Accusation 4. The left tell lies.
They make up huge whopper porkies to wage their petty wars and make them 'acceptable' to people. The Big Liberal Lie is, of course, "climate change", which someone thought up and must have got a medal because now they can wage their war on profit and success and claim it's for the good of the planet! Another big lie is the one told by Obama and Australia's own Kevin Rudd, which is that they want to "change" their country, which really means "turn it into a Socialist utopia"
This guy has balls, I'll give him that. To say that the political left tells lies, when he himself is a right-winger is VERY bold. True, some people on the political left are corrupt, but that is inherent within any governmental system, which is part of the reason that I am a libertarian-socialist - when there is no government, it can't be corrupt (seems like a no-brainer)
Now, let us analyze this fetid and pathetic excuse of an accusation. Let us first off accept that close to 80% of the scientific community accepts global warming as scientific fact (and most of the 20% is in the employ of Exxon-funded disinformation groups). Can you be successful and still possess a healthy planet? Scandinavia has shown us that the answer is "yes". Most of the EU has also shown that. Their economic growth currently outpaces that of the United States - and the EU is MUCH close to meeting their Kyoto Targets (hell, anyone whose started to is closer than the US) Let us also accept that continuous progression forward is extremely important within a society. If a society stagnates and does not move forward, it falters, collapses, and eventually dies out. Let us also accept that "utopia" is a flawed concept, incapable of being produced. Am I an idealist? Yes. Am I a realist? yes. How many times did Milton Friedman preach his false gospel of neoliberalism, arguing that capitalism could create a true utopia (and judging by the performance of his favorite buddy - Pinochet - it didn't work out so well). Can there be such thing as a perfect society? No. Can there be such thing as a better society? Yes. history has shown us that much.
Let us now examine the dungheap of lies coming from the right. Off the bat, anyone remember "Saddam Hussein has nuclear weapons"? That was a doozie. In fact, it was such a doozie that 5,000 Americans and close to 1,000,000 Iraqis have died as a result (including 8,000 in the first three weeks of "precision" bombing) Anyone remember "Iraq has ties to Al Quaeda"? That was another good one, which turned out to be fuller of BS than a manure processing plant.
Did anyone else bother to watch "the Great Global Warming Swindle"? As it turns out, the science that was quoted as close to a decade out of date (when informed of this, the producer responded to the whistleblower by saying something to the effect of "you're a big daft cock"), and the scientists interviewed often had their views "distorted" (per an independent review and investigation into the program).
Or howsabout that one about "by far the majority of the tax cuts go to those on the bottom" - total bullshit.
What I'm trying to say is that the political spectrum right of me (the vast majority of it) is far more guilty of lying and falsifying than the political spectrum left of me (not much of it, because I'm pretty damn left).
Parts 5-10 to follow.
Ebook , by Autumn Reed
6 years ago
2 comments:
Sorry Cam. It's an established fact that Saddam actively pursued nuclear weapons as early as the 1970's, was pursuing them during and after the Gulf War, repeatedly violated UN sanctions against Iraq (ever heard of Oil-for-Food), and while he didn't have operable WMDs at the time of the Iraq invasion, was actively planning to restart his WMD program the second UN sanctions against him were lifted. Objectively or not, it's a good thing he's gone.
Right, but I think the point of the "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction" was not just the point that he had the capacity to restart a WMD program. I think it was his use of an excuse to dominate over another country perhaps. I could be off, I'm not the authority but I think that, although you're telling the truth, it's missing the point a bit.
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