YMix wrote:
I didn't notice it.
I think that not noticing one of the biggest monopolies of all time disqualifies you from the conversation of the good or ill of "duopolies" and party politics.
Oh? And how are the Tea Party candidates faring? Polling high on the issues of the day doesn't mean much. Four years ago, the Tea Party was a rising star. Today, it's barely noticed by the media and its candidates suffer defeat after defeat at the hands of the establishment candidates.
The MSM is indicative of absolutely nothing, and the TP bagged Eric Cantor, one of the biggest congressional upsets of all time. The GOP has been merging with the TP after the government shut down and so there isn't a real need to have TP branded candidates anymore. But it is nice to know they are there if we need them. They did the job we needed them to do. They played a pivotal role in stopping the radical
obama agenda. They have earned their place in the halls of the great champions of freedom.
So everything is going quite nicely.
Be giddy while you can.
I will be, thanks.
And they will roll back in the next elections. Or the ones after that.
This is what the loser always say. But reality is that when you look back at history, the pendulum theory is the exception not the rule. The parties never swing back and forth with regularity. Rather, history shows that we go through eras, usually mutlidecadal long. We just wrapped up a 26 year Reagan era, and Democrats were saying that
obama was ushering in a 40 year left wing era. Fortunately with the TP we limited that to just a few years and are on the path to building Reagan 2.0.
More or less. Not when they say stupid things, obviously. If we got together, I think we could have find common ground and drink some beer.
I think they would find your knife twisting to be disrespectful. I say this as someone for who the TP are real people who I know and work with, not caricatures created in left wing media products from across the globe.
Don't know for sure. It depends on a lot of things.
You may want to get work on defining those things, else your life will go by and you will have influenced nothing.
I dream of a society free of ignorant and dull people. Not particularly realistic, but...
I would say then you are twisting the knife in the wrong people. The ignorance champions are the left. As far as dull, I find mindless hedonism to be dull, so the left would be the target again.
Aaaand back to the only topic of interest to you.
Just keeping it real. I'm not naive enough to think people don't have ulterior motives and hidden agendas and biases. I prefer dealing in honesty. People disclosing upfront what they really think and believe. This is apparently very frightening for some.
I'm not sure how much I oppose them. I think they are guided by a defficient understanding of certain issues and that they have been used by the GOP establishment. I oppose those who seek a theocratic society, though.
Nobody is seeking a theocratic society. The
obama movement is ignorant and has been used by their own establishment, and you say nothing about it. So we still have not come to the real reason you oppose them.
I'm mainly interested in learning and understanding. The more I learn, the more I realize that acting without thinking is a really bad idea.
I agree. The
obama administration is the greatest example I can think of in terms of the hazards involved there.
Still I think you should put your belief system in a couple of paragraph manifesto, rather than just waiting for an interview.
If you keep saying it, maybe it comes true.
It was true before I said anything.
I've noticed that. You stayed out of this thread for quite some time.
Yes. As I said, it was uninteresting and boring. It was like debating Lavern and Shirley reruns. Old, and stale. I've participate in countless threads that twisted the knife into conservatives, yours I just couldn't keep my eyes open.
Other people understand that there's more to life than black and white. There's different points of view. There's neutrality.
I believe that. Obviously though you are not neutral. What you do benefits Democrats, and I am a person who wants to defeat Democrats.
But always in the same "right is good, left is evil" context.
But if the right is good and the left is evil, why wouldn't we want to address that?
Nope.
Yep.
If, after this discussion, the reasons continue to evade you, there's no point in going on.
I think there was no point to the OP.
Internal power struggles and divisions are found wherever groups of people gather together. Nothing new or notable going on here.
3itch then Speaker of the House DemocRAT Nancy Pelosi famously said "We have to pass the bill to know what's in it" 
