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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

An open letter to Judson Phillips:

Dude,
Just because you say shit doesn't make it true.

(from:http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/421479/a_peek_at_the_tea_party%27s_priorities/#paragraph5)
Judson Phillips:"Liberal hero and man voted most likely to be an ACLU board member, Joseph Stalin...."

;"There are only two parties and the socialists have absolute control over the other party."

"In this past election, the left made a concerted effort at voter fraud. This fraud effected elections."


"In socialist states like California or corrupt, I mean Democrat controlled states, like Illinois, it will be very tough. If we are going to win, we must. If we do not eliminate liberal voter fraud, our votes won’t matter because they will not be counted."

"The left knows it cannot win free and fair elections. They can only win by cheating."

I mean, WTF?
I have been trying to understand the Right since 9-11.
Recently, I attempted to get it "from the horse's mouth"....I "joined" your little website,Tea Party Nation.
What prompted this move, which was done without subterfuge, was an article regarding the banning of the teaching of Culture in Arizona schools...something to do with Mexican Culture.
I didn't get what the hubbub was about, so I joined up and asked.
The first few respondents were understanding...they didn't bite my head off. This was a welcome surprise.
One woman, however, lashed out at me, saying that hatred of Americans flowing North from Mexico was a good enough reason to ban any attempt at fostering cross-cultural understanding....and getting the history of the US' annexation of the South West completely wrong.
(ie: that Mexico sold it all to us, because, it was implied, they were evil(?)....Mexico did sell it , but only after we invaded them and encircled their capital.)She then went on to state that Jesus is the Only Path to Wisdom...and that if ya don't like it, your doomed to Hell....
Soon after correcting, gently, this woman's error, I found myself Banned!
It seems that you guys can't handle a little opposition, a little Dissent, in your one sided, Black and White World.
And you are just one of many...
The Becks, and Bachmans and Palins of the world have embraced a surreal characiture of Reality....and no amount of evidence will convince you of your error.
This would be fine, if it wasn't so dangerous.
After all, it is your Right to believe BullShit...a Right I will defend, vigorously.
But you have taken perhaps a third of the country with you on your freakout....convinced them that Liberals love Stalin (!?), that we want to do all the things that your boy, Bush2 wanted to do(Camps, anyone?), and that it is "Liberal" policies that have driven the Economy off the cliff.
When reality breaks through your defenses, it is ignored...or, worse, held up as evidence of the veracity of your version of the "Truth"....
This makes it impossible to talk to you....or even be in the same room....the threat of Violence is always there.
(I have tasted this Violence, when my views didn't agree with "Conservative" Principles, and when those "principles" couldn't be defended,the answer was to attempt to strangle the offending "Socialist/Commie/Traitor".)
Lets take the statements from your missive that really stood out, for me:
1;"Liberal hero and man voted most likely to be an ACLU board member, Joseph Stalin...."
Where, pray tell, do you get this? How do you justify such a statement?Do you have any examples?
2
;"There are only two parties and the socialists have absolute control over the other party."
Please define "Socialist", and show how the Democratic Party is "controlled" by Socialists....You folks throw around these words...but I don't really think you know what they mean...they are more like dog-whistles for your fearful supporters. Prove me wrong...
3"In this past election, the left made a concerted effort at voter fraud. This fraud effected elections."
Evidence? This looks like classic Projection to me.
You don't remember the 2000 election? Or the one from '04?
Your side was caught red handed, and it was only through Political Intimidation (attorney scandal) that you were able to get away with it.
Ken Blackwell? Katherine Harris? surely you remember....
4"In socialist states like California or corrupt, I mean Democrat controlled states, like Illinois, it will be very tough. If we are going to win, we must. If we do not eliminate liberal voter fraud, our votes won’t matter because they will not be counted."
Again...evidence?

5"The left knows it cannot win free and fair elections. They can only win by cheating."
Really.
A member of the rabid right is gonna level that charge?
Remember the White Shirt Mobs?
Remember, just this last election, in Houston, and elsewhere, the Intimidation of voters....the head stomping?
Remember, in 2000, the supreme Court stepping in?
(and that whole fiasco being blamed on Gore?when it was Bush who brought suit.......)

Really, dude...if there is any one group who can't win an argument, without resorting to Ad Hominem, Misrepresentation of Facts,Fearmongering, and...if all else fails...Violence, it is the Right.
If you take offense at what I have to say....refute it.
I welcome such engagement.

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