Winston Churchill: “Anyone who is 20 and isn’t a liberal has no heart; anyone who is 30 and isn’t a conservative has no brain”.
jt
2012/09/23 17:36:02
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The updated version of this should be: Anybody who is Republican has no brain; anyone who is a Democrat has no spine.
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The only reason that many people see the Democrats as leftist is that the Republicans have shifted the debate so far right as to eliminate any truly left wing policy from consideration.
If you still think that the Democrats have tacked too far left, please send me the policies which you think justify this assertion.
I believe Keynesian economics and legislating equality is considered left, and equal opportunity and supply side economics are considered right. Whether you agree with these policies or not, I think that's generally what leftists and rightists believe.
How much you believe in these policies determines how far on the scale you are, much like how internet political polls work. Usually it judges on how you believe the government should regulate the economy, including morally and economically. On most websites I've visited, regulating morality and limiting government economically is conservative; while moral freedom and more economic regulation is generally more liberal. I think you get what I'm trying to say.
"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."
Hasn't the Obama admin created much more than that?
And today's Conservatives are more inline with the Nazi's..
LMAO
Was Churchill's conservative someone who sought to preserve the status quo or someone who want to create "conservative change"?
Was Churchhill's conservative someone who sought to balance the budget by maintaining revenues and cutting spending or someone who advocated cutting taxes?
Was Churchill's conservative someone who believed in following precedent when deciding court cases or someone who sought to overturn precedent?
Was Chuchill's conservative someone who followed their science and economics teachers and professors or someone who sought guidance from their preacher on these topics?
A word like conservative is relative. To Churchill, FDR was a conservative. ... that is very different from those who wrap themselves in the cloak of conservative today.
Trying to build a case for your repeated claim that you, an apparent Obama-supporter, are a conservative supporting Obama because you believe him to be a conservative as well?
And furthermore, you want to give the impression that Churchill would have considered Obama a conservative based on your belief that Churchill surely recognized FDR as a conservative?
OK...Whatever you say, Mr. Ken, the self-touted, lifelong, conservative, Republican Obama-supporter (but NOT Democrats you specify)
After all, Obama DOES (or DID) have a bust of Churchill in his office I do believe.
Still, I am curious as to WHOM belongs to this quote -
"“far from depriving ordinary people of their earnings, [the millionaire] launches enterprise and carries it through, raises values, and he expands that credit without which on a vast scale no fuller economic life can be opened to the millions."
And maybe even this quote -
“...when one sees an attempt made within the space of a few months to lift American trade unionism by great heaves and bounds, one worries that result could be “a general crippling of that enterprise and flexibility upon which not only the wealth, but the happiness of modern communities depends.”
Oh YEAH...Churchill would be an Obama man right down the line (wink, ...
Trying to build a case for your repeated claim that you, an apparent Obama-supporter, are a conservative supporting Obama because you believe him to be a conservative as well?
And furthermore, you want to give the impression that Churchill would have considered Obama a conservative based on your belief that Churchill surely recognized FDR as a conservative?
OK...Whatever you say, Mr. Ken, the self-touted, lifelong, conservative, Republican Obama-supporter (but NOT Democrats you specify)
After all, Obama DOES (or DID) have a bust of Churchill in his office I do believe.
Still, I am curious as to WHOM belongs to this quote -
"“far from depriving ordinary people of their earnings, [the millionaire] launches enterprise and carries it through, raises values, and he expands that credit without which on a vast scale no fuller economic life can be opened to the millions."
And maybe even this quote -
“...when one sees an attempt made within the space of a few months to lift American trade unionism by great heaves and bounds, one worries that result could be “a general crippling of that enterprise and flexibility upon which not only the wealth, but the happiness of modern communities depends.”
Oh YEAH...Churchill would be an Obama man right down the line (wink, wink)
Why do you want to deceive Mr. Ken, instead of just openly supporting that which is NOT considered conservative in this day and age of America, much less the day and age of Churchill?
Oooookay....And you get your politics from this one?..lol
Wow...Great improvement (wink, wink)
But, his apparent and publicly known addiction to nicotine is proof enough of his addictive weakness.
I couldn't care less what you call Bush...He himself has admitted his recognition of his own past indulgence in alcohol to the point of his own wife seeing it as a detriment to him, her, and their marriage.
Regardless, what you do with Bush or think of Bush is OK with me.
As far as addicts go, you might want to be concerned about your addiction to Barack Obama...lol
But, that is your business...It's only my business to try and rebut your goofy claims of Obama's "conservatism", and your own phony "conservatism".
Especially when you try and imply that Churchill would think of FDR and Obama as "conservatives", much less conservatives in the U.S.A.
Ken, you need help my very weird friend.
Have fun with it.