elmer_yuck wrote:YogiStewart wrote:elmer_yuck wrote:
So... can you name me any Republicans or conservatives who aren't idiots?
Sounds like people you agree with are intelligent, and those you disagree with are idiots.
Is Paul Ryan an idiot? Is Maxine Waters an idiot?
well, no.
an idiot would be an intelilgent person like Paul Ryan, who wants to systematically destroy healthare access and will lie through his teeth to do what is an explicable and cruel act.
Hitler was intelligent but he was an idiot.
So even Paul Ryan is an idiot, cruel, and a liar.
Isn't it interesting that liberals are incapable of having a political discussion without insulting the other side.
Instead of spewing out nonsense, try stepping outside your liberal bubble. You might learn something.
I know you think Fox News is for knuckle-dragging idiots, so try RealClearPolitics.
You can read thoughtful articles on issues from both sides. Maybe you'll discover that Paul Ryan isn't a cruel, evil idiot, and he
has good reasons for his views, even if you don't agree with them.
I think Paul Ryan is an intelligent, pragmatic thinker who knows that his support base is fiscally conservative and deeply religious and so naturally he is going to be in that camp regardless of any personal beliefs he has. To be a politician in the US today means you're enslaved to corporate America in some way and due to his religious predilections he's also enslaved to the religious nutjobs. That's two big strikes for me to begin.
As a classic liberal free market Republican I reckon he's even more enslaved to corporations as hes in the anti-regulation camp. They have common interests and I'm sure exploit each other for common gain. In fact this is my biggest problem with the Republican party as a whole (not that I think the democrats are much better on the whole), as the nature of their political views and every politicians need for power/influence - they are particularly aligned with business and their interests. Ironically, maintaining a sort of corporatocracy he wouldn't like as a free market capitalist.
To connect the dots a bit here, the stated goal of any business is to make profit. And the best way of doing so is to ensure that wages are low. Essentially most politicians, and all Republicans, are so enmeshed with business that they are unable to do what's right for the people they serve. The democrats get closer economically and much closer socially so I see them as less reprehensible. Ultimately anyone who is willingly complicit in seeing people struggle in order to maintain power is somewhere in the evil camp in my eyes.
All in all thats why I dislike Paul Ryan and the Republican party (and I didn't even touch on their backwards thinking of social issues). Frankly, it goes against my own economic interests and social sympathies to support them.
