What have I been saying for the past 9 months? I've been saying the left needs to get over it's anti-Christ attitude and start pointing out the hypocrisy in the right's policy which they claim to be "Christian" if we want to win over the majority of people in this country. I've been saying that we will continue to lose as long as we're seen as the anti-Christs.

I was right.

Poll: Fewer See Dems As Religion-Friendly

By WILL LESTER Associated Press Writer

August 30,2005 | WASHINGTON -- Democrats' efforts to improve their image with religious voters after the 2004 presidential election appear to be getting off to a bumpy start.

Fewer people see Democrats as friendly to religion now than felt that way a year ago, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

That number has dropped from 40 percent in August 2004 who thought the Democrats were friendly to religion to 29 percent now.

"The change is seen across all groups," said Scott Keeter, director of survey research for the Pew Research Center, which conducted the poll for the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

After Democrats fared poorly with religious voters in the 2004 election, the Democratic National Committee initiated numerous efforts to strengthen its standing with religious voters.

The DNC hired someone to coordinate religious outreach, encouraged state parties to work more closely with the religious community, and had Chairman Howard Dean meet with clergy and others in the religious community during his travels around the country.

"We're at the beginning," said Democratic spokeswoman Karen Finney, who said religious voters share many of the values of the Democratic Party. "But we know we need to do a better job of talking about our values in a way that people see we share their values."

More than half of those polled, 55 percent, said the Republican Party is friendly to religion.

A majority of political independents, 54 percent, said religious conservatives have too much influence over the GOP. Fewer than half of independents said those who are not religious have too much impact on the Democratic Party.

The poll of 2,000 adults was conducted July 7-17 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

So now that we have 71% of the country, which is dangerously close to the number of Christians in this country (78%), that believe we're hostile to their religious beliefs do you feel empowered? Are you fucking people trying to lose? What exactly do you hope to accomplish by attacking people's religious beliefs? Ask yourselves these questions and get back to those of us who want to show how hypocritical it is for someone to be a Christian and a Republican when you're ready to really take the fight to the fundamentalists.

I read this article on Salon.com awhile ago entitled "Getting Religion" and had kicked it around in my head for a couple of days but soon forgot about it. Since I woke up early this morning I decided to snoop around Salon and remembered the article so I decided to see if there were any letters in response. Sure enough there were, and, thankfully, most of them were against the opinion of the author, save one. Since it's a little late to send a letter to the editor in response to this article I'll just comment on it here, I need an entry for today anyway. So consider this also...

A Letter to the Editor of Salon.com in Response to Francess Kissling's "Getting Religion"

Unlike many of my fellow secularists I am not spiritually bankrupt. While the closest thing to my spiritual beliefs is Buddhism I make no claim on a particular religion, some say I'm an atheist, others an agnostic, and the ignorant claim I'm a right wing Christian covert operative. The latter are the people who are most damaging for the left, as are many other secularists who can't speak of Christianity without becoming egomaniacally elitist that they're some how better than Christians because they don't believe in an invisible man. How would I know? I was one of them.

While I'm still a secularist who believes in the seperation of church and state, over time I've learned that religion has it's place in politics to appeal to people's better nature, as well as their most vile, but the good usually wins out, when it can be heard. The problem is the left refuses to allow the good to be heard. Case in point in response to a female senator's proclamation "What I want to do is get on the floor of the Senate and ask, 'What would Jesus do about the budget? What would Jesus do about poor children? What would Jesus do about healthcare?'" Francess said "What I wanted to respond was that the floor of the U.S. Senate is not the place to invoke Jesus Christ." Her excuse for this is because she doesn't want to offend the Muslims, the Jews, the Buddhists, the atheists, etc. Francess, let me give you some advice, stop worrying about who will be offended, infact, most people don't like political correctness and hate being talked down to and treated as if they're weak. That's what's most condescending for most people.

However Francess you do have a point, but at the sametime you don't. There's a mighty big difference between "What Would Jesus Do" and "Jesus Says To Do", one does not demand that Jesus be listened to and the other does. There's a big difference there. The Senator in question could just as easily add Buddha, Muhammed, Yahweh, etc in place of Jesus or right alongside him, but you ignore this point because "the hair on your neck stood up." Shall I tell you why? Because people like you don't have a problem with every religion, only Christianity. You won't find many "atheists" who will denounce the faiths of Buddhists, Muslims, Taoists, Jews, etc, but they're on Christians like white on rice. "Atheist" or "secularist" is not a proper name for those of you with this problem, "Anti-Christian" is far more fitting, and you make the rest of us look bad.

