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Journal Jeremiah Cornelius's Journal: The Conservative Movement 11

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius

"The Conservative Movement you joined, Mr. Sullivan, never amounted to much more than oligarchs and theocrats using America's most ancient and volatile hatreds as shaped charges to methodically destroy our nation's capacity for self-government. And the day that Richard Nixon decided that the future of the Party of Lincoln depended on getting into bed with the Klan was the day American Conservatives began preparing to vote to cut their own economic throats and to use their last, gurgling breath the to cheer for the idea of letting poor people die in the streets."

http://driftglass.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/stupid-shit-andrew-sullivan-says-ctd_18.html

Of course, I see this beginning with Hamilton...

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  • You can call it an over-simplification, but, ultimately, movements are either for liberty, or NOT for liberty.
    It is completely disingenuous of the Left to whinge on about oligarchy, and then dive into statism in reply.
    "Oh, Big Pharma is killing us, so let's have ObamaCare instead!"
    If there was a way to spin these morons into an alternate future, where they can enjoy their Orwellian future without destroying mine, I'd love to do so.
    Clowns.

    • The ObamaCare deception is a prime example.

      It was a plan, originally devised and promoted from the Heritage Foundation.

      Romney - or his handlers - adopted the core of this model in Massachusetts.

      Obama - or his handlers - reproduced a national version of the Heritage/Massachusetts model as the Affordable Care act.

      The "war" between these is farcical - and false. It is a principal example of the use of "deepest prejudice" as "shaped charges" to destroy self-governance and liberty of the people.

      In fact, the Her

      • The real crime is that for the hard core Left, ObamaCare is a transitional joke intended to crash the system for the single-payer reboot.
        Here is the background on Heritage [wsj.com]. Just goes to underscore O'Sullivan's Law [wikipedia.org].

        • There is a "hard left" in the US?

          Where? The country doesnt have a functioning center-left.

          • I've been told that there was a powerful "hardcore" left movement till McCarthyism wipped them out in the fifties... there have to be some of them somewhere lurking ;)

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