@blatham,
blatham wrote:
The Republican party's constituency before LBJ and after are not the same.
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Quote='Blatham]It should be clear that I (and many others including an increasing number of conservatives/Republicans) believe your party has gone nuts and has moved to a very dangerous place. You've lost George Will, for **** sake. Because I do believe this is so and because I believe it is very dangerous for the US and for everyone else on the planet, I'm going to keep on my trajectory here as long as I can. But I have to try and be careful in sources and reasoning, and I cannot go propagandist - that is, I cannot proceed along this path if I attempt to use deceit - because that would turn me into what I despise and believe is a primary cause of what's going on.
That's my game.
So, convinced, as you indicate you are, that since Nixon's Presidency the Republican party and its supporters are "in a dangerous place" you continue your one sided commentary, and rebroadcast quoting of other similarly inclined voices, all to emphasize this prejudgment of yours. No apparent interest in the relative merits of the actual policies and objectives of the contending parties, and of the tradeoffs among them - all polemics mostly addressing the presumed bad intentions, motivations of those you oppose . Deceit can take many forms. Merely selecting only the issues, opinions -some your own and many quoted - that appear to support your prejudgments is a form of deceit, as is the confident judgments if the inner motives of those you criticize (and can't possibly know) and you indulge in both with a steadfast profligacy. In that ,despite your self serving denials, you are indeed, merely a propogandist.
The facts that you are neither a resident nor a citizen of this country adds another element to all this. Why do you make such continuous efforts to influence political opinion in a country not your own? Are you a Canadian version of the Russian bots and posers who aspire to sew confusion and discord here, and which cause such outrage among contemporary Democrats? Is there nothing in Canadian politics that interests you and affects you far more directly.
You have justified all this saying the positions of our Republican Party and all it's supporters Republican Party is, in your view "dangerous to everyone on the planet" I can think of several other powerful contenders for that role including China and to a lesser extent Russia ( mostly because it lacks the economic ability to do much, though it remains well armed. ) Why do you ignore them? There are other likely possibilities as well, but I think the point is well established. Why, from your perch in rural Vancouver, do you devote such energy and time to influence the political views in a neighboring country not your own?
I don't dispute your freedom to do all this, but I do question your motives - to be sure not as categorically as you so confidently fault the motives of the Republican figures you criticize so avidly - but I do find them puzzling.
