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"The end of liberty in America: Only course of action now is to fight back, electoral politics not working

Time to tell any Democrats you know to fuck off and die"


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Yeah, this has to be the most astoundingly butthurt reaction to the election that I've seen yet. It's like... wow. o_O

It's kind of funny how the guy's reaction isn't "Well, all of our guys got crushed, so maybe we're just, you know, wrong and should, perhaps, rethink our politics" but is instead "Well, all of our guys got crushed, so that means the process clearly doesn't work, and therefore I'm going to become a gigantic, raging asshat and I encourage all of the rest of you to be gigantic, raging asshats as well." Or, perhaps I should say, an even bigger raging asshat than he already was, given that he claims in the article to have been doing things that made him a gigantic, raging asshat already.

I know this guy is just part of the lunatic fringe, but if he is representative of the tiniest fraction of the mindset of the Republican party as a whole, then it's no wonder at all that we're seeing things like petitions to the White House for states' secession and the like. It's absolutely fucking insane.

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And this dovetails nicely with [livejournal.com profile] rabbitucker's recent post about the conservative fairy tale. The guy above is a textbook example of someone swallowing that fairy tale hook, line, and sinker.

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Oh, and the comments. Good gravy, the comments. o_O The guy is even more off his rocker in the comments than he was in the article itself.

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Date: 2012-11-14 02:19 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] rabbitucker.livejournal.com
They should take the advice (http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/12/opinion/frum-conservatives-despair/index.html) of conservative columnist David Frum.

Date: 2012-11-14 04:03 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] kane-magus.livejournal.com
In the comments, the guy mentions that very sort of thing, the "don't despair" message.

His response was this (copy/pasted, typos and all):

What I fuckin' hate are all these pussy conservatives like Sean Hannity now saying, "Aww, it ain't that bad. We will bounce back... American will turn to the right again... It's just one bad election."

Bull-fucking-shit! America died yesterday. It's over. There's no coming back.

236 years of history gone in one single day and night.

SPARE ME YOU'RE FUCKING GOOD TIDINGS YOU CONSERVATIVES. This is a castrophe for libertarians and conservatives. The worst of our lifetimes.

The Nazis and Communists have just seized control of the United States of America, and you fuckers are trying to convince me it ain't that bad!



Yes, the Nazis and the Communists... *shakes head* ...no, no I'm not even going to go there right now.


But anyway, from the article you linked, I definitely agree with this:

We need more sensible conservatives. As for the feeble conservatives, they should take a couple of aspirin and then stay quietly indoors until the temper has subsided and they are ready to say and do something useful again.

I just think it's going to take something a bit stronger than aspirin to help this particular guy, though. >_>

Date: 2012-11-15 12:54 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] dmjewelle.livejournal.com
I find it amusing that despite an ocean separating us (and everyone here extolling the virtues of American Democracy), our politics aren't so different.

Date: 2012-11-15 05:38 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] kane-magus.livejournal.com
"Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made."

-- John Godfrey Saxe

I would amend this quote to also include the political process in general. When one is mired deep in the middle of an election cycle like this most recent one, and all which that entails (incessant deceitful negative campaign ads, rancor from just about everyone on bothall sides, a lack of willingness by many in power to even pretend to want to try to compromise on anything at all ever, etc.), it most definitely ceases to inspire respect. In other words, it ain't pretty, that's for sure.

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