Why Would You Vote for Republicans???

Why Would You Vote for Republicans???

Twelve Rock-Solid Reasons to Help You Decide...

1. Republicans caused the stock market crash.

2. Republicans caused the real estate catastrophe.

3. Republicans caused the banks to collapse and also drove the deficit sky-high.

4. Republicans sent millions of American jobs overseas.

5. Republicans keep bringing illegal immigrants into the US so they can pay them lower wages, and then Republicans insist illegal immigrants must be forced to leave.

6. Republicans claim they want more jobs for Americans, yet they have repeatedly voted against--or refused to vote at all--on crucial measures to create more jobs.

7. Republicans want to destroy Social Security.

8. Republicans want to destroy Medicare.

9. Republicans want to destroy middle class Americans and make the rich richer.

10. Republicans are religious fundamentalists and extremists unable to reverse or even criticize the hold of weird and unpredictable forces in their party.

11. Republicans have handed our elections over to foreign corporations.

12. Republicans totally and in every way caused this recession. They have no sound ideas for this nation, or none of this could have happened.

Can you imagine what they'll do if you vote 

them back in again...?

Are you STILL thinking about voting 

for Republicans...?

Please read this message carefully again on 

Election Day before you go out to vote.

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The Big Tea Party Lie

It's starting to show up everywhere, on TV, in the blogosphere, even in major newspapers*.

The enormous lie--or at least the stupendous exaggeration-- that the US has never been more divided than it is today.

But it's not even remotely true. Divisions were far more acute during the Sixties, by at least a factor of two or three.

At that time more than two-thirds of the population seriously believed that the government was busy preparing internment camps to lock away rebellious youth.

And at least one-third of Americans agreed that such camps were desperately needed. Another third was less sure but probably wouldn't have objected if the camps had ever opened their gates. 

And of course another ten percent of Americans were fairly sure that they had a good chance of ending up in  the camps.  There's even a 1971 film devoted to this theme, Punishment Park--it depicts the growing sadism of the American soldiers who guarded the prisoners.

Why are so many pundits suddenly voicing these doom's day sentiments? First of all, most of them are too young to know better, while the older ones have simply forgotten. Besides, it always sounds good to use  superlatives. "Most divided in our history" sounds a lot better than just "divided" or "severely divided." "Most divided since Lincoln" sounds even better and suggests that the authors know something about our history.

But they don't.  There have been quite a few periods that have rivaled or surpassed ours in divisiveness.  The fight over Joe McCarthy and alleged communists in the government during the Fifties, for example. Or the political climate between the Crash of '29 and Roosevelt's election in 1932.  Or the divisions between 1914 and 1916 over whether to enter World War I.

In any case, today's divisions center around our Congress, around the refusal by one political party to cooperate with the other one.  In other words they are limited to the workings of our government, as our constitution intended,  and with few exceptions have not yet spread to our streets or our citizenry.

Sure, there are thousands of Tea Partiers around.  But so far no one is calling for their imprisonment. Sure, Tea Partiers are pretty ugly, but this cabal of libertarians, racists, and outright loonies has been a constant over at least the last century. 

In 1900 they would have been screaming over the ratio of gold to paper money as the be-all and end-all of civilization as we know it.

So however you cut it, we're still quite unlikely to come anywhere near the level of Sixties anger.

Unless of course the likes of Palin, Paladino, Angle, and O'Donnell are actually elected to office.  If that ever happened, and they ever started to work their will on American laws and institutions...that's when we might begin to see a return to Sixties levels of anger.

If you need any further evidence that the passions of the Sixties far surpassed our own 
simply click here. . .

www.untoldsixties.net

No, the nation is not more divided now than ever before. It is simply caught up in a rhetorical whirlwind--one that could  conceivably turn into a truly destructive political tornado, even a hurricane. Or it could with a bit of luck simply dissolve back into the dirty little swirl of hot air it came from.

