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Assuming you want to come and count coup at a 'blog comment section you believe is a hotbed for Democratic Party aligned political action, and you therefore compose a lengthy indictment you believe will suddenly shame some previously Democratic Party readers into seeing things your way -- it makes sense to avoid deliberately saying "Democrat Party".
You see, that is what some opponents of the Democrats like call the Democratic Party in conversation with one another. It is a code word for "Those guys suck - we are awesome! And we totally show it by purposefully messing up their name!" That is fine - people like to throw up these signal flares in conversation - it builds team spirit, and each party has their derisive names for all the others.
But when you throw up those team spirit signal flares toward people who do not agree with you, all that results is those people immediately discount every thing you say, no matter how well written or persuasive.
I just don't understand. Your post is so long, and somebody clearly went to a certain amount of effort to write it - even reviewed tips from some marketing textbooks, apparently. All to no persuasive effect, mainly because of the one childish taunt! Are you genuinely trying to persuade people here? If you are going to be a concern troll, you can at least aspire to be the best concern troll you can be.
-- The Darkness Reaching Out For The Darkness, PoliticalRealityOnline, Shooter242, Bucky1, RealLame...
It's like turning a light on and watching all the roaches scurry away to the cracks in the floorboards. They try to blend into the woodwork, "I'm not really a dirty little pest! I've been for freedom and liberty all along!"
All the great demagogues espoused "freedom and liberty" at the start.
It's not just me calling Lew Rockwell and Hoppe a neo-Nazi and racist. It's other right wing libertarians. That's a bit of a problem for you, not me. I'm just laughing at you for being so stupid, simple-minded and gullible that you fell prey to a cult, a con like Scientology or The Moonies, but all right wing libertarianism is just that.
http://rightwatch.tblog.com/
And this guy started his blog two years ago this month because of his concern over Authoritarian Libertarians. He was ahead of the curve.
For the smallest meaning/syllable ratio ever encountered in an otherwise grammatically correct paragraph.
Congratulations to Mr PoliticalSurrealityMainline!
This is precisely why I think Frederick Douglass's narrative of his life as a slave should be required reading... and more than once. It isn't just about race-- although he writes about race so eloquently-- but also about education. Douglass knew that an eduation was important enough to steal; and he took every opportunity to steal his.
I just want to add a sidebar to this excellent little post to make another point I don't think can be made often enough, given the continued invisible segregatin of cyberspace--and that's the general importance of reading African American authors in general. Slave narratives, of which Douglass's is one of the very best, are just one example.
W.E.B. Dubois's prolific writings are another, especially Black Reconstruction, wsritten at a time when the academic, as well as popular, narrative about Reconstruction was that it was the greatest tragedy our nation had ever seen--and damn near proved that the wrong side won the Civil War!
James Baldwin's work--especially his essays--are another. He lived right through the heart of the civil rights struggle, knew both King and Malcolm X, was both artist and activist, participant and observer. Wrote dozens of essays any one of which would have been enough to earn him a permanent place in the history of letters.
I could go on, but you get the point--there is no substitute for seeking out the most conscious, articulate persons who have experienced what you have not, who have seen the other side of the mountain, the dark side of the moon, and the backside of your head. You literally have no idea how much you have to learn from them. You can't possibly have any idea how much you can learn from them.
Pooter desperately would like to avoid the fact that Republicans did, indeed, control all 3 major branches of government. Not forever. But for years. Americans understand this.
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/partydiv.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Divisions_of_United_States_Congresses
Tooter pleez pleez pretty pleez wants the Republicans not to be blamed for their own policies! Especially not when some Democrats go along!
But it is too late, the absolute control of government by Republicans was a terrible, terrible failure, a giant mess, and try as they might they cannot blame anyone else for it.
This makes right wingers very, very angry. Most of the time they can blame someone else for why their ideas go wrong. But this time they cannot. So angry! So mad! Too bad.
The cadre of individuals who revolve around Lew Rockwell and his Mises Institute continue to work with open racists and the extreme Right. And when I say extreme I don't mean advocates of free markets. I mean people who hate Jews and preach the inferiority of other races. It is not even an issue of cultural differences but racial ones. The name of Mises continues to be besmirched by these bigots who don't even have enough taste to wear sheets.
Of course Mises was dead when this group was formed and in the early years they had not worked with the extremists that they now attract. Lew Rockwell has continued to push this group farther and farther to the lunatic fringes. And one of the main forces for the racialist agenda is Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Hoppe has been embroiled in numerous controversies revolving around his racialist agenda. Each time he whines he is the victim of a smear campaign and that he is being distorted. Or he's misquoted. Or he's misunderstood.
Now Herr Hoppe has started his own intellectual group to meet every year as part of his campaign to turn libertarianism into some sort of mirror image of himself. He started a group to compete with the Mont Pelerin Society because that group, founded by Hayek and Mises, doesn't reflect the revisionist view of what pretends to be libertarianism in the Rockwellian camp. Hoppe founded the group and runs it. He is responsible.
So what kind of agenda does he have. He kicks off his 2007 conference with a slew of speakers promoting the intellectual inferiority of the darker races.
Hoppe has invited Volkmar Weiss to speak on "History as Cycles of Population Quality." Population quality? Weiss is part of the movement that is determined to prove the racial inferiority of certain races. On his web site he lists his areas of speciality as genetics, history of Saxony, anti-Semitism, national socialism, and twin research. He also says he's been a member of the editorial board of Mankind Quarterly since 1980. So for a quarter of a century he’s been involved with this one publication with this interesting name.
The man who founded and controls this journal is Roger Pearson. Born in 1927 Pearson became politically active with white racialist and neo-nazi groups almost fifty years ago. In 1958 he founded the Northern League “to foster the interests, friendship and solidarity of all Teutonic nationsâ€. He brought in ex-Nazis and people like Ernest Sevier Cox, formerly of the Ku Klux Klan and author of White America. According to one source a past associate editor of the publication was Corrado Gini, a former advisor to Mussolini and the author of an article "The Scientific Basis of Fascism". Otmar von Verschuer was an editorial board member of Mankind Quarterly. He was also a mentor to Josef Mengele and more importantly he worked with Mengele at Auschwitz itself.
Roger Pearson, the founder and controlling figure at the journal, was brought to the US, from England, by the grandfather of today's anti-Jewish movement, Willis Carto. Carto, a racist, anti-Semite, and admirer of Adolph Hitler founded the Liberty Lobby, the Spotlight newspaper, the Institute for Historical Review (to debunk the holocaust), and published numerous Nazi and racist books through his publishing house Noontide Press...
I suppose you could write this fellow off as a nut, but not Tom G. Palmer, and he agrees with all of this and has since the late 90s. So follow Bucky1 and the other cockroaches as they goose step back into the woodwork, The Darkness Reaching Out For The Darkness.
Hoppe and Junge Freiheit.
http://www.tomgpalmer.com/archives/022289.php#comments.
So FOAD, Nazi.