More home grown fascism?

netdude wrote: Funny, It looks like the latest republicans platform.....

That comparison has, in fact, been made by more than one person.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-unac...895a25d02_story.html

www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=29829956


Clearly many of you would fail the "ideological Turing test"


..."In other words, it is impossible not only for any reasonable person to be conservative, but even to take such idiotic, malignant ideas seriously. And neither Schmitt nor Tomasky is a particularly shrill partisan, compared to the polemicists at Salon.com, MSNBC or the New York Times editorial page. With such allies, it’s no wonder that Barack Obama’s wish for a new political unity that would transcend and heal the divisions between red states and blue states has come to nothing.

Liberal rhetoric emphasizes compassion, empathy and kindness—“Kindness covers all of my political beliefs,” President Obama has said—because these emotions need not and really cannot be theorized.

It’s tempting, but mistaken, for conservatives to think that the problem is as simple as liberals’ failure to observe the Golden Rule of democratic politics: take your adversaries as seriously as you want them to take you. That’s a good standard, of course, but it’s sound advice for everyone. American discourse would benefit if all disputants observed what economist Bryan Caplan calls the “ideological Turing test ,” which requires characterizing a viewpoint you disagree with so discerningly and scrupulously that an adherent of that position finds your summary of it as clear and persuasive as any provided by a true believer."

ZHawke wrote:

netdude wrote: Funny, It looks like the latest republicans platform.....

That comparison has, in fact, been made by more than one person.

I've got $100 that says it was put together by a "progressive" to give that impression. Any takers?

PrintSmith wrote:

ZHawke wrote:

netdude wrote: Funny, It looks like the latest republicans platform.....

That comparison has, in fact, been made by more than one person.

I've got $100 that says it was put together by a "progressive" to give that impression. Any takers?

Is that supposed to make it any less relevant, somehow?

PrintSmith wrote:

ZHawke wrote:

netdude wrote: Funny, It looks like the latest republicans platform.....

That comparison has, in fact, been made by more than one person.

I've got $100 that says it was put together by a "progressive" to give that impression. Any takers?

PrintSmith, the term closet commie is more accurate.

ZHawke wrote:

PrintSmith wrote:

ZHawke wrote:

netdude wrote: Funny, It looks like the latest republicans platform.....

That comparison has, in fact, been made by more than one person.

I've got $100 that says it was put together by a "progressive" to give that impression. Any takers?

Is that supposed to make it any less relevant, somehow?

Yes Z, one should never repeat the statements of a bigot, it perpetuates the bigotry.

PrintSmith wrote:

ZHawke wrote:

PrintSmith wrote:

ZHawke wrote:

netdude wrote: Funny, It looks like the latest republicans platform.....

That comparison has, in fact, been made by more than one person.

I've got $100 that says it was put together by a "progressive" to give that impression. Any takers?

Is that supposed to make it any less relevant, somehow?

Yes Z, one should never repeat the statements of a bigot, it perpetuates the bigotry.

Who, specifically, are you calling a "bigot", P?

That is perfectly clear Z, the "progressive" who purposefully misrepresented facts in pursuit of their ideology.

PrintSmith wrote: That is perfectly clear Z, the "progressive" who purposefully misrepresented facts in pursuit of their ideology.

No, it wasn't "perfectly clear", P. Thanks for the clarification, though. Now, please explain how you know the person who put this together is a progressive bigot.