A Question for the "right" side  

Most time matersfish I read what you have typed and shake my head in disbelief that someone actually thinks the way you do and now I can't believe what I am about to type but, I agree with all of what you typed. My political beliefs are pretty screwy but, damn don't tell me what size of television I can have, did we wake up in Cuba this morning?

Welcome to the truth Zephyr!

Damn straight matersfish....i couldnt have said it any better!

That was very well put! Thank you for your thoughtful response because it really made me think. My head has been spinning for years over where this country is going. Time for a new breed of politicians I think.

We agree for once on politics. But, now, after reading your response and the one above it leads me to another question, why do people on the right keep voting in politicians called Republicans that are Democrats in disguise?

for the same reason "liberals" keep voting in moderate democrats.. people are addicted and married to that little letter, and many even when confronted with the grave error of their choice, simply out of pride won't admit they made a mistake.

The power companies here are private or owned by local municipalities.

In that case then the government shouldn't interfere.

X is right but, still what if I want to have a 42 inch television?

Why would you though? We made do with a 10" screen with a bad picture. Mind you there's nothing worth watching.

Why would you care what size makes her happy? 10 inches is way too small for me to see! I'd love to have a giant TV, if I had the giant space to put it! The reason we like them is the same reason we go see movies in theaters when possible. It's easier to get involved in the story when the characters can be easily seen, the sets full of color & detail, & the speakers able to handle really glorious, full sound-surround! What, do you dislike theaters?

But why would you think her desires are wrong or undesirable? Color me confused...

Maggiepie
"OBAMA IS AN 'UNDOCUMENTED WORKER.'"

"Why would you care what size makes her happy? 10 inches is way too small for me to see!"
Damn, your pretty tough to please

I had to read it three times to make sure I was in the right discussion!

Support the troops? Uphold the right to freedom of speech? Freedom of religion? Write the Constitution? Fight pedophiles to protect children? Fight for equality? Protect private property? Fight for the secret ballot? Fight for the right to work? Are you truly unaware that all these things have been & still are being done, or were you "taught" in gummint "skools" by ignorant teachers?

Shall I go on? Or did I take more than my share of the answers?

Maggiepie
"OBAMA IS AN 'UNDOCUMENTED WORKER.'"

btw, the conservative view is small government, but not no government. The government should be as big as it needs to be to get the job done... but its job is limited to that spelled out by the US Constitution.

I can't believe how many of the "right" that I happen to be agreeing with tonight. Maybe my swine flu is back and I should just go back to bed.

or maybe your more libertarian than you realized.....most people are when they really think about it.

@paraTed...he's married to a Kennedy...he won't be welcome in the bedroom is he doesn't act like a liberal democrat!

Zephyr, you have to remember that much of libertarian thought IS conservative. It doen't suprise me that conservatives and libertarians agree on a lot of things. Of course, libertarianism also embraces a lot of liberal stuff too, so it wouldn't suprise me if we disagreed a lot too. ;~D

You can be the conservative adjective without the noun. Don't worry!

"he's married to a Kennedy...he won't be welcome in the bedroom is he doesn't act like a liberal democrat!"

That reminds me of an interview he did on the tonight show where he talked about how he got so sick of seeing his wife ordering Obama campaign signs to put up. He said that one night at dinner he'd had enough and shouted across the table that Obama is wrong for this country and McCain needs to be elected and he doesn't want to see or hear anything more about Obama in his home. He then said he was glad she wasn't home for dinner that night because he'd be sleeping on the couch for the rest of the week.

I think I'm confused, yes, I know nothing new. But, isn't the Libertarian ideology the most "right" on the political spectrum? And I can imagine that the "governator" isn't very right leaning after reading this article.

Nope, libertarian/authoritarian is a much broader and larger scope of the political spectrum than the left/right spectrum the country has been programmed to look at. this is where the similarities between the two big commercial parties becomes apparent, when you step back and look at the larger picture in broader terms. In this larger more broad spectrum BOTH parties though they lean either right or left, are still on the decidedly authoritarian end of things. I just hope a LOT more people start taking a few steps back to actually look at this larger more complete picture and realize a few truths before it's too late to do anything about it and change course.

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I meant SHOULDN'T be involved in marriage, not should be....sorry.

I am so glad to see this all spelled out!

See I could never be a Libertarian because everyone that reads the Constitution gets a different view on it, to me the Constitution is like the Bible, everyone reads what they want it to say and that's an aspect I can't wrap my thoughts around. I need it to be clear cut, spelled out and if not than well whatever. Besides look what happens when states make their own decisions, they run a muck of it. If states were a business, they would have been out of business a long time ago because their "CEO's" can't balance a checkbook let alone a state budget.

What I do zeph, is then go and look at the other writings and words of the people who wrote it. Most times, this lends more clarity to it than any constitutional lawyer ever could or would. Unlike the bible, we have the actualy words of the people who wrote the constitution, it really is the best way to understand what they meant.

Well why not just make a run up to Oregon and pay NO taxes either!!!

So how's the snow going down there, is it a first? LOL

It really makes me crazy when politicians are running with a party name but, hold no party values. But, I have to say it runs more rampant on the "right" than the "left". It also makes me crazy that all of these elected officals are educated, (not drop outs) and yet, they come up with the most uneducated ideas. As you stated the television can be bought online at many different sites or the people in California that want a 42 inch can run to the next state and buy one. Which you're right that other state will love the tax revenue.

"It really makes me crazy when politicians are running with a party name but, hold no party values. But, I have to say it runs more rampant on the "right" than the "left"."

Sadly that's true and that's exactly why the Republicans have lost so much ground. The ones in congress, and Bush, were not holding to republican values. Now Schwarzenegger was never really a full republican. Even he said when he ran that his friends kept telling him he should stop calling himself a republican and admit that he's an independent.

"It also makes me crazy that all of these elected officals are educated, (not drop outs) and yet, they come up with the most uneducated ideas."

I agree and California is the most horribly run state in the country I believe. They have great resources, a booming tourism industry, and yet the state has been run into the ground over the last 20 years. Nobody in that state's government seems to have a clue.

"It really makes me crazy when politicians are running with a party name but, hold no party values. But, I have to say it runs more rampant on the "right" than the "left"."

I really thought you would disagree with me there. I am always thinking when conservatives say something about liberals can't say well Bush did it, but, if they would stop and think about both of them are liberal and just following the liberal ideology LOL

Clearly you haven't paid any attention to California politics. The richest people are the there are the Hollywood and media elite and they are heavily liberal and way overboard on the environmental garbage to the point that many are willing to destroy entire farms to make sure that a fish has a deeper river to swim in. That's why California has the highest taxes in the country. Taxes went through the roof under the last governor, and under Arnold they've continued to increase. The majority of this however, is the fault of the congress that refuses to reduce spending.