anyone here still think repubs are not human garbage?

[Gato Moteado]

i was chided by some last time i went on a tirade and accused anyone that supports or votes repub of being human garbage.

with what we all know about the repub party's desire to continue to cover up the facts behind their illegal war, their rampant pedophilia, and their connections to every corrupt corporation imaginable...is there anyone here who still thinks that repub voters that support them are just human beings with a different opinion?

just curious.

[AlCzervik]

1. actually since the election i haven't really thought about them much

i'm trying to concentrate on the issues and agenda for the new democratically controlled congress, halting the Bush agenda is number one on my list.

[leftofthedial]

2. i think we need to get them out of the gene pool

and out of our political system

entirely

[Gato Moteado]

3. exactly! send them all to iraq...every last scummy one of them....

...old and young alike. be kind of cool to see babs bush in a burka begging for breadcrumbs in bagdad.

[seabeyond]

6. lets get a concentration camp and herd them in. NONO... i know

lets just shoot them all

wtf...

stupid.

[leftofthedial]

10. yeah! if we do it right we can get more than one of them with each bullet

I like the way you think

wtf.... stupid.

[seabeyond]

15. lol lol being fiscally responsible. and all n/t

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[jgraz]

4. Garbage? Sure. Human? Not so much.

[dogday]

5. They are Americans who have been lead into a

divisive game by this administration... As long as country was split, the people would never have the power to do what they did in November...

Of Course now I don't like talking politics with them, cause then I do get mean, and think they are human garbage.....

[Skittles]

7. oh, you will still get the defenders

you know, republicans suck except for MY republicans - they are FISCAL CONSERVATIVES!!! :puke:

[Kingshakabobo]

36. Oh yes, those.......

The "I don't want my taxes going to n**gers" gang......those fiscal conservatives?

[seabeyond]

8. yes. i know that all republican voters are NOT human garbage. n/t

[Lex]

9. My grandma is a republican and I don't think she's human garbage.

nt

[MannyGoldstein]

11. Oh Stop This

They are deluded people - but certainly not human garbage.

[Lex]

12. Kind of interesting to see a Democrat calling people "human garbage"

isn't it?

[MannyGoldstein]

13. Very Unfortunate n/t

[Bluerthanblue]

34. not so much interesting as it is sad- and discouraging- n/t

[seabeyond]

14. from 9 yr old. i believe matters what kind of republican it is

some repugs did vote for kerry and democrats. and if they are nice and they dont lie.... much... cause everyone lies. and who arent racist. me: otherwise i guess he thinks so. i personally do not have the same view as my 9 yr old. i can see a good in all people i have met, cant say alllll people, cause i havent met them all. but all i have met. i have not met ONE human garbage yet....

ok... he read my reply and agrees with me.

woooosh

what a lesson you gave me to give my son.

thank you

[cali]

16. Dehumanizing people is a revolting

thing to do. Of course all people who vote for repubs aren't human garbage, anymore than all Muslims are terrorist scum or all Jews are vermin, or any other disgusting sweeping statement about any group of people.

A giant fuck the type of thinking that produces posts like yours.

[TahitiNut]

17. Caution ...

[Lex]

18. Ironic signature line for you, pal.

nt

[Gato Moteado]

20. you're absolutely right........

....people that support war for halliburton and oil, torture, screwing the poor, revoking freedom from people that are different than they are, squelching life saving science like embryonic stem cell research, and show total disregard for the environment are realy nice people deep down.

[Lex]

26. LOL!

What you just said has nothing to do with what I said. Or what your sig line says. I was referring to YOU, not to the republicans. You as in your choice of sig line in light of what your post says is ironic.

I agree with what you said in that post, and I can only assume you were being sarcastic, but it was a non sequitur nonetheless.

[happydreams]

19. It's genetic. ....

longitudinal studies of neo-nates who are attracted to Cheetos show that they invariably grow up to be Repugs.
Should abortion be mandatory or simply strongly encouraged? I asked this question at DU awhile back and had the topic locked. :(

[Dervill Crow]

21. Yes.

Like the old saw says, opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one, and sometimes they stink. Personally, I find your intolerance just as repugnant, i.e. stinky, as the delusions and stupidity of many republicans, but it doesn't make you or them human garbage.

Of course, that's just my opinion.

[stray cat]

22. Far right seems to equal far left in terms of depersonalization and hatred

of anyone who disagrees with them. Most americans agree on more things than they differ on. The trouble is the extremists who refuse to think about real issues but cling tho rigid hatred of everyone who disagrees with them are the ones in government.

[BL611]

29. How true that is.

The old I love everyone with the exception of the people I disagree with or don't like who I hate and should die. It worked for the Nazis, the KKK, and the Communists, and evidently some on DU also...

[steve2470]

23. The ones who really know wtf is going on, yes I agree

The truly ignorant ones, they get a pass. Now go fucking get educated, REpublicans, and quit your party to become Dems.

