QUOTE (John L @ Aug 3 2004, 02:50 PM)
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The problem with democrats is they are opportunists who react to rather than act on problems. Thus, they set the country up for endless problems. They don't seem to have any long range reasoning abilities past the first step of their plans. But they are very tricky.-Jaybee
Au Contraire Jaybee. You are talking around yourself. Let me show you why. First you state that they only react. If that were the case, then how did we get into this Collectivist mess in the first place? It is through their own majority and leadership that this creeping Socialism has occurred.
Second, their goals are indeed long range. They are out to make the US a Collectivist nervana! And they know that this will only take time. Sort of like boiling the frog. You place it is cold water and then slowly turn up the heat over time.
And third, you state that they have faulty reasoning abilities, but then you go on and state that they are "very tricky". I think that that is an oxymoron. To be tricky automatically necessitates a certain amount of reasoning abilities.
I think what you were really trying to state was that their ability to view the world objectively, and not subjectively, is somewhat impared. Am I correct?
Hmm....let me try to clarify. You're exactly right that the creeping Socialism is a goal of the Democratic Party. So, in fact, they do have a plan. I have an old out-of-print book written by a defector from the Communist Party of the USSR in the early part of last century that outlines the plan as a specific plan of attack to covertly convert the US to Socialism. It's a scary read because what the author says will be the course of creeping action is and has been playing out for decades via the Democratic Party. We are now at a point in the process where it is like you mentioned in another thread.....an aircraft carrier trying to turn around in the ocean.....we will either see what is happening and turn it away or we will not see it and the process will all but unstoppable. The major thing used to take over is tricking the people to be emotionally involved instead of objectively involved in government issues and to want more and more issues to be government ruled.
So what I was trying to say, and didn't do too well, was that they are opportunists by design, deliberately to set up conditions which favor socialistic mindsets. They don't offer objectivity. They prey on emotions by not offering any real long term reasonings past saying they're going to do this and that, just leaving it that they are going to please everyone. It IS very tricky because many people believe they MUST have a plan and don't ask questions about it for the sole reason that they have offered nothing to question except to ask, what is the plan? whereby if anyone were to ask that question the answer would be 'better than the Republican one' as if there is something inherently wrong with the Republican one, whereby people then think, Yeah! Go Democrats! Make things better for me! So the plan is to leave things in the first step of the plan by stating meerly a goal which sounds good to anyone who would take a grab bag instead of selecting based on need. They don't say how the plan will be because it will involve socialistic stradegies which would not appeal to many of the very people who support them. Call it an open-ended stradegy to deceive as necessary to promote socialism.
I guess you're right. It boils down to objectivity versus subjectivity, but I think the plan is to create subjectivity through a very objective albeit unformally announced plan to turn our government toward socialism which would never happen if people didn't see things subjectively.
Thanks for the brain exercise! I'll try to do better if this didn't make sense!