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Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
Thu Aug 29, 2013, 03:21 AM Aug 2013

What to tell a Teabagger about Civil Rights...

A lot of us know one. They're anti-government and in a panic about minorities getting rights as if it takes theirs away.

Tell them they've got it ass backwards.

Tell them the more people who have these rights, the harder it is for the government they hate so much to take them away. It strengthens their rights, it doesn't diminish them. It's easier for a government to take away the rights of a group (even if that group is in the majority) than it is to take them away from EVERYBODY.

This is one of the reasons Liberals feel good when they see another group get ahead.

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What to tell a Teabagger about Civil Rights... (Original Post) Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2013 OP
You speak indisputable truth Hayduke Bomgarte Aug 2013 #1
Wonder if that would work, with their belief in a zero-sum game... polichick Aug 2013 #2

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)
1. You speak indisputable truth
Thu Aug 29, 2013, 08:12 AM
Aug 2013

Arrived at,obviously,from a reasoned,logical thought process and probably a measure historical awareness.
As such,it's my opinion,that one would be wasting ones time and breath speaking that truth,or any other truth,for that matter,to a teabagger. If teabaggers were capable of absorbing that sort of truth or of exercising any semblance of a reasoned logical thought process themselves,they wouldn't be teabags to begin with.

JMHO

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