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I Was Once a Right-Winger
August 9, 2001
by Kevin Wetherington
Until now I have never voted Democratic. At one time my heroes were Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Dick Armey and the usual cast of characters. However, over the past year I started to look a little closer at my life in that meaning became more important than material things. And for some strange reason I started to try to look at what this country was all about, what was happening and who it was happening to.
Even in my right-wing heydey I always pandered to blacks and gays by saying "our philosophy" works for you, etc. And one issue on which I have always been a black sheep of the right-wing was the environment. My response to that was to either ignore the destruction so as not to indict my deity (corporations and capitalism) or to actively promote the insidious notion that private property was actually the panacea for environmental degradation (can you believe that?).
Sadly, the same outrage (anti-government paranoia) that fueled the death of 168 men, women and children (all INNOCENT) in Okie City was burning inside me. While I didn't condone this act, in my mind I "understood" why it was done. Looking back at this evil thinking makes me sick. Over the years I have started to look objectively at the world. Why did I promote rage in concern to incidents in Waco and Ruby Ridge, but you would hear nary a word about the same type of atrocities committed against black people by thug police departments? Where is the right-wing rage there?
I was sympathetic to militias. And keep in mind I am not and have never been a neo-nazi, gun toting, skin head who didn't think the holocaust happened. Yet, here I was, an educated, reasonably intelligent hard working American actually paying the modicum of respect to the militant right-wing.
In my transition from right to left I only recently faced the stark truth, which was that I no longer respected or believed in the ideals of the conservative movement. In fact, I now held those in contempt. However, where to turn? After dabbling around with libertarian "theology" I slowly drifted away from that too.
Initially, I - like most on the right wing - thought any form of Government regulation of the private economy was a evil plot to foster Marxism on the country. However, after an objective, concerted effort to find the roots of the many labor, human, and environmental regulations I realized many of these "restrictions" of economic freedom were grass roots movements of liberal populism. These people had stood up for protections: Protections from rotten meat, shoddy dangerous products, monopolies, human rights exploitation, environmental degradation, racism, sexism, equal rights infringement and so on.
Here I was rejecting everything I stood for since the time I was old enough to utter those words complete with drool off my chin, "Dada…Im a rightist."
I was never as openly anti-gay, anti-black, anti-this or anti-that than my fellow neo-nazis (er…conservatives), but laughed at gays, played race fear against blacks and called anyone who didn't kowtow to my archaic pablum a communist. Even when a liberal said they were in favor of the minimum wage I would yell "socialist," all the while knowing that socialism was simply a state where government owned the large factors of production. Minimum wage didn't and doesn't instruct government to buy up large industry and run them, it only sets a puny-assed minimum for people who bust their humps making others rich.
Even though I had moved from the right I still had it in mind that there was no way I was a liberal. You know how hard it is to finally come to grips in agreeing with a philosophy you have held in contempt - even hatred - for two decades?
On social programs, etc. I looked at liberals who were actually trying to help people and make this country "a more perfect union" and castigated them as selfish leftists. However, I looked around for conservative alternatives to the welfare state, affirmative action, equal rights, human rights, environmental respect/protection and found the movement void of any idea. Hell, the right-wing doesn't even pay lip-service to these issues.
A true axiom of the right-wing is "*em." Even worse than just a patent disregard for that which has no power and that which has no voice, the right-wing seeks to entrench and exploit all in the name of freedom. No matter how tightly you wrap hate in clichés such as "freedom," it is still perverse hatred.
Additionally, the right-wing holds the Constitution up on a pedestal as "their" ideals. In studying the Constitution I find their claims to be ludicrous and self-serving. Their arrogance is a direct rebuttal to an open mind. When Rush Limbaugh makes inaccurate statements that are then mimicked by his hapless followers, I find myself sinking in a sea of conservative idiocy. And all along, I was right there with them goose-stepping to the beat of an ideology that has a lot of followers but no center. No real ideas. No real solutions.
On one hand they whine about government, then load their districts up with pork, build and use roads paid for by government, accept cancer treatment supported by government, use the GI bill, support the military, use police and fire protection, attend public universities, use public lands for grazing, hunting and fishing, drive a Harley-Davidson (government saved this company), accept matching campaign funds, build jails, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
Their hypocrisy doesn't stop at politics. It continues right through their seedy morality. Most Republicans now positively disgust me and their greedy, selfish diatribes are hard to even listen to without growing very angry. But, have I become a liberal Democrat? Or even a progressive liberal? I now find myself relating to, agreeing with and supporting Ron Wyden, Paul Wellstone, Dick Durbin, Mark Udall, John Kerry and even Bernie Sanders - all the while believing clowns like Tom DeLay, Don Young, Larry Craig, Helen Chenowith and Rush Limbaugh are a bunch of jack-booted psychopathic thugs.
So I guess it is time that I proudly pronounce myself as the newest convert to liberalism in America, and forever renounce the right-wing of this country. I am proud of this. I am free and believe in my heart and mind the only party than can actually save us from what can only be called the evil hypocrisy of the right-wing is the Democratic Party. Now is the time to stand up and fight. I'm with you.

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Again BCalm you have posted a total lie. There are so many red flags which point to it being a total fabraction. To cut and paste anything that has appeared on dumbocrat underground shows you have lost touch with reality.
And for CHICKEN HAULER:
This is what real propaganda is!!
BTW No true conservative would consider a corporation a "diety" This should have given you a clue!!!!

