Why Are There No Democrat Intellectuals?

[PoliticalChic]

How can someone as stupid as you decide who is a scholar and who isn't?

Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is a brilliant constitutional law professor. I think he qualifies as a scholar.

I know you are a Democrat, but of the Left, or the Communist Left.

I trust you are brave enough to answer this question:
If the direction of the Democrat Party, nationally, mirrors that of Mamdani, Bernie, and AOC, will you vote Democrat?



Mamdani proposed increasing taxes on white neighborhoods –
A document on his website explains the policy idea to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.”

Mamdani is already leaning into his socialist views, telling CNN that he has “many critiques of capitalism.”
….he would eliminate fares on all city buses
......he plans to address the cost of food by creating city-owned grocery stores that will pay no rent or property taxes, buy and sell at wholesale prices from centralized warehouses and partner with local vendors to keep prices down.
.... raise NYC's minimum wage to $30





"Pressed on whether New York’s Jewish population could depend on him to protect them with antisemitic attacks on the rise in the United States, the candidate answered emphatically: “Antisemitism is not simply something that we should talk about."www.the-independent.com



Zohran Mamdani’s political positions, from Trump and ICE to Israel
Progressive shocks front-runner Andrew Cuomo in New York City mayoral race with stunning upset
www.the-independent.com www.the-independent.com



... won the New York City primary race because of his support for Palestine,









I am looking for thinking Democrats, who understand what WaPo wrote:

The Post agrees, and they give the entire game away in their headline: Zohran Mamdani’s victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party.




Where do you stand?=============================================

 

[YoursTruly]

Where do you see that in the agenda the Democrats provided the nation:

Race and gender preferences

Language police

No punishment for criminals

Open borders

Attacks on the Supreme Court

Transgender sports competitions

Antisemitism

Wealth tax

Cancel culture

Welfare State

Government run healthcare mandates

Sanctuary Cities

Two-Tiered Justice system

FFS. The RNC's rule states that only a female can be vice chair of the RNC. Even the democrats don't have that.

And stop trying to make out like I support anything the left does. I just happened to believe in holding all politicians accountable. And that one's house must be clean before we talk about how dirty others are.
The GOP, especially their voters are hypocrites.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Well, they didn't make it into this thread.

Why don't you invited Billy000, the board welch to post some of his fecal tripe.

Go to the badlands and see all the well thought out stupidity that he barfs out.

What's funny is that his avatar has the words critical thinking in them.

It's hard to see it and not laugh out loud.

I purposely wrote the title to invite all the Democrats.

 

[PoliticalChic]

You need to understand MAGA-speak.

If you disagree with them, you're dumb. That's the only possible reason you would disagree with them.

If you disagree with them, you're a liar. That's the only possible reason you would disagree with them.

If you disagree with them, you're evil. That's the only possible reason you would disagree with them.

But it's not about intellectual prowess or honesty or morality. They operate at an absolutely base level. Binary. Either/or. On/off. For or against.

It's about their self esteem. Psychologists call it "splitting": No shades of gray: Splitting and self-esteem instability

Nothing embarrasses you Leftists, but twice you opted not to answer the question that I stated to prove that there are no Democrat intellectuals on the board.

You could have proven me wrong in one honest post.

 

[PoliticalChic]

And then there's Sotomayor. DEI works wonders.

Please don't leave out Kagan who has written that government an ban free speech.

 

[22lcidw]

How can someone as stupid as you decide who is a scholar and who isn't?

Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is a brilliant constitutional law professor. I think he qualifies as a scholar.

What mars him is his communist leanings. When we see people like him in power, it is where they are form as elected. it is obvious he is a shill from infecting our nation. He is a pure prog in a red state.

 

[PoliticalChic]

FFS. The RNC's rule states that only a female can be vice chair of the RNC. Even the democrats don't have that.

And stop trying to make out like I support anything the left does. I just happened to believe in holding all politicians accountable. And that one's house must be clean before we talk about how dirty others are.
The GOP, especially their voters are hypocrites.

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[citygator]

Only you Democrat propel you party into a religion......


The Left is a religion.


.....the Marxism that you worship is a religion.