Imagine if Martin Luther King Jr was alive today and said what he said back in the 50s and 60s, y'all would shit a brick and try to silence him. "No we wouldn't!" The fuck you wouldn't, because there are many of us who say similar things to MLK that you fuckers sneer down at. I've seen Christian Progressives degraded and insulted simply because they're Christian and don't agree with the methods of the Anti-Christians. I've seen secularists who say that we should be understanding of the Christians and use their own beliefs to further our cause get personally attacked by the Anti-Christians. And for what reason? Prejudice and bigotry, reactionary forces created in response to reactionary forces, and the rest of us get caught in the middle.

Are there radical evangelicals who pay lip-service to the Christian belief and are total assholes? Yes there are, but they're a minority, so why is the secular left taking the position of lumping all Christians into the same boat? We're supposed to be the side of understanding but in the case of Christianity we attack it, ignorantly, and wonder why we do so bad at the polls. When is the left going to realize that we are in Christ's image, that every core belief we hold is spawned from our progressive fore fathers who held similar beliefs to Christ? Beliefs like every man's relationship with God is his own and only he can decide what that relationship is, beliefs like "let Ceasar's be Ceasar's and God's be God's" (thus the first seperation of church and state spoken by Christ), beliefs like helping the poor, the sick, the homeless, the weak, where do you think all that shit came from? It came from religion, and not just Christianity, but most religions.

I've been called an enemy of the left because I have no qualms with pointing out the hypocrisy of my fellow leftists, particulary the anti-Christians. They say I must be a right wing operative because I "attack" my allies, apparently they don't see the hypocrisy in the fact that they continually attack and degrade Christian Progressives and the most influential progressive of his day, Jesus Christ. If my sin is defending progressives from bigots in progressive clothing, if this makes me a traitor to the left, I gladly await my stay in hell.

I'd rather be a traitor to this facade than an enabler.

I expect alot of my readers aren't heavily into the politics side of gaming like I am but if you've been reading my blog lately you at least know about the Hot Coffee "controversy." Well for the past couple of weeks there's been another, smaller, controversy over another Rockstar game entitled "Bully." Naturally the name alone has anti-bully groups all in an uproar saying it promotes bullying and all of that reactionary bullshit, but here's the thing, the game's not even out yet! In fact all of the information anyone has on it so far are press releases from Rockstar which paint an image vastly different than what these anti-bully groups are espousing. In "Bully" you are not the bully, in fact, you're the opposite, you're the kid being picked on and your job is to get even. That sounds like every picked on kid's wet dream to me.

The most vocal group so far has been the charity Bullying Online which is like a support line for kids who need someone to talk to about being bullied which is fine and all but this group shouldn't exist. Their whole platform is based on the extermination of bullying, good luck guys, you might get it out of schools but those kids are going to be in for a real surprise when they get into the real world and find a boss who simply doesn't like them or an apartment manager or a neighbor or a whole slew of people who just want to make their lives difficult. Now I'm not saying this makes bullying alright, I'm saying it's simply a fact of life and it's never going to change. The percieved strong pick on the percieved weak to keep the weak under control, that's just how it is. The only way you can break the mold is by standing up to those harassing you, bullies do not mix it up with the strong, that's why they're bullies.

Out of all the reasons I've contemplated suicide, being picked on has never been one of them. One reason being that I'll put up with alot and blow alot of shit off, the second reason is that once you cross that line which gets me interested I'll make it known real quick that you don't want to fuck with me. To give an example, the first year I was part of the Academic Decathlon my team mates would give me abunch of shit about my smoking, at first it wasn't any different than any other bullshit I caught from other non-smokers but then they also started jabbing at my race (I was the only white kid in the class). For awhile it was just little jabs here, little jabs there, typical friends poking fun at each other type shit but then it became an every day thing and it just became old and offensive. The final straw was coming in late one day to find a big black ink spot on the floor near the trash can where the teacher had dropped the printer cartridge, that had nothing to do with me and wasn't offensive. Although not a minute after walking through the door and noticing the spot I also noticed that everyone, including the teacher, had these big shit eating grins on their faces when they looked at me, naturally I was like "What the fuck are you smiling about." Apparently one of my teammates had made the comment "Oh look, Toshiro sneezed there", that was it, and the girl sitting across from me who was laughing with the rest of the class, noticing my disgust for the comment, said "Oh cmon it's just a joke." My response? "Yeah, it's also the type of shit which causes things like Columbine to happen." Boom, the room went immediately silent with the exception of the girl across from me going pale white saying "That's not funny man."

