Here is my rebuttal of this, http://critical-thinker.net/?p=1025 First, I would not maintain that idealizing the past is solely a conservative issue. I think you can always find cases where any group idealizes the past. However, in my opinion, the fallacy in your counter argument is of cherry picking. Admittedly, I have not done any statistical [...]
With regard to the comments on this post… http://critical-thinker.net/?p=989#comments First, I would NEVER advocate or imply violence. I will leave that to gun toting revolutionaries on the right – “the blood of patriots and tyrants” folks. I pay taxes to support police and military to make sure violence is NOT how we solve problems in [...]
Conservatives want to conserve. Certainly this is ostensively true. The question of conservatism comes when the object of conservatism is explicitly posed. For example, conservatives are fond of talking about the past. They believe that their notion of the past is ‘real’. However, an objection could be made that their interpretation is ideal and therefore, [...]
If Rick Perry really believes that the Marines who urinated on dead bodies are ‘kids’ why are we allowing ‘kids’ to go to war? Isn’t this child abuse? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/15/rick-perry-marines_n_1207350.html
In response to this post about the poor’s rich envy… http://critical-thinker.net/?p=943 I think you may find the Economic Policy Institute has some interesting facts concerning the rich and poor. http://www.epi.org/publication/11-telling-charts-about-2011-economy/ For example: “In other words, the richest 5 percent of households obtained roughly 82 percent of all the nation’s gains in wealth between 1983 and [...]
I grew up in Louisiana. I was continually around fundamentalist Christians and Republicans. If anyone tells you that Mitt’s Mormonism is not important to fundamentalists, they are ignorant about fundamentalism. Denominations are famous for slamming other denominations. I can’t tell you how many times I heard sermons at Southern Baptist churches about how the Vatican [...]
What happened after 30 trillion dollars of credit default swap derivatives flooded the worldwide market… This is my understanding, based on the data cited here: http://www.mixermuse.com/blog/2012/01/10/the-facts-how-the-republicans-created-our-current-economic-crisis/ http://mixermuse.com/blog/2010/10/14/how-george-bush-and-the-private-mortgage-market-created-the-perfect-storm/ In the latter part of the last decade, real estate pricing had been on the rise for decades and was due for a correction. Credit default swaps (CDS) [...]
Myths about the Mortgage Meltdown Myth 1: Clinton caused the mortgage meltdown Myth 2: Low income lending caused the mortgage meltdown Myth 3: Bush did not contribute to the mortgage melt down Myth 4: The private (free market) was not the cause of the mortgage meltdown The increase of MBS (mortgage backed securities) purchased by [...]
“Class warfare has been going on for decades. Republicans are really good at propaganda. However, they have finally deconstructed themselves. They could only talk generally for so long about cutting the size of the Federal government before their rhetoric caught up to them. Now that their own people are demanding that they walk the talk, [...]
