PrestonSturges wrote:You know Six, the way you have to keep telling people "I'm not a fascist" is sort of like someone that keeps saying "I'm not gay!" At some point you should just come out of the closet, because you aren't fooling anyone.
I have to say that so I make sure to not become a fascist.
I got right winger in my blood, Preston. It's easy to go off the wagon and start railing about immigrants and before you know you really are a hateful fascist nationalist.
I'm reformed -- I may not vote O again though, if this keeps nagging me that a Reagan or Dick Cheney would have handled all this stuff with Russia.
It's same as Reagan Democrats pulled that lever against Carter.
I'm one of those Obama Republicans that gave Democrats a chance. That party has to handle things and come through or they don't get our vote again.
You can't just have open doors on the border. You can't just keep screwing up foreign policy, and I sit here and I'm thinking "omg things are not getting handled right, we need a Reagan we need a Reagan but we don't have one."
If I keep feeling that way I will pull the lever for R in '16.
Anyhow -- it's important to know what nationalism and fascism is, conservatives need to know it, you don't want to go off the wagon into fascism. Here's an example with the Republican Party: they got really hateful about that crisis of kids coming over the border. And O doing nothing about border control. So they were right, but they went too far, and at some point conservatives realized -- oh wait these are just kids.
And you saw religious conservatives send aid, and even Glenn Beck sent aid.
Do you get me there? There's a line. Sometimes the right wing is correct, but the right wing is reactionary and you don't want to spin off into over-correction of liberal excess. You never want to spin off into McCarthy communist hearings etc.
And all the stuff about Obama, it's been too much over the years, too much blind hate.
In other words, we really need some kind of moderate Republicans back, I think.