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MadRabbit -> RE: Politics and the South (11/12/2008 3:35:53 PM)
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ORIGINAL: HunterS
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If trafficking in divisive hate is the game, it's only fitting and fair we play in both directions.
Aside from the false premise, so now two wrongs logically make a right.
No wonder these discussions are so often pointless.
Why not? It's in the spirit of the Democratic and liberal platform.
As a Southerner who is more red then blue,
Red is for the incumbent and blue is for the challenger...but then I am sure you knew that.
allow me to summarize and paraphrase the Democratic campaign through my eyes.
It usually begins with a self righteous outcry against GREED! Greed is ruining this country. The problem is the greedy rich and Corporate America.
Then that self righteous claim to being above greed is negated by one of the following statements.
- I don't want to pay taxes. Let the rich pay for them!
- Don't you think it is about time that the rich did pay taxes?
- I don't want to pay for health insurance. Let the rich and responsible carry the burden of my smoking, alcholicism and lack of exercise. Who cares if it bankrupts the country? I'm what's important
If I am not mistaken wasn't it the rich tobacco guys who lied and pimped tobacco products on the people and told us that it was not harmful.
Isn't it the Pharmaceutical companies who can sell drugs to the rest of the world at cut rate prices but lobby to make it illegal for U.S. citizens to go to Mexico or Canada to buy those same drugs?
Do you really believe that the rich are acting in a "responsible" fashion?
- I don't want to work. Give me welfare!
- Welfare for the rich far exceeds the welfare that is doled out in a pittance to the poor.
- I don't want to earn my education. Give me grants for school!
- Before there was free public education only the rich had access to an academic education...would you prefer the U.S. to be a nation of 300 million illiterates?
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- I don't want to have earn my success. Give me jobs because of my skin color!
- That is pretty much how it was until the courts said it was illegal to refuse jobs to people of color.
The South is built on a strong ideology of hard work for a hard day's pay,
Hard work by slaves for no pay.
indepedence, self sufficientcy, and taking care of one's own. An idealogy I am proudly a part of.
You really do need to avail yourself of a history book...your post show an appalling lack of knowledge of the history of this country.
I don't want anything from anyone except my paycheck minus my fair contribution to our nation's infrastructure.
Just how much is your fair share?
Is it all that surprising that in light of this that the majority of Southern states vote Red?
Those who voted "Red" voted for a man who promised them fifty more years of war in Iraq and an invasion of Iran.
Thank you for your continued examples of the Democratic stance to how "two wrongs make a right".
I never said I was happy with how everything goes in this country, but what I did say was I wasn't expecting anyone to give me anything because life is "unfair".
Apparently, the corruption of others provides the rationalization for all your beliefs.
Mine doesn't. It's solely based off principal.
If the best you can provide is arguments that are justified because "other people have done bad things so I should get a peice of the pie as well", then let's hope you are not the representation of the Democratics.
And your right. I am not speaking as a historian. I am speaking of my own experiences of living in the South and the spirit of people's values.
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