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The elections are coming up and everywhere I go I'm dragged into a shit flinging contest between liberals and conservatives, constantly reminding me about how divided we are as country. These are dividing times, so how about a thread for all the things that make all of us smile?
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divided yet both parties are really the same. just a few lame issues that ALWAYS come up like abortion and health care. never plans for either way either, just saying the issues to get votes.
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>divided yet both parties are really the same.

They are both suffer from the same kind of political faggotry. But the underlying political ideology is as different as night and day and calling them that same is a bit like admitting that you enjoy being ignorant.

When I was young, I was a liberal. Everything was black and white. As I got older, I realized I was ignorant and that my fellow liberals were a bit selfish and dishonest with their logic. After a while I learned not every conservative was a Christ fag with dreams of world oppression. I had to get a job and take care of myself. I found out that people seem to stereotype others a lot and that the politics of the world was a hell of a lot more complex and irrational than anything I could imagine.

I still thought I knew everything but I had a lot I still needed to learn. I slowly realize that my liberal friends didn't handle the harsh truths of reality and lived in an intellectual ivory tower of untested ideals that didn't work in reality. They were smart and clever, but understand the idea of fact checking and looking at things at different levels. They reject outside ideals and only shared ideas with others that always agree with them.

It was then I realized I was a realists and my old liberal friends were living in a fantasy world. They believed that Christians were the real terrorists. Conservatives suddenly became Neocons. Bush, an idiot tool of corporate lobbyists, became Lex Luthor, evil genius behind 9/11. Jews became the secret rulers of the world who can't even hold onto one tiny piece of land.

That is when I realized, when liberals say that they want the truth, they really just want reality to conform to their political beliefs. In other words, liberals are full of shit.

Republicans have their own troubles, but at least they don't seem as crazy or dishonest as liberals.
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I agree somewhat. but both sides are fighting for the center where the most votes are. mccain is basically a democrat. and obama just lies about thing sound more centrist. he isn't really I guess.
>> Anonymous
Arise, you prisoners of starvation!
Arise, you wretched of the earth!
For justice thunders condemnation:
A better world's in birth!
No more tradition's chains shall bind us,
Arise you slaves, no more in thrall!
The earth shall rise on new foundations:
We have been nought, we shall be all!
'Tis the final conflict,
Let each stand in his place.
The international soviet
Shall be the human race
'Tis the final conflict,
Let each stand in his place.
The international working class
Shall be the human race
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liberals =/= conservatives

Liberals believe, generally, in social programs such as welfare and universal healthcare. They get a bad rep for being somewhat socialist, being called commies and what not. They realize that, in order to afford useful programs that keep our nation from a descent into the dark ages, that people need to be taxed. Most people don't like the idea of being taxed. Personally, I don't mind it.

If I had healthcare if I get sick, if I had social security for when I retire, if I had welfare for if I am poor, and if my kids get a good education and the teachers aren't paid scraps, then I would happily pay higher taxes.

The problem with conservatives is that they are self-serving. Not necessarily all of them, but those that make the laws aren't usually the slightly-right-of-the-fence conservatives. Sure, they want tax cuts, but at what cost? The military is a huge chunk of conservative money, and yet they want tax cuts; the increase in conservative faith-based social programs is on the rise, but they want to cut taxes. We have a milti-trillion dollar national debt, and yet they want to cut taxes. It's just not realistic, and above all, they support tax cuts for the rich, which is, generally, a conservative group.

I'm not afraid of Mexicans coming across the border. I am not afraid that legal abortion is legal murder. I am not afraid if people who are in jail remain there rather than being killed. I was not afraid of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, or Palestine. What I am afraid of is whether or not my family will have healthcare, whether or not my kids will have opportunities to learn in school, and whether or not my plans for the future are secure or insecure.
>> Anonymous
AMERICA IS WEAK AND DIVIDED
WEAK!! ALL GLORY TO MOTHER CHINA!!
>> Anonymous
Hi, this is the OP checking back on his thread.
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Fuck you guys. Seriously.