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Glad you enjoyed it.

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B Calm : Our recent election left us with much for which to be thankful. A political system more than two centuries old survived without mobs taking to the barricades or colonels leading tanks on the capitol.
Despite the questionable legitimacy of it all, we have a new president and its time to move forward. posted February 17, 2001 12:58
And when will this be happening?? From Day one, everything that is messed up in this Country has been GWB's fault.
I find it rather suspect that one could "do so much" to the country in eight months.
Bill Clinton's first year was about "finding himself".
As was ALBORES whole campaign.
HYPOCRISY, is something, obviously B Calm knows alot about. Here's B Calm speaking about the Religous Right.
B Calm : Their hypocrisy doesn't stop at politics. It continues right through their seedy morality. They say they want to get the government off our backs, but they would have it peek into our bedrooms, living rooms, meeting rooms and libraries-everywhere but their own closets. Their conceit that they speak for God is the other cause of their divisiveness. They recognize no opposition and no compromise because anyone who disagrees with them is evil.posted February 17, 2001 12:58
Yet the Sodomy Lobby has emplemented the very same "tactics", as evidence by a previous thread about the Homosexuals in Des Moines, Iowa, having to go to the City Council, for special treatment. It would seem, they, want Government to "peek into bedrooms".
And when a differing opinion of the Homosexuals or any other Leftist protected class, is put forth, the first words to be spewed, are from the Liberal Template.
Racist
Bigoted
Homophobe
They recognize no opposition and no compromise because anyone who disagrees with them is evil.
Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.
Ronald Reagan
October 27, 1964

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THE SCALIA FIVE, REDUX
North Richland Hills, Texas
As a practicing attorney, I have a deep fascination with the Bush v. Gore decision and its
political and legal fallout. Because of my interest, I read all of the briefs of the parties to the
case, the decisions of the Florida Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court, and many
articles concerning the case in The Nation, the New York Times, USA Today , the Los
Angeles Times and the Dallas Morning News. I researched the previous holdings of the
Supreme Court on equal protection and voting rights and recently read Vincent Bugliosi's
book, Betrayal of America, and Alan Dershowitz's new book titled, coincidentally,
Supreme Injustice. During the span of my career, I have also read literally thousands of
constitutional law cases, including the Dred Scott decision and Plessy v. Ferguson.
Having studied this matter ad nauseam, I, like conservative jurist Robert Bork, find the
decision to be poorly reasoned and flawed. I know of no serious constitutional law scholar
who can find any legal justification for the ruling; all rely on non-legal justifications such as
the patronizing assumption that it is in the best interests of the country for five jurists to
decide election contests quickly, rather than allow the election contest procedure to
proceed as it has for the better part of the last 200 years of our democracy. Under no
circumstances can I envision a single conservative judge or attorney (including the Scalia
Five) who would agree with the legal reasoning or outcome of the case had the shoe been
on the other foot.
Steve Cobble got it right, without a single doubt.
This Bush v. Gore decision is the most dangerous decision ever to come out of the
Supreme Court, more dangerous that the Dred Scott decision, and more dangerous than
Plessy v. Ferguson. It destroys the very foundation of democracy, the right to vote.
Without support in the constitution, without support in statutes, without support of previous
case law, the Supreme Court has now vested solely within itself (to the exclusion of state
and federal legislative bodies and the state courts) the right to stop recounts, to interfere
with state election procedures, to throw out the laws of the states and the rights of the
voters, in order to have the last say on who is president. The right of the US Congress to
decide election contests was ignored, and the right of state courts to interpret their own
laws trampled. Never have the terms of the Constitution been so twisted to justify such a
blatant grab for power.
Having been a Republican for the majority of my voting life, I challenge doubters to
research the matter carefully before blindly accepting the propaganda of the right. It sure
changed my outlook. The foundation of the democracy is crumbling from the weight of the
Court's unprecedented grab for power. For the first time in my forty-five years of life, I
tremble for our future. And I'm filing to vote as a registered Democrat.
LOUISE C. HENSLEIGH
The Nation

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When two (who write like Left-Wingers) of ALL the millions of "Right-Wingers" get their little feelings hurt and leave the party they hated in the first place.
And B-Calm throws a party.
It shows the poor "Far-Left-Winger" needs to get a life!!!
Hey B Calm there is life out side of government control. Get your head out of the sand and try it sometime.... you may like it!
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America
A country that demands the right to call its President vulgar names, but will go to war if you call Tinky-Winky gay!
DON’T FORGET:
REMEMBER MY FRIEND.... There were conservatives long before there was Rush, North, or the G Man!!! SO, PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT!!

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Can we say: ?????
I've never seen so much bs in one listing

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Between Right and Left, right in the middle , is the heart.
Whenever anyone is confronted personally and immediately by the personal suffering of another, the instinct is to help.
These silly-*** labels get in the way. No one is "increased" by allegiance to a doctrine or party. It's just a way of ego-extension.
Liberal, Conservative--sorry, it's all nonsense.
B Calm, you are hereby commended for a thoughtful self-examination. Therein lies the Path to Truth.
The parroting of philosophies and doctrines as a means of self-gratification is the surest way to war and perdition.
May you be well and happy!