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2015-07-15 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-07-15 14:57|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 When the Germans bombed Warsaw, Rotterdam, London, so much outrage was expressed. By the time the war was over, we had bombed just about every major German city. Win first. Then worry about niceties of civilization.

You are at war. You are not even trying. You will either lose or you will take up the tactics that gained your enemy their power and position. After you win, then you can go back to principles. Till then only victory counts otherwise you are just another entry in the history books.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-07-15 15:34|| 2015-07-15 15:34|| Front Page Top

#2 He means tough love, P2k.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-07-15 15:49|| 2015-07-15 15:49|| Front Page Top

#3 I called this the "Walled Garden" theory of democracy.

The nice rules we make for ourselves in our peaceful walled garden make life there very pleasant. But after a while we forget that our rules are artificial. They only apply in the artificial little world we have created for our fat and happy selves.

Outside the walls the old rules apply. The nasty, mean rules that we have intentionally isolated ourselves from. It is not a place of peace or plenty. It is a place of base desires, greed and hunger. And they want what we have.

When we go outside the walls to protect our garden, we can no longer apply the garden rules. If we make that mistake we lose.

The other mistake is when rules we have developed for threats from outside the garden are used inside the garden. For example, when the government uses the Patriot Act to prosecute deadbeat dads.

Either mistake destroys the garden. We are currently making both.

Posted by Iblis 2015-07-15 15:56|| 2015-07-15 15:56|| Front Page Top

#4 So what are we supposed to do? Vote for Jeb Bush? Now that would be stupid.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-07-15 16:45|| 2015-07-15 16:45|| Front Page Top

#5 If being angry and stupid doesn't work, then explain the success of the Left the last seven years.

Posted by charger 2015-07-15 18:11|| 2015-07-15 18:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Like the analogy Iblis.

Posted by Shipman 2015-07-15 18:19|| 2015-07-15 18:19|| Front Page Top

#7 No Trump, he's a real conservative, speaking truth to RINOs, he should get a metal, or a building or something.

Posted by Shipman 2015-07-15 18:21|| 2015-07-15 18:21|| Front Page Top

#8 This is why we have primaries with campaigning effectively underway over a year before anybody actually votes. You can bet that after all this immigration hoopla both RINOs and Dumbocrats are gonna be slinging all the mud they can find at Trump. We'll have to wait and see how he handles it and how much of it sticks. But at least so far he's saying things that none of the rest of them have the guts or the integrity to say.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-07-15 18:33|| 2015-07-15 18:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Shipman: you mean the same Trump who's given multiples of my yearly salary to da Hildabeest?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-07-15 18:49|| 2015-07-15 18:49|| Front Page Top

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