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Well I’m also from Kansas and I dont see it as bad as you. My first question to you though is what state should we compare Kansas to?
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For now.
Oh. So what you are saying is that *you *will be stealing it. Gotcha.
I found it in Bill Safire’s New Political Dictionary, a great resource for any politics junkie.
As a Kansan I’m depressed at the election results, but I still love my state and my home town.
And even though I don’t like the results of the election, damn, at least the folks who voted for the winners VOTED. What really pisses me off if the folks who bitch and moan about how things are run, but then we discover they didn’t vote at all…
Hell, as I’ve said before my grandmother voted, for the last time, in 2012, three weeks before she died at the age of 107.
As a Kansas I’m pissed at the election results. It was almost like my vote was the “kiss of death”; almost everyone I voted for lost.
I was the last time I “mountain biked” that particular trail, you’re right about that! Now, just a postdoctoral researcher…
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I wonder about this. I vote Democrat, but if I lived in Texas I’d register as a Republican so I could at least influence the Republican primary.
It’s hard not to feel disenfranchised, young or otherwise, when you live in one of the many states that vote for the same party regardless of the moppet running.
Not trying to derail the thread, but I couldn’t post this in the threadwhere I wanted to post it. And it’s not big enough for its own thread.
Wish that level of integrity applied to when you won. Not only have I never excoriated voters for being idiots for electing Republicans, you will not find me talking about how happy it makes me that the Republicans that lost are upset, nor taking a single conservative’s post in frustration and turning it into something all conservatives do.
You may not be a sore loser, but you are a sore winner.
Nancy Pelosi for one. Hillary Clinton who recently said that businesses dont create jobs.
Democratic candidates have to pass muster from the Unions and they very often are not pro-business.
That’s because 2012 still stings. Given the choice, I would rather win 2012 and lose 2014 than the other way around, and apparently so does Bricker. Neener, neener.
Both of those people are huge recipients of corporate cash. Pelosi is married to a hugely successful real estate guy.
You have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.
Perhaps you could define what “pro-business” means.
“The business of America is business.”
- Calvin Coolidge
I felt that way from 2000-2008. I half-wonder if I’m going to have another 8 years of this again.
Also, this year I had the choice of a far-right Republican and a Tea Party-type member in one state race. I had to go beyond holding my nose, and right into having a drink to fill that one in. (Absentee ballot, northeast Florida).
I hate posting from my phone.
That’s because you have a pretty high resistance to cognitive dissonance. If electing Democrats instead of Republicans where an inherently idiotic thing to do, then you would be justified come on nay, obligated to excoriate the idiots who did it.
It’s not, though, so you don’t.
Since that set of conditionals does not apply to the election of Republicans, the two actions should not be judged by the same set of criteria.
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That said, I do try to confine my excoriating to private conversations and the inside of my own head. Even idiots have feelings, and it’s really not nice to gratuitously hurt them.
(Fixed that for me – preview is my friend [del]even[/del] especially when posting from my phone.)
That’s because you have a pretty high resistance to cognitive dissonance. If electing Democrats instead of Republicans were an inherently idiotic thing to do, then you would be justified, nay, obligated to excoriate the idiots who did it.
It’s not, though, so you don’t.
Since that set of conditionals does not apply to the election of Republicans, the two actions should not be judged by the same set of criteria.
I was raised on Wm. F. Buckley. I am quite convinced that truth is not consensual, that reality is not a matter of opinion, that a majority can be wrong, and the voice of the people is not the voice of God.
You seem to believe that the majority can never be wrong. Well, that way lies madness. The point of progressivism is to educate the people, not reflect them. Too many liberals and populists think of themselves as “for justice, democracy, and progress” (whether they end up on the left or right side of the aisle) when they’re just reflecting the prejudices of the masses. That’s as true of Barry Obama as it is of Scott Walker.
We don’t need populism. We need science.