How long before the media tries to bury Steele?

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I love the way that Republicans imagine themselves to be persecuted in society. Phil is the most typical example of this martyr-mindset, but this thread comes pretty damn close.

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I love the way that Republicans imagine themselves to be persecuted in society. Phil is the most typical example of this martyr-mindset, but this thread comes pretty damn close.

LOL

Uh, ok. When can we get rid of this troll, by the way? He's persecuting me!

Do you dispute the fact that you, like so many other conservatives, whine about the media, whine about the intelligentsia, whine and piss and moan about the 'unfairness' of secularization, etc.? That instinct is there because it is the chief instinct of Christianity: a persecution complex writ large.

I'm just old enough to remember the days when it was the liberals who were stereotyped as 'whiners', while the conservatives were the 'manly men', politically speaking. But then, those were the days when liberalism was in retreat. Now the situation is quite the reverse, and so it is only natural that you ought to prostrate yourselves and bawl your eyes out. 

[Scam of God]

I love the way that Republicans imagine themselves to be persecuted in society. Phil is the most typical example of this martyr-mindset, but this thread comes pretty damn close.

LOL

Uh, ok. When can we get rid of this troll, by the way? He's persecuting me!

Do you dispute the fact that you, like so many other conservatives, whine about the media, whine about the intelligentsia, whine and piss and moan about the 'unfairness' of secularization, etc.? That instinct is there because it is the chief instinct of Christianity.

Actually, compared to most conservatives, I don't whine about the media or "intelligentsia." Yes, I guess I "whine and piss and moan" about unfair secularization but no more than you whine and piss and moan about religion in society.

The funny thing about me is that I can't stand elitism and the snobbish attitudes of some in academia yet I am criticized by the folksy types (Mike Naso) for being an urban elitist.

You aren't really anti-elitist, because conservatism isn't really anti-elitist. It exists, in fact, to prop up the elite interests (corporate, religious, and otherwise) and guard their power against the democratizing effects of both left-wing and libertarian politics. What you are, however, is 'anti-elitist', a vague populist in the tradition of Sarah Palin, for that vague, folksy sort of populism is the only way conservative principles have ever been able to garner broad-backed support from the masses. It is all politics.

(For that matter, I most certainly am not anti-elitist, although I am anti-corporatist. There is a difference.)

[Scam of God]

I love the way that Republicans imagine themselves to be persecuted in society. Phil is the most typical example of this martyr-mindset, but this thread comes pretty damn close.

LOL

Uh, ok. When can we get rid of this troll, by the way? He's persecuting me!

Do you dispute the fact that you, like so many other conservatives, whine about the media, whine about the intelligentsia, whine and piss and moan about the 'unfairness' of secularization, etc.? That instinct is there because it is the chief instinct of Christianity.

Actually, compared to most conservatives, I don't whine about the media or "intelligentsia." Yes, I guess I "whine and piss and moan" about unfair secularization but no more than you whine and piss and moan about religion in society.

The funny thing about me is that I can't stand elitism and the snobbish attitudes of some in academia yet I am criticized by the folksy types (Mike Naso) for being an urban elitist.

You aren't really anti-elitist, because conservatism isn't really anti-elitist. It exists, in fact, to prop up the elite interests (corporate, religious, and otherwise) and guard their power against the democratizing effects of both left-wing and libertarian politics. What you are, however, is 'anti-elitist', a vague populist in the tradition of Sarah Palin, for that vague, folksy sort of populism is the only way conservative principles have ever been able to garner broad-backed support from the masses. It is all politics.

(For that matter, I most certainly am not anti-elitist, although I am anti-corporatist. There is a difference.)

The only thing you are is truly, deeply, madly in love with yourself.

Do you actually dispute anything I've said?

Also: you act as if egoism is a bad thing. It is in fact the only thing driving America's economy.