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It should have died out decades ago, though. Trickle-down should have died in the late 80s when it was demonstrated conclusively to be false. Exceptionalism should have died with the cold war and the advent of the true international community. They're still fricking here.
I'm normally a patient man, but this is ridiculous. Modern conservatism, conservatism in 2010, should be about simplifying government, things like reducing the complexity of the tax code or eliminating wasteful spending. Modern conservatives should be absolutely enraged at the defense budget. They should be calling for a public option while we on the left are calling for single-payer. Instead, we have fucking morons marching on Washington complaining about the how our Hawaiin president is a secret Kenyan, how Social Security should be privatized, and how taxes, which are at their lowest in generations and lowest among all of our international peers, are somehow too high. I've lost my patience. The Tea Party no longer, in my mind, has permission to exist, and Tea Party members will be treated as such from here on in.
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