*Just a few examples:

http://www.squidoo.com/americancivilwar2010

http://www.centurycitynews.com/article/Columnists/Michael_Douglas_Carlin/Constitutional_Convention_Anyone/65396

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/09/avlon.9.11.anniversary/index.html?iref=allsearch

http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/why-is-america-so-divided/

Palin Caught Pallin' Around With Sixties Radicals

For Immediate Release
September 13, 2010

PALIN CAUGHT PALLIN' AROUND
WITH SIXTIES RADICALS

Indisputable evidence clearly linking Sarah Palin with Sixties radicals has driven Tea Party
organizers around the nation into near panic. Most leaders are currently keeping a strained
silence, but persistent questioning reveals an unmistakable rift. No one is willing to state
categorically that the Tea Party will not fall apart over this issue. The scandal is unlikely to
abate soon, since evidence clearly points to Palin's guilt in promoting radical Sixties ideas
and programs on three separate fronts.

Loud objections have sprung from Palin's use of the word "sexism" to characterize those
who oppose her views.  "We can't have any kind of Republican candidate using the word
‘sexism,’ observed a Texas Tea Party leader. “‘Sexism’ is a Sixties word, a Sixties idea, no one in America talked about sexism until the Sixties came along," he continued.
 
A Colorado activist agreed: "Anyone who uses the word ‘sexism’ is likely to mention
racism and ageism in the same breath,  these are all well-known Sixties slogans. Anyway, we all realize that sexism, racism, and ageism don't really exist, they're simply the product of
high taxes and a soaring budget--those are our real issues today."

Will the Tea Party Survive?

Many Tea Party stalwarts also see unmistakable Sixties influence in the way Palin dresses.
"Why she actually shows her knees while she's speaking in public, she even wears a
miniskirt," observed a prominent Tea Party matron in Kentucky.  "We all know where
miniskirts came from--they’re straight out of the Sixties, they’re English, they’re
socialist." “No true moral revival can come about,” added a well-known west-coast
evangelist, “unless we expose the Sixties origin of all such customs.”

As if this were not enough, even on the east coast a major right-wing ideologist has
expressed serious doubts about Palin and is only days away from going public. "There is a
fundamental position at stake here," he confided. “Not just Palin but McCain himself
have repeatedly referred to themselves as ‘mavericks,’ even as ‘rogues,’” he went on.

"But there can be no place on the right for either ‘mavericks’ or ‘rogues’--we are
essentially a party of like-minded conservatives.  Mavericks and rogues belong back in
the Sixties. I hate to sugest such a thing, but it could just be that there has been a
long-term radical conspiracy by the likes of Palin and McCain to bring the Sixties back
into our nation and undermine the purity of American conservative thought."

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The Most Dangerous Mistake All Humans Make...

      This is the revised version of my earlier blog...

      The Most Dangerous Mistake
      All Humans Make...
      
      There's a horrendous mistake all of us make
      almost every day.  It inevitably leads to
      even more horrendous consequences.
      
      We make this mistake repeatedly,
      without thinking about it
      in the slightest.
      
      Even though the only way
      we could ever stop making it
      would be to start thinking about it...
      
      Which no one really wants to do. 
      because we're truly in love
      with this mistake
      and want to go on
      making it forever...

      Despite its disastrous consequences
      for politics, economics,
      scientific truth,
      and our everyday personal lives...
      
      Let's call it:

      THE DEEP-DOWN FALLACY
      

      It has many forms, but basically
      it goes like this:

      Hey, deep down life isn't really
      all that complex...

      Basically everybody everywhere
      deep-down is the same...

      Basically deep-down
      everybody everywhere wants
      the same things...you know,
      food, shelter, that stuff...

      Basically deep-down
      all peoples & cultures
      are pretty much the same too...

      Basically deep-down
      all societies and all nations
      seek the same goals
      & for the same reasons...

      Basically deep-down
      all languages are the same
      and say the same thing
      in pretty much the same way... 

      Basically deep-down
      everybody everywhere
      believes in "God..."

