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2006-10-14 Home Front: Culture Wars

28 Things You Have To Believe To Be A Good Democrat

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-14 07:55|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 brutal.

Posted by anon 2006-10-14 14:21|| 2006-10-14 14:21|| Front Page Top

#2 "5. The best way to improve the morale of American troops is to tell them they are dying for nothing, deny them the chance to win, call them war criminals and attempt to cut funding for their new weapons. And then express shock when 80 percent of them vote Republican."

And don't forget: come Election Day, make damn sure you send an army of lawyers out to disqualify every military absentee ballot you can get your filthy hands on. That'll really boost their morale.

Bastards.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-10-14 15:11|| 2006-10-14 15:11|| Front Page Top

#3 One also has to have absolute contempt for fundamentalists Christians and absolute respect for fundamentalists Muslims. Fundamentalists Christians, after all, don't think that homosexuals should be allowed to marry. The fact that Muslim fundis think they should be stoned to death, however, is part of their anti-hegemonic culture, and thus must be respected.

Posted by Pagan Infidel 2006-10-14 16:31|| 2006-10-14 16:31|| Front Page Top

#4 RULES FOR BEING A GOOD DEMOCRAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY:

1) You have to believe that criticizing Thomas Jefferson for his failings is 'enlightened' but criticizing Martin Luther King for his is racist.

2) You have to believe that freedom of any and all sexual activity is a basic right that should be promoted but freedom of religion is a kind of bigotry that should be banned.

3) You have to believe that a society generates wealth through taxes.

4) You claim to be about individual freedom yet the only freedoms you support are those of sexuality and art all other aspects of human existence should be regulated by the government to the point of micromanagement.

5) You claim that 'it takes a village' yet you don't take the time to get to know your neighbors, and your idea of helping 'the needy' in your community is to raise taxes on other people so that the government will spend their money and society's problems will 'go away' without your actually having to have contact with those less fortunate than yourself, or spend your own wealth helping them.

6) You believe that the FBI's tactics against the civil rights groups of the 1960's were wrong but think it was really cool the way the government killed those Christians at Waco and those gun nuts at Ruby Ridge.

7) You believe that it's more important to make sure that nobody owns guns so that you can never be hurt by someone wielding one than it is to have private gun ownership and a check on the power of government.

8) You believe that women are at the same time equal to men and yet possess certain qualities that are superior to men.

9) You believe that there have been problems with the government so the solution to this is more government.

9) You believe that monopolies of businessmen are wrong but monopolies of laborers (unions) are OK.

10) The fact that NOW pushed Bob Packwood out of office for offenses that were lesser than those committed by Bill Clinton (whom they gave a pass) based purely on politics is morally consistent and acceptable to you.

11) You claim that all nonliberals are people who hate anybody who isn't just like themselves, then you embrace political correctness and speech codes which marginalize and attack anyone who doesn't think, act or speak like yourself.

12) You think it's acceptable to try and describe a link between conservatives and Nazis every chance you get (though there is none) but if someone points out the numerous factual fundamental ideological similarities between communism and American liberal thought, they're guilty of something called 'redbaiting'.

13) You believe that if someone is a movie star and a liberal this automatically makes them an expert on the homeless or climate or the rainforest.

14) You believe that all the problems of humanity were created by straight white Christian non Marxist males of European descent, and that if such persons didn't exist, every minority and woman would be a wealthy CEO or a brain surgeon.

15) You believe affirmative action is OK for the police department but not for the NBA.

16) You say you care about 'the children' but you unswervingly support teachers unions which care more about their own paycheck than our kids.

17) You believe that the reason socialism has never worked well anywhere is not because it is fundamentally incorrect, immoral, and unworkable, but rather that the 'right people' were just never in charge.

18) You believe that Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman in history but at the same time had no idea her husband was a philanderer.

19) You claim to be the party of the 'working guy' but all of your social policies have contempt for him and his lifestyle and avocations.

20) You oppose school vouchers on the grounds that you believe it will encourage a takeover of education by 'Right Wing Christian Extremists' while ignoring the fact that Canada has had vouchers for decades and this hasn't happened.

And the one for the road........

21) When someone asks you, "Just how big and expensive should the government be allowed to get?", you don't answer, and just smile.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-10-14 16:45|| 2006-10-14 16:45|| Front Page Top

#5 as good as the original article - no more uro.

These are for being a good democrat - but to be a good liberal there is only one requirement. All you have to do is hate the "correct" people.

Posted by anon 2006-10-14 16:49|| 2006-10-14 16:49|| Front Page Top

#6 A good liberal is a dead liberal.

Posted by wxjames 2006-10-14 16:59|| 2006-10-14 16:59|| Front Page Top

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