(January 4, 2012 at 4:12 pm)paintpooper Wrote: But why does the 65 year old angry racist think free healthcare is socialism?The idea that everything the government does is bad and private companies can do everything better for everyone. It's a republican/conservative principle that "goernment is the problem" taken to its natural extreme.
Don't ask them to give up their social security or medicare though.
(January 4, 2012 at 4:12 pm)paintpooper Wrote: Where did he get his information?Years of repeated talking point from politicians and "experts" put to repeat said talking points on news programs, commercials, and other forms of propoganda with a thorough mixing of actual legitimate greviences so certain people can use that anger to help them politically.
(January 4, 2012 at 4:12 pm)paintpooper Wrote: Did he just conjure it up in his own brain? I doubt it. Most of these issues come from a group of people who think up these "talking points" that is why most media is very streamlined with information. They all get the same information from one source. Look into how the healthcare law thing... one person Frank Luntz said "government takeover" then the phrase caught on with no facts behind it.Precisely!
(January 4, 2012 at 4:12 pm)paintpooper Wrote: There is no real journalism anymore, and that is an issue as well. They take information from "authority" people and figure that is just the truth ha ha ha. Yes when GWB said their are WMD in Iraq we should just take his word for it and not investigate ourselves ha ha ha, and guess what, We got what we paid for, we took these "authority" people on their word and created a cluster fuck of fuck. I don't care what anyone in any position of authority says, they need facts and evidence, republicans AND democrats.There is still real journalism - it's just now flocked from the television news companies to everyday people like you and I who write blogs, vblogs, or even run small-time news companies.
The young turks is a good example of this sort of thing in action. They were the only news sources other than the daily show (a FAKE news source) to point out that Obama was up to sign the NDAA - or the law that basically eliminates a citizen's right to trial.
(January 4, 2012 at 4:12 pm)paintpooper Wrote: Yes education should fix a lot of issues, but your right they don't think education is important, they want mindless drones who watch MSM and reality TV.
It would fix almost all of the issues. 100% of America's problems stems from the ignorant masses. Educating them would be the most dangerous thing that you could do to the people in power.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
