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Title: Misleading Left - Right Paradigm
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Jeremiah Project
URL Source: http://www.jeremiahproject.com/tras ... america/political-parties.html
Published: Jun 21, 2012
Author: Jeremiah Project
Post Date: 2015-06-21 01:03:58 by Deckard
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Views: 2424
Comments: 20
Most Americans have been brainwashed to believe they have only two choices when it comes to selecting their political leaders. It's either a Republican or a Democrat. They rarely even consider there are other choices. Rather than choosing a candidate that better reflects their values, they choose instead "the lesser of two evils." And, they get what they choose... "evil." Beyond their rhetoric, there is very little difference between Republicans and Democrats in their actions. They like to sound different, supporting the false left/right paradigm, but both the Republicans and Democrats parties are dedicated to Big Government and neither are willing change that. G. Edward Griffin said in The Grand Design, "The Grand Design has absolutely nothing to do with partisan politics. These men aren't nearly as much Republicans or Democrats as they are world politicians, They've got bigger things to occupy their minds than mere party labels, To them, partisan politics is only a game to amuse the masses who crave the showmanship of big national conventions, the excitement of partisan campaigns, and the satisfaction of casting a vote in the illusion that, somehow, they're really helping to decide the important issues of the day, But, with precious few exceptions, for the past two decades the American voter has had to make his choice between Grand Designer A and Grand Designer B." What America needs is a NEW paradigm. Washington needs to be wiped clean of the cronies that have established themselves as the only choice and have sold their offices to International bankers. We need leaders that believe in our historical roots and are committed to returning America to the Constitutional Republic set forth in 1776. Does the Republican Party Represent You? "Sometimes we wonder if Republicans don´t have a secret suicide wish. That´s the only way to explain why this GOP Congress seems eager to hand the nation´s trial lawyers two epic political victories. Senator John McCain´s tobacco-tax bill promises to turn a passel of plaintiffs´ lawyers into billionaires. As if that´s not enough, House Republicans Greg Ganske and Charlie Norwood are proposing to open up previously exempt parts of the health care economy to liability suits. If a Democratic Congress tried to do anything at all like this, Republicans would be rending their garments on the Capitol steps." -The Wall Street Journal Emerging from the Republican party are neoconservatives such as William Kristol, the founder of the Project for the New American Century. Neoconservative influence on American foreign policy became central with the Bush Doctrine of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a potential or perceived threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat was not immediate.
Consider the state of our economy, the protection of our liberties, and our health as a result of elections since 1913 following this misleading left/right paradigm.
The Republican party has long been considered the representative of conservativism, but does it really reflect conservative values? 
Republicans and Democrats alike were conned into voting for a $700 billion bank bailout of Wall Street’s most prominent and well-connected financial houses even though the vast majority of their constituents demanded they not support it. 2008 Presidential candidate, John McCain, painted himself as a warrior against pork barrel spending, spending months traveling around the country boasting about his opposition to earmarks and pork-barrel spending and vowing to veto such spending, yet he voted for $100 billion of pork in the mortgage-bailout bill including tax breaks for: rum producers in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands; producers of wooden arrows used for children's toys; film and television producers; Indian tribes; railroads; "Domestic Production Activities" in Puerto Rico; and auto-racing tracks.
The 2012 Vice-Presidential candidate, Paul Ryan, was praised by top conservative voices as being what Presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, needed to win over Conservatives shying away from Romney's dubious background. Ryan was called the GOP’s “moral compass” and The Wall Street Journal has editorialized that he “represents the GOP’s new generation of reformers.” 
Despite his fiscal responsible rhetoric, Ryan has voted to raise the debt ceiling multiple times and is an avid supporter of Washington’s foreign wars and the Military Industrial Complex. He voted in favor of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). He defended the bill on the House floor saying, “Are we standing at the edge of this abyss? Nobody knows, but maybe. It’s very probable.” No, Mr. Ryan the whole crisis bringing you to this vote was a sham, a orchestrated theft of the American people. Ryan went on to say, “Colleagues, we’re in the moment. This bill doesn’t have everything I want in it — its got a lot of good things in it — but we’re here, we’re in this moment and if we fail to do the right thing, heaven help us.” Yes, Mr. Ryan... heaven help us. “This bill offends my principles, but I’m going to vote for this bill in order to preserve my principles, in order to preserve this free enterprise system,” Ryan explained.
Along with a Nazi like Department of Homeland Security, this law begat other laws that expanded the power of government to extend to ANY individual remotely suspected suspected of terrorist-related activities and redefining "domestic terrorists" to include anybody that supports the U.S. Constitution, those that read the Bible, or anyone else that disagrees with the collectivist goals of an out of touch centralized government. The Military Commissions Act and National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) suspended the constitutionally protected right of habeas corpus, codified military indefinite detention, and extends to even American citizens declared to be an unlawful enemy combatant. With the agreement of Tea Party activist and Presidential candidate, Representative Michelle Bachmann, in 2011 President Barack Obama signed a four-year extension of the law.