For the Democrats, Liberals, Communists, Nazis, Fascists.....Militant Secularism. Lacking self-awareness, the Democrats, Liberals, Progressives ridicule religion as superstition......but kneel to their false religion, Militant Secularism.
From the Amazon review of Godless, by Coulter…


Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion. In Godless, Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us its sacraments (abortion), its holy writ (Roe v. Wade), its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger Hiss to cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal), its clergy (public school teachers), its churches (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the "absolute moral authority" of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland), and its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident).

Then, of course, there's the liberal creation myth: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.



Here we can watch their religious service:

This is why you can never say you would not vote Democrat.

How is acknowledging a brutal police murder religious? For an intellectual you sure have trouble following a train of thought:

• I accused you of worshipping Trump because you laud him with praise for things he didnt do... like a cultist. with your nonsense post of untrue statements that I dismantled and you ignored.
  • Crime was up under Trump
  • Oil independence is higher under Biden
  • Fentanyl deaths were NOT reduced by 100,000 under Trump
• You responded without defending your nonsense and claimed Obama was really worshipped without posting anything supporting that other than people using flowery language
• Then I posted Trump talking about how he was chosen by God to be saved - not other people using savior of the GOP language, he believes he was chose by God.
• Now you post a moment of silence about a dead citizen at the hands of the police

You arent really doing a good job convincing people that your OP is much of an OP. Maybe we shift to debating whatever you are worried about in democratic policy before you really go unhinged on this thread?

 

[PoliticalChic]

How is acknowledging a brutal police murder religious? For an intellectual you sure have trouble following a train of thought:

• I accused you of worshipping Trump because you laud him with praise for things he didnt do... like a cultist. with your nonsense post of untrue statements that I dismantled and you ignored.
  • Crime was up under Trump
  • Oil independence is higher under Biden
  • Fentanyl deaths were NOT reduced by 100,000 under Trump
• You responded without defending your nonsense and claimed Obama was really worshipped without posting anything supporting that other than people using flowery language
• Then I posted Trump talking about how he was chosen by God to be saved - not other people using savior of the GOP language, he believes he was chose by God.
• Now you post a moment of silence about a dead citizen at the hands of the police

You arent really doing a good job convincing people that your OP is much of an OP. Maybe we shift to debating whatever you are worried about in democratic policy before you really go unhinged on this thread?

You/ve been duly roasted.


Move on.

 

[Edgetho]

 

[PoliticalChic]

View attachment 1131077

I saw that.....you should OP that to get a debate going.

 

[konradv]

1. That means here, on the board. There certainly are Leftist intellectuals....Johnson actually wrote a book titled "Intellectuals." And, of course there was Kal Marx, Alinsky, Gramsci, Lenin, Mao......


2.Definition: An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the nature of reality, especially the nature of society and proposed solutions for its normative problems. Google.



3.But here on the board, basking in the most beautiful aspect of America, free speech, we can't seem to get beyond cursing and juvenile tit-for-tats that don't address the pivotal aspect of our Left-Right views. Where are the "good point," or "I never thought of that" or "I don't agree because..."?
Where are the carefully posited view points, documented with important quotes and statements by names we all know and respect?
While this board could be college or grad school, it is largely junior high.



4.So where are the clearly written, well thought out, documented beyond simple opinion, OPs about why the Left/Far Left (that's the Democrat Party today) is better for America and Americans, and how they wil bring their plans to fruition? In an article today, Chuck Todd reveals that the Democrats have no ability to do any of those things, and voters who just vote for the party no matter what, are the same.


5. ""I think this is the identity crisis that the (Democrat Party has). I think it’s just a collection of people that don’t like Trump...."
This is a party whose sole platform since June 16th, 2015, when Trump descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower, has been hatred of a man they once revered.

They, quite literally, stand for nothing else. And their movement from center-left to radical far-left is just a sign of the intensity of that hatred growing ever more extreme."

Chuck Todd Finally Figures Out the Problem With the Democratic Party and Thank You Captain Obvious

Chuck Todd analyzes the Democratic Party's identity crisis post-Trump's victory.

redstate.com

Anyway, we could have a lot more stimulating discussions.......debated.

MAGA lies.

 

[EMH]

Intellighent voters

Too funny....



There are still really stupid people here who ask whether or not EMH supports Global Warming...

