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Daily Kos: Sadistic, Puritan America Will Elect Rick Perry in 2012
NewsBusters ^ | 2 Sep 2011 | Tim Graham

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?

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: elections; obama; perry; rickperry; texas
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To: mandaladon

My fervent hope now is that President Perry and large R majorities in Congress will have the b@lls to roll back decades of socialism.


21 posted on 09/02/2011 5:45:38 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: mandaladon

Oh snap, Daily Kos is still relevant? /s =.=


22 posted on 09/02/2011 5:48:31 PM PDT by cranked
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To: mandaladon

No Way. The Obama is the great hopey, changey. They should be rejoicing at their fine pick of such a statesman. They are stellar at seeing through the BS of crony-ism and power.


23 posted on 09/02/2011 5:49:46 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: mandaladon
There is a strong legacy of puritanism in the American culture. 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

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I think liberals are getting desperate and paranoid.

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Me: Where was this "legacy of puritanism" when Obama was elected in 2008?

If the "legacy of puritanism" had been around in 2008, then how come Obama still won in 2008? Absurd.

Sounds to me like liberals are turning into bad losers and desperately resorting to calling people ugly names if they even dare to think about not voting for Obama in 2012.

Did it occur to liberals that this is the main reason President has a good chance of losing in 2012: Obama has shown that he is in over his head and that it is becoming painfully clear with each passing day that Obama simply does not have the leadership qualities and experience needed to be an effective President?

It has nothing to do with a "legacy of puritanism".

24 posted on 09/02/2011 5:55:44 PM PDT by john mirse
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To: ronnie raygun

And all those statistics gleaned from Maher need a question asked: Aren’t these the people that elected Barack Obama?


25 posted on 09/02/2011 5:58:09 PM PDT by supremedoctrine (No need for a tagline, but here it is anyway..........)
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To: mandaladon

Daily Kos members are the reason Casey Anthony is dead.


26 posted on 09/02/2011 5:59:53 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Obama is bad luck for the US.)
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To: mandaladon

HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

What nutjobs.


27 posted on 09/02/2011 6:00:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Kos future depiction of Conservative voters.
28 posted on 09/02/2011 6:01:52 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: mandaladon

because America is a deeply sadistic pile of Puritans that live about five minutes away from our deepest historical atrocities

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
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uh...puritans?? YEAH RIGHT!!!!!

thats why us right wingers like women politicians so much...ie palin and bachman!

These yahoos that don’t know anything but jersey shore and jerry springer(ive seen the jay leno surveys on the streets of NYC and LA) are LOYAL OBAMA VOTERS!

IDIOTS


29 posted on 09/02/2011 6:03:40 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

The steady downward spiral of the irrational anti-American fairies at DK continues to puzzle left-wing analysts who have never held jobs.


30 posted on 09/02/2011 6:04:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: mandaladon

Neo-fascist? Isn’t one of the aspects of fascism known as corporatism? Corporatism is when the govt controls the company but puts in place a puppet head. GM, Chrysler, Obama, anyone?

The left are truly dumb shits that can’t even understand their own accusations.


31 posted on 09/02/2011 6:05:58 PM PDT by Round 9
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To: mandaladon

[The great satirist, comedian, and social commentator Bill Maher]

Now that’s funny right there.


32 posted on 09/02/2011 6:19:38 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: mandaladon
Never met any who did. Most of them are into killing babies and believe that to be the highest calling of any politician.

Leftwingtards are sick.

33 posted on 09/02/2011 6:23:26 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: mandaladon

This author hasn’t seen the YouTube video of the “Detroit” lady talking about Obama’s stash has he? I didn’t think so.


34 posted on 09/02/2011 6:26:44 PM PDT by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever!)
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To: driftdiver

AAAAh ! The great satirist, comedian, and social commentator Bill Maher

HUH, None of the above

race bating, socialist, angry, leftest, democrat, little weasel prick, marxist, not
funny at all, steals from real comedians, and everyone knows their own stuff, bill.


35 posted on 09/02/2011 6:37:29 PM PDT by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: mandaladon

“of the appropriation of other people’s land and property”

Uh, yeah. Since when did you have a problem with it? Oh, yeah, when it’s done against “people of color” who didn’t vote with your side.


36 posted on 09/02/2011 6:59:36 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: mandaladon

MON JUL 11, 2011

President Obama: “I Have Bent Over Backwards”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/11/993434/-President-Obama:-I-Have-Bent-Over-Backwards


37 posted on 09/02/2011 7:12:54 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: mandaladon

>>> 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

But enough about Detroit, Kos also doesn’t seem to like Perry.


38 posted on 09/02/2011 7:17:11 PM PDT by tlb
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To: mandaladon

When I first read this I thought it was a new DUFU.


39 posted on 09/02/2011 7:31:51 PM PDT by SoCal SoCon (Yesterday Argentina, Today Greece, Tomorrow America)
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To: mandaladon

” If the corporate media were so powerful, how did Obama get elected again?”

Simple. Obama is one of them [corporatists]. See my tagline.


40 posted on 09/02/2011 7:33:29 PM PDT by SoCal SoCon (Conservatism =/= Corporatism.)
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