[quote=pri_dk][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Pri: Okay, to recap. I babble like an idiot baby and I lack sufficient passion for Defense and entitlement cuts.
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Ok, I know that you didn’t mean to call my kids idiots…my bad for mentioning them in the first place.

My point is that you seem to have your own private vernacular – particularly with this “leftist” stuff. It really comes across as an attempted substitute for the world “liberal” – a term that is ubiquitous with the right-wing blowhards like Limbaugh.

Every Limbaugh/Beck/Hannity/etc. show starts out with essentially the same intro: “Look what those liberals are doing now!” and then proceeds with stories about the outrageous behavior of Obama and the “liberals,” while completely ignoring the similar and, often much bigger, abuses from the right.

Some of your posts aren’t much different. Except you say “leftist” instead of “liberal.”[/quote]

Pri: Words mean things. Ideas have weight. I don’t use the term “liberal/Liberal” as a pejorative, both because it is not (to me) and because it is one of the most beautiful words and concepts in the English language.

I do use the term Leftist (capital L) as a pejorative because it represents an utterly amoral, intellectually bankrupt and thoroughly reprehensible worldview and it has ties to a vile political system that killed 100MM and which I personally took up arms against during my military service. Sadly, the sticky, foul remnants of this same debunked moral infantilism run through our academic circles and pool in certain areas of the urban intelligentsia. It manifests itself in the use of various memes, tropes and symbology/iconography and I take great pains to fire upon it when I see it.

For the record, I have no truck with Limbaugh, Hannity or any of their ilk, and find them as stupid and mindless as their confederates on the Left, including Maddow and Olbermann.

Words mean things. Ideas have weight. Certain ideals are not only worth fighting for, they’re worth dying for.