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When did the right stop being about limited government and start peddling conspiracies?
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:35 am
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:35 am
I think I started with birtherism but I'm open to other opinions
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Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:38 am to Draconian Sanctions
I know this is a troll thread, but in all seriousness, both parties have done this for the last two decades. It's sad.
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:38 am to Draconian Sanctions
Probably about the same time the left stopped caring about liberties and became win at all costs.
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:38 am to Aubie Spr96
Not a troll thread at all
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:39 am to Draconian Sanctions
Muh Russians
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:39 am to Draconian Sanctions
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Not a troll thread at all
Lol
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:40 am to Draconian Sanctions
The left was all about 9/11 conspiracies
I am too but for different reasons. The left jumped onto the 9/11 conspiracy bandwagon because they hated George Bush and think he did it. I jumped on the 9/11 conspiracy bandwagon because I figured international banking interests and military industrial complex interests wanted it.
I am too but for different reasons. The left jumped onto the 9/11 conspiracy bandwagon because they hated George Bush and think he did it. I jumped on the 9/11 conspiracy bandwagon because I figured international banking interests and military industrial complex interests wanted it.
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:40 am to dcbl
you can't say it's a liberal conspiracy when GOP senators and congressmen say yeah Russia interfered in the election
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:41 am to goldennugget
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The left was all about 9/11 conspiracies
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:41 am to Draconian Sanctions
You mean things like the idea that the American government would give guns to gangs to increase violence to inact more gun control? Or the Idea that the IRS would be used to attack the opposition party? Is that what you are referring to?
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:41 am to Draconian Sanctions
The "right" never did stop being about that. However, many Republican candidates claim to be Conservative but once in office, they effectively represent solely the multi-national companies Examples include:
- not being about limited government, stopping uncontrolled spending
- not caring about privacy rights
- not doing anything about the government takeover of personal liberty -- particularly healthcare
- not fighting for lower personal taxes.
In short, they aren't Conservative at all. But, their claims of being Conservative have muddled understanding of the belief system and nearly ruined it's "brand".
- not being about limited government, stopping uncontrolled spending
- not caring about privacy rights
- not doing anything about the government takeover of personal liberty -- particularly healthcare
- not fighting for lower personal taxes.
In short, they aren't Conservative at all. But, their claims of being Conservative have muddled understanding of the belief system and nearly ruined it's "brand".
This post was edited on 5/29/17 at 10:43 am
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:43 am to Draconian Sanctions
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birtherism
I don't think it really means anything, his mom is American, but the BC was a fake...
It's been broken down several times...
So the media screams bloody murder, "look, they're trying to say he's not American"...so they drop the word "conspiracy, or conspiracy theory" to paint the investigators into the corner...all while changing the narrative from, "the document is fake" to "they're attacking his American citizenship"
Well, his mom was American, so anyone with any sense knows it doesn't matter...but they never addressed the fakeness of the document, why and the repurcussions of decisions he made throughout his life...
Specifically identifying as a poor foreign exchange to get a free ride at Columbia, Harvard...
Big deal, have system, will exploit...
This post was edited on 5/29/17 at 10:44 am
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:47 am to Draconian Sanctions
9/11 (Bush/Cheney orchestrated/allowed it to pump up the MIC) and the Iraqi invasion (muh Halliburton!) were rife with CTs from the left, bro
this is nothing more than a response to the party in power
since our fedgov is such a leviathan, when your opponent is in power, you imagine/fear ways that your opponent will use the leviathan. that's why the conservatives adopted Hillary's "birther" CT after Obama won (along with the Muslim CT, etc). that's why the left is in full fricking meltdown since November imagining whatever they can to attack Trump. that's why the left was in full fricking meltdown from 2000-2008 about Bush.
this is nothing more than a response to the party in power
since our fedgov is such a leviathan, when your opponent is in power, you imagine/fear ways that your opponent will use the leviathan. that's why the conservatives adopted Hillary's "birther" CT after Obama won (along with the Muslim CT, etc). that's why the left is in full fricking meltdown since November imagining whatever they can to attack Trump. that's why the left was in full fricking meltdown from 2000-2008 about Bush.
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:47 am to Draconian Sanctions
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The left was all about 9/11 conspiracies
just for you...you make it so easy sometimes
More than half of dems believed "Bush knew"
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:47 am to Draconian Sanctions
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you can't say it's a liberal conspiracy when GOP senators and congressmen say yeah Russia interfered in the election
They are liberals (globalists), too. They've been operating off the 1 choice system disguised as a 2 choice system for so long, they were pissed when a nearby outsider took the seat...not to worry, Trump is coming into the fold little by little...if not, they'll kill him.
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:47 am to Draconian Sanctions
You can't scream and hyperventilate all day, every single day, about MUH RUSSIANS, and start these threads with any intellectual honesty or integrity.
Fortunately for you, nobody has those expectations of you. So carry on.
Fortunately for you, nobody has those expectations of you. So carry on.
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:48 am to Draconian Sanctions
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When did the right stop being about limited government
For my young life it seemed like GW Bush started it.
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:48 am to Draconian Sanctions
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I think I started with birtherism but I'm open to other opinions
They stopped being about limited government way before birtherism.
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:49 am to IceTiger
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Well, his mom was American, so anyone with any sense knows it doesn't matter...but they never addressed the fakeness of the document, why and the repurcussions of decisions he made throughout his life...
i mean Obama's history is still shrouded in mystery after 10 years in the prime public spotlight. there are lots of legit questions he dodged for years. now i was always of the opinion that he did this on purpose to fuel the CT mindset of the conservatives, but he may have some real skeletons
Posted on 5/29/17 at 10:50 am to IceTiger
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but the BC was a fake...
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