Arlen Spector Switching Parties

jlew24asu wrote:

soulsinging wrote:

That's actually kinda my dream. Then we could let the white trash redneck evangelicals duke it out with the psychopathic suicide-bombing towelheads and the rest of the world could do something important without our retarded inbred cousins dragging us down.

dude, this is just a Class A asshole thing to say.

Truth is ugly. And truth is I'm sick of the moronic, superstitious, un-evolved dregs of modern society holding the rest of us back.

VINNY GOOMBA wrote:

You're going to be a lawyer, right? I'd say you have great potential to be a really successful one, you put up great arguments all the time on this board, after all. Statements like those above lead me to believe that maybe one day, if wealthy enough, you may just join the "They" club yourself We'll be talking about YOU when we post our crazy shit here on the board.

It's a possibility. I'm generally pretty moderate, but sometimes I get that crazy Bill Hicks urge in me and I lash out with the hatred I feel for dumb people. And I am kind of a subscriber to the Ayn Rand/Machiavelli school of thinking with respect to just how (not) valuable most other people are when you get down to it.

VINNY GOOMBA wrote:

soulsinging wrote:

VINNY GOOMBA wrote:

You're going to be a lawyer, right? I'd say you have great potential to be a really successful one, you put up great arguments all the time on this board, after all. Statements like those above lead me to believe that maybe one day, if wealthy enough, you may just join the "They" club yourself We'll be talking about YOU when we post our crazy shit here on the board.

It's a possibility. I'm generally pretty moderate, but sometimes I get that crazy Bill Hicks urge in me and I lash out with the hatred I feel for dumb people. And I am kind of a subscriber to the Ayn Rand/Machiavelli school of thinking with respect to just how (not) valuable most other people are when you get down to it.

It might just be the fundamental difference between you and Driftin. He thinks the elites are holding us back, you think the morons are holding us back.

I think you're both right!

Perhaps. Though I actually do agree that the wealthy and powerful fuck the rest of us over. My big difference with him is that he thinks it's because they're all engaged in some big, ongoing, coordinated conspiracy designed to rule the world... I think it's just because they're all rich and powerful and thus share many similar goals in terms of wanting to become more rich and powerful, just like any other organized social or political group. They're just more effective because they have more influence. But it's short-sighted and solely about helping themselves, not some sort of true believers cult like he seems to suggest.