Posts by Ethan Allen2

Tomba17 said:Basically, you can split political parties in Ireland—and their supporters—into three camps. You've got those who love the English, those who openly despise them, and those who hate them but think it’s tacky to say it out loud. Every single party and person in Ireland falls into one of those three buckets.

Is that really your argument, Ethan Allen2?

So what actually sets the parties in America apart if that's the only metric? Look, the economy is tanking, which should be the perfect moment for any party—whether they're running the show or sitting in opposition—to step up with actual solutions. Politics is always full of demagogues anyway, so whether the plans are realistic shouldn't even matter. Even without a crisis, the ratio of workers to non-workers in America gets worse every year—and I'm talking about retirees, students, veterans, and everyone else drawing from the system without contributing to the economy—yet not a single party has a plan to fix it. No one has the guts to propose a program to reduce the number of people living off the state. Not the Nationalist Party, not the Republican Party, not the Democratic Party, not the Liberal Party, not the Localist Party, or anyone else. None of them have the balls to say the only way out is to cut benefits for everyone who isn't working, even if it's harsh, just so the whole ship doesn't sink.

Since every single party agrees on that point, what are they actually supposed to disagree on? Minority rights in America, or how Americans are treated abroad?

Frank Morgan2 said:If I’d realized you were just talking to YOURSELF, I wouldn't have bothered jumping into this "conversation"!!!

Just a total salad of words here:
All this talk about clerical fascism (you clearly don't know what that means!!!), theocracy (no clue what that is!!!), intolerance and isolationism (zero idea what those are!!!)...
...all just to conclude that the entire landscape of American politics revolves around how we treat Mexicans (and, yeah, YOU ESPECIALLY HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT THAT!!!)!

Nothing to it—I'm sure you'll make up for it with your sheer politeness!

Best,
Frank Morgan2

All caps and three exclamation points? Guess I really struck a nerve.

Frank Morgan2 said:Look, I’m not a member of any faction within the Communist Party USA, so I’ve just been watching the Libertarian Party from the sidelines, but...
...well, communists wouldn't be communists if they weren't constantly fighting against "clerical fascism"—even if they have to make the whole thing up!

Once America finally develops its own distinct left and right wings, labeling a true patriot as some kind of extremist will clearly be seen as an attack on America itself.

Until then, I guess the amoebas will just keep multiplying.

Cheers,
Frank Morgan2

Anyone imagining a country where the church holds any role beyond spiritual guidance is basically describing some kind of theocracy. Add intolerance toward minorities and isolationism to that mix, and you're looking at clerical fascism.

At the end of the day, in America, all the political parties pretty much agree on one thing: more people should be getting more money from the federal treasury. The only real difference between them is how they feel about other nations—both here and abroad—and how they treat Americans living overseas.

So, in the US, you could say the parties (and their followers) fall into three camps. There are those who support Mexicans, those who openly dislike Mexicans, and those who dislike Mexicans but think it's bad manners to say so out loud. Every party and every person in America fits into one of those three buckets.

Richard Wilson4 said:You're overthinking it, Paul. It's not really like that...

Americans love to claim they're all Catholic, but honestly, it doesn't carry much weight anymore. Nobody's out here calling for fascism...

Now everyone's back to picking on Mexicans again, mostly because of this whole Cyrillic alphabet thing and stuff Donald Trump and Joe Biden have been saying...

I’m talking about the self-proclaimed right wing—groups like the Libertarian Party and stuff like that. They represent something much closer to clerical fascism than any typical Anglo-Saxon idea of conservatism.

What kind of Right-wing movement are we even talking about here? Are we talking about classic conservatism from fifty years ago? You know, the kind that actually stands for free markets, free speech, lower taxes, limited government, and keeping the church out of politics? There's hardly anyone in America who actually fits that description. Most people claiming to be on the right here are basically just pushing some sort of clerical fascism, modeled after things like Franc's Falange or the Rexists in Belgium. It’s all "God, Country, and Family," but of course, the taxpayers are stuck footing the bill for everything. The church gets state funding, veterans get their cut—not to mention the political sympathizers—and then there's money to hand out to patriotic Americans for having a sixth or seventh kid.

From an economic standpoint, there isn't much difference between the parties in the US. Everyone wants a bigger slice of the pie, and everyone wants more people sucking at the trough. The idea that any serious party in this country actually champions conservative economic principles is just laughable. When you look at the sheer number of retirees, students, veterans, and local bureaucrats... who would actually vote for a party that wants to cut taxes and trim down the federal bureaucracy?

Gary Wilson said:The ultimate goal of any religion is to dominate the world—or, to be more precise, that is the objective of any major religious establishment. (The fact that the Catholic Church hasn't admitted this publicly since WWII is a separate matter entirely.)

History is littered with evidence of this. We've reached a point where Western societies have elevated different values to the surface while religion has seemingly drifted to the background—but let’s not be naive; don't think for a second that the religious bureaucrats in these societies have lost their power or influence.

Western secularism isn't actually what it claims to be; more often than not, it serves as a convenient cover or a mask for the church itself. In fact, many of the actions taken by Western governments against immigrants in recent years are nothing more than doing the dirty work for the religious institutions.

What church, seriously? Is Christianity even one single thing? What religious group in Germany actually has the support of most people there?

I can't tell if these Western Islamophobes are worse or if these anti-Western types in the Islamic world are more extreme.