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Fountain79 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-04-06 06:54 PM
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Who hates the other more - liberals or conservatives?
Ok... I know it is a town hall article. Hold you nose, but I thought it was an interesting debate.

Here are three questions comparing liberals and conservatives:
1. During the 2004 elections, which car was more likely to be "keyed," i.e., deliberately scratched -- a car with a "John Kerry" bumper sticker in an overwhelmingly conservative area, or a car with a "George W. Bush" sticker in an overwhelmingly liberal area?


http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2006/04/04/192342.html
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-04-06 06:57 PM
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1. whatever
In the inner city, your car gets fucked up...

I think that both camps have disgusting "fight for your right to party" frat assholes that destroy property.

The gop has the kkk, we have radicals on our side...

When you have tons of cash, you don't hate as much.
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-04-06 06:58 PM
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2. As vile and disgusting as Repugs are,
I'd be surprised if Dems cars weren't damaged more. They don't like anyone that's not just exactly like them.

A friend just put a "Compared to Bush, Nixon doesn't look so bad" sticker on his car, and I cautioned him to be careful because so many right wing crazies are in the area.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-04-06 06:59 PM
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3. Liberals hate ideas and policies; conservatives hate liberals
There's a huge difference there and I hope it isn't lost on the OP.
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-04-06 07:20 PM
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7. You are spot on
It is the argument George Lakoff makes in his book Moral Politics. Right-wingers are authoritarians, and they align themselves with power. Therefore, anyone or any idea that is against power is a threat to them.

Threatening the ORDER, dontcha know.
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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-04-06 06:59 PM
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4. Right wingers are definitely angry, frustrated people who are...
inclined to violence. As a matter of fact, using violence to solves their problems is part of their basic philosophy. They like to beat their wives, use corporal punishment to "train" their child (when they aren't sodomizing them), and they really love to use bombs and bullets on other countries.

How many liberals espouse war and physical attacks on their families as a way of life?
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Fountain79 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-04-06 07:02 PM
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6. But what of the article's argument? n/t
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-04-06 07:02 PM
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5. I can't argue with what he says about keyed cars, Ann Coulter or
who gets booed at speeches because I haven't been in situations to see it. But if he wants to see pure, naked hatred, he needs to go visit the freepers. We have a few hot-headed posters here too, but I've seen more anger here at DU than I've seen hatred.
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Rocknrule Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-04-06 08:04 PM
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8. Conservatives hate liberals
in the same way that Nazis hate Jews, KKK people hate blacks, Sith hate Jedi, Death Eaters hate Muggles, etc.

They won't be happy unless EVERY SINGLE liberal on the planet is exterminated
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