READING COMPREHENSION and SPELLING are needed in public education more than religion...


Is there anyone else here with the IQ under 5 necessary to believe I joined with

Cheney
W
Murkowski
Romney
McConnell

and the rest of the "Faux News Conservatives" in voting for Kamala??


YOU are a TREASONOUS *****, a LIAR, a FAUX CONSERVATIVE, and while the rest of America realizes this is a cruise missile and not a 757, your TREASONOUS ***** ASS will continue to LIE and say it was a 757... because you are a person of EXTREMELY LOW CHARACTER, NO INTELLIGENCE, and NO PATRIOTISM TO ANY COUNTRY NOT NAMED ISRAEL...

 

[citygator]

You/ve been duly roasted.


Move on.

Nope. Everyone saw me show you that :

• Murders went up under Trump
• Energy exports went up under Biden
• Trump did not reduce fentanyl deaths by 100,000

You didnt even attempt to support your nonsense. Everyone saw.

Intellectual. Bwahahahaahhaahaha

 

[marvin martian]

1. That means here, on the board. There certainly are Leftist intellectuals....Johnson actually wrote a book titled "Intellectuals." And, of course there was Kal Marx, Alinsky, Gramsci, Lenin, Mao......


2.Definition: An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the nature of reality, especially the nature of society and proposed solutions for its normative problems. Google.



3.But here on the board, basking in the most beautiful aspect of America, free speech, we can't seem to get beyond cursing and juvenile tit-for-tats that don't address the pivotal aspect of our Left-Right views. Where are the "good point," or "I never thought of that" or "I don't agree because..."?
Where are the carefully posited view points, documented with important quotes and statements by names we all know and respect?
While this board could be college or grad school, it is largely junior high.



4.So where are the clearly written, well thought out, documented beyond simple opinion, OPs about why the Left/Far Left (that's the Democrat Party today) is better for America and Americans, and how they wil bring their plans to fruition? In an article today, Chuck Todd reveals that the Democrats have no ability to do any of those things, and voters who just vote for the party no matter what, are the same.


5. ""I think this is the identity crisis that the (Democrat Party has). I think it’s just a collection of people that don’t like Trump...."
This is a party whose sole platform since June 16th, 2015, when Trump descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower, has been hatred of a man they once revered.

They, quite literally, stand for nothing else. And their movement from center-left to radical far-left is just a sign of the intensity of that hatred growing ever more extreme."

Chuck Todd Finally Figures Out the Problem With the Democratic Party and Thank You Captain Obvious

Chuck Todd analyzes the Democratic Party's identity crisis post-Trump's victory.

redstate.com

Anyway, we could have a lot more stimulating discussions.......debated.

Keep in mind that people like Jasmine Crockett and AOC are considered "thought leaders" in the Dem party.

 

[Edgetho]

I saw that.....you should OP that to get a debate going.

Thanks but, there's no debate to be had.

dimocrap scum are absolutely convinced that America is broken and needs fixed. With them, of course, doing the 'fixing'.

If you think about their posts, all of them, they are centered around that theme. "America is Broken" or America the Evil, or America the Racist, or America the Misogynist.

Think about what we're going through right now with all the dimocraps going Ape Shit over us trying to deport Illegals.

I don't know when your family got here but mine showed up Centuries ago. You'd think that would benefit me in one way or another, but it doesn't.

Think about it. My Father's family left Britain in the 1700's on a leaky boat, probably in steerage, ducking hurricanes, High Seas and disease with no doctor on board (medicine was so primitive back then it didn't matter anyway)

When they got here, there was no friendly dimocrap scum Sanctuary City handing out BILLIONS of dollars and putting them up in High End Hotels. Nope, they had to physically build their own abode, fight the Natives, plow the fields, make their clothing and try to keep alive.

Same on my Mother's side. Her family left Germany (Prussia) with nothing, or next to it, landed in New Orleans and duked it out there for over a hundred years until they moved up the River a bit.

Same story with many Americans today.

What kind of people does it take to do that? How many in here are afraid of their own shadow, too cowardly to go out at night alone. While ouu ancestors left settled civilizations in search of freedom and a FUTURE.

Too many today aren't interested in a future. They only care about today. That's as far as their imaginations can take them -- Today.

We love America because, frankly, we built America. We ARE America.

