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   HUMPHRIES said, 10 months ago

   … and why not conservative republicans? Or is it that they’ve been used to running things their own way, country be d@mned and now have to work on equal footing.

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   NoFearPup said, 10 months ago

   Except they leave that last part out.

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   tjdestry said, 10 months ago

   A. They had a full voice. They got to run McCain and Palin as their nominees. The people of America didn’t want them deciding the country’s future.

   B. Obama has done a terrific job of including people with responsible opposing positions in his administration.

   C. It’s nice that you’re taking on the job of undermining efforts to get this country back in step with the world, but could you at least lift the tinfoil off your head long enough to see what’s actually happening?

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   gbrucewilson said, 10 months ago

   “lift the tinfoil off your head”? What does that mean? That is a new one for me. Is it like “stop drinking the cool aide”?

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   dtriedel said, 10 months ago

   Certain folks are so paranoid that they believe our minds are being controlled by rays from outer space; hence the need to wear tinfoil hats - to block the rays.

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   johnking said, 10 months ago

   What people with responsible opposing positions?

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   Ian Valenzuela said, 10 months ago

   Sure. Take out the right wing fringe, what you have left is mainstream America. The neocons still have the freedom to speak their minds, but the rest of the country has the freedom to reject (as proven in the 2006 and 2008 elections) their misbegotten ideas that, in only eight years, wrecked our economy, wrecked our standing in the world, wrecked our military, and shredded our Constitutional ideals.

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   lalas said, 10 months ago

   To be fair Ian, we’ve been building our economy on foundations of debt for almost 30 years now.

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   charliekane said, 10 months ago

   I think we heard their voice too long, already.

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    Corosive Frog said, 10 months ago

    In Plato’s “The Apology of Socrates”, people ask Socrates, after he’s been condemned to death, what he wants the people to act toward his children (Socrates had kids! I have trouble believing that myself.). Socrates answered that he wants people to always ask his kids questions, that it’s the only way to find truth. That became a method of teaching still used now that’s called the socratic(d’uh!) method.
    Anyone watches House MD? House uses the socratic method with his assistants; he already has an idea in his head but instead of spitting it out all at once, he asks his assistants questions and they end up finding it themselves and remember it longer.

    That’s, according to me, the biggest asset of democracy over dictature. In dictature, you got one unquestionned brain deciding everything. That leads to what psychologists call Group Think; (can happen in democracy as well) everyone listens to the big guy’s big project, everyone has an idea about why it can’t work but no one speaks it out loud either because they are not allowed to, (like in Mao’s Great Leap Forward), because they don’t dare or are guilt tripped into shutting up all criticism (the 2003 war in Iraq) or because the project in question is so big, so seductive that they don’t want to hear (or think) anything about it going wrong. It just has to work! (like the Titanic).

    My biggest fear with the current administration is group think because of reasons two and three, that no one will dare to question Obama’s plans and make it known if something’s wrong and needs to be fixed because they themselves don’t want to see that it has flaws.

    That’s why criticism is important but there is so much partisanship (from both sides) that it has become hard to tell what is constructive criticism and what is just a bitter and pointless attack.

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    Kylop said, 10 months ago

    In what way is their voice being barred? Has their right to vote been removed? Has the Bill of Rights been ammended? Is their some flag next to their names at the local, state, and federal level?

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    fennec said, 10 months ago

    But Gorrell often goes a bit overboard…to starboard, that is.

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    yayliberalism said, 10 months ago

    just puttting this out there concerning corosive frogs socrates lesson. When they reffered to Socrates kids in “the apology” they are speaking about his disciples such a plato which he valued as kids.

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    Corosive Frog said, 10 months ago

    oops… but I read the Phédon (shucks! I read it in french so I don’t have an idea what that text is called in english…anyways, it’s the one where he and his disciples have a talk just before he drinks the poison.) I read there that he has a wife.

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    fennec said, 10 months ago

    Yeah, I believe her name was Xantippe and she had a reputation for being somewhat of a shrew.

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    motivemagus said, 10 months ago

    The neocons (not really “conservative Republicans”) had their chance, and suppressed dissent for eight years. Now moderate Republicans can come out, too!

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    HUMPHRIES said, 10 months ago

    Thanks motive ;o)

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    Brainiak said, 10 months ago

    If the Somehow crowd had ever been right..The Republicans would have never won an election- but “somehow” that never happenes..