House of Eratosthenes

I’m a life-long Republican. My political affiliation has been woven intrinsically into the very fabric of my being.

When I was young, Ronald Reagan bestrode the world like a colossus. I grew up watching the Cold War end-game play out as Reagan faced down the Soviet Union- which really was evil- and helped break the long night of communist repression in Eastern Europe. He was my hero.

Indeed, my first political act was passionately lobbying my fourth-grade classmates…blah blah blah…
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Today, however, I am a registered Republican no longer.

I came to the decision to leave the GOP not with a heavy heart, but with a broken one.

I reached this point through a long series of awakenings and realizations…

And what are those?

…the Republican Party has come unhinged. Its fevered hallucinations involve threats from imaginary communists and socialists who, seemingly, lurk around every corner. Climate change – a reality recognized by every single significant scientific body and academy in the world…

Okay, I think I’m done here. Fuck off, Moby.

moby

An insidious and specialized type of left-wing troll who visits blogs and impersonates a conservative for the purpose of either spreading false rumors intended to sow dissension among conservative voters, or who purposely posts inflammatory and offensive comments for the purpose of discrediting the blog in question.

The term is derived from the name of the liberal musician Moby, who famously suggested in February of 2004 that left-wing activists engage in this type of subterfuge: “For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you’re an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion. Then you go to an anti-immigration Web site chat room and ask, ‘What’s all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?’”

The strategy has been frequently attempted on conservative blogs, but has not been nearly as effective as Moby envisioned, since false rumors are easily debunked by fact-checking minions, and cartoonishly extreme commenters often get immediately identified as mobys and banned.

“While I agree that it is vital to monitor incoming international phone calls from terrorists, President Bush has gone too far.

By secret executive order, he has instructed the NSA to place hidden cameras in the girls’ locker rooms of Washington D.C. (Dirt bag City) Islamic schools. His desire to find out ‘what is under all those burqas’ is beyond the pale.

Maybe the Dhimmicrats are right. If he would do this, what else is he capable of? Let your voice be heard! I for one will never send the RNC money ever again. And, no, I am not a moby.”

Not sure what really prompted the article. I doubt that it’s hostility to socialism, and socialism’s new ruse of undermining the free market by way of the “climate change” scam; that’s been going on for quite awhile, or at least, it’s supposed to have…

Much more likely this is an emboldening-effect from Jeb Bush’s poorly-informed comments.

Blatant careerism is my guess.

When Obama loses, much soul-searching will be in order on the left, and only two conclusions are possible: 1) there’s something wrong with the fundamentals of liberalism; or 2) we weren’t obnoxiously left-wing enough.

I think we know which one they’ll go with.

To that end, there will be massive purges on the lefthand side of the aisle. Suspected right deviationists will be disinvited from Code Pink meetings. Their Whole Foods memberships will be canceled, and their Daily Kos posting privileges revoked.

This guy is just looking to avoid the show trials by preemptively confessing. He’ll have his struggle session before the purge, and so be in better position to profit once the thought criminals and wreckers are sent down to the countryside for reeducation.
- Severian | 06/13/2012 @ 08:38
When Obama loses, much soul-searching will be in order on the left, and only two conclusions are possible: 1) there’s something wrong with the fundamentals of liberalism; or 2) we weren’t obnoxiously left-wing enough.

Actually, they’ll go with “3) we didn’t get our message out and delivered clearly enough.”

That’s what they went with after losing Congress in ’94 and the presidency in 2000, anyway. It’s not a possibility that the voters heard the message loud & clear and simply wanted no part of it; no, it had to be that the message wasn’t getting through.

You doubt me? Here’s a more recent example. In the wake of their drubbing in Wisconsin last week, they’re complaining about how they were “outspent” by the Republican machine – which is not only irrelevant, it isn’t even true. They refuse to admit that the election pitted public employee unions (inside AND outside of Wisconsin) on one side, and pretty much everyone else on the other.

“Outspent” = the message didn’t get out and/or was drowned-out by the noise from the other side.
- cylarz | 06/13/2012 @ 23:35
Yeah, I’d forgotten about that one. The people really do love them some socialism, fer realz — it’s just that the right wing noise machine / Republican smear tactics / Democrats being too nice / Koch Brothers / low information voters drowned out the message.
- Severian | 06/14/2012 @ 07:41
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- House of Eratosthenes | 06/15/2012 @ 05:35
I just found your site today. I really like it. I too was a Republican for many, many years. I switched to Libertarian in 2006. I dislike labels but the Liberatrian credo is closest to mine. Classical Liberalism is even closer, ala von Mises, Rothbard, et al. There is a lot to do and not enought time. Educating the young(er) people is the only way. Good luck.

On a side note, I am taking a shot at politics as a Libertarian and running for the legislature here in Kansas. One step in the right direction!
- rearden | 06/17/2012 @ 11:41

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