.Common sense needs to be aired, without fear of being ridiculed as conspiratorial or denounced as politically incorrect. It's common sense, not conspiracy-mindedness, to recognize predators and gangsters are keen to sense one another and stake off territories! It's common sense to recognize animal nature, i.e., that sizeable proportions of unenlightened blacks, women, rednecks, Jews, Baptists, etc, support one another simply because of some common indicator --- whether skin color, gender, culture, dogma, whatever. It's common sense that indirect techniques and subliminal methods of mass persuasion are studied and applied, scientifically and profitably. It's common sense that success breeds success. My beef with Paul is not that he's always wrong, for he's frequently right! He stands for some principles that he won't sell out. My beef is that some of his principles are fundamentally dangerous. The crux has to do with the nature of government. Government will always fill the vacuum, so size is not the issue. The issue is centralization. Most governance needs to be decentralized so it can be responsive to people locally, so they can be responsible for it. But some governance needs to be centralized, like national defense. I agree it's a waste and disgrace to spend blood and treasure trying to nation-build in the Middle East! Boo Santorum! But I don't agree that decent nations can ignore weapons amassment by insane regimes and despots. Boo Paul!
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If Paul believes far too much power has agglomerated in a centralizing NWO, I heartily agree. I think it deep denial to fail to recognize that. Paul is right that the Fed IS being used to further that agglomeration! This problem won't be resolved by letting violence-prone, chat-chewing, opium-deluded, moon-paganites tell adults to mind their own business. Nor will it be resolved by appeasing generation after generation of trustafarians who think not even local authorities should take a hand in teaching them what to do. The world doesn't rain down peace and manna just because more and more people seek escapism from disapproval of those who must live around them.
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We participate in availing freedom, but no one has complete freedom to finger neighbors' eyes. The problem with Libs is they don't want central government taking fun things away, but they do want central government telling all other levels of society they have no say either. Notwithstanding history, Libs actually believe this mode would sustain civilization. So we end up with central government forcing local schools, even parents, to tolerate or teach fourth graders in all manner of exotic pleasures and tolerance for the unraveling of social mores and individual responsibility. Why else would one take on the badge of being a Lib, rather than an American Conservative?
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OZero and friends mean to realign, to appeal to elites who want to rule ignorant and corrupt masses, and ignorant and corrupt masses who want to be ruled. He's throwing ordinary American workers under the bus, hoping they won't realize it until the election is over. But he can't prevail without bringing along enough Libs (Liberals, Libertines, and Libertarians, i.e., people who value entitlement to pleasure diversions more than sustainable civilization). So Zero means to dissolve the weak attraction of Libertarians to Conservatives. The trivalently-to-be-aligned Dark Side is plenty smart, but utterly unwise. If cheap, short-sighted bribery can convince enough Libertarians, before Conservatives can lead them to put on their decency caps, there will be four more years of ObamaRaj. If you thought you had your fill of happy-face-on-a-dogmastick-suckuping-and-moonbeam-promising, you ain't seen nothing yet. Conservatives need to call on prodigal, ordinary Americans to come home. Call on self reliance, liberty, protection of family, culture of mores, local governance, national defense of borders and infrastructure, and smart trade. Emphasis on protection of family, culture of mores, national defense, smart trade, and smart (decentralized) government will cost some Libertarian votes. Those votes will have to be made up for --- by bringing home ordinary American workers. The alternative is almost too awful to contemplate.
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If Paul believes far too much power has agglomerated in a centralizing NWO, I heartily agree. I think it deep denial to fail to recognize that. Paul is right that the Fed IS being used to further that agglomeration! This problem won't be resolved by letting violence-prone, chat-chewing, opium-deluded, moon-paganites tell adults to mind their own business. Nor will it be resolved by appeasing generation after generation of trustafarians who think not even local authorities should take a hand in teaching them what to do. The world doesn't rain down peace and manna just because more and more people seek escapism from disapproval of those who must live around them.
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We participate in availing freedom, but no one has complete freedom to finger neighbors' eyes. The problem with Libs is they don't want central government taking fun things away, but they do want central government telling all other levels of society they have no say either. Notwithstanding history, Libs actually believe this mode would sustain civilization. So we end up with central government forcing local schools, even parents, to tolerate or teach fourth graders in all manner of exotic pleasures and tolerance for the unraveling of social mores and individual responsibility. Why else would one take on the badge of being a Lib, rather than an American Conservative?
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OZero and friends mean to realign, to appeal to elites who want to rule ignorant and corrupt masses, and ignorant and corrupt masses who want to be ruled. He's throwing ordinary American workers under the bus, hoping they won't realize it until the election is over. But he can't prevail without bringing along enough Libs (Liberals, Libertines, and Libertarians, i.e., people who value entitlement to pleasure diversions more than sustainable civilization). So Zero means to dissolve the weak attraction of Libertarians to Conservatives. The trivalently-to-be-aligned Dark Side is plenty smart, but utterly unwise. If cheap, short-sighted bribery can convince enough Libertarians, before Conservatives can lead them to put on their decency caps, there will be four more years of ObamaRaj. If you thought you had your fill of happy-face-on-a-dogmastick-suckuping-and-moonbeam-promising, you ain't seen nothing yet. Conservatives need to call on prodigal, ordinary Americans to come home. Call on self reliance, liberty, protection of family, culture of mores, local governance, national defense of borders and infrastructure, and smart trade. Emphasis on protection of family, culture of mores, national defense, smart trade, and smart (decentralized) government will cost some Libertarian votes. Those votes will have to be made up for --- by bringing home ordinary American workers. The alternative is almost too awful to contemplate.
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