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packbat ([personal profile] packbat) wrote2009-12-31 11:59 pm
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Open Thread 2009

And, for the new year, an open thread! You know the rules, and so do I - anything that doesn't respond to a recent post can go here.

[identity profile] bourgeoisify.livejournal.com 2009-01-31 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
You are making sense, and I thank you for explaining your views to me. I am a fan of how you agree with me on pretty much every issue!

I find the political party thing to be very testy. I'm not sure which party to identify with, but I know for sure that I am a super dee duper "bleeding heart liberal" (though I do hate that phrase; it's rather grim). If the Republican party today was what it was when Lincoln was president or when Teddy Roosevelt was president, I would probably be a Republican. But I have been raised to hate -- and I do hate, of my own accord -- the modern Republican party. So I turn to the modern Democratic party, which seems to have become what the Republican party once was.

I don't agree with Libertarianism because I think the government needs to interfere at some point -- that's why we have one in the first place. How did we get out of the Great Depression? Well, WWII, but also because of government made programs (and a modern Democratic president... I mean, what? :P). Obama just happens to be in favor of the government stepping in to fix things. Oh, and I'm going to add that I don't understand this "Socialist" business. He said one thing that indicated that way of thinking. But why doesn't America see that he is SO MODERATE? I WANTED HIM TO BE MORE RADICAL SOMETIMES.

I don't understand how anyone can be FABGLITTER (just read that link and have to use it because LOL) and a neo-con. THEY HATE YOU. Also, you're right, people should include the Q&A every once in a while because they are components. There are just a lot of letters ;)

[identity profile] peri-renna.livejournal.com 2009-01-31 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm hoping America will start seeing him as moderate - the Overton window needs a little pushing to the 'left'.

As for MSGI (I like the idea of MSGI, I'll give it a shot) Republicans ... well, my take is that they, like me, hope to help convey the party out of the culture-war quagmire and into being a genuine alternative voice on issues. A voice which offers analysis and challenges assumptions, not just demonizes sick twelve-year-old boys for the sin of not supporting their current leader (http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=8827).

[identity profile] bourgeoisify.livejournal.com 2009-01-31 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I think that once he's in office more than eleven days, people will understand that he really just wants to help America.

...that's just appalling. What is wrong with these people, trying to discredit a kid who was in a car crash?