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That’s why I’d much rather be a social progressive than a conservative. Let’s try new ways of thinking and living.
I believe that conservatives are static in thinking. How far back in time do they want to conserve?
When I think of the Republican masses, I picture people in Mississippi with no teeth and no health-care voting for conservatives such as Haley Barbour.[/quote]
Brian: Well, I didn’t want to do this, but I think its time to discuss GSF (Gadarene Swine Fallacy) with you. Similar to the “echo chamber” or “Groupthink”, GSF asks one simple, yet very important question: Just because you’re in the right formation, does that mean you’re going in the right direction? http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/The%20Gadarene%20Swine%20Fallacy.htm
When you’re done digesting that, pick up a copy of Isaiah Berlin’s “Essays on Liberty”. It’ll teach some valuable, and needed, lessons on what it means to be an American and why tired post-structuralist memes, metaphors and aphorisms crouching under the moniker of “social progressivism” are so much bullshit. The Left can dress up statist nonsense circa 1968 (or circa 1848, for that matter) all they want, but its the same old, same old.
The Democrats haven’t had a solid ideological underpinning since the early 1960s and the most vibrant and vital ideas have come from conservatives. The last successful Democratic President, Clinton, got that way by stealing all the good shit from conservatives (triangulation, anyone?) and claiming it for his own.
New ways of thinking, indeed. “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”.
