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Originally Posted by roachboy
second, i don't know what conservatives are talking about when they refer to the left. typically it is little more than a phantasm, the mirror image of conservatism, something that is constructed politically as an imaginary reference point which positions conservatism along some spectrum that apparently has therapeutic value..
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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
Goddamn. I'm just floored at how you packed so much irony into such a tiny little space. Congratulations for validating the claim of those conservatives of yours who only look like they're bursting with straw because American conservative is a peculiar animal and it's not overgeneralizing
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He's really not off track. While generalizations of conservatives as a whole aren't fair, if the mouthpieces of the conservative "party" are to be believed, liberals are an entirely different beast than they are in reality. I've recently been reading Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto" (
) and it's entirely based on a straw man of liberalism. In it, he posits this group of people called "Statists," who he goes to link directly to contemporary liberalism and the Democratic party, and then subsequently blames nearly every government misstep on the Statists desire for "control" and "tyranny." He creates an entire group of people concerned only with increasing federal power, revoking personal property rights, redistributing wealth, concerned with creating Supreme Leading organization. It's entirely a misnomer, and as an extreme liberal who values the national government I can't even identify with this liberal facade he's creating.
And Levin isn't alone among the pundits, speakers, and Congressman of the so-called "conservative" party.