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[BLUEDOVE3]

I had to go back and find the article I came across a few weeks ago but I could not find the exact one. But here is a similar article from 2014 Salon News. I thought my Progressive friends would get a better understanding of what we are dealing with on here. 

Conservative fears of nonexistent or overblown boogeymen — Saddam’s WMD, Shariah law, voter fraud, Obama’s radical anti-colonial mind-set, Benghazi, etc. — make it hard not to see conservatism’s prudent risk avoidance as having morphed into a state of near permanent paranoia, especially fueled by recurrent “

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,” a sociological phenomenon in which a group of “social entrepreneurs” whips up hysterical fears over a group of relatively powerless “folk devils” who are supposedly threatening the whole social order. Given that conservatism seems to be part of human nature — just as liberalism is — we’re going to need all the help we can get in figuring out how to live with it, without being dominated, controlled and crippled by it.

[LumRaiderFan]

Might as well read more of Mr. Rosenberg's article, then all will know who we're dealing with here.

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[stevenash]

Bottom line-1. Doves crowd thinks it knows better about what is good for people than the people themselves

                   2.  Doves crowd believes that more government intervention and more central planning are the solution to all ills

                   3.. The electorate is very smart/sophisticated when voting for the U.S. President but it is intellectually deficient when voting on other offices/issues  and the same

                        applies to other countries

[BLUEDOVE3]

Wow, look at the title of this article he wrote this year. Obviously he likes to explore OTHER thoughts. Something rare among you people.

Clintonism screwed the Democrats: How Bill, Hillary and the Democratic Leadership Council gutted progressivism

[LumRaiderFan]

24 minutes ago, stevenash said:

Bottom line-1. Doves crowd thinks it knows better about what is good for people than the people themselves

                   2.  Doves crowd believes that more government intervention and more central planning are the solution to all ills

                   3.. The electorate is very smart/sophisticated when voting for the U.S. President but it is intellectually deficient when voting on other offices/issues  and the same

                        applies to other countries

And this is the same crowd running cities like Detroit and Chicago, right?

[baddog]

Wow, Sadaam's WMDs, Sharia law, Benghazi, voter fraud....all made up or paranoia  people take the freakin cake.

WMDs : If you don't think he had them (250,000 dead Kurds) you're and idiot.

Sharia law : If you don't believe it is responsible for thousands of murders, you are an idiot.

Benghazi : If you don't think that was very mishandled, you are an idiot.

Voter fraud : Geez, we have never heard how Bush won Florida so it must be just the right.

But hey, I'm just paranoid. How convenient an attitude instead of doing something about evil, just hide your head and it will go away.

[stevenash]

38 minutes ago, LumRaiderFan said:

And this is the same crowd running cities like Detroit and Chicago, right?

Unequivocally

[stevenash]

40 minutes ago, BLUEDOVE3 said:

Wow, look at the title of this article he wrote this year. Obviously he likes to explore OTHER thoughts. Something rare among you people.

Clintonism screwed the Democrats: How Bill, Hillary and the Democratic Leadership Council gutted progressivism

Rare among you people?   And totally absent for your crowd.

[Englebert]

2 hours ago, BLUEDOVE3 said:

I had to go back and find the article I came across a few weeks ago but I could not find the exact one. But here is a similar article from 2014 Salon News. I thought my Progressive friends would get a better understanding of what we are dealing with on here. 

Conservative fears of nonexistent or overblown boogeymen — Saddam’s WMD, Shariah law, voter fraud, Obama’s radical anti-colonial mind-set, Benghazi, etc. — make it hard not to see conservatism’s prudent risk avoidance as having morphed into a state of near permanent paranoia, especially fueled by recurrent “

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,” a sociological phenomenon in which a group of “social entrepreneurs” whips up hysterical fears over a group of relatively powerless “folk devils” who are supposedly threatening the whole social order. Given that conservatism seems to be part of human nature — just as liberalism is — we’re going to need all the help we can get in figuring out how to live with it, without being dominated, controlled and crippled by it.

