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The Stone Truth: Left-Wingers Are Boring

rhinegarten Wrote: Dec 07, 2012 6:08 AM

"They repeat talking points endlessly while refusing to learn anything new about the world around them." If conservatives do that, they're dogmatic plus a few other names. If liberals do the same, they're "elightened". Most arguments critical of conservatives are based on some pre-concieved, cast-in-concrete (dogmatic) notion of what conservatives think. The liberal mind truly believes conservatives are bigots, racists, wannabe murderers and backwoods hillbilly trailer trash who sleep with their relatives and barnyard animals. Conservatives, by the very nature of the fact that they dare to openly disagree with the "enlightened" ones, are third class citizen garbage in the mind of the modern liberal.

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NewJAl Wrote: Dec 07, 2012 8:08 AM

I class the Liberals as children, and they can get tedious with their constant demands upon an adult. And they can be of any age and educational background. I class the Conservatives as the adults. 'There is no free lunch' resonates with the adult, and send the child into a hissy fit.

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The Stone Truth: Left-Wingers Are Boring

When, at long last, will people understand that the left is boring?

The question came to mind as I was dipping in and out of Oliver Stone's miasmic 700-plus-page tome. I'll never read the whole thing, and not because it's a left-wing screed full of slimy distortions about the evils of the United States (though that doesn't help). It's that it's boring.

Stone and co-author Peter Kuznick call their book "The Untold History of the United States," except, again, it isn't. This story has been told countless times before. As the Daily Beast's Michael Moynihan notes in a devastating review, Stone...

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