Besides whining and complaining, what are you doing to help you city and country?
Exposing the truth, Rahelio. How about you?
Think of the very core of liberalism. Not politics or petty issue bickering, but how the ideology wears off on society. It produces selfish, self-centered people who act childish, show no responsibility, won't obey the law, etc. Look what happened after Hurricane Katrina (result of welfare).
I have noticed this with Minnesotans (all races I might add) the whole time I have lived here. People here seem real self-absorbed, don't want to deal with anything, and almost spiteful. Of course it may also be due to our long winters making people "crazy". I still have no idea how the recent immigrants from Africa and other warm weather areas deal with our winters.
It takes more that complaints to make a republic work. It also takes more than buzz words and rehashed partisan tabloid chatter. BTW, liberalism didn't cause the events that took place after katrina. New Orleans is a lot of things but it sure aint liberal.
New Orleans isn't liberal Rahelio ?
Come on! And just when I thought you
were beginning to establish some credibility!The best job in the world
has to be an inner city Democrat pol-
itician... you admit or accept no responsibility for your actions,you
provide no real leadership,you blame
GOP officials for your mistakes and
then collect your big paycheck !!
WHAT A COUNTRY !!! P.S. and the press
gives you a total pass too !
Talk about complaints... this coming from a guy who talks about whites having a 400 year start.
Madonn'!
Maybe if you call everything "liberal" then you don't have to think critically anymore. Being from New Orleans (7th ward) I'll tell you this: Louisiana democrats are to the right of Minnesota Republicans. In fact, MN. Republicans are more liberal than most politicians I've seen in the south.
And, as for the bias in the press. I hear that a lot. Liberals think the slant is toward the corporate right. Neo-Conservatives say it goes left. I'm undecided. Why? Because I cannot reconcile how for-profit organizations owned by moneyed republicans would operate with a complete bias against their own interests. I see a bias, but it is a bias toward sensationalism, terror, catastrophe, discord, sex, and anything else that will get dupes to sit through Tide and Crest commercials.
CNN = liberal. Yet, its the only network left that will give Ann Coulter a job. And Glenn Beck. Where is Tucker Carlson? MSNBC. Joe Scarborough? MSNBC. Chris Matthews, former speech writer for Jimmy Carter, voted for George Bush and still loves him. Liberal? Ralph Nader is liberal. The Clintons are centrist, corporatist in the same way the George Bush is a centrist corporatist.
For me, these labels of liberal and conservative had lost their traditional meaning. Neo-conservatives (read: former moderates who were mugged) are now pawning themselves off as conservatives. People like the Clintons and the Kerry's are pawned off as liberal.
What do you make of the fact that Clinton signed a welfare bill that Reagan would have given his left arm for? What about his turning on Lani Guinear? What his do-nothing attitude about the war on drugs? A liberal in his seat would not have compromised on those issues - imo.
What do you make of Bush proposing an immigration amnesty? What about his spending like crazy? What about expanding the functions of government in a way that is clearly anti-federalism?
Before Clinton was elected those on the left basically said he was not liberal, but they thought he would win. I'd call him a neo-liberal.
Before Bush was elected there were rumblings amongst conservatives that he was not one of them. He's a centrist, a moderate, even though he is driven by neo-conservatives.
Back to New Orleans, think about John Breaux. Think about Metarie, the district that elected David Duke. Think about the power of white money in New Orleans. Its a historic banana republic, has been since before reconstruction. Maybe you're confused by the fact that there are so many black people there = liberals oasis. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Do you disagree?
Clinton was probably more center-left than what we think of today as "liberal". I would like to preserve that label for the new-agers, the whacked out leftists like Cynthia McKinney, Pelosi, Dean - basically the Cindy Sheehan crowd. By the way, Clinton was not eager to sign the welfare reform bill. The political pressure was too much to bear for him and he capitulated. I do agree with you, Rogelio, that the labels have lost much of their meaning. Many Republicans are way too close to the center, and some even swing left on social issues. The President's amnesty proposal is bunk; that plan didn't work the previous time. I'll even agree that Bush spends like a drunken liberal. The bottom line is that both parties are broken, but the Dems are more broken than the Republicans.
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By the way, Rohelio, I don't know if you're black or not, but tell me why so many blacks are socially conservative, but still vote with the Dems, who support things like homosexual "marriage"?
"why so many blacks are socially conservative, but still vote with the Dems, who support things like homosexual "marriage"?"
Because traditionally that is the party that has worked directly with blacks. Most of my Republican friends - especially the black ones - admit the republican marketing to blacks is all wrong.
It's kinda of like people who like small government who vote for people that are pork mongers - republicans/libertarians giving Bush a free pass.
Rahelio,
Good point. There are many different types of Dems and Reps. I still have no idea what a "neo-conservative" is.
It is almost as if, on the national level, today's dems and reps are the same. Kind of like everyone in Congress and govt. are all in it together while our society rots.
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