It amazes me how Progressives try to paint the Right with their broad brush, while at the same time accusing the Right of painting the Left with a broad brush. Hypocritical is not a strong enough word to describe it. I really don't know what is worse, the fact that the writer can publish something so juvenile or the fact that many Liberals believe this garbage.

[stevenash]

" whips up hysterical fears over a group of relatively powerless folk devils- ISIS IS THE JV

[stevenash]

5 hours ago, BLUEDOVE3 said:

I had to go back and find the article I came across a few weeks ago but I could not find the exact one. But here is a similar article from 2014 Salon News. I thought my Progressive friends would get a better understanding of what we are dealing with on here. 

Conservative fears of nonexistent or overblown boogeymen — Saddam’s WMD, Shariah law, voter fraud, Obama’s radical anti-colonial mind-set, Benghazi, etc. — make it hard not to see conservatism’s prudent risk avoidance as having morphed into a state of near permanent paranoia, especially fueled by recurrent “

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,” a sociological phenomenon in which a group of “social entrepreneurs” whips up hysterical fears over a group of relatively powerless “folk devils” who are supposedly threatening the whole social order. Given that conservatism seems to be part of human nature — just as liberalism is — we’re going to need all the help we can get in figuring out how to live with it, without being dominated, controlled and crippled by it.

I'm with you Dove- this is all much ado about nothing.  Paranoia at new heights.  Nothing is wrong here.  If we can take care of changing the redskins name, get the transgender bathroom issue worked out, allow the IRS to keep better tabs on those rich, gun toting, bible clinging right wingers,  get rid of all confederate flags as well as guns, and make the rich take better care of those who, through no fault of their own, are having a tough time making it, Utopia is imminent.  We need less equal opportunity and more equal outcomes!!!!!!!

[BLUEDOVE3]

5 hours ago, Englebert said:

It amazes me how Progressives try to paint the Right with their broad brush, while at the same time accusing the Right of painting the Left with a broad brush. Hypocritical is not a strong enough word to describe it. I really don't know what is worse, the fact that the writer can publish something so juvenile or the fact that many Liberals believe this garbage.

Actually there are several studies pertaining to this subject matter

[Englebert]

2 minutes ago, BLUEDOVE3 said:

Actually there are several studies pertaining to this subject matter

There's way more than several, and I've read a ton of them.

[stevenash]

6 minutes ago, Englebert said:

There's way more than several, and I've read a ton of them.

I suspect that Dove was somewhat "selective" when presenting the studies of his choice.

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

11 minutes ago, stevenash said:

I suspect that Dove was somewhat "selective" when presenting the studies of his choice.

Lack of mental toughness?

[Big girl]

7 hours ago, BLUEDOVE3 said:

Actually there are several studies pertaining to this subject matter

I agree with you.

[Englebert]

16 minutes ago, Big girl said:

I agree with you.

Really? You actually think there are only "several" studies pertaining to this subject matter. How many do you consider several?

[JWB]

21 hours ago, BLUEDOVE3 said:

I had to go back and find the article I came across a few weeks ago but I could not find the exact one. But here is a similar article from 2014 Salon News. I thought my Progressive friends would get a better understanding of what we are dealing with on here. 

Conservative fears of nonexistent or overblown boogeymen — Saddam’s WMD, Shariah law, voter fraud, Obama’s radical anti-colonial mind-set, Benghazi, etc. — make it hard not to see conservatism’s prudent risk avoidance as having morphed into a state of near permanent paranoia, especially fueled by recurrent “

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,” a sociological phenomenon in which a group of “social entrepreneurs” whips up hysterical fears over a group of relatively powerless “folk devils” who are supposedly threatening the whole social order. Given that conservatism seems to be part of human nature — just as liberalism is — we’re going to need all the help we can get in figuring out how to live with it, without being dominated, controlled and crippled by it.

Unbelievable.....you just cant make this stuff up???? You actually believe this garbage???

[Hagar]

Personally, I think Dove should have posted this on the thread, This Board Needs, in the Locker Room.

[LumRaiderFan]

2 hours ago, JWB said:

Unbelievable.....you just cant make this stuff up???? You actually believe this garbage???

They do...this thread has become more of an expose' of the left wing brain than the right wing brain.