Paul Flocken
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Joined: Dec. 2005
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| Quote (Erasmus, FCD @ Oct. 20 2008,10:16) | I had an interesting conversation about this over the weekend. My father would self-identify with both factions of the conservative right and does not share my perception (which to me seems to be widely held in the interwebz) that the GOP is splintering along the christian coalition lines fused in the 80s and 90s. He is not happy with McCain but does not agree with me that it is necessary (or even important) that Palin have a realistic view of the age of the earth, among other things. We didn't get a chance to get into this further, but I was left with many unanswered questions. Of course, my father is a bit torn between the biblical version of history and the fact based version of history, for religious reasons. I am not surprised that he does not consider this to be a valid metric for choosing a representative.
The one saving grace of the extant representative system is that it encourages gridlock and high inertia. I fear that this stasis will dissolve with a democratic hegemony. Given that all of these cunts favor clean coal among many other stupid ideas, that does not bode well for conservation interests, despite the seeming willingness of the Dems to pay lip service to conservationist and sometimes preservationist ideals. |
The only good thing about unified government is that the fanatics will be unstoppable and fanatics never know when to stop. It doesn't matter if the fanatics are Dems or Reps or any other flavor of the decade(or nation) you care to name. The backlash will just bring the next permanent Republican majority to power, the pendulum continues its swings, and history repeats itself, ad nauseum.
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"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."-John F. Kennedy
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