Why does the Left have so many irrational Fears?

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  1. kilgram

    kilgram New Member

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    And the nuclear lobbies are continuing defending the nuclear energy after the disaster of Japan, the worst nuclear accident.
     
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    Libhater Well-Known Member

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    Oh how so many forget the study done on the liberal brain. Check this out. Be sure to click on image to enlargen it to satisfaction.

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  3. kilgram

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    Carbon is changeable. There isn't worst technology.

    And isn't an irrational act when we know the effects of the CO2 are very harmful for the climate. Yeah.

    And there is technology that reduce dependancy of the carbon. In Spain for example we don't have almost dependancy of the carbon. Our main generator of energy are the renewables. But continue refusing change and progress.

    As we can see, conservative are all the contrary to what the founders of America would like to see America. If the founders would be alive today, no one would support any politician of today.

    The flourishing of the renewable energy depends that if you invest on it or not. If conservative continue attacking it, never will flourish, and the rest of countries will advance USA. Because for example Island is only using renewable energy, Germany will leave to use nuclear energy, in Spain we are advancing a lot in renewable energy, the same with the Nordic countries.
     
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    You are wrong. Money is exactly what would motivate it!!! If oil went to 500 dollars a barrel over night, coal made a similar jump, etc, you would be shocked at how quickly we would be able to find alternatives. I have little faith in government, corporations, etc. I do however have a great deal of faith in the power of human ingenuity. I think eventually, especially if a lot of money is on the line, some smart person or group of smart people will do exactly what you said won't happen for years, and it will happen much sooner than you think. I just hope we are the ones who find it, and therefore are the ones who benefit from it. The problem now is very powerful energy interests use their connections in government to defend the status quo, so any innovation that actually does happen will be ignored.



    That is reasonable, and I think in practice you are right, that is just about how it plays out.
     
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    KSigMason Banned at Members Request Past Donor

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    Tyrants and authoritarians through their fear create their enemies.
     
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    You do realize that we haven't built a single nuclear poer plant since that event, 30 something years ago?
     
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    I can explain,

    The special rights, are just the everyday unoffical rights we have.

    I'm not sure what you mean bytraditional values, are you refering to the conservitvism our founding fathers wanted?

    How many liberals do you know fear masculinity?

    The left doesn't fear guns, we just want laws such as having to registar guns.

    I don't fear the status quo. Never have.

    http://www.politicalforum.com/curre...ut-fairness-doctrine-no-more.html#post4010902

    I've been honest with my posts here, does that answer your last question?
     
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    What's that have to do with trying to compare three mile island and Chernobyl?
     
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    Very good observation, SiliconMagician.

    Their fears, in turn, produce irrational intolerance.

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    Liberals do not like you if you do not agree completely with their points of view! Especially when you challenge their core beliefs on much higher taxes, legalization of dangerous drugs, welfare accountability, religion and "cap and trade"!
     
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    How are you seeing it as corporations corrupting congress? It is clearly the other way around. Congress controls the power that allows any corporate influence into the system.

    That's like a whore telling the cops that the John corrupted her.
     
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    Because they (overall) don't believe in God. duh

    or because they don't believe that any God has relevancy to the human scene.
     
  13. The Real American Thinker

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    No, I don't.

    That's just as irrational as fear of government...which is VERY rational.

    Don't fear those either.

    Why are you lying?
     
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    akphidelt2007 New Member Past Donor

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    Those all seem like pretty rational fears to me, lol.
     
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    Ex-lib Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Wow, if Dems and Reps can't even agree on who's corrupting who....learn-

    Though there SHOULD be, there is no law saying that Corps can't pay politicians in certain ways, and that politicians can't take the money under certain conditions.

    Next, if corps were ethical maybe they wouldn't offer the money. Definitely, if the politicians were ethical, they wouldn't take it. But you can't legislate ethics except by voting.

    So we're left with one thing- how are they doing their jobs? Corps' job is to increase bottom line, so even though it SHOULDN'T be allowed, they can pay politicians and they're doing their job.

    But the job of politicians is to do what's best for the country, or at least to do what their constituents' wishes are. If pols are voting a certain way because of money, etc. that they take from corps instead of voting a certain way because it's best for America, then pols are NOT doing their job.

    Hence, which is the only one that be validly blamed, the politicians or the corporations?

    The politicians.

    Why?

    Again, because of the three criteria, legality, morality and abiding by job description, the pols are the only ones who are violating any of those 3 criteria.

    Now I'm not sticking up for corps. They shouldn't be allowed to pay pols. Lobbying should just be illegal. Or at least the material "persuasions" of lobbying should be illegal.
    And they should be under other regs. But so should pols. (term limits, etc)
     
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    Good grief don't forget homosexuality. They get REAL upset when you question the validity of THAT. It must make them fear for their sexual choices.
     
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    For conservatives, they have one incredibly glaring irrational fear which is the only one necessary for this conversation. If they solved this fear, the world would be a much better place!

    The irrational fear of education
     
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    It's not fear. It's just an awareness of the dangers posed all of those things if they're out of balance or used irresponsibly or dishonestly.

    Everything you mentioned, I'm in favor of, from carbon dioxide to economic freedom. Just like I'm in favor of guns ... with safeties.
     
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    I didn't realize CO2 levels were high enough to endanger human breathing.
     
  20. The Real American Thinker

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    Since you guys tend to pretend Democrats represent the entirety of the left, I'll just address this on a purely Republican/Democrat scale.

    You're full of crap. The Barna Group (a conservative Christian statistics org) and The Christian Post (conservative Christian news org) found the following:

    http://www.christianpost.com/news/how-does-the-faith-of-republicans-democrats-measure-up-26175/

    Of course, that's narrowed significantly because the Barna Group filed them based on a specific list of beliefs, which came out as follows:

    So basically, when it comes right down to it...there's about the same amount of Christians on the left as on the right.
     
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    Another for *******s.

    Irrational fear of the Constitution.


    Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Commies.
     
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    I'm willing to bet you don't know what communism actually is.
     
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    Irrational fears? This coming from the people that think legalizing gay marriage will lead to rampant bestiality? That things Muslims are taking over the country?
     
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    I'm willing to bet you don't know what the constitution actually is.


    Your silly game is too easy.
     
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    I was going to create a mock thread of this, but I realise this already IS a mock thread, because neocons have it all based on fear, Iraqi nukes, Afghan terrorists, Iran nukes, etc.
     

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