Letters to the Editor
Chris Sinnard
Published Letters: 1260 Editor's Choice: 7
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Thank you for showing me how uninformed you are, I feel a lot better.
[Read the article: Media hostility toward anti-establishment candidates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This doesn't mean we implement the Luddite Ron Paul approach of smashing the economic machinery of the modern industrial economy and sit back and see what happens. And it gets worse. The Austrian school along with Ron Paul believes that we need to eliminate banking as it has been practiced for 500 years. You see the evil bankers have been defrauding us all along through the system of usary on money they don't own. This is scary stuff. Ron Paul believes this. Thank God he is at the snowball-in-hell level of support.
Thanks for telling me something new. I've never heard any of this before. These are new and original statements.
I see you've listened to dick about what Paul has said regarding competing currencies, but just like all the others, your is somehow to be taken for fact and not speculation. So, are you going to be like the rest of them and tell me your horror stories, or are you going to tell me your plans to fix the problems we face?
Who do you support? Why? What do you think we should do about the dollar? You are like the rest of the politalkers, wedge issues and talk talk talk but never any real answers, besides maybe a thumbs up to the status quo. Shit or get off the pot.
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Warning: Some ideologies on the Net are smaller than they appear.
[Read the article: Media hostility toward anti-establishment candidates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like hardcore leftists and socialism?
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Do you hate torture? I hate torture too!
[Read the article: Ron Paul won't return white supremacist's $500]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do you hate war? I hate war too! So wtf are we bickering about?
Divide and Conquer.
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It's simple, Glenn
[Read the article: Harry Reid's pro-life stance vs. Ron Paul's ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Divide and Conquer. Can an abortion zealot please riddle me this:
What about China?
The Chinese have brutal abortion policies, one child policies and forced abortions, BUT hey, they do support Abortion. does that make the China a "thinking person committed to individual rights"? Hardly, it's exactly the opposite.
If you want a good way to measure the relative importance of various issues, there already is one and people already use it regularly, and have used it in this thread (when it suits their needs, of course). The example is of course abortion, it affects half of the population, but that is still only half of the population. War, torture, empire, inflation, secrecy, these issues are not relegated to one side or another, they seriously and fundamentally affect everyone, and the closer to the bottom of the pyramid you are the more you feel the effect. There is an easy procedure to measure this. An issue either:
A) Affects everyone
B) Or it doesn't
Pretty easy imo. The reality is that category B is full of wedge issues that keep us bickering while a status quo agenda that the good people on both sides consider horrible keeps on moving forward.
Do you honestly expect more than Divide and Conquer political games from either side when dealing with myopic True Believers, and that they won't use whatever wedge issue they happen to be passionate about to try to use it to divide people on other issues? That is their thing, those are their tools, that is what they do.
The problem is that War, Empire, and the things that Naomi Wolf talks about are not wedge issues. Abortion on Demand, legal or not, doesn't make China or Saudi Arabia any more or less of a Police State. In fact, put the shoe on the other foot and look at the policy of forced abortions and the one child only policy in China, then tell me how it meshes with these comments about "forcing women to have babies", like it is an unwanted burden. But then that might shed some unwanted light on the history of the abortion movement, and how it came from the eugenics, population control, birth control movements (e.g. forced sterilization), and not from the women's rights movement.
Abortion certainly is a divisive wedge issue of the highest order (it's true, no matter what anyone tells me) and obviously she is using it as just that and must think it will work in driving a wedge in the antiwar movement, moving things back to where she feels safe, on the left side of left/right party politics lala land. To share the antiwar mantle is to share power, and the "antiwar" left obviously doesn't want to give up its Cash Cow.
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Perception is reality
[Read the article: Harry Reid's pro-life stance vs. Ron Paul's ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the USA, Abortion is considered a women's right to choose.
In China, Abortion is a tool of the Police State.
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O RLY?
[Read the article: Harry Reid's pro-life stance vs. Ron Paul's ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I will say this, though. Supporting Paul is not a way of trying to make the GOP less warlike. It is a way of trying to make the GOP less warlike and more extreme in their economic policy and more accommodating of racists and more intent on imposing a version of Protestant Christianity on the rest of the populace, and more intent on destroying a right to choose and with it a good chunk of the right to privacy. You asked someone earlier what they were willing to give up in support of a the right to abortion. Support for Paul means that you are willing to give up the separation of church and state, at least some of the progress we have made on the racial front, some of the progress we have made on gay rights, abprtion right and the corresponding damage done to the right to privacy and even more economic lunacy. Its a package deal.
Sensationalize much?
Prove it. Nightmare horror stories and speculation based on your limited perception don't mean what you are saying is even remotely true at all. Although I like reading these ridiculous "what if?" stories where people try and use fear to paint Ron Paul as an ingenious supervillian that comes straight from a Marvel comic book. That is like saying that if we elect Hillary Clinton we are going to turn back the clock and all live as serfs in Stalin's Russia. But like I said, nowadays it seems like everyone believes that their perceptions are absolute reality.