im with void on this one min. This is very much fascism. But I can see some of what you are saying min..many libertarians voted these people into power thinking they were for lesser government. I imagine many "true" libertarians cringing at this right now..but the neo-theo-cons, fascists, meritocritists, plutocrats, cleptocrats, corporatists, and all other "ists" and "ats" on the right wing authoritarian side of politics are jacking their shit HARD over this bill and laughing at us peasants right now.
They were plainly lied to, they should have known better, after all the Republicans always bitch about less government and then go and do the fucking complete opposite.
I hope the fuckers wake up and see the chains they've strapped themselves into.
(March 11, 2011 at 2:25 pm)Chuck Wrote: You have to understand that large proportion of self-styled libertarian in the US appear to be moronic enthusiasts prone to espousing ideologies without exhibiting the slightest hint of the ability to correlate, much less match, behavior to ideology. They would gladly be fishes in a barrel for anyone paying the most superficial and cynical lip service to their ideology while pursuing a dismetrically opposite agenda. So taken together as self-style political body, the libertarians conjures up a much different image then is reflected in your description. For those who oppose conservative authoritarianism and its tendency to protect settled wealth and previlige at the expense of equitable social mobility, libertarians as a body in the US could be expected to offer far more opposition then assistance.
I completely agree, they're the same dumb fucks who fall for the religious crap hook, line and sinker by and large, then again they vote for those who they think are closest aligned to their ideals from the limited available options, conservative are doing no worse in that respect than the Dems who people on the left voted for - Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan, bailed out corporations, the repeal of Don't ask don't tell is a complete sham, he extended the bush tax-cuts, he failed to effectively weigh in on the Union debates, failure to get single payer healthcare and numerous other things.
More libertarians are getting into government though, people like Rand and Ron who actually stick to their principles and push for what they were elected to do - The same can't be said for the idealists on the left who have if anything seen the political influence move away from them.
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