      Which is why
      basically deep-down
      a yearning for "God"
      is universal...
      
      And why the word for "God"
      is basically deep-down
      the same in all languages...
      
      There, now you've seen them...

      At least some of them...

      Needless to say, however helpful
      so many of us may have
      found these notions
      over the years and centuries,
      not a single one of them
      is even remotely true... 

      And our insistence
      that they might be true
      has in so many different ways
      led to all the feuds, wars,
      genocides, crazed political theories,
      and murderous off-the-wall
      religious doctrines that have typified
      the last several thousand years
      of human history...

      Since it's so obvious
      that all of them MUST be true,
      any time we find people
      who resist these ideas
      or claim they aren't the same as us,
      they must be mistaken,
      and we must EDUCATE them...

      If they still resist
      after we EDUCATE them,
      then they quite obviously
      must be PUNISHED
      or somehow be made to obey...
      or else...
      disappear...

      
      It's precisely
      these stupid ideas
      that end up
      in disastrous results...
      

      Maybe the worst part comes
      when someone challenges us
      on our opinions,
      how pompous and hypocritical
      and downright belligerent
      we can become
      in defending ourselves...
      
      We'll go to almost any lengths
      to avoid admitting
      our lack of knowledge
      and experience of other peoples,
      not to mention
      our almost total
      lack of imagination.
      
      Can there be a solution...? 
      
      Maybe...
      
      Just maybe...
      
      Stay tuned...

Leave Your Comments Below...

Responsible for this article:
Alex Gross

Author, The Untold Sixtieswww.untoldsixties.net

Visit My Main Website
http://language.home.sprynet.com

      The Most Dangerous Mistake
      All Humans Make...
      
      There's a horrendous mistake all of us make
      almost every day.  It inevitably leads to
      even more horrendous consequences.
      We make this mistake repeatedly,
      without thinking about it
      in the slightest.
      
      Even though the only way
      we could ever stop making it
      would be to start thinking about it...
      
      Which no one really wants to do. 
      because we're truly in love
      with this mistake
      and want to go on
      making it forever...

      Despite its disastrous consequences
      for politics, economics,
      scientific truth,
      and our everyday personal lives...
      
      Let's call it:

      THE DEEP-DOWN FALLACY
      
      It has many forms, but basically
      it goes like this:

      Hey, deep down life isn't really
      all that complex...

      Basically everybody everywhere
      deep-down is the same...

      Basically deep-down
      everybody everywhere wants
      the same things...you know,
      food, shelter, that stuff...

      Basically deep-down
      all peoples & cultures
      are pretty much the same too...

      Basically deep-down
      all societies and all nations
      seek the same goals
      & for the same reasons...

      Basically deep-down
      all languages are the same
      and say the same thing
      in pretty much the same way... 

      Basically deep-down
      everybody everywhere
      believes in "God..."

      Which is why
      basically deep-down
      a yearning for "God"
      is universal...
      
      And why the word for "God"
      is basically deep-down
      the same in all languages...
      
      There, now you've seen them...

      At least some of them...

      Needless to say, however helpful
      so many of us may have
      found these notions
      over the years and centuries,
      not a single one of them
      is even remotely true... 

      And our insistence
      that they might be true
      has in so many different ways
      led to all the feuds, wars,
      genocides, crazed political theories,
      and murderous off-the-wall
      religious doctrines that have typified
      the last several thousand years
      of human history...

      Since it's so obvious
      that all of them MUST be true,
      any time we find people
      who resist these ideas
      or claim they aren't the same as us,
      they must be mistaken,
      and we must EDUCATE them...

      If they still resist
      after we EDUCATE them,
      then they quite obviously
      must be PUNISHED
      or somehow be made to obey...
      or else...
      disappear...
      
      It's precisely
      these stupid ideas
      that end up
      in disastrous results...
      
      Can there be a solution...? 

      Maybe...
      
      Just maybe...
      
      Stay tuned...

 
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