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Monday, June 29, 2009 12:00 AM

Dear Wingnut, are we really a center-right nation?

Our undercover conservative insists America remains moderate to conservative, no matter what happened last November

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  • Sunday, June 28, 2009 07:27 PM

    Another part of it...

    ...is probably that Wingnut wants to claim that only conservatives are honest, hard-working, and family-loving, and smear liberals as (presumably) dishonest, lazy, and family-hating.

    I'm so eager to hear how the working class is either a center-right working class, despite socialism and communism being a working class movement, or how the working class is actually a misnomer, because the leftists of the working class didn't really esteem hard work. It will make Western Civ classes more confusing, though:

    "In the Weimar Republic, right-wing Germans had armed clashes in the streets with center-rightists, but the center-right parties couldn't decide whether to ally with the center-right parties or with the rightist parties, while the center-right parties couldn't ally with each other, and so both they and the center-right parties were rendered politically ineffectual..."

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