God damnit, the media's "independents" are somehow always found out to be GOP...
@sfleetucker Independents are ALWAYS closet Conservatives. Anyone saying, or claiming to be otherwise, is lying to themselves.
@TwiHusband I think there are plenty of embarrassed Republicans claiming to be independent and making it seem that way, but there are also true independents.
@sfleetucker Beg to doubt. When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I fancied myself "an independent". I didn't need no stinkin' party. Then that senile old fool Reagan won an election against a man whose shoes he wasn't fit to polish. And he did it crookedly too. Then he started industriously setting the stage to turn back the clock to the Robber Baron Era. He installed a religious liaison office IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
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@TwiHusband I always liked Wiesenthal:
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor.
@sfleetucker I learned my lesson hard and fast...and regretted the price of tuition ever since. There might be a few who honestly imagine themselves "independent" today, but the vast majority are easily manipulated fools who accomplish one thing only. Monkey-wrenching progress and calling it freedom.
Bob Heinlein was a good SF author, but I had no use for his politics. However, every now and then he'd come up with a jewel.
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