opeboism: opebo defined

[MaC]

For the longest time people have been saying opebo's so far left he makes Stalin look moderate, ect.  I used to think opebo was a leftist, but now I realize it's not entirely true.  A real leftist would be tolerant of Christians being intolerant.  (but even then I thought that was just a pet issue).  The ah-ha moment came to me about opeboism when I saw the "High Frusctose Corn Syrup" thread.

opeboism consists of two basic principles
1.If I like it, it should be legal (and for the most part, everyone who disagrees with me is a prude)
2.If I dislike it, it should be illegal.

And I don't think he's alone in these veiws, lots of people think in these terms.  Fortunately most people on this forum can have negative opinions of something and yet still think it's not something that should be legalized/illegalized just because of their own personal preference.

[MaC]

Opeboism to me seems to be:

1. If I like it, everyone who opposes it hates freedom and is a prude
2. If I don't like it, freedom doesn't matter or it has negatives to some group, so it isn't free

very close to what I said.  Finally someone understands.  Opebo doesn't fit into ideological standpoints.  I don't consider him a liberal, just a statist in that everything I like should be legal or made legal and everything I don't like should be banned or illegal.

What's scary about this is there's really lots of people in our country who agree with this thinking.

[MaC]

Why don't you power-worshiping 'libertarians' go critique your own political philosophy.  And while you're at it, please change all your avatars to Religious Party - because if you're not supporting the Democrats, you're supporting the theocracy.

when I have I ever said anything should be religious?

[MaC]

Why don't you power-worshiping 'libertarians' go critique your own political philosophy.  And while you're at it, please change all your avatars to Religious Party - because if you're not supporting the Democrats, you're supporting the theocracy.

when I have I ever said anything should be religious?

Ditto - I don't like either party. They're both pretty good at infringing on freedom.

You poor saps are helping the Religious Party into power by not voting Democrat.  Heck a lot of you even vote for Religious Party candidates at times. 

By that logic, were voting third party to help out the Democrats by not directly voting for the Religious Party.  Think if the libertarians are still right wings, we're doing what Nader people did to get Bush in power, only for the Democrats.  You should be thanking us.