My teacher whipped me from the room and started laying into me about how he could have me expelled for a comment like that. I shrugged and said "Hey, I put up with racism and cracks about my smoking every fucking day and never say a word, and now you're here telling me I could be expelled for stating a simple fact?" My teacher wasn't stupid though, he knew what I was doing with that "simple fact," I was making a threat without actually making a threat, but it worked, they cooled down on the racist jokes and the comments about my smoking. The point being, if you don't make it clear that there are consequences to the bully's actions, they'll continue to bully you. Running away, ignoring it, or snitching to the teacher only make it worse, the latter could find your ass severly beaten somewhere where the school has no jurisdiction. I don't know what it's like in other parts of the world but I'm sure it's not that different from the schools here.

Hell, our politicians are the same way. Do you really think Dubya and the other scumfucks could get away with even a quarter of the shit that they do if gun sales suddenly went up and the general populace rattled their sabres from time to time? Fuck no. There are a little over a million people serving in the military around the world, there are over 270 million Americans, if just one percent, 2.7 million, of Americans rattled their sabres, politicians would be scared shitless. The last thing they want is a mob of nearly three million people well armed and looking for blood. Watch how quickly we get things like national health care and a minimum living wage. All of that "We have to worry about the shareholders" bullshit will fly out the fucking window. Cozing up to lunatic fringe groups like the Religious Right, out the fucking window. Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and the rest of the lying snakes who plague "political" TV, out the fucking window, infact they'll jump out. These people are cowards and the moment you illustrate that their harassment has gone too far their tune will change mighty quick.

People, you can not run from bullies, you can only face them and deal with them. The question is, when is enough enough?

I've questioned the existence of God for as long as I can remember. I can remember my Catholic grandmother taking me to church one Sunday around the age of four or six and thinking "This is a load of crap." From then on I've always questioned the existence of the Christian God and still have yet to be convinced that he exists. As I've mentioned before I've been punished in school for not having the faith so I'm no stranger to the tyranny of Christianity and religion in general. I've spent many years arguing with Christians about their faith and was online arguing with hundreds of Christians before most people knew about the internet or cared about it. In that time I've helped establish arguments against Christianity and was involved with those others whose arguments have been picked up by the mainstream of atheists. We were the pioneers of the atheist online world, and we could kick alot of Christian ass, however we could never get them to vote left.

Nowadays I see atheists twice my age who log on and tout those arguments, however, they're not only touting a bastardized version of our arguments which just makes us veteran atheist online activists shake our heads, but they've also failed to realize what we realized in our political struggles. That being the Bible is the best resource against the Christian Right because their actions so conflict with the beliefs they supposedly hold dear. Try and get a Christian to say Jesus or God is wrong, they will never say it! No right wing pundit will ever say it either, the current generation of atheists fails to realize this. Why?

If you had checked the CIA's World Fact Book a few years ago before Dubya's first term you would see that only 2% of the country labeled themselves as atheists, since 2002 though that number has shot up to a whopping 10%. I was shocked to see this and only recently have I realized why that is. They're reacting to the sudden Christian fundamentalism that has saturated the government. They have no interest in knowledge or truth, they just don't want to be like those fundamentalist Christians. Here's the funny thing, by becoming the opposite extreme they become almost identical to those fundamentalist Christians. They refuse to listen to any position which is not exactly like their's, if you're a Christian, well you MUST be a right winger. Question their arguments against Christianity, well you MUST be a right winger. They just fail to realize that, you know, it's been the Christian Left which has spearheaded all of the progressive movements in the United States.

Yeah hear that you assholes? You haven't done shit! You're still not doing anything that's good for the left. Not only are you marginalizing Christians who are on our side, you're also marginalizing Christians who would be on our side if not for the anti-Christian image you're painting for the left. Now why is that? I know, do you? It's due to you fuck's acting EXACTLY like the Christian Right. You harass people for not believing in exactly what you do, you refuse to hear people out with opposing points of view, and then you label them whatever the popular forum demon is. Then on top of it you attack Christ when he fucking agrees with us! Then when someone suggests to you to read the religious texts of a certain belief you act like they're trying to convert you, which isn't always the case, especially when it's a fellow atheist. They're trying to give you the ammo and the means which work best against and convinces the Christians to convert to the left, it's called knowing your enemy, try reading a little Sun Tzu at some point. I mean you're intellectuals and all so Sun Tzu shouldn't be too far outside of your grasp, right?

Here are a few "attacks" of faux shepherd dogs which make them stand out.

