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In reply to the discussion: This is Leftist [View all]BainsBane
(57,291 posts)65. I just served on a jury where this was the alert message
The person who sent the alert wrote: Over the top drama. Rand is bad, but he at least wants to end the war on drugs and shut down the American Military Industrialization Complex --- he's to the left of many darling Democrats on these issues, even if he is a piece of crap overall.
You were saying? This view has been posted repeatedly over the past day or two. That you accuse me of rat fucking like I invented this shit is a blatant fabrication. Some have even insisted Paul is well to the left of the Democrats, not just on some issues but overall.
I would like to know why is it you are so hostile to the left and instead insist on defending the right against attack? That is precisely what you are doing here. You are pissed off anyone dare question Paul. To pretend I invented this shit, like I have nothing better to do that give racist shit bags like Rand attention, is obviously a distraction. Clearly you're pissed off at this thread. You take exception to my OP which posits Marxism in favorable terms and Paul as the right-wing POS he is. That you resent such a view is evident in your posts that attack me with one nonsequitur after another. I find it interesting that you and your pals attack the actual left--Marx and Marxists--while insisting that I invented the Paul admiration story. That you ignore the actual threads praising Paul and attack the one critical of him says a great deal about your own views.
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People saying this will sell everything else out because he claims to be anti-war.
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#1
Regardless of whether some traditionally Dem voters will fall for Paul's crap ....
Scuba
Aug 2014
#10
There is another element in this debate that I have not formulated a reply to. I agree with the OP
freshwest
Aug 2014
#11
Social Democrats are near the center of the political spectrum in much of the world
BainsBane
Aug 2014
#32
Now why would you make that up? Are you trying to disparage socialists and
rhett o rick
Aug 2014
#50
It's a straw man argument. No one on the left I know will give the Paul's a second
rhett o rick
Aug 2014
#29
"Funny how the OPs that you all objet to are the ones critical of Paul, not the ones praising him".
Marr
Aug 2014
#71
I've never said I hate Ms. Clinton, but I think the 2016 election will make or break this country.
rhett o rick
Aug 2014
#86
Yeah, because a thread about capital, social relations of production, and neoliberalism
BainsBane
Aug 2014
#61
There are people arguing that Rand Paul would move the Democratic party to the left
BainsBane
Aug 2014
#56
Libertarianism was invented to sucker impressionable youth into corporate Conservatives.
ErikJ
Aug 2014
#42
Rand Paul doesn't understand Adam Smith, and has possibly never read him:
Spider Jerusalem
Aug 2014
#45
Please cite a post from a liberal on this site who is advocating for a Rand Paul presidency.
Marr
Aug 2014
#49
"You seem to believe it's impossible to be to Hillary Clinton's left on any issue."
BainsBane
Aug 2014
#57
And those positions don't in any way make up for the fact that he is a right wing piece of shit
BainsBane
Aug 2014
#77
I believe Marx's descriptions of the inevitability of capitalism's systemic failure
hifiguy
Aug 2014
#87
Those who sincerely wish to see a leftist alternative to the Democratic Party *as is*
YoungDemCA
Aug 2014
#104