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2017-06-18 Home Front: Culture Wars

This List Of Attacks Against Conservatives Is Mind Blowing

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-06-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The national debt was doubled in only 8 short years to build a huge entitlement society. That society is unsustainable and will eventually die, taking everything down with it. To try to short circuit and terminate this massive beast only enrages it, like any animalistic beast its only recourse is to destroy its threats. These are very dangerous times.

Posted by Chuckles Phineque3564 2017-06-18 03:39|| 2017-06-18 03:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, it took a lot more than 8 years, Chuckles.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-18 03:59|| 2017-06-18 03:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Indeed, GG. It has taken two generations.

Even Reagan - for whom I voted and still respect, because he was the right man for the times - was just another progressive, albeit the last one with a real conscience. The size of the public thugocracy grew even under his time.

If we could gather the entire mass of publicly employed and welfare recipients into a giant field and tell them, "Look to your the person to your left, then to the one on your your right. Two of the three of you need to lose your income stream and rejoin the private sector to save the country" - which is what is necessary - you'd have tens of millions of panicked madmen and madwomen, ready to burn down the universe at even the mention of the truth.

And that is precisely where we are at in 2017.

Posted by no mo uro 2017-06-18 05:22|| 2017-06-18 05:22|| Front Page Top

#4 the Entitlement generation has come of age and if they dont get what they want they throw temper tantrums

Posted by 746 2017-06-18 11:05|| 2017-06-18 11:05|| Front Page Top

#5 What blows my mind is that where is no push-back.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-18 12:16|| 2017-06-18 12:16|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 Grom, that's an interesting point. I think part of the explanation is that people on the right tend to be restrained by these things called "morals", which they learn from their parents and from their pastors (or rabbis). Being a-moral gives you a much broader range of options.

But the antifas shouldn't confuse moral restraint with lack of capability. An interesting place for a good leftist to visit not far from Congressman Scalise's district is this store, where you can watch fathers making sure that their daughters have just the right rifle for their first deer hunting trip. (Their sons are in the Marines and are using different types of hunting rifles.) There are teenage girls in Congressman Scalise's district who, properly motivated, could have shot every Congressman on that baseball field through the heart before anyone noticed an attack was underway. And field dressed them. But God help us if it comes to that.

Posted by Matt 2017-06-18 14:18|| 2017-06-18 14:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Matt, perhaps I was exaggerating a bit - I can definitely understand why, after you've see that elections do matter, you (Americans) are not eager to jettison the entire system. On the other hand, I do not believe that civilized restraint in the face of murderous savages (whether they call themselves Muslims, BLM, or Antifa) is a virtue.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-18 14:45|| 2017-06-18 14:45|| Front Page Top

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