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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on April 06, 2011, 05:55:46 AM
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...the provide a safety valve for discontent.
If not for that safety valve we'd overthrow the capitalist system a lot sooner.
upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Apr-06-11 04:35 AM
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An uncomfortable MUST SEE 45 mins for Democratic true believers:
This lecturer blames the liberal class for the decline we're entering.
This isn't a comfortable 45 minutes for Obama fans and true believers, but a MUST SEE;
chris hedges - death of the liberal class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYCvSntOI5s
deutsey (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Apr-06-11 06:39 AM
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4. That's how he's defining liberal
Talks about how liberal organizations defanged progressivism after WWI and WWII.
He says the function of the liberal class within capitalism has been to support it through providing a kind of safety valve for mass discontent and for discrediting radicals. That function has apparently been deemed unnecessary.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x824315
These violent revolution-spewing TEA Partiers are getting out of hand.
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"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so."
Ronald Reagan
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I watched this thing nearly twice. The guy says a lot of insane things but I do thing right at the beginning, he has a point in that the shift from a print media to a more highly manipulative highly visual media does leave people with this sense that they know more than they know. Which is pretty much liberalism in a nutshell.
He also talks about a neo-feudalism except it ascribes it to something other than the end result of Marxism (in whatever from) but he says so much silly stuff it kind of numbs the mind and I think it contributes to his first point on visual media.
He also talks about liberal values but never says what they are. And he talks about liberal churches and bashes the "religious right" but I am still unclear on what a "liberal church" is.
Then he talks about how the "religious right" isn't in touch with reality. Again he inverts reality (perhaps, I am no expert on the so-called "religious right") in that it is liberalism that is never in touch with reality, as we saw in a DUmmie post today defending the welfare state by basically saying its inherent insustainability is "bullshit" without ever amplifying on that brilliant piece or rhetoric.
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Hey guys, you know what the REAL problem with liberals is...
Yes. They are stealing our valuable oxygen.
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Yes. They are stealing our valuable oxygen.
Nothing that some "traumatic lead injections" couldn't cure.