Comments on Minnesotans for Limited Government: An Observation about the Political Right

If the Bama wants to 'buy' California, it is time ...

2009-05-21T01:58:45.194-05:00

If the Bama wants to 'buy' California, it is time to start impeachment proceedings. (This is for both the 'upper' and 'lower' tiers - whatever that means, as well as some of the liberals that maybe are becomeing feably aware that this has gone much too far)

the Bama whats to 'buy' California it is time to s...

2009-05-21T01:53:47.174-05:00

the Bama whats to 'buy' California it is time to start impeachment proceedings. (this should be obvious to everyone, ths so called upper and lower teir, and even the brainwashed libs)

The liberty movement should flow naturally, as we ...

2009-05-12T20:34:00.000-05:00

The liberty movement should flow naturally, as we all wish to create products for our own self-interest. I wish to bring more liberty because it gives me pleasure, but I have little desire to control the movement, because that is not true liberty.

In these times, the last thing we should be doing is cutting each other down to size with class warfare. I don't know if people have noticed lately, but there isn't exactly a surplus of those in power speaking out for the conservative movement like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck.

I love Rush, and I wouldn't have had the energy to go to the End the Fed Rally's without him, and knowing that there is still some fearlessness left among conservatives. We are in the face of a fascist regime, and we need that fearlessness to survive this latest assault on the American ideal.

Will an auditing and possible dismantling of the Federal Reserve happen through the maturation of the conservative movement? Maybe, maybe not. But that is for conservatives to decide from the grass-roots. That is the beauty of it. This movement is NOT for me to decide or for any small group of people to control. This movement is FREE.

Rush doesn't attempt to control his listeners, but only to entertain and inform for profit. What can be more capitalist(and respectful) than that?

Dividing free people (conservative no less) into two arbitrary groups and pitting them against each other (in this case the smart/dumb) is a conflict theory that is baseless, and I reject it fundamentally. I embrace classes at the EIB Network no matter how many times liberals (or libertarians) tell me that I'm a mind-numbed robot.

To be clear, the peasants had a very low opinion o...

2009-05-11T22:34:00.000-05:00

To be clear, the peasants had a very low opinion of the "top-tier" intelligentsia.

I sense a similar attitude in the article and the ...

2009-05-11T22:32:00.000-05:00

I sense a similar attitude in the article and the above post. I would say it is one lacking humility and understanding. It is counterproductive to have a thought process which places yourself at the "top-tier" reaching down to pity the bottom. Your targeted audience becomes immediately alienated.

Also you both personalize the issue by referring to the problems of talk radio in the abstract as "swamp," and to the people who listen to it as "blindfolded." Rather than challenging a position Rush Limbaugh takes you challenge Rush Limbaugh the character, and the identity of anyone who listens to him. This sends the message to someone "Hey you idiot! Allow me to free you from your ignorance with my supreme ideology." I would consider that message counterproductive.

The Intelligentsia of Russia made a similar mistake trying to spread Communism to the peasants in the late 19th century. The Russian university students and pinko scholars all were similarly convinced of their own correctness yet espoused an opposite ideology. In the end it was never the details of the ideology that won the masses, it was their perception of the people who espoused it.

Okay, this article fails on so many levels that I'...

2009-05-11T09:38:00.000-05:00

Okay, this article fails on so many levels that I'm going to straight ridicule it.

I for one am also sick and tired of the disparity between conservatives. It is a shame that I should have to write this to help along the lower tier, but such is the state talk-heads like Rush and Hannity left our movement.

Like Colin Powell, I too can so see how stunted people's political origins are after listening to too much talk radio. Unlike Colin Powell, though, I have not only observed it, I have deduced it by spending so many hours in the swamp of AM/FM.

Clearly a progression is in order, because we cannot all consider ourselves "conservatives" in the same way. These poor people who think themselves as "conservatives" are blindfolded, blindfolded, by talk radio wandering around with only the most vague understanding of where they stand on "pro-life, pro-gun, and anti-tax". Philosophically, these lower-tiered "conservatives" need a bail-out.

They don't need a hand-out, but a hand-up. For instance, talk radio is practically left in the ashes with only 8-digit listeners every week, whereas this writing has enough readers to satisfied at least two breakfast nook's worth.

But, we still cannot abandon the Rushies from there captor Rush Limbaugh. We need to free them by forcing our own form of talk radio onto the airwaves, so that those in need can be freed.

-Jordan Jelinek