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Originally Posted by Robbie
What I don't get is...where the hell are all the LIBERAL websites calling out the govt?
It's like liberals just "sold out" and surrendered.
In the 1960's the young people rose up and protested AGAINST the govt.
They didn't believe in what we were doing in Vietnam and didn't trust the govt. for shit.
Where are the Abbie Hoffman's of today?
These days it seems that the "progressive" movement is just rubber stamping with approval any and everything the govt. does.
And anybody that stands up to the govt. is "right wing" and a "gun nut" (not that a lot of them aren't...but I"m just saying why aren't the liberals in there standing up against the govt. as well?)
We need some REAL progressives and liberals to stand up like the liberal youth movement of the 1960's did.
They would be ashamed of this new breed of elitist, govt. loving liberal.
At least that's my opinion.
Even though I was born too late to be a "hippy"...I am 100% in tune with a lot of what they believed in as far as wanting to be free and not trusting the govt like some kind of sheep.
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Well, just like the rights' blogosphere being largely funded by the GOP / PACs, there's a lot that are funded by the national Democratic party in one way or the other on the center-left. By that I mean those on the right are going to just regurgitate talking points, while those on the Dem side will do the same(Daily Kos etc).
Though I agree, I'm pretty anti-government in many, many ways as a progressive(and there are a lot of us). I'm just not blindly anti-government - I'm more anti the dumb shit that's been going on the past few decades. I'm anti certain issues, instead of just blindly charging ahead with "GUBMNET BAD!". That's a lot of the progressive camp. We hate the GOP's traditionalist crap in regards to just about everything, we hate the revisionist history, etc. I also stray away from most of the left in that I'm 100% pro gun(banned from 5 liberal pages on Facebook for expressing that view, too).
In short, I'm pragmatic. Mostly all bills that go through Congress these days are just superficial bullshit to satisfy idiots on both sides. That doesn't mean I'm anti-government as a whole - that means I'm anti the idiots in power now(sans the very few who aren't massively dumb). That's also why I jump onto people who are just regurgitating some talking points under the guise of "free thought". It's not free thought if you're regurgitating what every far-right blog out there says verbatim.
Edit: When I say "you're", etc., I'm not directing it at you, Robbie. It's more of a general thing.