2012 Vice-Presidential candidate, Paul Ryan, also voted to extend the unconstitutional PATRIOT Act, supported the National Defense Authorization Act, and has voted to expand the Department of Homeland Security.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Loads about the failures of Republicans in the piece. What about the Dims? No air time for them?
Did you not see the first 10 bullet points? When the Jeremiah Project mentions "Both Parties" do you think they're referencing Greens or Libertarians? How many times does your "party" have to sell you out before you start to understand that most of them are lying con artists who want to work as lobbyists when they finally lose an election or are termed out?
An entire expose on Pubs. Nothing on the Dims.
Good grief man, are you blind?
Not blind I see quite well. The DNC operation is alive and well on LF.
Since I probably agree with you on 90% of the issues, allow me to add my $0.02 here. In articles like this, you ask why the democrats don't seem to come in for as much criticism. I think I can shed some light on this. From a limited government, Constitutional perspective, the democrats are a lost cause. They have been since the Woodrow Wilson administration. They are simply a gathering of power hungry control freak politicians - supported by a cadre of welfare seekers, social malcontents, and Marxist intellectuals. The only thing that binds these groups together is Party - and it is Party Uber Alles. That is how you can have the Xlintons - not so long ago - railing against the perversion of homosexual marriage, and now doing a complete 180 on the issue. The Xlintons are "forgiven" for their transgressions, you see, because advancing the Xlintons advances the Party. Cheating, lying, hypocracy - all of these can be seen as "doing what you have to do" to get elected. And once elected, the Party is advanced. It's about the Party - always the Party. That is why there is no point in criticizing democrats. They're simply fanatics - lunatics. No amount of criticism will change that. Democrats are a force to be defeated - that's where Republicans SHOULD come in. (but they don't - hence the criticism) I've been voting since '72 and with one unfortunate exception (Carter in '76) I've either voted Republican, 3rd party, or on a couple of occasions stayed home. There were many years when the only reason I voted was to "save the Supreme Court" - i.e. a republican would nominate better judges than a democrat. The events of the last few years - and especially since the '14 midterms - have convinced me that thinking voting republican meant anything was foolish. I (and millions of others) voted GOP in '14 for one purpose - to stop Emperor Zero. It was an election of historic proportions - dems were thrown out on their butts. I DID NOT VOTE FOR BOEHNER OR MCCONNELL. But those fools are what we got. The do Zero's bidding as well as any democrat. Finally, the Supreme Court. All those years of voting for gop presidents just so they would nominate judges who would simply follow the Constitution. Currently there are 5 on SCOTUS who have been nominated by republican president. So let's review what's happened: Zero care. Upheld. Twice. Homosexual marriage. Now in all 50 states. States rights - gone. Remind me again why we should vote for repubicans? The country has moved consistently to the left in the last hundred years - republicans may slow things down, but they never change direction. And we're past the point (in my opinion) where elections matter.
The problem is much larger than the Republican Party. The problem is with "conservatism" itself. What do "conservatives" want to conserve? Well, look at many of the people on this board. They want to "conserve": 1.) The Wilson Administration / Progressive Era -- Income Tax and Federal Reserve Bank 2.) The Roosevelt Administration / New Deal -- Social Security 3.) A big part of the Johnson Administration / Great Society -- Medicare How is conserving Democrat Party triumphs and programs in any way "conservative"? The answer is that term "conservative" is relative to one's frame of reference, which makes the term meaningless. (20 years from now, many "conservatives" will want to "conserve" Obamacare because that will have become part of their frame of reference.) This is the actual problem. It's why government programs never actually get rolled back.
Excellent points. "Conservatism" is a matter of definition. WE are trying to conserve OR "preserve" a constitutional republic, culturally American traditions, heritage, and language, and the Founders' values -- which were obvious at its core, common sense and Western-European, and Bible based tenets and morals. A large part of the problem within the last 10 years or so has also been the subversion of the language and manipulation of public opinion -- especially through social media.
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#2. To: redleghunter (#1)
Loads about the failures of Republicans in the piece.What about the Dims? No air time for them?
#7. To: Operation 40 (#2)
#8. To: redleghunter, Operation 40 (#7)
An entire expose on Pubs. Nothing on the Dims.
#9. To: Deckard (#8)
#11. To: redleghunter (#9)
Not blind I see quite well. The DNC operation is alive and well on LF.
#13. To: Rufus T Firefly (#11)
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Remind me again why we should vote for repubicans?
#16. To: cranko (#13)
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