butterfly77
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Tue May-18-10 02:10 PM
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Do we have the same types of wingnuts as the rightwing.. |
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Edited on Tue May-18-10 02:38 PM by butterfly77
This guy has written a book and has been trying to compare us to the TEABAGGERS and finally bill maher sets him straight on it.. http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/bill-maher-calls-out-john-avlon-for-false
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Tue May-18-10 02:29 PM
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if you go trotting far enough to the left you will eventually run into the people from the right heading the other way around the circle.
Leftwing and rightwing are relative to the center and relative to your worldview, and these days the center aren't centrist so much as undecided.
There are some serious nutbags right here on DU who claim to be real progressives and yet believe the nanny state is entirely appropriate, who believe in splitting up families into fosterage for slapping a kid on the face or a swat on the butt, who believe in punishment without rehabilitation, who believe that community service is not institutionalized free city labor nor a substitute for financial restitution, and who believe that the mythical "the rich" (as if it were a discrete entity with goals and motives different from the entity "the poor") are responsible for all the evil in the world. It goes on and on . . . we can be as whackadoodle obsessive as the next semantically challenged teabagger, but I think our hearts are generally in a better place.
Oh we have our own special cases we like to keep locked up when civil company comes calling, no doubt.
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Tue May-18-10 02:30 PM
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Tue May-18-10 03:26 PM
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4. We HAD Jim Jones, yuk! |
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Edited on Tue May-18-10 03:27 PM by Mojeoux
Who is out there on the left that talks about using violence these days? We are now practiced in the art of the PEACEFUL Protest.
(711! Love ya DU:toast: )
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Tue May-18-10 09:14 PM
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5. That's Avalon's term.. |
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There is no equivalency...TEABAGGERS are far,far,far worse..
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