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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Yeh, but you'll never get brick one of that City laid unless you start playing by the rules which control who gets access to the the bricks.
Its not smart to lose over and over because you find the rules of the game repugnant. That sort of arrogance may get you a round of applause at a round table discussion of policy wonks and professors, but the prize here is not being thought objectively smart. The prize is votes.
The left seems to hit this perpetual disconnect where it defines the "win" as looking superior, but losing the game. Your brightest politician, Clinton, taught you nothing. You were always embarrassed by his "white-trashness" and commonness. In actuality, he embarrassed the left most because he was smarter than the lot of you. He knew how to think and how to manipulate the masses. He was the real left's greatest fear come to life because he showed that true intelligence was not just being able to theoretically debate policy with long words, but being able to actually understand its practical implications AND (and this is important) being to sell it to people who only understand short words. The left squandered the lessons of the smartest cat it ever had. He's laughing in Chappaqua. He'd have killed Bush months ago... He knows that to beat bush you have to be somewhat like Bush, and he knows the left would sooner drink rat poison. But he's a winner, and thats the difference between him and the smarter-than-everyone-by-half lefties.
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There are lefties who are pie-in-the-sky-over-the-ivory-tower idealists, and there are those who aren't. Maybe there are more of the former in the Democratic Party because in this country, if all you care about is making yourself a pile of money and then using government power to protect your wad, the Republican Party is the party for you. Trying to defend the left from your attacks would be about as much fun as trying to defend it from bilmore's ranting, so I'll pass.
