tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post1120871369604404767..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-13193865466587149212012-06-23T07:49:43.915-04:002012-06-23T07:49:43.915-04:00"Elite theories" are the very things tha..."Elite theories" are the very things that got us into this frightful mess, Ducky.<br /><br />We are where we are because of Man's attempt to play God in the guise of Social Engineering and Collectivist economic policies.<br /><br />The topic here, however, was meant to be confined the way leftists use suppression of information, distortion of the intent of language, and willful, determined obfuscation of Truth to gain political advantage.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-88442391977573774592012-06-22T21:30:58.657-04:002012-06-22T21:30:58.657-04:00Silverfiddle, I brought up a reasonable idea for d...Silverfiddle, I brought up a reasonable idea for discussion.<br /><br />Michels, Pareto, Mosca ... the Italian school of elite theory predicted this situation where we would be in this stasis.<br /><br />Rather than this nonsense of Mittens/Obummer why aren't we dealing with the question of political inertia.<br /><br />You don't strike me as someone who hasn't figured out that Mittens is not the answer to that problemDucky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-88294642972647855512012-06-22T16:24:28.111-04:002012-06-22T16:24:28.111-04:00Ducky: How do you explain the brain-addled people...Ducky: How do you explain the brain-addled people who voted for an inexperienced, incompetent nobody whose only accomplishment was writing two paeans to himself?Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-24137841083415062932012-06-22T14:58:38.001-04:002012-06-22T14:58:38.001-04:00We will allow your blathering irrelevancies to rem...We will allow your blathering irrelevancies to remain, Canardo, as striking examples of how leftists use pointedly assertive strawman arguments to address concerns not relevant to the subject at hand.<br /><br />Your antics remind me of a rhyme I learned in Freshman Speech seven-hundred years ago:<br /><br /><i><b>Amidst the mists and freezing frosts<br />With loudest boasts and sternest jests'<br />He thrusts his fists against the posts,<br />And still insists he see the ghosts.</b></i><br /><br />Someday, you may be brought face to face with the realization that your quaxotic life on the internet has been nothing but an exercise in futility. When that day arrives, I will probably feel compassion for you.<br /><br />Keep sounding your sour notes, Canardo.<br /><br />Their dissonance only makes the harmonies we produce sound that much sweeter.<br /><br />Meanwhile, I'm sure many others will join with me in earnest prayer for your ultimate Salvation. <br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-30651022218000165612012-06-22T14:46:23.166-04:002012-06-22T14:46:23.166-04:00Interesting point about compulsory voting in the a...Interesting point about compulsory voting in the article you linked, AOW. Surely it's worth featuring as at least one blog post all by itself?<br /><br />As a believer in freedom, I, personally, don't favor making anything <i>compulsory</i> -- ever. <br /><br />Logic ought to tell us that those who don't want to vote or are too lazy to bother should <b><i>automatically disqualify themselves</i></b> from participating in the process, and, therefore, deserve whatever they get from those who <i>do</i>. <br /><br />There are more weeds than flowers among the potential electorate. Why do anything that might encourage these undesirable elements to further choke out the few beautiful blossoms that might still be left in our once wisely and beautifully tended national garden?<br /><br />~ FTFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-60539048013055987122012-06-22T12:38:13.431-04:002012-06-22T12:38:13.431-04:00Is it racist not to vote?Is it racist <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-19/voting-should-be-mandatory.html" rel="nofollow">not to vote</a>?Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-77205681526346365612012-06-22T12:32:14.212-04:002012-06-22T12:32:14.212-04:00"A conservative candidate who should present ..."A conservative candidate who should present himself to his electors by declaring to them that he did not regard them as capable of playing an active part in influencing the destinies of the country, and should tell them that for this reason they ought to be deprived of the suffrage, would be a man of incomparable sincerity, but politically insane."<br />--- Robert Michels<br /><br />Why his work, <i> Political Parties </i> is ignored today is beyond me. Cuts to some of the serious problems we can't find our way through.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-56484698627874097902012-06-22T12:23:38.175-04:002012-06-22T12:23:38.175-04:00Wow, that was a real knockout punch, Silver.
Ther...Wow, that was a real knockout punch, Silver.<br /><br />There certainly has been a cheapening of rational dialogue in the nation but I will ask again how you explain the brain addled birthers, morons who call him a Muslim and fringe right Randoids who call him a Communist.<br /><br />Again, I ask why he is considered a radical and wonder if you cn come up with anything but the mandate.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-45272492361977638912012-06-22T10:22:12.653-04:002012-06-22T10:22:12.653-04:00@ Quacker: Well Freethinker you are still left wi...@ Quacker: <i>Well Freethinker you are still left with explaining the massive blind hatred by the right of a man who is at best centrist but probably center/right.</i><br /><br />No he's not. You and your whining wathist behind evwy twee betwetting leftists are, so stuff it where the sun don't shine.<br /><br /><br />Orwell said it best: Speech codes are thought codes.<br /><br />I recommend this short essay of his to everyone:<br /><br /><a href="http://mla.stanford.edu/Politics_&_English_language.pdf" rel="nofollow">Politics and the English Language</a>Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-66034135803801928372012-06-22T09:16:30.953-04:002012-06-22T09:16:30.953-04:00Well Freethinker you are still left with explainin...Well Freethinker you are still left with explaining the massive blind hatred by the right of a man who is at best centrist but probably center/right.<br /><br />Left with the dictum to describe just what is progressive about his platform you just stand there scratching yourself after you yammer about the individual mandate.<br /><br />No, there has to be an explanation for the hordes of brain damaged right wing birthers and idiots who call him a Muslim.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-76983249136910706292012-06-22T08:53:10.817-04:002012-06-22T08:53:10.817-04:00Progressivism is a form of profanity as well as in...Progressivism is a form of profanity as well as insanity.<br /><br />Oooh! I feel a limerick coming on ... <br /><br />Let's see ...<br /><br /><b><i>Progressives, possessed of great vanity,<br />Cause expressions of ardent profanity.<br />Their love of the uncouth<br />And denial of Truth<br />Are examples of rampant insanity.</i></b><br /><br />I'll see if I can find a way to improve that as the day wears on.<br /><br />Cheerio!<br /><br />~ FTFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-66032219408701365762012-06-22T08:06:48.827-04:002012-06-22T08:06:48.827-04:00What to say without typing in profanities?What to say without typing in profanities?Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.com