I've been prowling websites the last year or so searching for a good debate. Most liberals I've engaged with don't want to debate, they just want to aim foul-mouthed tirades at the intellectual inferiors who are too stupid to think just like they do. The best discussions I've had were with European lefties and atheists. They know how to defend their positions and they do it without the rabid attacks.
Go to your ordinary lefty site run by Americans and you will find herd-mentality people who are scared of a contrary point of view. They don't want their orthodoxy questioned. It's a shame: The left used to be a place of great intellectual ferment.
The fateful thread I jumped into concerned the need to really start going negative against Sarah Palin. This lefty crowd was foaming at the mouth angry and wanted more attacks. Here are some of the enlightened comments:
Pissed Off Says: John MCSame Is too Old and too Angry to be President…Here is my first comment:
George W. Bush has always been too stupid to Be President.
karen marie Says:
his (McCain's) shriveled little *&$%! can barely dribble pee at this point.
Silverfiddle said: Keep up the attacks. Every left-wing nutball attack advances the conservative cause.I also got this comment in before the petty fascists disappeared me from their putrid site:
McCain - Palin: Real Hope and Change!
Silverfiddle said: ... And be sure to do it with sneering condescension. Remember how ridiculous the self-righteous Republicans looked when they were going after President Clinton? You look even worse going after Palin.Here is what the insecure thumb-sucker who moderates the forum put in place of my comments:
[Deleted: As a fellow blogger, we would expect a certain decorum on your part. As a site monitor here, I’ve realized that to expect manners from many right leaning people is expecting way too much. I am banning you. I’m scrubbing your URL from our site. It’s the kindest thing I can do for someone who has manners fit for the barnyard (I apologize, barnyards)-Sitemonitor]
Sinclair Lewis famously said: "Fascism will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a Bible." That may have been true in 1935, but it is now outdated, since the bible and the flag no longer enjoy a prominent position in our left-dominated popular culture.
Fascism is already creeping up on us in the form of left-think political correctness. It is enforced by narrow-minded people who ignorantly call themselves liberals. It is writ large in workplaces, academia, and popular culture. But for big fascism to work, it requires thousands of little mini-me fascists. And these petty tyrants already practice it in thousands of petty fiefdoms scattered across our nation.
Fil Hussein Oaks Says: Yes we Klan! Change + Dangerous = Changerous
Yes we Klan for MKKKAIN!