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Old 03-13-2012, 08:47 PM
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"Being self-taught, his mental processes are mysterious; he is missionary-minded; his thinking is emotional, his conclusions material. He has been studious with strange results: he says he regards liberalism as a form of tyranny, hatred and attack as part of man's civic virtues, and equality of men as immoral and against nature. Since he is a concentrated, introspective dogmatist, he is uninformed by exterior criticism. On the other hand, he is a natural and masterly advertiser, a phenomenal propagandist within his limits, He believes in intolerance as a pragmatic principle. He accepts violence as a detail of state, he says mercy is not his affair with men, yet he is kind to dumb animals. ... His moods change often, his opinions never. Since the age of twenty, they have been mainly , anti-Communist, anti-suffrage, He has a fine library of six thousand volumes, yet he never reads; books would do him no good — his mind is made up."

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Old 03-13-2012, 08:52 PM
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Old 03-13-2012, 08:54 PM
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Old 03-13-2012, 09:16 PM
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Dang Jon, I thought you was talking about me.
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Old 03-14-2012, 07:36 AM
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"Being self-taught, his mental processes are mysterious; he is missionary-minded; his thinking is emotional, his conclusions material. He has been studious with strange results: he says he regards liberalism as a form of tyranny, hatred and attack as part of man's civic virtues, and equality of men as immoral and against nature. Since he is a concentrated, introspective dogmatist, he is uninformed by exterior criticism. On the other hand, he is a natural and masterly advertiser, a phenomenal propagandist within his limits, He believes in intolerance as a pragmatic principle. He accepts violence as a detail of state, he says mercy is not his affair with men, yet he is kind to dumb animals. ... His moods change often, his opinions never. Since the age of twenty, they have been mainly , anti-Communist, anti-suffrage, He has a fine library of six thousand volumes, yet he never reads; books would do him no good — his mind is made up."
Sound like either Adolf Hitler or my neighbor, the local alky who lives in his Mother's basement and browbeats people in the local bar with crackpot political theories.
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Old 03-14-2012, 07:59 AM
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It was Hitler . I took some of the Germay references out.

Just thought in our political climate some would find it interesting.
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Old 03-14-2012, 08:04 AM
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Yeah, I thought Hitler too but we have some folks using some of Hitlers tactics now here.
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Old 03-14-2012, 08:06 AM
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It was Hitler . I took some of the Germay references out.

Just thought in our political climate some would find it interesting.
Hey, Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1938. What I find even more interesting is that people follow, or at least tacitly accept these demagogues.
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Santorum was my first guess, but Hitler works too.
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Old 03-14-2012, 09:18 AM
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Santorum was my first guess, but Hitler works too.
They overflowed from the same septic tank......
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I was going to guess jollyroger.
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Old 03-14-2012, 10:52 AM
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"Being self-taught, his mental processes are mysterious; he is missionary-minded; his thinking is emotional, his conclusions material. He has been studious with strange results: he says he regards liberalism as a form of tyranny, hatred and attack as part of man's civic virtues, and equality of men as immoral and against nature. Since he is a concentrated, introspective dogmatist, he is uninformed by exterior criticism. On the other hand, he is a natural and masterly advertiser, a phenomenal propagandist within his limits, He believes in intolerance as a pragmatic principle. He accepts violence as a detail of state, he says mercy is not his affair with men, yet he is kind to dumb animals. ... His moods change often, his opinions never. Since the age of twenty, they have been mainly , anti-Communist, anti-suffrage, He has a fine library of six thousand volumes, yet he never reads; books would do him no good — his mind is made up."
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Old 03-14-2012, 10:54 AM
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I was going to guess jollyroger.
I certainly do not see liberalism as a form of tyranny. Tyranny is like, the mass murder of innocent people in a phony hunt for WMDs, for instance, or another example, denying rights to those whose sexual habits are not approved by your religion, for another, that's tyranny. You know, like the stuff you support.
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I certainly do not see liberalism as a form of tyranny. Tyranny is like, the mass murder of innocent people in a phony hunt for WMDs, for instance, or another example, denying rights to those whose sexual habits are not approved by your religion, for another, that's tyranny. You know, like the stuff you support.
Of course liberalism can be tyranny. You must follow all the rules ( LAWS) that some elitist has determined are "best" for you. The food you eat, the car you drive, the house you live in would all be regulated by liberals for the "good of society". ( I am using "liberal" in the modern sense that means socialist, not in the classic sense where it simply meant preserving individual rights.)
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That's the misconception of liberal/progressive with far edges of socialism and communism . . . just as the misconceptions of conservatism are wrong.

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