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[justatwink]

"Rebpublicans are fuckin' idiots and democrats are fuckin' idiots. Conservatives are idiots and liberals are idiots. Anyone that makes up their mind before they hear the issue is a fuckin' fool!"

-Chris Rock

He just summed up why I'm not registered with any party and why I don't like calling myself a liberal.

Comments

[justatwink]

Chris Rock was talking more of automatically prescribing to a political or ideological platform, like many people do. And then there's the converse problem of someone assuming what you believe when you say that you're a democrat, republican, communist, ect. That's how I related to the quote.

[mylifeasamoose]

It does show political loyalty, which is unavoidable in a republic.

I have to say I disagree with this. why is it unavoidable? just because that's how our country has been working doesn't mean that it must. I have yet to find anything about this country (or any society or culture, really) that runs the way it does because it must.

no flaw is unavoidable, though some may seem harder to grow beyond than others.

what does political loyalty based on "like-minded ideas" truly achieve? well, if the loyalty was to the idea, then a lot could be achieved. imagine if people sided with each other on an issue-by-issue or topic-by-topic basis! people's "alliances" would constantly switch, which on the one hand might seem confusing, but people wouldn't draw irrelevant lines on who they would support, and the ideas themselves that had the greatest support would move forward

[mylifeasamoose]

I bet you didn't expect such a lengthy discussion to ensue over this, hehe...

[justatwink]

Nope. Never...expect for when I saw that Ben replied :P

...And I just got done adding my 2 cents to all of this.