My next door neighbor brags that he has not watched a news program or read a newspaper in 30 years. Yet he heads down to the polling place each election to cast his lawful ballot by voting for every dem on the ballot. Why dems, he tells me it's because they each personally care about the working man. That his union newspaper publishes a list of candidates to vote for and that's good enough for him. If the union that protected him from the evil company he worked for over 30 years tells him that so and so are good men, they MUST be for him.

All of us with functional minds know how insane this attitude is, but it's rampant in any city or town where there is heavy industry and unions. The one thing you can count on is that no republican will ever be on that list in the union newspaper - they are sold out to the dems.

it's part of the equation

stats zen! interested to see them

yea. born again.

You're probably right :(

And what do you say or do if any of those are true?

Voting is not what is going to change or stop this.

But the enemies of individual liberty and the life of the mind count on that and take full advantage. Any acceptance of mental laziness and will ignorance is the moral equivalence of promoting slavery.

If we're not careful, the power hungry will soon control when and if we can have babies, what we're allowed to do with our invention of a new way to sequence DNA, and even determine when we should have a death in the family.

Malkin left out the more than 500 killed in the last few years in SWAT raids. But the truth never matters to the collectivist when looking for a 'name calling' to justify their desire to control.

Actually, it was Truman that clinched the vote.He desegregated the armed services which gained him 77% of the black vote.

I have lived in the South on and off most of my life and southern blacks just as much as southern whites don’t like how Northerners think they know how things work better than the Southerners that actually live there. I can show you row upon row of homes occupied by blacks who like to fly the Confederate flag.

mished and mashed. no one has to look at the character of dagny taggart and think, hmm, you have the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. what nonsense. One looks at Dagny's accomplishments and weighs them against her failings. No one would look at terminating a pregnancy as something to appreciate or celebrate. One can acknowledge her right. What hubris to claim Eudaimonia does not understand Rand's fiction. How insulting.

"but you do not perceive that because you accept the gynophobia of imperialism"

That's a hell of a statement given that you don't know me.
Nevertheless, let me fill in the blanks.
I don't give a damn if Ayers is a nice guy now, he should swing and be refused burial on US soil.
I mention him over Dohrn because Ayers' name is more familiar.
This is in no way meant to excuse Dohrn, she should meet the same fate as Ayers.

I read the same bull. the parties did not flip as it were. that's propaganda. Senator Byrd was a lifelong dem and KKK member
RULING CLASS the party does not matter

I agree 100%. In criminology we identify "excusers" and "deniers." Ultimately, they all blank out on responsibility. The excusers admit they did it, but had a good reason. The deniers claim that they did not harm the victim, either they did not do it or that their act caused no harm. That is especially important when you consider "Techniques of Neutralization."

Criminologists David Skykes and Gresham Matza found that juvenile delinquents offered a consistent set of explanations for their acts. I submit, further, that these can be applied to the Civil Rights Movement and to other political extremists and terrorists as well. From Wikipedia on Techniques of Neutralization (my comments are in parentheses.)--

* Denial of responsibility. The offender will propose that they were victims of circumstance or were forced into situations beyond their control. (The ruling class made us do this.)

* Denial of injury. The offender insists that their actions did not cause any harm or damage. (So what if we ...)

* Denial of the victim. The offender believes that the victim deserved whatever action the offender committed.

* Condemnation of the condemners. The offenders maintain that those who condemn their offense are doing so purely out of spite, or are shifting the blame off of themselves unfairly. (You are on the side of the One Percenters or the socialists or the world bankers...)

* Appeal to higher loyalties. The offender suggests that his or her offence was for the greater good, with long term consequences that would justify their actions, such as protection of a friend. (The republic, the Original Constitution, the people, the oppressed, the producers.)

Two wrongs do not make a right. The Weathermen were terrorists then, and the Sovereign Citizens are now. And you have it wrong. As people go, Bill Ayers is a nice guy. The toughie is Bernadine Dohrn, but you do not perceive that because you accept the gynophobia of imperialism. The deeper problem is that the left has the criticisms correct - as Ayn Rand knew: contrast Dagny Taggart or Dominique Francon with Scarlett O'Hara or Elizabeth Bennett.

In order to understand Ayn Rand's fiction, you need to appreciate her embracing women as engineers who have the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. She was an atheist all of her life. For Ayn Rand, the Bolshevik Revolution was a betrayal. Thus, she called herself a "radical for capitalism."

who was she speaking these words for? she has made it clear in her writings she was for lying and manipulating groups of people

1932, proposed left-islation:
Article 1. The purpose of the American Baby Code shall be to provide for a better distribution of babies… and to protect society against the propagation and increase of the unfit.
Article 4. No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, and no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit…
Article 6. No permit for parenthood shall be valid for more than one birth.

maph, it was the REPUBLICANS who got the Civil Rights Act passed. also read about Margaret Sanger the founder of Planned Parenthood-and remember I am a supporter of R v W decision