Comment by markde43008 on April 10, 2009 2:51 pm

On the blamin Beck piece,

“GOTTLIEB: I like how you’re using the word militia. I mean, you’re trying to label everybody as militia, as being, you know, evil, crazy people out there. You know, there are 90 million gun owners in America and they’re not members of militias. The bottom line is, the Pew Research Center just did a survey that shows that Barack Obama is the most polarizing president we have had in four decades”

I find that the more interesting point. For all the eye rolling the left has done about Bush being a polarizing figure, dividing us more and more,.. it would seem the guy who ran against that is even worse, completely tone deaf to half the country.

Beck’s just tapping into what many of us feel in the center right to right. I like Beck, he’s funny, he hasn’t offended me in any way, and he makes some liberals and pinkie in the air republicans tear their hair out. That’s always a plus for me. I haven’t heard a whiff of hate on his show, no call to arms, no urging to violence. None at all. In fact, he’s gone out of his way to push for a King Ghandish nonviolent civil disobedience,.

how can liberals be against that as a tactic for expressing displeasure at the government?

A tactic they pioneered?

But when we do it, the left commentariat goes collectively ape?

The word miltia has never come up on our side. We make up huge numbers of the police and military, why would we advocate violence against our own? That’s nuts. I couldn’t find a more recent poll, but this will do,

“While recent polls show that roughly one-third of the public considers itself Republican, 57 percent of the active-duty military identified themselves with that party – with two-thirds of officers, compared to 49 percent of enlisted personnel, checking the Republican box.

Compared to 32 percent of the civilian public who described themselves as Democrats, only nine percent of military officers and 16 percent of enlisted personnel did so. Twenty-nine percent of the military respondents either said they were independent or declined to answer the question. ”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/ips/lobe43.html

Numbers came from the Military Times. Many an older voter will argue that the military is as mixed as the general public, maybe even more liberal, that may have been true pre-1973, then the draft ended. After that the all volunteer military, the professional service came to be. An entirely self selected group, where personal motivations mattered, as opposed to a conscript military.

The libertarians largely go republican, so from where I see this, why would a group that makes up the majority of the forces that stand for authority, for order, opt to begin rampaging in the streets ala some Sanchez Olbermann fevered nightmare? Despite all the bigotry and prejudice of the fringe left we aren’t going to start an armed insurrection, it’s not our nature, and they’d know that if they knew a conservative, rather than just talk about them among other leftwingers.

I do think our host is more thoughtful than that. I do apreciate the video game reference, I play Halo, does that make me a potential menace too? It would seem he doesn’t think so,. just as a side question,.. I’m curious,..

if you play video games, what do you play?

Shooters, RPG’s, something else?

Many vets I know play shooters, we find em relaxing. What do liberals play, the same games, or some other type?