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To: RetiredNow who wrote (213179)12/12/2004 10:34:05 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1578157
 
re: Let's imagine for a moment what a liberal world would look like...

The "liberals" were in power for years... your radical and paranoid interpretation of "liberal" is idiotic and hilarious.

John



To: RetiredNow who wrote (213179)12/12/2004 11:03:17 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1578157
 
"Let's imagine for a moment what a liberal world would look like"

By the same token, let's imagine what a US dominated by the religious right would look like. We'd have a rigid and stratified society with people of "good character" looking out for any behavior they object to. They would then turn the names of those people to the authorities who would pick them up and get them to confess their crimes and put them in prison. Whether they actually committed any infraction is not particularly relevant, the fact that they were turned in by someone of good standing is enough. The newspapers and other media routinely lists those who have been picked up, just so their family and friends can be watched closely. "Good character" is defined by those who are related to or friends of people in authority. In addition, routinely praising or doing favors for those in authority is enough. Individuals of influence are allowed to prey on others, sexually or otherwise, with little reprecussion because they are seen as selected individuals with special dispensations from God. If someone complains, they are pressured by others to shut up and go along. If those people persist, they often disappear.

If you aren't a member of the local religion, you have a lot of problems. You can't get a job of any significance. If for some reason you actually do, your employer is pressured by others until you get fired. Odd things often happen around you, inexplicable fires happen, shots are fired into your home, bricks and rocks are thrown through your windows, your cat winds up being nailed to your front door. When you complain to the police, they get really annoyed with you. You are often harrassed, your children are excluded and assaulted, verbally and otherwise.

If you are a member of the local religion, life is good. You have a lot of friends and if there are problems, you have a lot of support. However, you do have to be careful what you say in public and what you do. You also have to be very aware of the balance of power, if there is a shift you don't want to be associated with the wrong people. Your daughter is pretty safe. Safe, that is, unless the local preacher or his son doesn't take an interest in her. If so, there is little either of you can do. If she happens to get pregnant, well, then she is obviously a slut who needs to be dealt with. It's best if she keeps her mouth shut, because if she doesn't, then she is trying to drag a good man down and avoid her sin. Things can get dicey for your whole family...

One little difference between this scenario and yours. Yours hasn't happened any where. Mine has happened many times and still does. Try going to any small town in the South that is dominated by a charismatic preacher.



To: RetiredNow who wrote (213179)12/12/2004 4:02:34 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578157
 
First, let me point out to you that you are so full of ca ca, its hilarious. Where did you grow up.....no doubt in the heart of red country?

Well, we're in the majority and you liberal left freaks are in the minority. Thank goodness for that.

Let's imagine for a moment what a liberal world would look like. We'd have an anything goes society, where sexual restraint is unknown. Kids would grow up with no moral compass because all religious affiliations would become taboo.


I live in one of the most liberal areas of the country and the rate of crime among teens in one of the lowest in the country.

Pot and other "soft" drugs would be legal, effectively helping millions more kids embark on the slippery slope to oblivion, which would decimate the foundation of our future civilian work force.

Dude, you are very out of touch.......do you thing the kids of red voters are weed free? If so, think again.

We'd allow rampant immigration with few controls, because we don't want to offend foreigners who come to visit us.

LOL. Mr. Bush is trying to increase immigration.........and many of the GOPers in Congress agree with him. Its only the more moderate, more liberal GOPers who are opposing him.

As a result, security would be impossible to implement. Either New York or Los Angeles would be a burning cinder from a nuclear warhead having been blown up in its midst, because we didn't have the willpower to racially profile Muslims and foreigners who happened to have traveled to some dubious Middle Eastern locales prior to their arrival here in the U.S. Iran would have not one, but several nukes because we don't want to offend them by trying to stop proliferation.

Thanks to Bush and Iraq, there is a much greater chance that NYC or LA will be cinders. The GOP has unleashed a level of hate that will not be easily put down.

Israel would be a burnt out cinder and the last remaining Jews would have been eliminated through a Muslim pogrom, because the U.S., it's only ally, decided to be liberal and more like Europe.

Europe has turned on Israel, as it should, only in the past ten years as Israel became more militaristic and aggressive, and much less committed to peace and a Palestinian state.

Our daughters grow up in a world where they are nothing but sexual objects, as far as they can tell from the Hollywood culture that pounds them with ideas that being 6 foot tall and 120 lbs is the ideal way to look and that sex at an early age is the only way to become popular.

Hmmmmm........didn't the TX cheerleader killer mom happen in TX?

But hey, it's ok, because we have the pill and we have two daddies who say promiscuous sex is natural and is moral. Then we have a surging aids problem because unprotected gay sex is becoming more the norm (oops that's happening today anyway).

Clearly, you are homophobic. What's the problem.......sometimes you check out the guys and they look good to you?

The government bans all nativity scenes, but then sponsors a Christmas play where a gay Jesus proclaims to all the world that being homosexual is what love is all about. But hey, they're so doped up on their latest fashion drug and their all-night orgies that they don't really care whether they have a future or not.

More homophobia.....did your hi school best friend spurn your sexual advances?

Oh, did I forget to mention that Michael Jackson was found to be not guilty in this brave new world? Despite accusations from several dozen children who said he molested them and forensic evidence which found his fingerprints and those of the child he molested on porn magazines and sworn affidavits from former workers at his ranch and from children, our society now no longer believes that children can be molested by adults.

Dozens? Really? You need to go back and check out the facts.

You see Nambla has made plenty of headway in this brave new world that the gays made for them. So now every association that was considered deviant is now mainstream thinking. Oh but I misspoke, because you see Nambla members don't consider themselves to be gay.

Oh I see..........pedophilia is a gay thing. Again, you are badly misinformed. In fact, I think you may be a bit pervy yourself.

What a great new world you'd have us live in. Our founding fathers would be ashamed of today's America, if they were alive today.

No. They would be ashamed of YOU.