GOP Predictions About Obama

[SLD]

For someone who was going to confiscate all guns and bibles while making homosexuality complulsory and Islam the state religion, he sure is taking his own sweet time.

Apparently he's just been lulling us into complacency for 6 years. Just you wait!

SLD

 

[+or-1]

Isn't that the trouble... that there is no alternative. It is a Democrat or someone representing the Party of Pain.

Yes. Everyone whines about the differences when they should be alarmed by the similarities. Our "government" is wholly owned and utterly corrupt. What are we going to do about it? Recent experience suggests not a damned thing.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Isn't that the trouble... that there is no alternative. It is a Democrat or someone representing the Party of Pain.

Yes. Everyone whines about the differences when they should be alarmed by the similarities. Our "government" is wholly owned and utterly corrupt. What are we going to do about it? Recent experience suggests not a damned thing.

Just keep beating the drum. Show those on the fringes there is common cause. That it is us against them. We are nothing more than a commodity for the 1% to exploit.
I hear the US is the sweetheart at Davos this year. Can't imagine the GOP would have predicted that. Reckon they're not much worried about Obama over regulating the shit out of everything.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

It is not fair to make fun of conservatives by constantly pointing out that they were wrong in their predictions about Obama. Or really that they were wrong about any subject that comes up in political discussions for that matter.

The defining characteristic of conservatives, what makes them a conservative in the first place, is fear of change. They crave a static social order. They believe that society is held together by its social mores and traditions. That these bonds keeping society together are very weak and unable to withstand change. That all men are weak and subject to corruption.

This is why so many of them depend on a faith in a higher order, one that is not subject to man's many flaws and weaknesses; a god, the Constitution, the wisdom of the founding fathers, patriotism, the flag, or the invisible hand of the self-regulating free market.

But the problems that we discuss daily here and generally in the political sphere are almost always problems with the existing order. The solutions to these problems are almost always going to require change, the thing that conservatives fear.

The net result is that conservatives will almost always be wrong. They almost always will be opposing needed change.

Besides, these predictions about what Obama would do aren't meant for non-conservatives. These are the bullsh*t that conservatives tell each other so that they can believe, at least for a few moments, that they are right about something, anything.

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[ZiprHead]

For someone who was going to confiscate all guns and bibles while making homosexuality complulsory and Islam the state religion, he sure is taking his own sweet time.

I'm sure glad he's taking his time on this one. I have hemorrhoids.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It is not fair to make fun of conservatives by constantly pointing out that they were wrong in their predictions about Obama. Or really that they were wrong about any subject that comes up in political discussions for that matter.

The defining characteristic of conservatives, what makes them a conservative in the first place, is fear of change. They crave a static social order. They believe that society is held together by its social mores and traditions. That these bonds keeping society together are very weak and unable to withstand change. That all men are weak and subject to corruption.

This is why so many of them depend on a faith in a higher order, one that is not subject to man's many flaws and weaknesses; a god, the Constitution, the wisdom of the founding fathers, patriotism, the flag, or the invisible hand of the self-regulating free market.

But the problems that we discuss daily here and generally in the political sphere are almost always problems with the existing order. The solutions to these problems are almost always going to require change, the thing that conservatives fear.

The net result is that conservatives will almost always be wrong. They almost always will be opposing needed change.

Besides, these predictions about what Obama would do aren't meant for non-conservatives. These are the bullsh*t that conservatives tell each other so that they can believe, at least for a few moments, that they are right about something, anything.

<snip>

It does. See, Obama has been labeled a Marxist, a liberal, communist, Muslim, white hater. Those are all lies. And the left is sick and tired of the lies.

We are also sick and tired of the pandering to corporate interests, the domestic spying, lack of a liberal agenda from Obama.

But complaints about that get drowned out that Obama is a Muslim sympathizer who is releasing people from Guantanamo because he wants them back fighting the war against the US.

Liberals are honestly sick and tired of being unrepresented in Congress and the White House, while right-wingers whine about windmills trying to burn down their homes.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

So you're also tired of conservative Republicans <snip> making up stuff about Obama.

I'm genuinely curious about one point you made though. You talk about liberals being unrepresented. Yet when I talk to conservatives, they complain that they are unrepresented. It seems neither party elects people who represent that party. Yet I'm told that if I don't vote for party X that is actually a vote for party Y, as if the candidates of that party actually represented the base.

Why is it that liberals can't elect liberals? Why is it that conservatives can't elect conservatives? Why is it that liberals think the Democrats in congress are DINOs, and conservatives think the Republicans in congress are all RINOs?