Respect

They love talking about respect but don't let that fool you! What they mean by respect is appealing to their ego and making them happy. Just like in the 47 Ronin, Lord Asano's crime is not that he's wrong, it's that he refuses to bribe officials and ultimately attacks the most wicked of these officials Lord Kira for demanding that he pay his just dues with substantial bribes. Someone who's truly without ego and a free thinker has no qualms with someone being straight forward, call him an idiot and it matters not to him, if it's justified he can see it, if it's not then he knows that person's clueless. They also demand respect for their accolades, you will commonly hear among them "I'm older and thus wiser than you" or "I've got a college degree" or "I've retired young" as if any of that shit matters about the substance of their argument when it doesn't. Point of fact it's nothing more than a last resort for a bad argument, they can't beat your argument so they try to pull rank and discredit you not by logic or facts but by your accolades or lack there of. There was a judge in North Carolina who once said "You're obviously not that good of a lawyer if I have to look at a piece of paper on your wall that says you're a lawyer." The same applies for "smart" people, if you need to see a piece of paper that says someone's smart, they're not, it just means they shelled out the cash and time for a piece of paper that says they're smart. Case in point, Dubya's got a piece of paper from Yale, think he's smart? Don't misunderestimate him now.

"You're a disruption!"

There are few cases when this is ok, specifically when someone has infiltrated a private group which has an express purpose and the infiltrator keeps them from being able to do their work. That's a legitimate case for calling someone a disruption and being angry about it. Most cases aren't like this though, usually it's someone who comes into a group and doesn't tow the standard line of thought. Remember, sheep hate confrontation and having to actually think, they just like bahing to and fawning over themselves, anyone who disrupts this is evil and must be killed. They'll tolerate it for awhile but ask too many questions, challenge too many ideas and they'll turn in a second to rip your nose off. This has happened before in America on a large scale. "Hey what if our capitalist system is flawed?" "What are you, a commie?" Nowadays though it's, if you're a left winger, "What are you, a right wing operative?" Yes, I'm a right wing operative because I don't agree with you completely or see a problem with your suggestion, you got me, way to go, because a right winger wouldn't be smart enough to meld in among us without questioning some things, wrong! Any smart operative will get in and then take everything to the extreme to make the rest of the flock look like radical kooks. A wolf in sheep's clothing doesn't let you know he's a wolf by biting you while you're looking at him.

Black and White Straw-Men

First, read this. Sheep love straw-men, straw-men allow sheep to work within the frames that they understand. Don't agree with the way they treat Christians, hey you must be a Christian too so they're going to try and debunk Christianity now and claim they know more than you, because hey, you're a Christian, even though you know you're not and have said as much. Or say you're pro-military, well that MUST mean you agree with the Iraq war, I mean how can you be pro-military and not agree with all wars all the time? You're either with them or against them, and nothing in between!

Ego

Oh how they love talking about ego, remember these are the same people who want you to respect their accolades and age, yet they love making the claim that someone's behavior is based completely on ego. Someone get us a medium, like John Edwards, so we can talk to Freud and ease his spirit, he's gotta be tired doing so many laps in his grave. If there was ever a case of projection, this is it. They'll say with a straight face "Well why are you defending yourself then if not because of ego?" Uhh because it's wrong and you're misrepresenting my positions? Did that ever cross your mind prick? I don't really care if I'm legitimately wrong about something, and I'll admit to it, but don't misrepresent me and expect me to just sit back and take it. It's funny because no doubt someone will read this and say "Yeah but that's ego" and then turn around and whine about Karl Rove saying all liberals wanted to give therapy to the terrorists after 9/11. It's not ego, it's correcting a bald faced lie.

So how'd you do? Do you use all of those tactics or just some of them? Well don't fret if you do, because you can always, you know, STOP.

It's been said that you're not supposed to criticize your allies, the right wingers have said it many times in their attacks against France and Germany for not going along with the US in the Iraq quagmire. The conservatives proceeded to give us ideas like "Freedom Fries," "Old Europe," and sending the Statue of Liberty back to the French due to this. The message they want to send being "Don't question us, just do as we say, and ignore anything we do wrong." Or how about something more recent, like Amnesty International finding that the US government has a number of human rights violations going on at Gitmo? The government and right wing response being "How dare you, you're hurting America by pointing this out!" You'll hear liberals applaud France, Germany, other countries, and international organizations for standing up to the US, and I agree with them, but what happens when you flip it on these so called liberals? "Don't question us, agree with us completely, and ignore anything we do wrong, why fight with your allies?" You know what, fuck that.

There's one thing I really dislike, and that's being a hypocrite, I go out of my way to not be one and I thought all leftists strove for the same thing. Jesus Christ was I naive. You see, up until recently I've always hung out on forums where it's been mostly rabid conservatives who I could argue with or moderate forums with every day people who have just a slight interest in politics (i.e. the people the left should be targeting), with one exception, my uncle's forums. On CG's forums we have a band of people interested in discussing the issues and dealing with the nuts and bolts of the country, and if it's your only dose of the left wing you don't appreciate just how abnormal it is from the rest of the left wing... Until you step outside into "leftist" forums.

