Toro, you disappoint. I didn't exclusively put leftists into that category, nor did I say that the leftists on this board were wrong about the current law of the land regarding the status of anchor babies. Conservatives generally know that and do not dispute it. On the contrary, I emphatically stated that such are natural-born citizens, despite the fact that there is absolutely nothing in the Constitution or case law stopping Congress from declaring that all future anchor babies would not be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, an understanding that flies right over the heads of many, an understanding that should alert one to the fact that the majority's claim in Wong Kim Ark that a common-law tradition applied after the ratification of the Constitution is bogus, knowingly and cynically bogus. (That's a think about it for a moment thingy.)
Hello! I know the law inside and out.
I appreciate your knowledge, rationality and obvious conclusion on the birfer issue, but you'd do even better if you laid off the trite and hard-edged ideological bias.
"[T]he trite and hard-edged ideological bias"?
Nonsense. This is a political board dealing with issues and ideas, and entails the struggle among political ideologies, governing philosophies. Leftists certainly do not pull their punches, however limp-wristed and ill-informed they may be. Ideological bias--hard-edged or otherwise--is the going currency here as it is anywhere else in the political arena. Your objection is silly and self-serving. My estimation of progressives is accurate, and the operative word here is
contempt.
I am an American patriot. I know the political history and philosophy of her founding and love it, defended it in the field of battle, bled for it. Progressives do not: they despise it, spit on it, assail it at every turn and incessantly attack those who defend it with vicious lies and epithets, including wild and hysterical accusations of racism and corruption for starters. What? Those who defend the notion of limited government so that the individual may live freely, be secure in his property and ideological associations? These are the targets of the progressive's ridicule and scorn?
Progressives are statists. Fact! Progressives are collectivists. Fact! They are bent on erasing the founding principles of this nation from the hearts and minds of its people and replace it with a fawning allegiance to the Nanny State; they aim to obliterate a proud and courageous history, and reduce the masses to a morally depraved and dependent pile of quivering goop. The elite among them are the self-anointed tyrants of old, and the sheep among them assault the defenders of liberty with epithets like
racist and
fascist as mindlessly as a dog licks its genitals.
Racists? Fascists?
The progressives are the race-baiting whores, obsessed with dividing American into classes and colors and creeds and pitting one against the other. Progressives are the peddlers of abortion on demand and euthanasia, the haters of traditional family values and parental authority. Progressives, obliged by corrupt justices, are the thugs imposing their secular paganism in the public schools in order to encourage the acceptance of the former and undermine the stability of the latter two, because of course a passionate regard for the sanctity of human life, sexual virtue and familial allegiance are the foundations of individual liberty and free-association, an immutable fact of reality well-understood by the elites of American progressivism as it was by the Nazis of Germany and the Communists of the Soviet Union before them.
Trite? You must be outside your mind. jillian's "so many words . . . so much stupidity" and Cowman's "[t]his is all no more silly than the rest of the shit conservatives say" are trite.
My observation that the idolatry of the State--the destruction of all that is sweet and lovely, the end of music and poetry, passion and romance, love and justice, the stuff of every murderous and tyrannical atrocity in human history--is profound, and my contempt for its acolytes, unremitting. Progressivism is the barbarism of mob rule and the criminal proletariat. There is nothing trite about my bias. Unlike some, I have not been lulled to sleep or been desensitized by lefty's counterfeit and profane political and cultural apparatus of hypocrisy, intolerance and greed.
