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Originally posted by Soy un perdedor:
How would you feel if I said "All conservatives are fascist nazis who should be shot."
I'd feel that you were whomod. But seriously...

There's no shortage of liberals, here or elsewhere, that feel completely justified in calling conservatives:
  • criminals
    nazis
    racists
    sexists
    homophobes

In fact, a Berkeley Professor just released a paper that compared Ronald Reagan to Hitler and more or less argued that conservative thought was a mental disease.

So let's not assume liberal moral high ground here just yet.


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Now, like I said, there are those conservatives who do go to extremes. Take Ashcroft. He had expressed racist, homophobix views prior to becoming attorney general
See what I mean...

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and he is the staunchest supporter of taking away the civil rights of those with Middle Eastern decent still living in captivity. America looks back with shame when it recalls how we locked up Japanese families in camps, both to protect them and ourselves.
Not the same thing. The Japanese who were interned were AMerican citizens not accused of any crime.

The Muslims being detained generally fall in one of two catagories: suspected terrorists and/or illegal aliens.

It is astonishing that so many liberals think we should be releasing illegal aliens back onto the streets. Have they forgotten who perpetrated 9-11?

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And, of course, there is the Red Scare. If there is something to be paranoid about, conservatives will milk it and make your terrified.
History has shown that there were communists who infiltrated U.S. government and businesses including, Soviet spy Alger Hiss. For years, liberals claimed that Hiss was wrongly accused and used this as an example of conservative paranoia. However, with the fall fo the USSR, documents were released from Russia showing that Hiss was, in fact, a Soviet spy.

Furthermore, Hiss is far from the only example.

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Yet, it galls me that they have little interest in the environment, or deteriorating schools and education.
Really? Or is it just that conservatives feel that there are different ways to solve these problems?

Now whose generalizing?

There's also the question of whether liberals aren't being paranoid about the environment.


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It is because conservatives, who tend to run with the Republican party, are backed by large corporations.
Actually, most donors to the Republican party tend to be small individual donors. The Democratic party's donors tend to be rich more often.

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But back to Ann Coulter. She feels that anyone who questions the system is a traitor.
Is that what she said?

I believe it you read her actual words she said that liberals who tend to instinctively side with other nations, or even our enemies, are engaging in acts that are "anti-America" and, therefore, close to treason, if not actual treason.

For example, the cartoon you posted makes snide comment about the true fact that few Americans went to Afghanistan to side with the Taliban. But a great number of them did go to Iraq, as human shields or otherwise, to side with Saddam.

These people, and the anti-war protesters who sided with France, made it more difficult to start and prosecute the war and may have given Saddam time to hide his weapons of mass destruction. It certainly gave him more time to continue his reign of murder and torture (ironic, given liberals' claimed concerns for human rights) and helped endanger our troops by pushing the war's commencement to the hot summer months.

Coulter would be wrong to say that most liberals are intentionally treasonous. However when she says that their knee-jerk anti-Americanism often has the same effect, it is difficult to argue with her.