I've been avoiding places like Democratic Underground and other left leaning forums simply because when I took a look when they first came onto the scene I didn't see a need to post. You see, I'm not a cheerleader, I don't back pat, and I don't reiterate what someone else has said so there's usually not a reason to post on said forums. There's only really been one person I've given a pat on the back for a job well done and that's PeaceTakesCourage, a 14-year old girl with a great sense on setting a mood through music and visuals, check out her flash animations at some point, they're haunting. She has a great talent and I encourage her and her mother to look into film school (they have them for high school students) as she could be a great asset to the left. Anywho, praise and agreement can be dangerous things when that's all you're exposed to in your online microcosm, they inflate egos making people easier to piss off simply through disagreement, they take it personal and believe you're attacking them.

In other words, too much exposure to praise and agreement can create a hive mind mentality within a group, and, just like with bees, if something's amiss in the hive it must be found and dealt with either through assimilation or destruction. Think of the Borg on Star Trek, they kill what won't join the Collective and assimilate what will, getting rid of all individuality and free thought which comes with it, i.e. sheep. Sheep in the back of the flock will follow the rest of the flock right off a cliff so they simply won't be alone. Most people are sheep, doesn't matter if they're left wing or right wing, they're reactionary sheep.

On the flip side there are also shepherd dogs who tell the flock of sheep what to do, some times they bark and some times they take nips at the sheeps' feet to get them to move. The dogs are the leaders of the flock, and they don't care what the sheep think about them just as long as the sheep do as they say, the problem with shepherd dogs though is if you have a bad one they'll lead the flock right off a cliff (Dubya and right wing pundits anyone?). In this case shepherds will shoot the dog in question so it can't hurt his sheep and hurt his profits any longer (big business? Watch out Dubya). Good shepherd dogs though will get the sheep to do what they need to do efficiently and keep the sheep alive and happy (FDR?).

Now here's the problem with the liberal flock, they think they're shepherd dogs, they even wear little doggy outfits and yip rather than bah, but the one thing they can't hide is their mentality. "Hey look out, you're heading for a cliff you fools!" "No we're not! And don't call us fools, we're just like y---AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Too late. If you're truly a shepherd dog you don't have qualms about disrupting the flock from time to time because some times you have to to stop them from running off a cliff. It's easy to spot a faux dog, they usually hate individuality and the disruption of the flock mentality. If you happen to be an honest straight forward individual who disrupts the flock, the rams come out and start head butting you, if that doesn't work they get the shepherd to deal with you.

So who are the most effective shepherd dogs? The same people who everyone bitches about, politicians. They're manipulative and have to be, they know honesty doesn't work because if you're honest the flock will get pissed off with you. Why do the elites think so little of the common man, because the common man's an idiot who likes being lied to and having his ego stroked. He doesn't mind either that you have a knife right below his throat, just keep telling him how nice and cute and smart he is. By the time he realizes he's in danger his throat has already been slit from ear to ear and no matter how much he clings to his neck the blood won't stop and he's dead in a matter of seconds. A dog though, will see the door to the slaughterhouse and start fighting no matter what the shepherd says.

So what are you, sheep or dog?

Oh one more thing, just because you lock horns with a different flock of sheep from time to time doesn't mean you're not a sheep, you're just a different type arguing over who's coat is cuter, horns bigger, and hooves cleaner.

So in light of my last entry I've been talking to a number of progressives about this phenomenon. I've been trying for the past week to find the proper words for it and one of the people who I was discussing this with put it perfectly. I'm going to blatantly copy what The Bionic Cowlick said and post it here.

""Progressives" are divided in many ways, but, generally, there are two main camps that I consider important: the leftists, and the liberals, because, as I have mentioned many times before, the two are not the same.

"Again, in general, leftists are concerned about the nuts and bolts of society: the economy, foreign policy, and so on; they tend to be more "realistic." Liberals on the other hand are often preoccupied with moral issues; to them, everything tends to boil down to an ambiguous "because it's not right"; the number one liberal social edict is: "Be Nice." Liberals tend to think that if everyone is "nice" to each other, then everything will be alright, and they seem to harbor the idea that 6+ billion people being "nice" to one another is a possibility; all they have to do, they say, is "believe." And that is no wonder, because liberals are superstitious. Do a survey of the "be nice" tribe and you are likely to find an inordinate number of people who speak in terms of reaching "a higher consciousness," englightenment, satori, etc.; animal rights activists; Wikkers (or whatever the fuck the name is); boob-tube addicts that are loyal fans of whatever the popular thing-of-the moment is in mainstream media culture; and, in general, people who have a standard, predictable personality, who are incapable of thinking for themselves, and who follow a formula for no matter what they do.

