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[QUOTE="ShadowSD:387228"]I agree with most of the things you said, people have to be vigilant against all forms of evil, those expected and unexpected. There are still degrees of threat involved though, and something that has been a problem for all of human history seems a bigger threat to me than something that has never ever happened. Most liberals don't take PC stuff so far that they would challenge the first amendment with it, and those who would are betraying their own ideals, because you obviously can't claim any progress antecedent of the first amendment. And that goes to my point: The challenge of progressivism/liberalism is how to progress forward without falling backwards into the same traps you've been fighting against in the first place, while the challenge of conservatism is choosing what values we have to keep with us as we evolve and progress throughout history. Both challenges face all of us. The only reason I'm more inclined to go after the neo-cons is because: 1) They've controlled EVERYTHING for years in a way unseen in our country's history, including the executive branch, the legislative branch, the federal judiciary, and most of the news media - directly, in the case of Fox News and talk radio, and indirectly, in the case of neutral organizations like CNN, the networks, and PBS, who are constantly on the defensive to add conservative coverage and balance themselves out against the unending neo-con drumbeat of "liberal media" (that's why everyone ran the War in Iraq commercial with virtually no dissenting viewpoints for one year before we went; didn't that seem weird to anyone else to have NO dissent at all aired for an entire year, it's never happened in the history of this country) 2) Neo-cons advocate "unlimited executive power in a time of war", while at the same time everyone agrees the war against terrorism will last generations, meaning this is our country's closest point to a monarchy since it's inception (any other time in our history both conservatives and liberals would have FLIPPED if something like this was even talked about; the fact that no one notices what's going on now is just creepy) and 3) NO ONE VOTED FOR NEO-CONS, half the voters who turned out in the last two elections voted for what they perceived as a regular conservative that they could have a beer with, most American voters don't even know what "neo-con" means, and the news media has done little to make it common knowledge, despite the fact that these people RUN THE WHOLE COUNTRY and are fucking up our economy and foreign policy for generations based on theories that no one voted for. [/QUOTE]
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