PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: DJTorrente on March 19, 2017, 11:42:51 AM
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The Hate Group That Incited the Middlebury Melee (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/03/19/the_hate_group_that_incited_the_middlebury_melee_133377.html)
After [law school] graduation, Dees and Fuller hung out a shingle and practiced law. But the real money came from their mail order business, peddling everything from cookbooks to tractor cushions. In 1969, Dees sold the direct-mail firm to the Times Mirror Co. for $6 million. By then, Fuller had cashed out, given away his money, and with his wife gone to live a Christian life building homes for the poor—efforts culminating in the creation of Habitat for Humanity.
Dees also started a nonprofit, which he named the Southern Poverty Law Center. But he gave up neither the high life nor the direct-mail business. He lives in luxury with his fifth wife and still runs the SPLC, which has used the mail-order model to amass a fortune. Its product line is an unusual one: For the past 47 years, Morris Dees has been selling fear and hate.
And the leftists swallow it like tripe, while screaming how everyone who doesn't think like them is a "h8er". O_o
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I loved watching the black conservative on FOX detailing the heights of racism imbedded within the democrat party and how toxic it was if you dared to think outside their regimented - acceptable - bubble.
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We are in a dark period of human rights in this country. If the radical leftists, anarchists, socialists, and communists continue to shut down the free exchange of ideas without strong resistance, these same people will eventually become our political leaders, who I envision will torch the US Constitution.
The College Republicans are insufficient in number to mount a meaningful resistance to these radicals. So who will be left to pick up the battle flag on behalf of natural rights and the Constitution?
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We are in a dark period of human rights in this country. If the radical leftists, anarchists, socialists, and communists continue to shut down the free exchange of ideas without strong resistance, these same people will eventually become our political leaders, who I envision will torch the US Constitution.
The College Republicans are insufficient in number to mount a meaningful resistance to these radicals. So who will be left to pick up the battle flag on behalf of natural rights and the Constitution?
The Democrats, Media, Education, the Judiciary, and rank and file government are mostly Globalists, and Progressives. They also do not TOLERATE ideas in which they do not agree. This is a tough battle to fight because these entities have so much power, and influence over the populace. They have indoctrinated a good portion of the populace into having a Globalist/Progressive, and yes anti American viewpoint. The Constitution is just an archaic, obstacle to them, and what is scary the Judicial System has also become more liberal/progressive, and often upholds their nonsense.
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I believe that the problem is that society as a whole doesn't have the time, inclination, or skill to do any critical thinking. It's so much easier for someone else do the thinking. Attention spans have decreased so that any thought that can't be expressed in two sentences or less is too complex and thus must be ignored or shouted down. Reality shows are so much easier to follow than anything with an actual plot. Why work when someone else will take care of you for "free"? Society is devolving to the lowest common denominator. That's why "it's for the children!" or "you're a racist / sexist if you disagree" is more effective than a well-reasoned argument.
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I believe that the problem is that society as a whole doesn't have the time, inclination, or skill to do any critical thinking. It's so much easier for someone else do the thinking. Attention spans have decreased so that any thought that can't be expressed in two sentences or less is too complex and thus must be ignored or shouted down. Reality shows are so much easier to follow than anything with an actual plot. Why work when someone else will take care of you for "free"? Society is devolving to the lowest common denominator. That's why "it's for the children!" or "you're a racist / sexist if you disagree" is more effective than a well-reasoned argument.
Sadly, I confess that for years now, I have stopped trying to engage my liberal friends in actual discussion. Because they simply will not. Ever. They instantly say "we just disagree on this," or "we can't talk about this," or make some ludicrously convoluted statement that paints me with false colors and comforts them with the smug blanket of supposed correctness.
I am not sure how to break through the wall they have made. Their refusal to engage is indeed a path to power.
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Interesting read. Thanks.
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Sadly, I confess that for years now, I have stopped trying to engage my liberal friends in actual discussion. Because they simply will not. Ever. They instantly say "we just disagree on this," or "we can't talk about this," or make some ludicrously convoluted statement that paints me with false colors and comforts them with the smug blanket of supposed correctness.
I am not sure how to break through the wall they have made. Their refusal to engage is indeed a path to power.
These kinds of people are rarely real "friends". I used to ask mine questions that they didn't want to think about, like how if compelling action from someone makes them a slave (which they agree), doesn't compelling people to endorse something also entail slavery? To which they sputter and backpedal. They're just fine enslaving people to do what THEY want done because they don't see it as enslavement, it's just forcing you to do what's right...like eating your vegetables. And I ask again, "so compelling action, right? Slavery..."