"When these people get on boards, they recognize one another from the identical scripts that each is following: I say this, you answer this, I respond this, and, see, we're nice to one another and we're friends; why can't everybody be enlightened like us? Once their tentacles have felt one another out and they are satisfied that they, indeed, are the same infection in a different body, they hook up and proceed to either infect everybody else, or, if they meet resistence, to destroy what is not like them, what is--original. They have no clue that this is true about them, that this is their most salient characteristic, but what they are is Fascists: They spread like the plague and kill everything that is different. They eat truckloads and shit truckloads for this sole purpose: to spread and make the world uniform. They fear what is not the same. In the Church that Mykeru is a member of, they are referred to as the "pinks."

"Therein lies the story of what is happening to Mykeru. He did something that didn't follow the script, something that wasn't "nice," and he had to be destroyed. Naturally, Mykeru is trying to defend himself. Surrounded on all sides by the same pulsating amoeba with different heads, he is shutting down the communication channels that have allowed the disease access. Defence by itself won't help, however. What needs to be carried out is a coordinated offence. Offence because, left to him or herself, the infected personality will continue to repeat the same behavior over and over again. Coordinated because the infected personality needs people around him or her to affirm one and the same thing before he or she will do anything; an idea by itself and based on its own merits means nothing to the infected; only social pressure and the fear of being alone can motivate them."

Beautifully put and I completely agree. So the question for those of you on the left is, are you a "leftist" or a "liberal"?

Bionic can be found here.

Mykeru can be found here. Take the time to read his dealings with "Ben Burch", "MMTF", and "POAC".

For the past month I've seen a surge of kookiness from "leftists." From proposing that we go out there and tout the theories of 9/11 to claiming a fellow leftist's a right winger simply because he doesn't agree with their methods of debate. Now the other funny thing is that they all share two things in common, they make leftists look irrational and they're the first to claim someone's a right wing operative. I've been called alot of things but a couple of days ago for the first time in my life I was called a "Right Wing Christian on a mission." My jaw literally dropped and my eyes popped out of my head like an episode of Looney Toons when I read that... Then I started laughing hysterically. I immediately ran over and posted this "leftist's" comment on a number of the forums I visit for the pleasure of all the right wingers I've debated and ridiculed through out the years. Here's a few of those comments:

"Is this kid serious? If Toshiro is right wing conservative, then what the fuck does that make me?"

"congratulations Toshiro, we welcome you... took you long enough"

"i dont agree with anything Toshiro says......but i do give respect for being, by far, the most intelligent and well written poster this site has. i wouldnt be pretentious enough to tell you who you are Toshiro. you make your points and back them all up. you dont pretend or pull punches. i cant undertand that persons thinking in placing his own label on you. weird. now, if that sounds like sucking up....WRONG!"

All three of those comments are from conservatives, the liberal responses were just as shocked as me, some of them mocking this "leftist."

"He has a point. Obviously he should be able to tell you what you REALLY believe instead of letting you decide."

So now you're probably asking why did he call me a right wing Christian, right? He didn't like the fact that I was defending the Christian faith and Christians who choose to believe in God and the afterlife. That's my crime. Telling him to back off on ridiculing them for their religious beliefs is the evil I've done to be labeled a right wing Christian. Naturally he says "I don't care about their religious beliefs" but then he turns around and says the equivelant of "You're all morons for believing in an afterlife!!!" Oh but how did I meet this jerk off in the first place? My friends showed me to two forums where he posts, the second one I was showed because they were ridiculing and calling a progressive friend of mine a right winger because he's also a Christian. Obviously there's no such thing as a "Progressive Christian." Forget the fact that ALL of the civil liberties battles in this country were STARTED and FOUGHT by the CHRISTIAN LEFT. That's not to say the Christian Left is flawless (their silence on the rights for homosexuals is disturbing and hypocritical), however this asshole acts like the Secularists have moved this country forward all by themselves and all Christians are right wing goombas. Oh and as for defending the Bible and suggesting we use Jesus' message like Martin Luther King Jr. did? That's herecy because the Bible's all lies!!! The message Christ gives? LIES!!! Why? BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE IT DIDN'T KNOW JESUS!!!

