Daily Kos Week in Review: Theocrats On The March
This past week, one Kossack argued that for conservatives, freedom of religion is not an end, but rather a means for them to limit the religious liberty of non-conservatives. Another admitted that analyzing right-wingers is, literally, a painful experience.
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Hunter: Religious freedom = bullying
...[T]o most folks religious freedom is just another way of saying "my religio is better than yours, heathen, so do what I say."
...[I]f there's one thing all conservative groups can agree on, it's that their religious freedom requires all other Americans have less religious freedom than they do.
Kos: The GOP base is a fringe group
...[B]y and large...the difference between activist progressives and their teabagger (and theocratic) counterparts [is that] we're trying to move the Democratic Party and its politicians into the American mainstream. The other side is doing the opposite...
cassandracarolina: Conservatives are 'alien' and incomprehensible
...As a Progressive, I will be the first to admit that just don’t get what makes conservatives tick. I study them as I would any other alien species, but all I get for my troubles is a splitting headache...
MacDaffy: Right-wingers have ruined the spirit of the '60s
...Conservatives demonize The Sixties as a time of drift, turmoil, and decay. I remember the time differently. I remember...landing on the moon, sustaining our planet, ending poverty, eradicating disease, making great music and art, bringing peace and brotherhood to a world we had helped save from tyranny...
...[America] was the country where anything was possible.
It still is. Or, rather, it still would be were it not for those selfish few who believe that our generosity and our curiosity and our insistence on fairness and justice are weaknesses rather than strengths. It still would be were it not for the selfish and mean-spirited few who consider this richest of countries nothing more than a cash cow to be milked dry and left spent and despoiled when they're done with it...
Troubadour: Rich Republicans are pitiful
...I feel sorry for Mitt Romney and for people like him. His life may be devoid of pain or challenge, but that just means his mind is an abortion - he is merely an instrument of his money rather than the other way around...[H]e is plankton in a sea of motion, hiding behind lies and platitudes to stay afloat. Does he look in the mirror and see anything, or just the reflection of something that isn't there? Romney doesn't have property, he is property.
Do you believe the Koch Brothers are content with their crimes against reality and freedom? They are driven by holes in themselves, and your shining light is pain to them, burning and unquenchable. Do you think the villains in this story sleep at night because they have no conscience? If they do, it's only because they are never other than asleep. And more likely than not, they are always tortured by the irritating realization that something more than themselves is out there - you. You are in the nightmares of the powerful and cruel, because your very existence and that which springs from it with every moment that passes erases them. A single act of kindness can obliterate their life's work in the blink of an eye, and thus evil is laid waste...
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Somebody should tell "Kos"....
Submitted by amlaml on Fri, 06/22/2012 - 11:35pm.
That far left is not the American mainstream. Year after year more people self-identify as conservative (and moderate) than liberal. These people need to learn they are a minority. Good thing for them we don't live in a total democracy... Anyway, reading about the Koskooks always makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. Maybe I'll pull it off sometime..
The Left is afraid of religion
Submitted by Anneke9 on Sat, 06/23/2012 - 10:53am.
Yesterday, I sat in my cubicle at the university and listened to two ultralibs discuss why so many governorships and legislatures are held by Republicans. "It's not their stance on jobs and the economy," one said. "It's all about religion." Huh? Scott Walker won in Wisconsin because of religion? These people are absolutely crazy. They can't figure out why no one supports THEIR jobs and economics policies, so it must be the fault of that grand old bogeyman, religion.
Right-wingers have ruined the spirit of the '60s
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sat, 06/23/2012 - 12:06am.
July 17, 1962 - Maj. Bob White became the first man to fly an airplane above
300,000 feet—and the first to fly an airplane in near space (above 50 miles)—when he
piloted the X-15 to an altitude of 314,750 feet. He was the first of eight X-15 test pilots at
Edwards who would earn their astronaut's wings by flying an airplane in space.
May 1, 1965 - The exotic Lockheed YF-12A (a stablemate of the SR-71 Blackbird)
set no less than seven official world absolute speed and altitude records on a single day at
Edwards without, in any way, taxing its full -- and classified -- potential. Among the
records, were an absolute top speed of 2,070 mph and a sustained altitude of 80,257 feet with
AFFTC test pilot Col. Robert L. “Fox” Stephens at the controls.
Like landing on the Moon...
Or Talladega race track...
What were your pals the french doing?..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFY3sMf72s
Oh yea, your side was screaming about oil spills...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrHF5TEsNik
Same crap different day...
You Didn't Build That.
So, based on this statement
Submitted by panzerakc on Sat, 06/23/2012 - 12:38am.
"Conservatives demonize The Sixties as a time of drift, turmoil, and decay. I remember the time differently. I remember...landing on the moon, sustaining our planet, ending poverty, . . . ."
All the money-draining entitlement programs should be immediately halted, right? According to the KOS person, poverty was ended in the Sixties . . . .
Who wants to limit who
Submitted by Netstatter on Sat, 06/23/2012 - 12:46am.
Remember, it is the Far Left that wants to shut down and limit and even eliminate religious freedom in this country. For example, according to them, opposition to the Obama mandate that religious groups pay for contraceptives via insurance is not due to an attack on religious freedom; it is a war on women. When a Christian couple in New Mexico that owns a photography business declines to photo-shoot a same-sex ceremony, it is not a religious rights issue but discrimination. When the Far Left says that "conservatives will never vote for a Mormon", or denigrate Mormonism or any other specific religious group, it is actually an attempt to limit the participation of religious people in the political process.
Don't believe the Far Left when they cry out that people of faith want to establish a theocracy in this country. With the Christian heritage that we have, Christians could have pushed for that nearly any time during the first 170 years of this country's history. But they did not. What the Far Left is doing is playing upon the fears of gullible people in their attempt to limit or even eliminate religious freedom in this country.
They need to rename the blog
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 06/23/2012 - 7:50am.
to "Bizarro World Report."
So poverty and disease
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sat, 06/23/2012 - 9:40am.
were eradicated in the 60s. Man, these people really do live in a fantasy land.
And Kossacks, worship whoever you want, or not. I dont have the time or the inclination to care.
What is MacDaffy smoking?
Submitted by Gothampc on Sat, 06/23/2012 - 11:32am.
"...Conservatives demonize The Sixties as a time of drift, turmoil, and decay. I remember the time differently. I remember...landing on the moon, sustaining our planet, ending poverty, eradicating disease, making great music and art, bringing peace and brotherhood to a world we had helped save from tyranny..."
sustaining our planet - then why is Al Gore screaming global warming?
ending poverty - then why are so many people on food stamps?
eradicating disease - except for AIDS
bringing peace and brotherhood - except to Muslim extremists