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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The point I wanted to make was a bit different. I agree with you that what Waters says will change no one's views on the right (and I think if Waters didn't exist they'd make up someone else an awful lot like her (or find someone, even if they needed to find a county commissioner or zoning appeals officer somewhere)).
But it's the idea that they don't have to have their own views of anything - their own moral compass - but can justify whatever they are doing based on it being not-Waters, not-Clinton or not-Obama. SEC was saying basically that conservatives were ready to ok putting kids in internment camps as long as Waters didn't like it.
What we are seeing is an abdication by much of the right of any sense of character or morality. They don't care how many pimps, rapists, pederasts or just plain old corrupt fucks they vote for, and they don't care what the rationale behind a trade war or a tax bill is (they won't have hearings and discuss them, anyways). It's a motto of "I don't care."
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I don't think that's exactly right. A lot of what they do is motivating by the idea that there are real Americans, and there are other people, and the government ought to do more for real Americans and stick it to other people. There's a morality there. I disagree with it, but it's there.
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