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In reply to the discussion: This is Leftist [View all]BainsBane
(57,289 posts)75. "You've told me that isn't the case"
So fucking what? I can think of not a single reason why what you "tell me" makes any difference. You don't even provide analysis let alone evidence.
This is an OP about leftism, about Marxism, something you have admitted to never reading. Clearly there is a lot here that could educate you, if you decided to at some point care about something other than your obsession with promoting Hillary Clinton.
You aren't a mind-reader. Don't tell me what this OP is actually about, particularly when you make a point of refusing to read it. You don't read the posts or engage in anything approaching analysis. You don't as much as bother to site a position or quote by Paul. You don't deal with any of the historical analogies I pointed out. But let's follow your logic using the example you ignored in my post. Paul is to the left of the Democratic Party as Hitler is to the left of the Communist Party. And you wonder why I don't care what you "tell me." I don't know who you think you are, but you ain't all that. What you "tell me" means nothing when it isn't supported by anything approaching thought, analysis, or evidence. It's more of nothing.
How can you claim to know who is left and right when you don't know what left is or even try to establish a basis for what defines left?
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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