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This Is For Uproar84 and Cam Who Drinks The Dem. Lite Kool
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This Is For Uproar84 and Cam Who Drinks The Dem. Lite Kool


Apr 11, 2014, 8:26 PM

Follow the progression of this.

The definition of Conundrum is something that is puzzling or confusing.

Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America:

1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.

2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.

3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.

4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.

5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.

6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.

Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century.

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I think this is interesting


Apr 12, 2014, 1:22 AM

In the past, it's always been the Democrats that have been fractured. You had the ivory tower elite voting block, you had the minority block, you had the rust belt union block, etc... It was hard to find one candidate that was able to excite all of those different sets of people.

Now for the first time you are seeing a fissure erupt in the Republican party. You've got the more moderate, pragmatist Republicans who realize that somewhere along the way you're going to have to stop acting crazy, because there just aren't enough crazy people out there to win an national election. You essentially have the moderates trying to pull the party closer to the center, and you have the true believers trying to pull the party farther to the right. I'm just waiting for the loud ripping sound.

Like it or not, the Republicans are going to have to get their crap together because a fractured Republican base can not win. There simply isn't enough of them to have 2 candidates split the vote.

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Yep. If we can only get rid of the wacky


Apr 12, 2014, 8:05 AM

moderates.

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We're friends. You laugh, I laugh. You cry, I cry. You jump off a bridge, I get in my boat and save your retarded a$$.


Interesting, indeed.


Apr 12, 2014, 9:14 PM [ in reply to I think this is interesting ]

You think that the third that's paying for all this entitlement are "acting crazy". I suppose we are. How dare us grow tired of a government, run amok.

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Have you ever heard the phrase


Apr 13, 2014, 4:58 PM

Cut off your nose to spite your face?

That's what the Pubs are doing right now. It's must see T.V.

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Re: Have you ever heard the phrase


Apr 14, 2014, 9:36 PM

Your cheering section is a little further left, "moderate".


lulz

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It certainly isn't the first time it's happened to Republicans


Apr 14, 2014, 10:55 PM [ in reply to I think this is interesting ]

But I think you could argue that it's one of the first times since the parties really became ideological that there's been a split in the conservative movement significant enough to cause Republicans to lose (more) elections. I would argue, though, that the main cause of this is the economic downturn that caused the last Republican administration to become especially unpopular coupled with a loss in the last presidential election. Had Romney won and become popular, I don't think there would be as much in- fighting because people wouldn't think there was as much to fix.

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Re: It certainly isn't the first time it's happened to Republicans


Apr 14, 2014, 10:56 PM

shut up you commie liberal . ;)

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On moderates


Apr 14, 2014, 11:10 PM [ in reply to I think this is interesting ]

I don't think most of them are particularly "moderate" in the sense that they're closer to the left than the base. The only difference between the really hard core people and most of the "moderates" is that the "moderates" are more circumspect about achieving long-term conservative goals, while the hard core thinks everything they want must happen right now. It isn't so much that the "moderates" don't want the same things as the hard core, it's that they don't believe any of those things are achievable if they're attempted before the electorate is ready.

Now, there are Republicans that are actually very close to the center or who are even more like center- left. But these aren't the people that the hard core usually complains about, for some reason.

The hard core need to remember that the purpose of parties is winning elections, and that no party can win elections if its rhetoric and policies only appeal, or even make sense, to its own base. The "moderates" need to remember that insulting the base is just as good a way to lose elections as marginalization is, while the accolades that come from the left when you're fighting your own people will turn to jeers when you're fighting them.

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I always knew you were a pragmatist Cam


Apr 14, 2014, 11:54 PM

You can be the Karl Rove of Tigernet if you want.

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Military retirees, vets disabled while in service, families


Apr 12, 2014, 7:23 AM

of vets killed in action think think they are victims?

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LoL.


Apr 12, 2014, 9:15 PM

Bless your heart.

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Re: Military retirees, vets disabled while in service, families


Apr 13, 2014, 5:00 PM [ in reply to Military retirees, vets disabled while in service, families ]

Troll much??

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No, but I prolly reply to them too much as in this case.***


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