[0rganism]

24. Yep. I think that such sentiments do great harm to everyone, really.

We need to be able to disagree with another person's views and even dislike them personally, without automatically characterizing them in terms of waste, trash, disease, or filth. Such generalizations inhibit communication, damage our own credibility, and worst of all, may lead us to underestimate their capacity for change.

Garden-variety Republicans are actually quite diverse, they do the awful things they do for a broad spectrum of reasons, and not all of them succumb to the same vices. Most are law-abiding fools, duped by promises of wealth they will never gain, meritocracy for which they could never qualify, or ideals of an esoteric spirituality they could never hope to grasp. They desparately wish to be correct, and they do not travel far down their path before they must begin lie to themselves as much as their leaders already lie to them. They're humans mistaken, not human garbage.

The Republican party leadership is extremely corrupt; not only have they done horrible things, but they have also engineered vicious media-military-industrial machines that fool and rob and kill their loyal followers as readily as they fool, rob, and kill their opposition. They are criminals, liars, murderers, and should be regarded as such. However, they too are not garbage.

Opposition is life's great teacher. Only when we come to understand the human qualities of our enemies can we develop our own virtues past the stages of nascent and obvious. They expose the flaws in one's own character. It is easy to have compassion and esteem and foregiveness for one's friends and allies, that is no harder than a seed extending its first root tendrils into soft soil. To have the same capacity for compassion, esteem, and foregiveness of those who hate us and struggle against us, without pretending them to be anything other than what they are, now that is a challenge worth undertaking.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

25. Thanks for the qualification

"repub voters that support them" The Republicans I know are thoroughly turned off by Bush and his hijinks, and are saying that he has betrayed Republican values. I'm all for supporting those kind of Republicans, especially when they add that they voted a straight Democratic ticket in 2006 or that they voted Dem for the first time in their life. The ones that can truly stop Bush aren't the folks at DU-they are the rank and file Republicans who are disgusted with what the neo-cons have done.

[LeftishBrit]

27. I don't think Republicans (or Tories) are human garbage

I just think they're wrong about politics.

[Gregorian]

28. It's an illness. The cure is the truth.

It's like an addiction. The spinners sent their attractive lies out of the media outlets, and some buy it.

But the truth cures the ill perceptions. For example, when we're all treading water. There is no spin. You tread, or drown. There is no global warming until that day, for some.

Those who buy the spin are often doing it for someone they love. Whether it's a marriage partner, or a parent who passed on the lies.

And it's not always an arrogant smirking jerk. There are nice, friendly repubs. It's like some forms of cancer that are asymptomatic. Everything appears normal, but they're sick.

I used to think it was genetic. Perhaps there is a genetic potential for acquiring the disease.




And then there are the assholes who become repubs out of greed. I know one. They are trash. But I think there are very few of them.

[petronius]

30. Yes - I can disagree with, disapprove of, or detest in the strongest possible terms

the opinions and actions of other humans without going down the path of considering them disposable. Posts like yours are the equivalent of the despicable "liberals are terrorist traitors who should be shot" bullshit that shows up on RW sites...

[tinfoil tiaras]

31. I can't hate anyone--hatred makes us just as bad as them

But I do think that the 27% or so of people that still like * are very misinformed and have their heads in the sand....

[seabeyond]

32. i guess the answer to your question is the strong MAJORITY disagree

with you

always does my heart good,.... to see reason over emotion

[Bluerthanblue]

33. yes- me for one. And I'm not alone.

people who do terrible things, behave in awful ways, and deride others based on anything other than that individual person's actual behaviour come in all political flavors, all ages, sexes, sizes, colors, and backgrounds.

I completely disagree with what you say in your post- find the thought itself offensive- and cannot condone or encourage you to continue to think this way- but you are as entitled to hold your 'view' as I am- as anyone is. And human beings are human beings always- not only when 'they' think like 'me' or behave in ways that are what I see as 'good'.

There is no such thing as 'human garbage' except for the refuse that our bodies create, and leave behind.


Hate is an equal opportunity destroyer.

beware, it eats its own-

peace,
blu

[piedmont]

35. Would you have us round them up and take them to camps?

Sounds like you're getting chided again, for good reason. It's possible to hate fascism without adopting parts of it, you know.

[seabeyond]

38. 11 yr old: they arent all trash. they think like it, act like it but they arent garbage

like my dad is a republican and he is just not trash. grandpa, most of uncles on one side, and gradnparents on other side, they dont always see the whole picture but they are loving as anyone else.


btw: me: husband voted kerry, my father voted dem 2006 and his grandparents on other side didnt vote election 2004 and left catholic church after a lifetime....

ha... i love my kids.

i think sometimes kids have it over adults in love.

adding votes on disagreeing with op

[scarface2004]

39. no..

you offend garbage...garbage is jesus christ compared to any piece of shit with an R next to his/her name!

[Igel]

40. If you're not with us,

then you're human garbage.

Presumably that entails "against us", but is considerably less clear on the point--still it reflects quite similar, if not identical, modes of thinking.

[Moderator]

41. locking....

This is not appropriate. Many members have
relatives who are Republicans.