WHY A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY

A fellow named Bob Livingston, an ex legislator from Louisiana, is the founder and publisher of, Personal Liberty Digest, a publication of little merit. He has amassed a coterie of radical right wing contributing authors I read for the same reason I listen to Joe Scarborough week day Mornings. The Personal Liberty Digest authors are as crude in what they say, as Joe is smooth in what he says. Clearly, they are my political opposition but by paying attention to them, I feel I have my finger on the pulse of what is all that remains of the Republican Party. Joe claims to be a small government conservative and making this claim is rational, however, he does not miss a change to belittle Obama. Livingston’s authors, on the other hand, are consistently as raucous and outrageous as Glenn Beck is, jumping from out right lying to making ridiculously outrageous charges with little in between. Both have the same objective, or should I say non-objective, which is essentially to destroy our capitalist-social government, as it is now, and replace it with laissez-faire capitalism, a government that does nothing for the people (Joe) to completely destroying any form of government and never defining how they would replace it, which could only be anarchy.          

Like the hordes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh listeners, I often wonder what the people who read Bob Livingston actually think—to figure out where they are coming from. I consider those who listen to Joe Scarborough rational to a point; they cannot have all the government social programs they say they want unless they pay for them but they become a bit irrational when they say they hate the national debt then declare they do not want to pay taxes as if they do not see a connection. The Bob Livingston readers were a complete mystery. Recently, I started to comment on some of the articles written in Personal Liberty Digest never expecting a response; actually, I thought they might refrain from publishing my comment. That did not happen; they published them and I did receive an occasional comment. The comments were enlightening in a “Oh my God” way. Here is an example of a response as it was written without corrections:

       

“people it time to get rid of the democrats they are trying to take away our freedon on ever thing that our forfather fought for come novenber let us show them that the people is still in charge so let vote them out”

I responded, as follows with typos and all, by asking the responder’s author, a woman from Kentucky, to name one freedom the Democrats have taken away from her.

“Name one thing we are trying to get rid of our fore fathers fsaught for.”

Her response, again as written;

“they fought for our freedom from england did you study your histor lesson if not find you a histor book and start studing it and find out you might be supprise”

My response was as follows, which is still waiting for an answer:

“Are you saying we do not have freedom form England? Read Seeds of Albion (see internet), you might learn something. The forefathers gave the vote to individuals and not corporation. I am still waiting for you to name one thing . . .just one thing.”

Although I made a mistake in the book title, I was referring to the book, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History) [David Hackett Fischer, which is available on Amazon.com, I do not expect an answer.

Clearly, from this exchange, some of the people who read the Personal Liberty Digest and or listen to right wing talk radio live in an isolated world of their own making, a surreal world where reality has no place. This woman’s world seems to be bizarre where she thinks history would be surprise me when what really surprises me is her wacky understanding of history. I investigated her on the internet and found similar post some dealing with her love of God but mostly dealing with her hate for Obama but could not find one reason why she harbors such deep felt hate. The only reasonable conclusion seems she has this hate because Bob Livingston, a well-educated and one-time elected representative to congress, and his authors tell her what she should have in her heart. Of course, this leaves the question of why are they telling her that. I can only guess that without people like her Joe Scarborough type Republicans would be in a minority, exactly where I think they should be  

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