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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on July 13, 2008, 04:45:57 AM
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That's the title of a column in today's New York Post written by Ralph Peters.
THE DISSENT DECEIT
NOT PATRIOTISM'S HIGHEST FORM
by Ralph Peters
Last updated: 4:51 am
July 12, 2008
Posted: 4:08 am
July 12, 2008
WE all have irritants that make us want to reach for the revolver. One of mine is the bumper-stickerization of the American mind - the reduction of our hard-won freedom of political speech to slogans that substitute for vision.
(And on the subject of bumper stickers: One per car is OK, but anything more is public masturbation. And I don't want to see that when I pull up behind you at the stoplight.)
Parrot-talk on policy infects both ends of the political spectrum. Extremists like things neat and simple. But, these days, tape-loop talk has reached epidemic proportions on the left. Rational debate? Ain't going to find it at that MoveOn fund-raiser.
Worst of all, the most enduringly popular slogans tend to be either dishonest, misattributed - or just plain dumb.
We've all heard humorless America-haters promote themselves by announcing, As Thomas Jefferson said, "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
The first problem with that self-righteous bull is that Jefferson never said it. On the contrary, he warned of the dangers of political dissension carried to extremes.
It's good. Make sure you read Page 2 of the column.
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_dissent_deceit_119522.htm
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Excellent piece.
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I like it. :-)
I feel like we have become such a dumbed-down nation, until I read articles such as this. Thank God for the thinkers.
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Good article. It's really dumb when you hear libs debating just using bumper sticker slogans off of the backs of their Volvos, and that's what most of Obama's fanatical base is. Half of them are retards, and half of them... well, just really hate this country.
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Audacity is for innovators, risk-takers and crusaders - for those willing to stand in the fire of public opinion and tell a million people they're wrong and here's why. Audacity's not for the passive mob hoping government will fix everything (while blaming government for everything).
Amen!
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My fellow Americans, there is nothing audacious about hope. Hope is what makes people buy lottery tickets instead of paying the bills. Hope is for the old gals feeding the slots in Atlantic City. It destroys the inner-city kid who quits school because he hopes he'll be a world-famous recording artist.
Yes, hope can work to positive effect, sustaining us in the face of grave misfortunes. But there's nothing audacious about it. "The audacity of hope" is blubbering gobbledy-gook.
Audacity is for innovators, risk-takers and crusaders - for those willing to stand in the fire of public opinion and tell a million people they're wrong and here's why. Audacity's not for the passive mob hoping government will fix everything (while blaming government for everything).
Hope is the opposite of audacity. It's passive, an excuse for inaction.
:bow: :bow:
Truer words were never spoken!
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I have only TWO "bumper stickers" on my truck. One is "Got Sig?" and the other is "US NAVY RETIRED". Only the gun literate folks will understand the first one.
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I have only TWO "bumper stickers" on my truck. One is "Got Sig?" and the other is "US NAVY RETIRED". Only the gun literate folks will understand the first one.
Yeah, about every third car in NH has that first sticker. Their US plant and training facility is in Epping, about a 30 minute drive from my house.