Bobby Jindal: Moron of the day.
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Moron of the day
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Saturday night accused President Barack Obama and other Democrats of “waging wars against religious liberty and education” and said that a rebellion is brewing in the U.S. with people ready for "a hostile takeover" of the nation's capital.
Governor Jindal isn’t really a right wing extremist. He just plays one for the media. This is a man with higher political ambitions, and the only way to fulfill them is to display your idiocy for a base constituency that gulps down this kind of talk as if it were moonshine. It’s intoxicating for the low hanging fruit in the GOP and Jindal knows that he needs to keep pace with the other flame throwers on the right if he’s going to have any traction toward the nomination. For example:
"I can sense right now a rebellion brewing amongst these United States," Jindal said, "where people are ready for a hostile takeover of Washington, D.C., to preserve the American Dream for our children and grandchildren."
What I can sense is the governor of a state inciting a violent overthrow of the United States Government by crazies that live off of conspiracy theories.
A “war against religious liberty”? There is no such “war” going on Governor, but of course you would know as everyone would, that religion is always a “hot button” with people, especially the most religiously conservative among us. There is no instance of any assault on religious liberty in this country. None. If you actually believed that there was, you would challenge the Administration on some grounds with some example that might support your contention. That challenge could be taken to the Supreme Court. But you don’t. Instead, you just say there is a war on religious liberty, and expect that there are enough idiots out there that will believe it. And then you follow this up with a “call to arms” against the United States?
The governor said there was a "silent war" on religious liberty being fought in the U.S. — a country that he said was built on that liberty. Ok. Demonstrate how that is true. Where and when and how is this “silent war” being waged?
"I am tired of the left. They say they're for tolerance, they say they respect diversity. The reality is this: They respect everybody unless you happen to disagree with them," he said. "The left is trying to silence us and I'm tired of it, I won't take it anymore."
You’re tired of the left? Guess what Guv…all of us are tired of these right wing conspiracy theorists like yourself that blatantly pander to the most ignorant fools in this country just to get their votes so that you might further your disgusting and phony ambitions. Your “reality” assessment regarding tolerance and attempts to “silence” you are beyond ridiculous. You’re the governor of a state. Who’s tried to silence you? Statements like that make you look like the clown act that you’ve come to embrace as what a real ‘Loosiana’ politician is all about.
What do you know of tolerance Governor? Do you and the rest of your ilk tolerate any views other than your own? No. You don’t. We’ve seen that for years now. Whenever you lose an election because of your extremist views, you can’t accept the fact that your ideas have been rejected by the public. Nope. You look for ways to impeach the sitting democratically elected President and simply toss out one lie after another about violating oaths, and the constitution and “wars on religious people” and other piles of crap that your species can feed off of . It’s called rabble- rousing and you’re experts at it. But what’s really amazing is that you could think that you’d be able to float this lie regarding tolerance of others. Tolerance isn’t, nor should it EVER be extended to the Intolerant. When you do, tolerance disappears and is replaced by intolerant morons like YOU willing to use that line to buy a few more votes from the lowest common denominator. You appeal to the ignoramus that is too stupid to tie his shoes, and spends every waking hour making love to his gun. We’ve seen it from Republicans over and over. And then you have the gall to whine over the fact that we refuse to put up with your bigotry and racism and hate. And you call the “left” intolerant, and think that this is going to stick? How stupid are you?
Most of us in America desire an open society and understand that an open society sets free the critical powers of man, that it is based upon an awareness of our own fallibility, and that it is impossible without a recognition that the ideas of others may be closer to the truth than our own. You can’t even begin to understand what I’m saying here can you? That’s because you’re an ideologue and can’t imagine that your man-made ideology is actually fallible as well. You can’t create an infallible idea from a fallible source. Didn’t you know that?
Democracy will not work well in societies that do not value freedom and tolerance. But democracy is not itself open society. And while it may be the form of government best able to protect an open society, we should always remember that it is the best of a bad lot, that it can be abused by authoritarians and manipulated by bureaucrats, and that open society is not a product of manipulation and abuse, but of a serious attempt to get at the truth, tempered by a serious belief in our own fallibility. You are hopelessly lacking in both those areas.
Tolerance is the patient forbearance of something that is disliked and, perhaps, even thought to be evil. It has been valued as an ethical ideal at least since the eighteenth century, when it was proposed, by enlightenment philosophers such as Locke and Voltaire, as an antidote to religious persecution.
We have, at least in the West, come a long way since Locke. But even today, most advocates of tolerance would agree that we should not tolerate everything. We should not, for example, tolerate injustice, or murder, or attempts to restrict our freedom. And we need not, everything else being equal, tolerate the intolerant. That means YOU and those like you. This last idea, that we need not tolerate the intolerant, is the solution to the so-called ‘paradox of tolerance’. There is a story about a tribe of Indians who were so impartial in their tolerance that they extended it even to a den of man-eating tigers that lived nearby. The tigers were very happy for this. But the Indians slowly disappeared—and their policy of indiscriminate tolerance along with them. The point of the story is that we might, if we are too tolerant, end up promoting intolerance and that’s exactly what you and your extremists desire. There are limits to the attitude of reasonableness’. You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you. It is the same with tolerance. You must not, without qualification, accept the principle of tolerating all those who are intolerant; if you do, you will destroy not only yourself, but also the attitude of tolerance.
This is because unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. As long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.
Right now Governor; YOU are inciting violence in this country against the government. ("I can sense right now a rebellion brewing amongst these United States," Jindal said, "where people are ready for a hostile takeover of Washington, D.C., to preserve the American Dream for our children and grandchildren”) You…a sitting governor of a state are fanning the flames of intolerance and hate and even insurrection among the lemmings that buy this crap with the expected appeal to the “patriotic “concerns over preserving the American Dream for our children and grandchildren. How thoughtful and touching of you. What a piece of work you are. I can see the flags unfurled and blowing in the wind. I can see the apple pie cooling in the window sill. I can see the selling of the American Dream that you and your kind have completely removed from any possibility of attaining. I can see right through the phony outrage targeting this particular president that just happens to be the first minority president in our history, and the efforts being made to discredit him, lest we ever make the mistake of electing another minority or person of color to the highest office in the land. And lastly, I can see that you are an embarrassment and a disgrace to your office. You aren’t a stupid man governor. Rick Perry is a stupid man. He doesn’t know any better. You do. So…what’s your excuse. When you became Governor did you really have to check your character at the door?
All bullshit, all the time.
