Subj : The manifesto To : mark lewis From : Lee Lofaso Date : Mon Sep 09 2019 01:54:59 Hello mark, >RF>>I am not familiar with USA laws there, but don't you need a >RF>>compelling reason for asylum to be granted after you ask for it? The >RF>>whole purpose of asylum is to offer protection to people > >at>The USA is so liberal > >do you even know what liberal is? Yes. >do you call everyone who is left of your personal views a liberal? Yes. >do you even realize that the entire US political spectrum is much further > right that it was in nixon's day? That is only true because Donald Trump's three rivals for the Republican nomination are no longer in office. The latest Gallup Poll results show the job approval among Republicans for Donald Trump at 88%. Richard Nixon's best showing was 84% (among Republicans). Not sure what job approval rating George McGovern had, but he was never a Republican or a president. >if nixon was alive today, he'd say that our entire political spectrum is > ultra-right... Donald Trump is to the right of Richard Nixon. Mike Pence is to the right of Donald Trump. Anybody to the right of Mike Pence is off the chart. >"you kids" really don't have a clue what is liberal or conservative... Richard Nixon was paranoid. But that never stopped him from playing "Give My Regards to Broadway" on piano at the Grand Ol' Opry. I'm just glad he never tried to sing it, unlike Margaret Truman. >you just like throwing terms around in some misguided attempt at stirring > controversy to get a laugh... Richard Nixon was the only president in history who has performed live at the Grand Ol' Opry. >do you even understand that: > a conservative democrat and a liberal republican are virtually the > same? > the only real difference is the blue "D" or red "R" they carry? > that those two views overlap in many ways? George Wallace said that. He was right then. But that was decades ago, and is no longer true today. What we have now is neo-cons and neo-libs. Both groups are right-wing, the only difference being neo-libs are slightly less authoritarian than neo-cons. >do you even understand that there's more than just "left" and "right" in > politics? Relative to what? That is the question. Otherwise, such labels are meaningless. >once again, i invite you and others to visit the political compass site and > take their test to see where you lay in the spectrum based on the questions > given... > > https://www.politicalcompass.org/ Did you take the test? I did. And the results showed I was certifiable. Not only that, but I was allowed to print it, and frame it, proving that I have been officially certified. >i've posted it before but no one has responded that they did visit the site, > that they took the test, nor has anyone even given a hint as to their > score... Okay. Time for Show & Tell. This document certifies that Mad Cajun inhabits the left libertarian quadrant of The Political Compass Sunday 8 September 2019 Economic Left/Right: -6.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.08 Your turn. >could the test be better? sure... This is only a test ... This is only a test ... This is only a test ... >there is no middle ground for those questions where someone may not know the > topic and don't care one way or the other about it... is the test accurate? > for what it endeavors to graph, sure... it works for what it is intended to > do... There are other tests of this type that can be found online. One such test had a very strong slant towards libertarianism. Not very accurate, but loads of fun to take. :) >i'm old enough to remember that virtually every pickup truck had a gun rack > in the back window... when people fought with their fists instead of > grabbing for a gun or knife... i'm old enough to remember carrying a > hunting rifle or shotgun to school so i could hunt small game on the way > home... i'm old enough to remember when helping others was a good thing... > i'm old enough to remember when "red" was a sign of communism... i'm old > enough to remember when the N-word applied to all races/colors/creeds and > meant liar, thief, con-man... I'm old enough to remember having to tutor Native Americans whose only means of transportation to get to and from school was on a boat. --Lee -- Every Bottom Needs A Top --- MesNews/1.08.05.00-gb * Origin: - nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland - (2:221/360) .