Repubs who want a police state

[rudy23]

I used to work in a library, and then a bookstore where I had to listen for the security gate to beep if someone tried to take a book with them. There were certain people who just expected to be waved through, because they didn't look like a criminal. They just expected me to know that they were Mommy's special boy, and they would never do anything wrong.

That's how these Repubs think about our civil liberties. They just blindly trust authority to KNOW that they aren't bad people. I don't know what kind of authority figures they've known throughout their lives that make them endow all authority figures with supreme trustworthiness, but they do.

Not too long ago, a conservative friend of mine was saying he wished there were a police man on every corner. This is an educated guy with a high playing job, who saw no flaw with wanting to live in a police state. Unbelievable.

One thing these people will never admit, is how scared they are of other people, and the randomness of life. They devote so much time and energy into trying to control other people, so they can't possibly be hurt. They want their Daddies to go whoop some ass for them, and that's why they don't mind when * and co. break the law to "protect" them. They play on the tough, protective father figure archetype so well, while the Democrats look like weenie Dads. You can talk policy till the cows come home, but THIS is what motivates voters.

[Jade Fox]

1. I've been wondering lately....

if our flirting with Fascism is because the generation who experienced WWII is dying out. People don't know what they are talking about, literally, when they advocate some of the stuff the do.

I used to know a man (now dead) who had been blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Listening to him talk, I realized he had had an experience I could only imagine, and it gave him a different outlook than mine simply because I hadn't been around to live through what he had.

[feelthebreeze]

2. Yet the generation that fought Vietnam is now the generation in power.

It is stunning to me the huge swings that have rocked this generation. Is it based upon the notion of selfishness, the baby boomer me first, I am all that matters world view?
There was such activism against Vietnam and the government at that time, and yet it seems the major thrust of rebelling came from not getting drafted and getting yourself shot. Would the current young generation and their parents act more nobly now if the draft was persistent? Or have we really become a me society? Cause guess what...Democracy dies in that vacuum. Okay, I have put it out there. Fire away.

[Jade Fox]

3. The Boomers were not THAT selfish...

Many worked in anti-poverty programs, both here and overseas, joined the Peace Corps, worked for Civil Rights and Women's Rights, political campaigns (McCarthy and Robert Kennedy) and were very idealistic. Much of the Anti-war movement was concerned with what we were doing to Viet Nam. I would say the major thrust was idealism, possibly foolish, but sincere enough.

My point was that the Conservatives of the time just saw the fun they weren't having and attention they weren't getting. They saw none of the idealism and hard work. They're not really interested in those.

It's likely we would have more activity if there was a draft. But not wanting your kid or yourself to die for no reason is hardly selfish.

[400Years]

4. bedwetters

[kentuck]

5. Let them have it...

and move their capitol to someplace in Kansas and leave the rest of us the hell alone...