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I love this video.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I <3 Thom Hartmann.
Cirque du So-What
(25,908 posts)Thom Hartmann also includes a line that I've been using for many years: all progress made in this nation has been in spite of conservatives attempting to subvert it.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)sane intellectuals, such as Wm. S. Buckley, was that they provided the necessary brake to liberalism getting out of hand (such as going all the way to violent communism). Don't get me wrong, I consider myself pretty much a Socialist.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)There's nothing conservative about today's GOP or the rest of the political Right. They don't care about conserving anything. As a matter of fact, most of them want to totally eliminate things such as the EPA, Affirmative Action, Roe v. Wade, gay rights, and progressive taxation. A more honest label for them would be the "Regressive Party", as Robert Reich coined it. All of their stances mirror what life used to be like back in the Gilded Era.
I would argue that many self-proclaimed progressives and Democrats follow more closely the dictionary definition of the word "conservative" than most self-proclaimed conservatives and Republicans. Just compare the presidencies of Clinton and Obama with Bush ll and Reagan. While UE and the deficit lowered under Democratic presidents, those things were actually raised under Republican presidents. When it comes to national security, there were no wars we were involved in under Clinton, while Obama has drawn down both wars Bush ll started. And of course, we can't forget about Reagan's Cold War. Republican presidents have been nothing but reckless war-mongerers, and they were the true out-of-control spenders.
jjewell
(618 posts)supercats
(429 posts)The more admiration I have for the man...And I've been listening to him now for at least the last seven years or so.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)MoreGOPoop
(417 posts)A most perfect summation, Thom! My dream is to tear down the Prop Machine and pump some Education money into the Red states. We've gotta quit propagating Haters.