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Dude's right. Mississippi's water system, Texas's grid, Florida's teachers... Republican states are governed poorly. Like I keep saying, look up pretty much any metric you want to, red states perform worse. There's a reason for that: conservatism doesn't work. There's plenty wrong with just about every ideology, if taken purely, but conservatism performs the worst.
Dude's right. Â Mississippi's water system, Texas's grid, Florida's teachers... Republican states are governed poorly. Â Like I keep saying, look up pretty much any metric you want to, red states perform worse. Â There's a reason for that: Â conservatism doesn't work. Â There's plenty wrong with just about every ideology, if taken purely, but conservatism performs the worst.
I guess if you do believe in heaven and hell you should believe that voting Red Republican will cause your soul to go through eternal damnation and torture.
Dude's right. Â Mississippi's water system, Texas's grid, Florida's teachers... Republican states are governed poorly. Â Like I keep saying, look up pretty much any metric you want to, red states perform worse. Â There's a reason for that: Â conservatism doesn't work. Â There's plenty wrong with just about every ideology, if taken purely, but conservatism performs the worst.
Heh... while the populace are running from one place to the other. Dense doesn't explain your disconnection.
I shouldn't be surprised after Obama was elected with no practical experience... but the candidates being selected are just getting worse by the year. I'd seriously prefer Creech and chong. 7/30/16
Such bullshit. The right is about individual rights, liberties, and a limited govt. The left has bought into a hive collectist mentality dominated by an enormous all powerful central govt. The worst part is that this isn't some innovative idea... it's been played out over and over... disastrously. The obvious diagnosis for modern "liberalism" is insanity. The result won't change this time.
That's Matt Walsh. He's in some controversy right now because he doesn't understand why sex with 13 year olds is wrong because that's when they're most "fertile" and that they should be forced to mature more early... some sick bullshit.
He also wants arranged marriages because he thinks it's better if you're forced, against your will, to marry a person. He wants the state, or church rather (this guy's an admitted totalitarian theocrat) to decide who you marry. And you WILL marry, because not being married is not an option for guys like this.
I keep saying it, they keep proving it. Conservatives do not like freedom. They like to talk about it, but every single goddamn time they will choose to be ruled by someone. And they don't understand that they're abnormal for wanting that.
From early childhood these people are going around searching for someone to tell them what to do, what to think, etc. They always wanna obey their daddy, whether he's good or bad or right or wrong. They want a belt and a paddle (I think I told y'all about how my conservative classmates would bring gifts of paddles to the teachers who hit us). They always back the police and resent them being questioned. If they can't find someone to stick a boot on their neck, they'll invent one. That's religion. The preacher becomes your god. And "against your will" is a good thing to them.
The only "freedom" they want is freedom from having to make decisions. Their enemies are always people who want them to have more options -- not have people say you can't marry a person you love, or that you can't do what you want with your own body, etc. They don't want anyone else to make their own choices, either, because that makes them feel like they're the freaks.
Which they are.
Sick freaks.
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"The right is about individual rights, liberties, and a limited govt..."--Peckerhead
Republicans love to talk about big bad government, but they'd really like to take away every right we hold dear. Most of them are smart enough to keep their mouths shut about abortion until after the midterms, but many are not. In many states, they're also trying to remove the right to vote, through any means possible...gerrymandering, false ads, false voter information, voter intimidation, etc. They'd like a state religion..."conservative Christianity", a complete oxymoron. They want to do away with Social Security and Medicare, not strengthen those programs. They want to change the Constitution itself, because it doesn't fit their narrow minded regressive agenda.
Here's Mike Pence, aka the statue, lying about the Constitution:
Former Vice President Mike Pence claimed during a Wednesday appearance on Fox Business that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution does not protect Americans from having other people's faiths forced upon them.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances," it states.
In fact, there are no references to a supreme being anywhere in the Constitution, because the Founding Fathers were adamantly opposed to centralized religious power as well as requiring individuals to subscribe to any particular denomination.
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The concept of separation of church and state was sacrosanct to men like President Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in his 1776 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom that "setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time" and that "to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."
Jefferson's condemnation of forced faith in the document was unambiguous, further affirming that "no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities."
President James Madison, in whose hand the Constitution was penned, concurred with Jefferson.
"The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Government, and exempt from its cognizance; that a connexion between them is injurious to both; that there are causes in the human breast, which ensure the perpetuity of religion without the aid of the law," Madison explained in an 1819 letter, noting that "a legal establishment of religion without a toleration could not be thought of, and with toleration, is no security for public quiet and harmony, but rather a source itself of discord and animosity."
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Benjamin Franklin took it one step further, arguing in 1780 that any religion that seeks to impose itself is simply "bad."
Yet Pence and host Larry Kudlow share an interpretation that strays wildly from what Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison clearly spelled out more than two centuries ago.
"These lefties want to scrap religion, Mike Pence, and I think it's a terrible mistake," Kudlow griped.
"Well, the radical left believes that the freedom of religion is the freedom from religion. But it's nothing the American founders ever thought of or generations of Americans fought to defend," Pence said.
As mentioned, that statement is completely false. Jefferson even concluded in his treatise that "such act will be an infringement of natural right."
But Pence was not finished. He also suggested that the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority has a duty to side with one faith other another. Today, that means the GOP's embrace of Christian nationalism.
"You know, I said today here in Houston that the source of our nation's greatness has always been our faith in God, our freedom, and our vast natural resources. And the good news is, that after four years of the Trump-Pence administration, I'm confident that we have a pro-religious freedom majority on the Supreme Court of the United States. And I'm confident that come Election Day, November the 8th, you're gonna see that freedom majority around the country turn out and vote pro-freedom majorities in the House, and in the Senate, and in statehouses around the country," Pence said. "So stay tuned, Larry. Help is on the way."