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(NY Times) Readers' Comments–Deep Rifts Divide Obama and Republicans
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The comments certainly provide a sampling of the ideological ‘bent’ of the readers of the New York Times.
Middle-of-the-road they are not.
Main-stream-Americans they are not.
I’m not an American, but even I think those comments are some of the most partisan and unselfaware things I’ve read. Certainly helps put the NYT into perspective. I think my ‘favourite’ was this one for sheer entitledness:
[i] I am very angry. As a highly educated, critically thinking progressive, I will never get the government I deserve. Indeed, Obama is setting up this country for another 8 years of republican rule that will devastate us. Climate change will worsen, the rich will get richer, more jobs will go off shore and most Americans’ standard of living will decrease even further. Unless, miraculously, Obama finds a spine and learns to lead. I’m not a big believer in miracles.[/i]
Here’s a free tip. If your opening first or second sentence begins with how you are ‘not as other men’ and finishes with how you are never going to get what you deserve…use the delete key generously. It doesn’t reflect well on anyone to think such things. But to say them openly and freely? What on earth were they thinking?
And seriously, to read the comments as a whole, the basic idea seems to be “Because Obama didn’t push a more rigorous and uncompromising progressive agenda [i]therefore[/i] the American populace voted in a Republican majority.” Does that make [i]any[/i] sense? Because the public didn’t get all of what they wanted therefore they voted for people who will give them what they don’t want. [i]That’s[/i] the NYT’s readership’s basic theory? People vote Republican (and Tea Party endorsed Republican often) as a protest against an insufficiently progressive President?
[blockquote]And seriously, to read the comments as a whole, the basic idea seems to be “Because Obama didn’t push a more rigorous and uncompromising progressive agenda therefore the American populace voted in a Republican majority.†Does that make any sense? Because the public didn’t get all of what they wanted therefore they voted for people who will give them what they don’t want. [/blockquote]
The Left are not rational. Call a baby a fetus and PRESTO, it isn’t a human being anymore. Suffering from massive debt? Borrow more money and PRESTO, the economy is booming. People have a hard time affording health insurance? Pass a law mandating health insurance purchases, and massively raising costs. Then everyone is covered and PRESTO, no more health care problems. When they pour money into failing schools, throwing good money after bad, they respond to criticism of their profligate waste by saying, “Think how much worse it would have been if we didn’t spend all that money!”
Recently, scientists discovered that Liberals are literally genetically different from normal people because they have a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4. I guess they can’t help it. If it weren’t so dangerous, it would be very sad.
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2010/10/29/Liberals-Gene-and-social-factors-as-kids/UPI-57841288331837/