You see, if you can’t win an argument by using facts the easiest way to disengage from the argument and still become the seeming “winner” is to disenfranchise the opposition as a group. Of course, one doesn’t “win” the argument that way, one just feels morally justified in the escape from it, and the sense of moral superiority this administration feels is overwhelming (to them, not to conservatives).

Here is a link to the report. Notice that in the opening paragraph of “Key Findings” that the “analysts” come out and say that there is no evidence to back this up, no hard facts or numbers to say that a trend is developing. This briefing amounts to nothing more than simple conjecture fueled by paranoia that is no different than the “right wing extremists” they are writing about in their piece. It is like they wrote it over a discussion in a bar one evening after work….

Thanks for the explanation. I did not realize it was in response to a label placed on you. Somehow, I saw you as wanting to identify yourselves with extremism. But Carlos is right, with a little more thought I would not have presumed that you would not want to be associated with something so unreasonable and I should have searched my mind for a more reasonable explanation and very well may have come up with that answer on my own. Presumptions are usually not so good and I usually try not to, but that one got past me. My apologies.

However, I don’t think I’m being suckered by the administration since I don’t watch cable news television, I don’t listen to the radio and I don’t listen or read Obama speeches and I know nothing about this DHS document that you mention.

I’m not aware of this DHS document controversy but I’ll look into it and let you know what I think.

Thanks,
Terri

What isn’t “fair” is to steal, a vocation at which many (if not most) politicians excel.

Ultimately, it will always be that “some are more equal than others” simply because they understand how to prey upon others weaknesses.

To the left, fair doesn’t mean fair but is closer akin to “equal”. It doesn’t seem fair that a rich man pays higher percentage of taxes on their income than a “middle class” man, but it does take away more of that rich man’s wealth and bring him closer in terms of income to being equal to the middle class, which is the goal ultimately, that we’re all “equally” miserable and dependent on government…

The graphic is an answer to this new attempt to redefine. At the Manchester NH protest yesterday there were MANY MANY Democrats who were there to protest the STIMULUS and not taxes in general. Several told me they fear being labeled Extreme Leftist.

It’s a sad day when one political party tries to change the game rules like this- and it’s always the Democrats who do this.

In normal times your analysis would be correct, and it’s the response desired by the administration; however, it’s also not based in an appropriate analysis of who the report is talking about and it assumes (wrongly) that the words used in the report mean what they have traditionally meant.

In other words, they are suckering you into fearing anyone who disagrees with them, and (no offense intended, honestly) are apparently succeeding with you.

Please examine the DHS document closely, make an appropriate analysis of it yourself, and see if it does, in fact, make a lick of sense. If you enter this exercise with an open mind and an awareness that the document has a specific (ideological) political agenda I’m sure you’ll see what we’re talking about, and why we’re reacting the way we are.