Leftist ideals
With the important elections coming up, I hope this personal story will help shed some
light on how things are changing in our country.
Much has been reported by the liberal media about how awful the Tea Party is (who knew that
a group of mainly senior citizens that oppose wasteful government spending would
be portrayed as racists and terrorists).
What has not been reported is how far left the Democratic party has swung over the last 50 years or so. This is not the same party
that President John F. Kennedy led.
I found out how far left it has gone when my son told me about his experience at his Christian based college. During one of his classes, the
teacher declared that he is an atheist, socialist and Democrat. Now, this guy can believe what he wants to but, I wasn’t too excited to
be helping pay his salary to teach my son these views and not quite sure why this
teacher felt the need to bring out his personal and political views to
teach his class.
After hearing this story, the question that kept coming back to me was, why would
a very well educated man that doesn’t believe in God, that feels so strongly
about declaring himself a socialist, believe strongly that he is a Democrat?
Makes you think doesn’t it? The only answer I could come up with was that he must feel
that his views are being represented by the current administration. I wish this story
wasn’t true but, unfortunately it is. I know there are a lot of people that don’t share this teacher’s
views but, have unknowingly voted for the same beliefs that this teacher is aligned with.
Please really consider who you are voting for this November and what they stand for.
Dave Goos
Baxter
Comments (12)
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U.S.A.
lets take it back.
That Marriage Word Used Again...
Snippet from http://inkandvoice.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/church-and-state/
Second, the First Amendment of the Constitution prohibits the government from preventing our citizens from worshipping as they see fit and prohibits the establishment or support of a national “official” religion. The purpose of this Amendment was to prevent that our Founders saw as a grievous marriage
between government and religion.
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wrong, Dutchman
The First is about PROTECTING religion liberties of FREE people FROM the government, not the other way around. There is no "separation of church and state" policy ANYWHERE in the US Constitution or the Declaration of Independence.
You know this, too, and no imported art work into your argument will change that fact.
Tea Party - Sr Citizens ??
Maybe thats what happened to those racist sign waving yahoos ,dressed in camo, that seemly peaked soon after spitting on the Congressional Black Caucus. ( While Michele Bachmann cheered)
Maybe they really thought for a minute about the Republicons latest BAD IDEAs,
Turn Medicare into a voucher program , and lay waste to Social Security ?
Wait just a minute , I thought we were demonstrating about TAX CUTS FOR ALL ! FOREVER !!!
You know that taxation without representation deal ?
Actual social science research, as opposed to mere anecdote
and feelings expressed by Mr. Goos above, shows that the Republican party has gone more off the deep end, ideologically speaking.
" . . . the data (in the graph, cited below) are hard to deny; the polarization (in the political process) is largely due to how far and relatively quickly Republicans have shifted to the right end of the ideological spectrum. . . ."
"It is true that the Republicans have moved further to the right than the Democrats have moved to the left. That's absolutely true." (http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/04/10/150349438/gops-rightw...).
Additionally, former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel conjectures differently from Goos: the Republican Party has drifted so far to the right and become so partisan in recent years that President Ronald Reagan wouldn't even want to be a part of it."
"Reagan would be stunned by the party today, . . . Reagan wanted to do away with nuclear weapons, raised taxes, made deals with congressional Democrats, sought compromises and consensus to fix problems, and surrounded himself with moderates as well as Republican hard-liners, Hagel noted. None of that is characterized by the current GOP leadership, he said. In his eyes, the rise of the Tea Party and the influx of new GOP lawmakers in Congress have driven the party away from common sense and consensus-based solutions.
"Reagan wouldn't identify with this party. There's a streak of intolerance in the Republican Party today that scares people. Intolerance is a very dangerous thing in a society because it always leads to a tragic ending," he said. "Ronald Reagan was never driven by ideology. He was a conservative but he was a practical conservative. He wanted limited government but he used government and he used it many times. And he would work with the other party."
The situation today is similar to where the GOP found itself in the early 1950s, when there was a battle for the direction of the party over the party's identity, Hagel said. Dwight Eisenhower and his moderate allies won that fight, diminishing the influence of extremists like Joe McCarthy, Hagel said.
But today, the extremists are winning.
"Now the Republican Party is in the hands of the right, I would say the extreme right, more than ever before," said Hagel. "You've got a Republican Party that is having difficulty facing up to the fact that if you look at what happened during the first 8 years of the century, it was under Republican direction."
More from Chuck Hagel at: http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/11/hagel_reagan_wouldn_t...
Funny how the writer says the
accidental duplicate post. See below.
Funny how the writer says the
Funny how the writer says the Dems have gone off the deep end when we all know those moderate conservatives are now the minority in their own party.
Today's Republican is not the same as a Republican 15 years ago. Thanks to the GOP's move deeper to the right, we all know that "conservative" and "Republican" are not one in the same.
Case in point: He is complaing that his child is being exposed to other viewpoints in a class chosen by the student. Doesn't do a whole lot for that reputation Repubs have of being intolerant to anything that may challenge their previous held beliefs (i.e. 'traditional family values', whatever that means). The party of "No!" strikes again.
Oh no Bubba
You mentioned NPR. You lost them right there. They don't like those pesky things called facts and balanced journalism.
Good things they will kill off this alarming .0005% of the federal budget if Romney is elected.
Can you homeschool your
college aged kids or have them get their degrees online? Then you can keep them from being exposed to any divergent views which conflict with their parents'.
Just being facetious.
College is a time for exploring and rejecting or accepting differing points of view. It's not for the feint of heart.
Tell me again why you are so
Tell me again why you are so concerned about the Republican Party?
I listen to NPR every morning and depends on who is running the show- not so fact based and balanced.
This morning, a discussion on the gay marriage amendment.
I thought "good" , but no both speakers were for gay marriage and against the amendment.
I mostly listen to Kerry Miller. She will have what she calls
a conservative and it is someone who is barely a Republican.
Chuck Hagel of Nebraska is one of those who was only
a Repub so he could get elected.
I'm a conservative so, I don't really care .
Someone may be believing some spin about the tea party.
NPR and Public Broadcasting can get along with the government support.
All DEMOCRATS
#1 What is so wrong with the tea party??
#2 What is wrong with the occupier's ??
#3 What is right with the occupier's??
#4 What is right with the tea party??
PLEASE answer these ? seriously I want to HEAR you'r OPINIONS! THANK YOU.