Who cares? Honestly, who gives a fuck if it were written by King James himself? The things which Jesus Christ says in the Bible coincide with Progressive ideals almost entirely, hell Christ was a Communist for fuck's sake. So why are we, as leftists spending so much time ridiculing Jesus? Alot of leftists now refering to him as "Jebus" borrowed from an episode of the Simpsons. You know, Jesus is our best ally against the fundamentalists and leftists are routinely kicking him in the balls with irrelevant bullshit. You will NEVER hear a leftist attack Christ's message, infact ask them directly "If Christianity is based on lies does that mean the words of Christ, the morals he preaches, are all lies? Does that mean you don't believe in helping out your fellow man and treating him as you would treat yourself?" The response you'll get will be silence, they'll dodge it, because they know they agree with it, and yet they're still out there trying to disprove the Bible and kick Christ in the balls. This behavior tells me the person in question with this behavior and form of argument is one of two things, they're either one ignorant liberal who needs to actually read the Bible and start using it against the fundamentalists (How does denying healthcare to the poorest Americans coincide with Christ saying to heal the sick?), or they're a right wing operative.

I don't say that lightly because I really don't want to start being all paranoid in regards to who we can trust and who we can't but ya know, lately I've been running into leftists who make arguments and say things which just make them look like they're full of irrational hatred. However, that could be it too, these people could be the left's response to the Reactionary Right, the Reactionary Left. In which case, y'all need to take a deep breath and calm the fuck down, just because someone is not ridiculing Christians, anti-gun, or anti-military doesn't make them a right wing Christian.

Reasons Why I'm a Right Wing Christian According to a Left Wing Nut Fuck:

1. I'm pro-military, which according to LWNF means I'm also pro-Iraq War (not true).
2. He has seen posts of mine on other forums that were pro-Bush (I'm still waiting for his evidence of this, the only thing I agree with Bush somewhat on is the Gun issue).
3. I defend the Christian faith which according to LWNF means I'm a Christian (I'm not, if anything I'm a Buddhist).

Drum roll for the 4th and most important reason please.

4. I question him and his stances on certain issues! "DON'T QUESTION ME!!! TROLL!!!"*

*Not an actual quote, paraphrased from his arguments.

It's time liberals ask themselves what they really want. For years now we've been participating in intellectual circle jerks, a jerk here for repetitive age old wisdom ("You're so wise xoxo"), a jerk there for a sarcastic response to some stupidity (unless directed at liberals, that's just down right mean), a jerk here, a jerk there, every where a jerk jerk, until we're all covered in pseudo-intellectual self-righteous goo. Ah yummy. Hey some times we get extra bold and slip a finger in someone's ass to rub their prostate for one spectacular blast of ego-enriching goo! Some times it's pretty blatant at how often we jerk other people off like abunch of horny slutty cheerleaders looking to get banged in the back of the star quarterback's truck. On the flip side we also do it in a more subtle manner which alot of people miss and allows those subtle circle jerkers to hide their ego-driven decadence behind "politeness" and "respect." If you go into a liberal haven and fail to acknowledge the "brilliance" of the people there you're ignorant and unwise, or if you're like me, i.e. a sarcastic beligerent fuck, they say you're mean and full of anger and thus your points don't mean squat!

It reminds me of the scene in the 47 Ronin where Lord Asano refuses to bribe fellow government officials and the "wise" old Hira takes offense because he wants to live a life of greed and lust and Asano hasn't met his standards on what an appropriate "gift" is. Hira attempts to sabotage Asano's duties but fails and the two of them ultimately have a confrontation where Hira belittles Asano as being an ignorant young backwater lord. Naturally, Asano attacks Hira but only wounds him sadly. Hira being the corrupt little shit that he is manages to escape the incident with only his wounds while Asano is ordered to commit seppuku (ritual suicide). Justice doesn't prevail sadly, as even though 47 of Asano's loyal vassals claim Hira's life and parade his head around town, their actions are in direct defiance to the Shogun and so they must commit seppuku as well.

I told this story for two purposes as it's a great analogy for both of my main points. The first being that we see the old and "wise" are corrupt with old methods and ideals while the new are righteous with new methods and ideals which are better for their people. The essential idea that future generations don't carry the same prejudices as the old. However we also see that ultimately, being a "nice" and "honorable" person gets you only to one place, the grave. So now liberals have to make a choice are we interested in being "nice" "honorable" intellectual circle jerkers, or do we want to win elections? I know that's a black and white question but listen, we can be nice and honorable while also being beligerent and sarcastic, but the circle jerks have to stop. As much as it pains the left to hear that, they do, because you ultimately only end up with a sticky mess left to clean up afterwards with nothing accomplished but your own self gratification. Liberals need to start thinking in strategic terms which help win elections. For example, rattling off about the validity of the Bible is not a good strategy for getting conservatives on our side, showing them exactly what Christ said is. If you're a liberal you already believe in the vast majority of what Christ does, so using people's religions to preach it shouldn't be an issue, atleast we'd be preaching the message it was meant to be.

