primitives want to consider more drastic measures

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Oh my.

Please notice the primitives want to "consider," not actually do.

Leftist Agitator (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-08-09 12:33 AM
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Is it time to consider more drastic measures?

The recent furor over Obama's speech to the nation's schoolchildren has gotten me thinking... At what point do we as Democrats and liberals decide that these Rightist, Republican assholes have gone too far? How much do we put up with? At what point do we collectively decide that enough is enough, and decide to nullify their nonsense?

What is the best way to proceed in order to minimize the harm that they can do? I have my own ideas, but I'd very much like to hear yours.

The Gloria Swanson primitive:

Tangerine LaBamba  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-08-09 12:36 AM
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1. It passed that point long ago for me, but I think that we the people are powerless against the agitators that are all over the media.

It's up to the Democratic Party leaders, and the White House, and the Democratic majority in Congress to take stands, and to speak out, and to defend their President, and to be strong about it.

If they're not going to do it - and it looks like they're not - there's nothing we can do except to vote them out next time around and hope for a bunch with balls get elected.

Richard D  (1000+ posts)        Tue Sep-08-09 01:49 AM
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2. They went to far a long time ago.

gopiscrap  (184 posts)        Tue Sep-08-09 02:15 AM
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3. It's basically a war 

We need to mariginalize, smear, ridicule and demoralize the opposition. If we don't, it will be done to us!!!!

bob4460 (128 posts)     Tue Sep-08-09 03:24 AM
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4. Until we get more like minded people to remove their blinders,

There is little that can be done. I just do not understand how collectively dumb WE THE PEOPLE are.I cannot understand it at all. The repugs have destroyed this country,corruption destroyed the Romans and Afghanistan destroyed the USSR and we have a boatload of both!!!

Joe the Liberal  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-08-09 04:07 AM
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6. Agreed.....until more people wake up and like you said 'remove the blinders' not much will change, people don't change until it's too late unfortunately.

jeffbr (67 posts)      Tue Sep-08-09 04:00 AM
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5. It's hard to be motivated when your leader plays kiss-ass to the enemy and acts like a clueless wuss

vadawg  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-08-09 04:10 AM
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7. wondering exactly what you mean by more drastic measures,

hfojvt  (1000+ posts)        Tue Sep-08-09 04:14 AM
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8. if you are talking about destruction

don't you know that you can count me out.

Unless we are gonna destroy Three Rivers Stadium. I never liked the Pittsburgh Steelers at all.

vadawg  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-08-09 04:18 AM
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9. lol, but seriously some people are cardboard revolutionaries

they believe if there is a revolution that they will be leaders rather than just cannon fodder, and even if the revolution comes and is successful how long before those same people who believed they are the vanguard of the revolution are put against a wall and shot alongside the fat cat banker. If one has ever witnessed war and in particular a civil war then its not a road you would wish to go down...

elleng  (1000+ posts)        Tue Sep-08-09 04:39 AM
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10. I think there are different tacks on the issue.

I think dems/libs/progs etc must avoid what I feel is splintering, evidenced by the abundant bickering going on around here, for example asking things like Do we REALLY trust Prez O to do the right things? The reps/cons use their 'silly' issues to grow and solidify their base, and 'we' spend inordinate amounts of time giving them air-time, when we should be instead forcing discussions on the real issues related to education and health care, etc.

It would be great if we could 'nullify their nonsense,' as you suggest, by somehow exclaiming, but we don't appear to be sufficiently united to do so.

CakeGrrl  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-08-09 04:40 AM
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11. Get the media out from under its Republican-owned influence.

NecklyTyler (271 posts)      Tue Sep-08-09 06:29 AM
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12. We start by remembering who won the election

We control the House.

We control the Senate.

We hold the Executive Branch.

The Congress needs to start passing bills, small at first then proceeding to big ones like Health Care, and send them to President Obama for signing into law.

We don't need the Republicans to govern. It is time to just steamroller them and get on with fixing this country

Union Yes  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-08-09 06:47 AM
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13. Reauthorize the Fairness Doctrine to start. Prosecute threats of violence or bloody revolution.

Oh dear.   The primitives just might actually do something.

[JohnnyReb]

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Oh dear.   The primitives just might actually do something.

Yeah....they might.....but they won't. Come voting time they'll still vote for the same old S.O.B.'s that promise them another free pony that they'll really get this time.

[USA4ME]

Amazing how they continue to hold to a party that continually lets them down and breaks its promises to them.  They thrive on existing in an abusive relationship, and if they had any respect for themselves they'd leave the Dem party.  But that is not to be.  I'm fully convinced they really enjoy being used.

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[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Amazing how they continue to hold to a party that continually lets them down and breaks its promises to them...

Would that that were true.

If Obama was dashing their hopes of a great socialist redistributionist citizen-spying tyranny WE wouldn't be so pissed off. The only thing they're pissed about is the fact that ACORN hasn't been contracted to go down the voter registration rolls and round-up everyone with an R and surveill anyone with an I. Just listen to these idiots: they don't want an agenda, they want blood. Conservatives can be pacified by being left to themselves by definition; liberals HAVE to want to be in other people's business by the very tenents of their ideology.

[DumbAss Tanker]

gopiscrap  (184 posts)        Tue Sep-08-09 02:15 AM
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3. It's basically a war 

We need to mariginalize, smear, ridicule and demoralize the opposition. If we don't, it will be done to us!!!!

So what you were doing for the past eight years, you're going to turn it up to 11 now?

 

[Carl]

Just amazing that they think elected representatives thumb their nose at constituents.
They vote according to the general beliefs of those that elect them.

Why they are so hell certain that everyone believes the same as DUmmys do is always amusing to me.

[Karin]

Someone named Bobsomething said:

The repugs have destroyed this country,corruption destroyed the Romans and Afghanistan destroyed the USSR and we have a boatload of both!!!

What?

Anyway, not like you need another example of what sheep and lemmings these people are, but I've noticed that reading through this weekend's threads, they are all of a sudden referring to R's as "assholes" ala Van Jones.  They never used that word so frequently before.  Kind of like when Garafalo referred to the teapartiers as "racists."  All of a sudden both words were linked.  Racist Teabaggers.  Automatic.  Not a single original thought rattling in any of their empty skulls.