Are conservatives a party or a cult?

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  1. peoplevsmedia

    peoplevsmedia Banned

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    Last I checked, a party can make stuff happen. not sure what to make of republican party, fox news or the GOP - other than having a microphone on the national stage (for which all that is required is money) I don't see how GOP do anything for America. is it a distraction wing for the democrat party?
     
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    The Republican Party would be a joke if their policies weren't so destructive.
     
  3. ragin cajun

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    Dumb thread of the day award!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations, you win. Now send me $5000
     
  4. leftlegmoderate

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    'Conservatives' belong to a large diverse family, which ranges from classical liberals to today's neo-cons. You're gonna have to narrow it down a bit more.
     
  5. Sadanie

    Sadanie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I don't think the whole party is a cult, but there are certainly very large niches that center around cult ideologies, like " the cult of greed,". " the cult of hyper religiosity," "the cult of fox news," and the cult of Grover Norquist."
     
  6. ragin cajun

    ragin cajun New Member

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    This is foolish. Does anyone think that dems and libs are not a cult? the cult of demonizing success, hating oil, hating coal, AGW, hating religion, hating fast food, and worshiping a false kenyan god. Cult?? Yes, dems and libs are cultists of the worst kind.
     
  7. ragin cajun

    ragin cajun New Member

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    how about the cult of MSNBC, the cult of Maher, the cult of the View, the cult of obama, the cult of tree hugging, the cult of stupid electric cars, the cult of vegans, the cult of PETA.

    you lefties are the real cultists, face it saddie.
     
  8. Sadanie

    Sadanie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How ridiculous AGAIN!

    You're really desperate, aren't you?:razz::razz::razz:
     
  9. Sadanie

    Sadanie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Parrot? That's all you can come up with? ;-):laughing:
     
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    akphidelt2007 New Member Past Donor

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    It is most definitely a cult. No free thinking allowed in the Republican party otherwise the cult leaders get mad at you and shun you from the cult.
     
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    shun you from the cult??? WTF you smokin dude?
     
  12. Jango

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    The extremeness in an ideology breed cult-like symptoms. But since conservatism is so tightly wound with religiosity, their characteristics more commonly fit the descriptions of a cult.
     
  13. akphidelt2007

    akphidelt2007 New Member Past Donor

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    Ahhh... you must be one of the ones that hasn't had that epiphany yet where you realize you are in a cult. Just don't drink the kool-aid!
     
  14. RtWngaFraud

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    No...they're not a cult. They just endorse cultists for President.
     
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    The party of personal responsibility is a cult? Lets put it this way - you don't have to round up Republicans and put them on a bus so they can vote. We drive ourselves. People that are rounded up belong to group think or cult like thinking and organizing. Democrats remind me of a mindless herd of cows who dramatically need each other to reinforce a certain kind of behavior. Your own utters are not enough to satisfy the insistent need to feed off what everyone else has.
     
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    Speaking of cult, Obama, the cult of personality.

    Conservatism is not a cult or a political party no more than progressivism is. Both parties have both.
     
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    I find the more extreme American conservatives a strange bunch; they seem lost in a cliched backward-looking unreality of the perfect nuclear family, Persil-white curtains, Buick in the driveway and church on Sunday morning. 'The way things used to be'. Except that they never were. Their fear of science, education and progress, coupled with their embracing of ignorance as if it were a virtue is tragic also. 'We've always done it this way' seems to be their mantra.
    If they want to be left even further behind while becoming increasingly irrelevant, you have only to look at the likes of Romney and consider why he lost.
     
  18. ragin cajun

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    That is total bunk. If we want to discuss cults, lets discuss the cult of obama. The cult that voted another term for a president who has failed at every duty of the president. A cult that worships a half black half white guy who is good at reading from a teleprompter, a cult that preaches hate of successful people, hate of business, hate of religion, hate of guns, hate of anyone who is not a practicing member of the cult.
     
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    Not believing in the hype of global warming isn't the same as a fear of science. Any Conservative thinks education is great. There is a difference between teaching and educating children in the cult of socialism. There is value in respecting the individual. It is a time honored thing.
     
  20. Mr. Swedish Guy

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    Why does there have to be some many threads like this?... Why not just discuss policy and real politics instead of this crap? No, democrats aren't secret communists, republicans aren't nazis, there's no god(*)(*)(*)(*) cults, no one's a lizard alien, and there isn't any flipping jewish conspiracy.
     
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    'conservatives' are neither a party nor a cult, and you post has nothing to do with a cult.

    Can we place a ban on ridicilously stupid questions?
     
  22. Mr. Swedish Guy

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    Or atleast open an 'idiots' stupid questions and thoughts' section please.
     
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    No one in the history of literature is a bigger (anus) than John Galt.
     
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    Please elaborate.
     
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    A cult no doubt of mindless idiots that obey everything their propaganda masters tell them.
     

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