We also have to stop acting like we're the defacto intellectuals of the country simply because we have college degrees. A college degree does not automatically make you an intellectual, I've known wiser hoodrats than most college graduates I bump into. Essentially liberals need to stop being the opposite extreme of the conservatives, they act morally and fiscally elitist while we act intellectually elitist, and you know what, the vast majority of humans have absolutely no right to feel more elite than anyone else, we're all fucking idiots in some form or fashion. I say all this because people have been asking "Why can't the Democrats unite?" Because we're abunch of intellectually elitist pricks who think we have it the right way and would rather work on our own than together. However that naturally happens when your base consists of free thinkers not corrupted by money but intellectual ego instead. This is why conservatives are effective group thinkers, they care about one thing, more money in their pocket, and whoever or whatever gets them there is ok, fuck the rest of you lazy sacks of shit. We have to get beyond the egos if we want to win back the country, we have to become a functional army which works together, and yes that means not everyone can be a general.

"Hi Toshiro!"

Hi. You see, I became a Liberal because I care about people, I don't like hurting them and I like doing all that I can to make them happier. I don't know why that is, I just always get a sickly feeling of guilt whenever I see someone in pain or suffering, even if I didn't cause it. This is also why I could never be a conservative, it's against my nature to be so self-centered and greedy that I can ignore other people's plight. However, I'm frustrated, and it stems from seeing alot of conservative critiques of the left being true. Namely, laziness and the lack of commitment to one's beliefs on the left. We are a group of whiners and wallflowers, we talk alot of talk but when it comes to doing something we fail desperately. The past election was amazing because it seemed like the left finally got motivated and got off their asses. Record campaign donations ever for the left wing and the country in general when left leaning politicians usually have more trouble getting donations of time and money from their "supporters" than their right wing counter-parts. It was awesome! I went to a few MoveOn.org parties and it was like being in the 60s, there was an awesome vibe in the air, people gave a shit again!

Now though, now it's as if we're falling back into old ways. Now I understand that people got depressed after the election and all that jazz but it's 6 months later now, GET OFF YOUR ASSES! THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE! Leftists ask "How could Boy George win again?" The answer is simple, the right wing never lets up, they are not like the left, they are persistent and do not limit their actions to going to a protest once a year to make themselves feel like they've done something. They are continually out there campaigning, talking to, and influencing anyone who will listen and the left is no where to be seen. People will say that's because there's no left wing media, and I say fuck you that's what a lazy person who doesn't want to take responsibility says. There's a grassroots way of fighting the right, many bloggers and online leftists have begun to realize it and are trying to get everyone on the left working together, but it's difficult. It's like trying to get a kid who's always complaining to be bored outside to play. "I'm bored" "So go out and play" "It's too hot." You give them the means to fight the fight and in return they give you excuse after excuse for why they won't or can't.

"Too busy." "What does anything I do matter, I'm one person." One million individuals saying "I'm just one person" adds up after awhile. "We can't fight like that, then we won't be any better than them. I have my pride." Fuck your pride, you know what your pride's good for? Wiping my white ass, your pride only matters to you you selfish prick. While you're whining about your pride there are millions upon millions of people in this country who are sick and don't have health insurance, do you think they give a shit about your pride? "Oh no, we couldn't ask them to fight to win, their pride would be hurt, I'll just let the cancer eat me alive because I wouldn't DARE hurt someone's pride."

I have a little test for you leftists out there. Lets say you're completely against the use of guns, you just absolutely hate them and don't like shooting them and think killing people's wrong. Now let's say it's 1936, you have Hitler in your crosshairs, all you have to do is pull the trigger. You shoot him and you save 6 million innocent lives including millions of soldiers lives and the Nazi war machine is destroyed, or you don't shoot him because you believe killing is wrong, period. If you chose the latter, congrats, you just allowed the Holocaust to happen but hey, your pride is intact! Guess what folks there are only two absolutes in this life, you're born and you die, and there's more than likely nothing after you die so this is it. These 70 or more years are it for you, so now the question becomes is there anything in this world worth more than your life and your petty pride? Is there? No? Then get the fuck out of the way and quit your bitchin', your opinion is not needed nor is it wanted. If you're not willing to get over your own ego for the sake of bettering the human race you are scum no better than the conservative fuckwads.

My name is Toshiro, and *I* am a liberal, these lazy pretentious fucks be damned.