I don't know what dimocrap scum are, but they're not America. Parasites, mostly. And not the symbiotic kind. Totes the blood-sucking, give nothing back kind.

end rant

 

[citygator]

Keep in mind that people like Jasmine Crockett and AOC are considered "thought leaders" in the Dem party.

You have a Drunk as Sec of Defense

You have a wrestling star’s wife as sec of Education

You have a gardener as our cyber defense leader

MTG is your presidents most ardent supporter on key committees

What a JOKE. Thought leaders in the GOP? There are no thoughts in the GOP.

 

[Contumacious]

2.Definition: An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the nature of reality, especially the nature of society and proposed solutions for its normative problems. Google.

CRITICAL THINKING IS DEFINED THUSLY :


crit·i·cal think·ing

noun

1. the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment.

YET FOR SOME REASON YOU HAVE REFUSED TO PROVIDE THE OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF THESE ISSUES


1- the Fox News 4 part series showing the Mossad refused to share 09/11 intel

2- the Max Blumenthal report showing that the Mossad forced President Trump to attack Iran

 

[The Duke]

1. That means here, on the board. There certainly are Leftist intellectuals....Johnson actually wrote a book titled "Intellectuals." And, of course there was Kal Marx, Alinsky, Gramsci, Lenin, Mao......


2.Definition: An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the nature of reality, especially the nature of society and proposed solutions for its normative problems. Google.



3.But here on the board, basking in the most beautiful aspect of America, free speech, we can't seem to get beyond cursing and juvenile tit-for-tats that don't address the pivotal aspect of our Left-Right views. Where are the "good point," or "I never thought of that" or "I don't agree because..."?
Where are the carefully posited view points, documented with important quotes and statements by names we all know and respect?
While this board could be college or grad school, it is largely junior high.



4.So where are the clearly written, well thought out, documented beyond simple opinion, OPs about why the Left/Far Left (that's the Democrat Party today) is better for America and Americans, and how they wil bring their plans to fruition? In an article today, Chuck Todd reveals that the Democrats have no ability to do any of those things, and voters who just vote for the party no matter what, are the same.


5. ""I think this is the identity crisis that the (Democrat Party has). I think it’s just a collection of people that don’t like Trump...."
This is a party whose sole platform since June 16th, 2015, when Trump descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower, has been hatred of a man they once revered.

They, quite literally, stand for nothing else. And their movement from center-left to radical far-left is just a sign of the intensity of that hatred growing ever more extreme."

Chuck Todd Finally Figures Out the Problem With the Democratic Party and Thank You Captain Obvious

Chuck Todd analyzes the Democratic Party's identity crisis post-Trump's victory.

redstate.com

Anyway, we could have a lot more stimulating discussions.......debated.

Don't you know Democrats are intellectual by virtue of being Democrats?

 

[Frankenstein]

Well, let's test the idea on you:


I know you are a Democrat, but of the Left, or the Communist Left.

I trust you are brave enough to answer this question:

If the direction of the Democrat Party, nationally, mirrors that of Mamdani, Bernie, and AOC, will you vote Democrat?



Mamdani proposed increasing taxes on white neighborhoods –
A document on his website explains the policy idea to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.”

Mamdani is already leaning into his socialist views, telling CNN that he has “many critiques of capitalism.”

….he would eliminate fares on all city buses

......he plans to address the cost of food by creating city-owned grocery stores that will pay no rent or property taxes, buy and sell at wholesale prices from centralized warehouses and partner with local vendors to keep prices down.

.... raise NYC's minimum wage to $30



"Pressed on whether New York’s Jewish population could depend on him to protect them with antisemitic attacks on the rise in the United States, the candidate answered emphatically: “Antisemitism is not simply something that we should talk about."www.the-independent.com



Zohran Mamdani’s political positions, from Trump and ICE to Israel
Progressive shocks front-runner Andrew Cuomo in New York City mayoral race with stunning upset
www.the-independent.com www.the-independent.com



... won the New York City primary race because of his support for Palestine,









I am looking for thinking Democrats, who understand what WaPo wrote:

The Post agrees, and they give the entire game away in their headline: Zohran Mamdani’s victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party.




Where do you stand?

IM2 disappeared like white on rice