You've learned -- if you've been paying attention at all -- that tax cuts and giveaways can be very damaging your country.

Your education is only beginning.  You will learn over the next few years that other facets of your ideology also are not representative of reality or good for your country.   And that's all that we've wanted: the chance to show you how wrong you have been.

You've done half the job for us by failing.  Now all we have to do is to succeed.

By the way, we're not going to take away your guns yet, although we will prevent the more stupid among you from doing more damage.  And you will give up your guns eventually as more and more of you die off.  Eventually we will have fewer gun deaths and a more peaceful society despite you.  And those other social issues also will become less important as those of you who are educable are educated.

But that's just it: it's the education you will receive that will change our country for the better.  You will resist.  Immoral, anti-American Republicans have been promoting the same failed ideas for generations, even though they never have a positive impact on our country and always cause great damage.  But your influence will wane, and I becoming more convinced th at you won't be hindering our progress for very much longer.

The world will become a better place despite you.

by Juarez Traveller on 02/21/2008 03:40:08 PM EST

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... more of a Communist.

I consider myself a true liberal and I am pro-2nd Amendment, for starters.

I don't want anyone's income, personally.  What I want is for everyone to agree that a portion of our productivity has to go to support the commons.  Most people in this country can agree on that.  Then I want us to agree on what is required to have a well-functioning commons -- specifically, that government needs to be in control of life and death issues like the military, police and health care.  That's really it.  That's certainly the limit of my "socialism" and I think that's the case for most other folks here too.

I think hate crime legislation is utter bullshit.  Hate crimes are why we have judges -- to throw the book at reprehensible assholes.  We don't need extra law.

by jarett on 02/22/2008 02:50:25 AM EST

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