Posted on 09/02/2011 5:08:29 PM PDT by mandaladon
Leftists are growing increasingly pessimistic about the political direction of America, which means a “neo-fascist future” is right around the corner again. On the Daily Kos, Ray Pensador explained Tuesday his theory on “Why Rick Perry Is Likely to Win the Presidency in 2012.”
Liberals, he complained, think that merely exposing and criticizing “statements and actions of the crazy, loony right...is somehow enough to convince others about the wrongness of these things.” That’s totally wrong, writes Pensador, because America is a deeply sadistic pile of Puritans that live about five minutes away from our deepest historical atrocities:
This activity springs from the faulty assumption widely shared by the Left, that our perception of reality based on logic, reason, science, empirical evidence, and willingness to compromise, is an attitude widely shared by society at large. This attitude, at the end, will be one of the main reasons the country continued its march toward a neo-fascist future under the total control of corporations and religious fundamentalists.
The great satirist, comedian, and social commentator Bill Maher has touched on this subject, pointing out that "a majority of Americans cannot name a single branch of government or explain what the Bill of Rights is; 24 percent cannot name the country America fought in the revolutionary war; nearly half of Americans don't know that states have two senators; 18 percent believe that the sun revolves around the earth." And only 39 percent believe in evolution...
Pensador complained the average liberal has an underdeveloped sense of empathy because "the majority of them live comfortable middle- or upper-middle class lives, and other influences like the seemingly omniscient propagandist effect of the corporate-owned media." If the corporate media were so powerful, how did Obama get elected again?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Neo-fascist future eh, and socialist states are the ones that apply the fascist controls
Well, as long as they didn’t call us racist, it’s ok/sarc
The great satirist, comedian, and social commentator Bill Maher. Tells you right there.
>>There is a strong legacy of atrocities, of the enslavement and extermination of millions of people, of the appropriation of other people’s land and property, of cruelty, of unimaginable greed.
You could say the exact same thing about communists aka progressives. Only when you say it about communists, it is true.
Wow, someone's been smoking something........
“Sadistic, Puritan America Will Elect Rick Perry in 2012.”
Interesting. He seems to think the opposite would be better.
Of course, the exact opposite title would be:
Masochistic, Licentious America Will Elect Barack Obama in 2012.
These maggots are describing there own agenda and trying to pin it on Perry.
“Sadistic, Puritan America Will Elect Rick Perry in 2012...”
Only if Sarah doesn’t run!
All the people who are ignorant and do not know what Bill Maher says they do not know ALL OF THEM VOTE DEMOCRATIC. The idiots are the core constituency of the Democratic Party. The sycophants. The lazy. They blood suckers. The pompous know-it-alls who want to run every detail of our lives. Those are the clueless morons and ignoramuses Maher is describing him — and he is the most idiotic of them all.
And that's the Democrat base.
I'll get my bullwhip and buckle-hat.
Sure. And Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao and Hitler were fundamentalist Christians. Atrocity is a frequent production of the militantly godless.
The 61% who don’t believe in evolution, ironically, can probably name who we fought in the Revolution, explain the Bill of Rights, etc.
But what do I know? I am apparently just a sadistic Puritan.
God rest their benevolent souls. Was any group ever more vilified in this nation?
“Sure. And Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao and Hitler were fundamentalist Christians.”
Add Idi Amin, Lenin, and Fidel Castro. Commie/statist mass murderers all.
Only if Sarah doesn’t run!
I hope she does, as Perry’s vice.
Perry/Palin does have a certain ring.
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