Now I'm just confused.
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talkpoliticsIt is inevitable that a partisan ideology runs into itself. By this I mean inherent conflicts between narratives of different issues. Perhaps the greatest example of this is the tension between a conservative drive for a highly interventionist foreign policy, and the conservative drive for marginalizing the very societies we are "helping".
Obama is often criticized for "alienating our allies". The fodder for such a charge is endless and the arguments offered for the charge are patently disprovable. What is weird though, is how conservative backlash against immigration sits neatly next to conservative lauding of those fine, decent people over there who just want to be free. I mean, as long as they're not coming here. Then they're dangerous.
I mean, the point is, immigrating here means that you agree to assimilate, and we agree to go over and impose our values upon your country. It is a one-way street: immigrants come here and should assimilate, and we should go over there to change their ways. How they reconcile this is beyond me.
What all this does is simply betray true feelings about those people, and is a tacit admission that all this high-falutin' talk about democracy, freedom and decent, hard-working people is just a smokescreen.
Remember this: every conservative who maligns Muslims in this country kills a service-member over there.
Obama is often criticized for "alienating our allies". The fodder for such a charge is endless and the arguments offered for the charge are patently disprovable. What is weird though, is how conservative backlash against immigration sits neatly next to conservative lauding of those fine, decent people over there who just want to be free. I mean, as long as they're not coming here. Then they're dangerous.
I mean, the point is, immigrating here means that you agree to assimilate, and we agree to go over and impose our values upon your country. It is a one-way street: immigrants come here and should assimilate, and we should go over there to change their ways. How they reconcile this is beyond me.
What all this does is simply betray true feelings about those people, and is a tacit admission that all this high-falutin' talk about democracy, freedom and decent, hard-working people is just a smokescreen.
Remember this: every conservative who maligns Muslims in this country kills a service-member over there.
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Date: 24/5/10 17:31 (UTC)agreed