Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: The real reason the left opposed the war, and other crap

[quote name="Senor Barborito"]<i>Posted after a four hour nap following a 48 hour all-nighter. Forgive my spelling/grammar/word omission.</i> It had nothing to do with oil. Yeah, we (leftists) all hate greedy corporate fatcats - rah rah woohoo. Easiest reason to communicate to our welfare plebes - the left's intellectually impoverished, governed by self-interest (and the flipside to your religious and hick plebes) who REALLY hate the rich beyond reason or mercy. But why did the left's intellectual academy (who are governed by party/country/political global health realities) and middle-class psuedo-intellectuals (who are governed by ethical/moral principles) stand up as one and march against the war on Iraq, and spur the millions of intellectual plebes to march? PNAC. No offense to the right but how fucking stupid are you? Your leaders nailed a sign written with a pen dipped in ink of their own blood and nailed to their gates that read "WE INTEND TO TAKE OVER THE MIDDLE EAST REGARDLESS OF THE REASON" and somehow expected we wouldn't notice? We're an entire political WING ultimately governed by the academicians and intellectuals. We overlook a lot of obvious things and goddamn are we sometimes naive (and it's cost us) but holy fuck - we have eyes, man, and the sign you posted under the pike reading 'SADDAM'S HEAD TO GO HERE SOON' was sort of a giveaway. This is why the left marched against troops in Iraq. Liberia . . . on the one hand pragmatically it's really none of our goddamned business. On the other hand they really do need a fucking hand and it's *potentially* good PR with the third world to help them. The left's intellectual middle-class has made up their mind - they scream for principle's sake, and principle (human rights) demands we head for Liberia. The intellectual upper-class hasn't come to a decision - this is too conflicted. The potential fallout in any situation involving a three-way/four-way in a third world nation results in a LOT of new terrorist recruits (much like your precious Iraq did, thanks guys). The intellectual upper class doesn't like that and what's more they don't like how much this is not really our business - America has a good history, your war on Iraq aside, of not interfering until it's absolutely necessary we do so. Universal party cohesion hasn't coalesced because of this. Our intellectual middle-class may be in a frenzy right now, but they've really got nothing on this issue to spur the self-interested intellctual lower classes into a frenzy over on this issue. I predict no serious Liberia marches, but I could be wrong - seldom has the intellectual middle class of the left had a more black/white example to rage about. The absolute lowest intellectual class of leftists - the emotional and weepy ones - may be moved to intervene after significant media exposure (and the intellectual middle class of the left IS much of the media). Why wasn't this preventing the maches against Iraqi interference? It did for some. But for most there were much greater human rights abuses out there ripe for the picking. North Korea would be a good example. Residually, our own failures when the intellectual upper class's pragmaticism blocked intervention in Sierra Leone during the Clinton administration was something the left would like to forget about, but can't. There's party-guilt on that issue, which generally makes us disinclined to talk about human rights in an overall sense. The WMD 'evidence' presented by the neocons was flimsy enough for not just the intellectual upper class to spit upon, but the left's intellectual middle-class spat upon it, too - and they weren't even monkeying the upper class this time! 'Oil greed' would spur the plebes, so it was used. The rest, as they say, is history. Massive left-cohesive marches against war in Iraq took place, and were promptly ignored by the Orwellian neocons. The right found our weak spot - a terrified populace. As long as the right keeps terrifying the populace with boogeyman stories the populace will continue to hand them blank policy-checks. Congratulations on your new-found license to print political money, guys - the more you use it, the more the left will be forced to rally its surivivors to Canada to regroup. --SB (a leftist caught between the intellectual upper and middle classes)[/quote]