The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

[Brittain33]

A first post and not particularly skillful troll from someone named "Kenyan Obama"...

Lots of young people have mental health issues, sometimes needing hospitalization. Often they just benefit from having medical supervision and regular prescriptions... and yes the cost of the prescription alone is probably less than the cost of insurance... but there's a mental block associated with spending that higher amount with no medical supervision vs. having a doctor prescribe it and having it be much less expensive as part of overall care.

Dental work is not something that springs up at age 40, either.

Well tough luck. We were all young once and we made due. The free market is what makes everyone so successful. If these young people have problems, they should seek religious, not secular treatment.

 There is no plausible defense of Osamacare. It's a Fascist attack on the freedoms of everyday hard-working Americans engineered by a Kenyan socialist who is trying to destroy this country. It is every American's responsibility to fight back against this dung concoction of Beast Obama.

[Brittain33]

Any objective analysis would conclude that the Democrats are far more into using religion to prop up their policies -- from Obama claiming that Jesus would support his budget to Nancy Pelosi claiming that her job as Speaker was to implement policies that comport with the Gospels to the ubiquitous Democrats braying about "What Would Jesus Cut?".  Oh, and Congressional Democrats demanding more support from churches for their policies.

[Brittain33]

How appropriate that that was posted directly into the Deluge.

We've achieved the Singularity.

[Brittain33]

Homosexuals want VRA districts.

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_18462724?nclick_check=1

"Communities of interest such as Latinos and African-Americans are protected to ensure proper representation," said Mario Guerrero, government affairs director for Equality California, a gay advocacy group. "We want the same opportunity to elect representatives from our community."

I bet those same gay anti semites would be the strongest opposition to a Jewish congressional district in the only area it's possible to do so Southern Brooklyn.  (could be a 60%+ McCain seat)

[Brittain33]

This whole thread has gone down the rabbit hole of Nixon's Southern Strategy being an anti-racist campaign targeting moderates and that by 1980 the South was Martin Luther King's dream come true where Reagan promoting states' rights in Philadelphia, Miss. wasn't at all what some people claim it to be.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=157054.0

[Brittain33]

This whole thread has gone down the rabbit hole of Nixon's Southern Strategy being an anti-racist campaign targeting moderates and that by 1980 the South was Martin Luther King's dream come true where Reagan promoting states' rights in Philadelphia, Miss. wasn't at all what some people claim it to be.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=157054.0

Kind of underscores my point about how the title of this thread would be a good title for the entire 2012 Presidential forum.

It's hackish (which I get into, too) but we have to preserve a distinction between hackery and outright delusion.

[Brittain33]

Conservatives have always been in favor of racial equality.

Every few days some schmuck claims the Republicans were the leaders on civil rights and the natural home of equality and we have to go through the same revisionist discussion again.

[Brittain33]

Yes.  4 seats, at least. 

Context needed. He's seems to be even more idiotic this year than normal.

He's more realistic than in 2008. He's calling Nevada for Obama, for example, if slightly.

[Brittain33]

Oh, we're not denying our racist past. We know and accept that back then, 150 years ago, Democrats were racist and Republicans weren't (see Cathcon's Atlas US Elections thing). You're denying the Republican Party's racist or at least semi-racist present.

Only because they're not.  Why would they go backwards at the same time that society became less racist and Democrats became the party of sunshine and lollipops?  And it doesn't matter how long ago Democrats were racist.  What matters is that they were racist, and all but a few of the 20th century racist/segregationist Democrats stayed with the Democratic Party for life.

[Brittain33]

And as for Jews, I believe that Republicans today are probably more pro-Israel and less anti-Semitic than Democrats.

"This isn't right. It isn't even wrong."