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Lefty Blogs We Love: ‘The Blogistan Polytechnic Institute’

Posted on | April 8, 2012 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

NCrissieB linked yesterday’s “Contrary To The 2008 Campaign? I Think Not” in a genuinely fun way (i.e., I may have to #OccupyFormat at some point) at the BPI, and is, well, nearly engaging in the comments section. I say “nearly”, as she is recycling Lefty points, instead of admitting we’re broke and have 3rd world leftovers occupying the Resolute Desk.

Because, why face reality when you can point fingers?

At any rate, those who’d like to head over and offer cogent, fact-based responses may find some welcome.

Category: Progressivism

Comments

13 Responses to “Lefty Blogs We Love: ‘The Blogistan Polytechnic Institute’”

  1. Adobe_Walls
    April 8th, 2012 @ 10:28 am

    Checked out her blog, did someone from the right in 08 really say that Obamsky was more dickheaded than kindhearted? How prescient.

  2. JeffS
    April 8th, 2012 @ 12:36 pm

    The BPI motto is “Real Americans Work Together”, from which I must  conclude that she’s voting Republican next November, given that President Zero is anything but a real American.

  3. Adobe_Walls
    April 8th, 2012 @ 1:36 pm

    Perhaps but I suspect you may be misinterpreting her definition of real Americans

  4. JeffS
    April 8th, 2012 @ 1:43 pm

     There is no misinterpretation on this end.  I’m applying my definition with a smattering of snark.

  5. K-Bob
    April 8th, 2012 @ 6:53 pm

    One nice thing about the internet is that you can lift, out of the firehose torrent of right-side commentary about an individual, little tidbits here and there that, taken as a trend, indicate the stream is actually flowing the reverse direction (or any direction one may choose).

    It’s especially trivial to do this when you pick someone from the stream of left-side comment flowing the other way, and then claim he’s participating in the right-side, as they do with say, David Brooks.

    Then it’s adorable when done the way NCrissieB did it when fumbling for a response to Smitty regarding “critics.”

    They are really cute at that age.

  6. K-Bob
    April 8th, 2012 @ 7:09 pm

     Also that bit on the motto banner about the Earth being our home, not our trashcan… After a recent drive thru NYC, I realized that most liberals think the rest of the country looks like the swamps of North Jersey because of human existence or something.

    They need to get out more.

  7. Adobe_Walls
    April 8th, 2012 @ 8:23 pm

    Baby rattlesnakes are cute at that age too.

  8. BPI Squirrel
    April 9th, 2012 @ 7:50 am

    Thank you for the link.  Ms Crissie also replied last night to your question about faith- vs. science-based economic models. ( http://bpicampus.com/2012/04/08/morning-feature-we-the-sheeple-ask-ms-crissie/#comment-52213 )

    As to President Obama: if all of the criticisms are true, he is an aloof professorial emotional demagogue Muslim socialist stupid evil mastermind spineless wimp totalitarian dictator.

    That said, research shows that people who believe Princess Diana faked her own death and is living in hiding are also more likely to believe she was murdered, and those who believe that Osama Bin Laden died long before last year’s raid are also more likely to believe the raid was a fake and Bin Laden is still alive. ( http://www.livescience.com/18171-contradicting-conspiracy-theories-mistrust.html )

    The cognitive link beneath such contradictory beliefs is similar to that beneath contradictory criticisms of President Obama. Princess Di and Bin Laden dissenters are certain The Official Story is a lie, somehow, and likely to accept any story that conflicts with The Official Story, even if some of those stories contradict each other. Similarly, the president’s critics are likely to accept any Obama Is Bad story, even if some of those stories contradict each other. (And yes, progressive critics are likely to accept any Republicans/Conservatives Are Bad story, including some that contradict each other.)

    In other words, humans use reason to justify intuitive judgments ( http://bpicampus.com/2012/04/05/morning-feature-the-righteous-mind-part-i-how-we-judge/ ), which is not too surprising once you realize that the reasoning centers of the human brain evolved to seek approval rather than to seek truth ( http://bpicampus.com/2012/04/06/morning-feature-the-righteous-mind-part-ii-why-we-judge/ ).

    Again, thank you for the link and for your comments at BPI. While BPI is a progressive, Democratic community, we welcome courteous disagreement.

    Good day and good nuts.

  9. smitty
    April 9th, 2012 @ 8:17 am

    As to President Obama: if all of the criticisms are true, he is an aloof professorial emotional demagogue Muslim socialist stupid evil mastermind spineless wimp totalitarian dictator.

    As you say. More to the point, he’s the culmination of a century of Constitutional decay in the U.S. If BHO himself were not available, his Plutocrat Overlords would have invented him.

  10. BPI Squirrel
    April 9th, 2012 @ 9:11 am

     The Constitution has been evolving since Marbury v. Madison and McColloch v. Maryland. Both of those decisions written by Chief Justice John Marshall, a delegate to the Virginia convention that ratified the Constitution. I agree that not every change has been for the better. (E.g.: Prohibition, the war on drugs, and the threat of terrorism have been used to narrow the Fourth Amendment almost to a nullity.)

    That said, I don’t believe Ye Goode Olde Dayes – some bygone age that we should try to recreate  – ever existed. Whatever our best possible future may be, it will not be a mirror of a myth.

    Good day and good nuts.

  11. smitty
    April 9th, 2012 @ 9:21 am

    Given all that, should our future point more or less in the direction of liberty, as envisioned by the Founders?

    The result (if not the intent) of the Progressive Project is to say “This is why you can’t have pretty things.”

  12. BPI Squirrel
    April 9th, 2012 @ 3:44 pm

    It’s ironic that you rail against “Plutocratic Overlords” and also against the Progressive movement that has fought to narrow their power. It reminds me of the joke about the rich  white man and the working class white man in a restaurant, with a dozen cookies on a plate at their table. The rich man takes 11 of the cookies, then says to the working man: “You better watch that union guy, that woman, that person of color, and that LGBT. They all want your cookie.”

    Good day and good nuts.

  13. smitty
    April 9th, 2012 @ 5:06 pm

    It’s ironic that you rail against “Plutocratic Overlords” and also against the Progressive movement that has fought to narrow their power.

    And thus we come full circle. The Progressive movement, since its racist, eugenicist founding, has always thought the people were sheep. And BHO is the culmination, and, one hopes, the nadir of this anti-liberty evil.
    ‘Narrow their power’–hah!
    For ‘expand’ values of ‘narrow’.