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The inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama drove the number of gun owners up.
This was especially good for the firearms and ammunition industry.

Any ones in particular?

Thanks to Messrs. Bush and Obama, sales of Atlas Shrugged are through the roof; more people are reading Ayn Rand than at any time since maybe the '60s.

Thanks, this made my day, but I still dislike her.

Conservatives have nice nostrils.

People who put sugar in tea aren't mongrels or scoundrels.

Nobody said anything about sincere.

I'd like to thank people who make references to Ayn Rand for immediately allowing me to determine that the approaching conversation will be too obnoxious to endure.

Its too bad that todays culture does not possess the intellectual capacity to understand Rand. Her best writing to me, was not even about America or really the things that are popularizing her works now. My favorite Rand novel, We The Living, is a love story.

The totalitarian commu-fascists have some snazzy outfits.

In more domestic terms:
- Liberals (up to a point) get civil rights
- Conservatives (up to a point) get economics
- Greens are usually morally outstanding individuals with commendable values, even if I disagree with how those values are to be executed.

Rush Limbaugh is living proof the fat can accomplish great things in life.

People with opposing views to me?

Well, people who think you should spent more than $20 a year on clothes tend to dress quite fashionably!

I agree. I think at least in theory conservatives get economics .

I must say that this thread has taken a slightly sarcastic turn. I was trying to put out an olive branch. Oh well. Maybe when the US collapse we can come together (as for the others, good points).

Greens: The seem to be liberals that do what they say and say what they mean.

Constitution: They seem more serious that most conservatives about being conservative.

In my best effort of being serious, and without targetting anybody specifically.

I think most people, have no evil at heart. They just try to do what they thought is best for the world around them align their political views to that. There are three big flaws in most political views.

1) We like to attribute positive human qualities to our own political views, while attaching negative ones to the opposing ones. (Capiltalists: "Commies are resented mediocre people out to get the rewards of those who work the hardest, capitalists are creative innovative people that are making the world a better place to live" Socialists "Capitalists are greedy and trample over their fellow people so they can get rich, socialists are nice people who like to share and work towards the collective good.") In the end I think the world has nice people and has a-holes, and the thing with a-holes is that they are pretty good at finding flaws in every system so that they can be a-holes to all people around them.

2) We like to think that our political views are backed up by something bigger: Religion, science, nature, whatever... Somehow as if we were meant to follow a specific political view because of some higher order around us, and since this higher order is in our favor, all of the others are wrong as a consequence. And believe, neither science, nature or religion are compatible with any sort of political view.

3) People with other political views are misinformed: Most of the time, they aren't. I've had a big shift in my political views recently because I got to see and experience a lot of stuff that made me reconsider my points. And I don't know If in the next few years that might happen again. The thing is we never get to see the world as a whole, we only see small bits of it and construct our global view on those bits. Then when we get to see it from another angle, it turns out things were very different. And I'm convinced we can't really see the whole picture because it is consantly changing. So the only change we've got is working toghether towards what we thing is right and never being affraid of being mistaken, because in the end odds are at least some part of our political views is wrong and if we don't listen seriously to people that oppose we'll never get to find out.

So let's all celebrate we got the chance to see and learn about different political viewpoints.

I own only one pair of pants that I have been wearing for 6 years now and olive colored tshirts that I have had the same time period This is my complete ensemble. Is there a place for me in this fashion parade?

My "spiritual" beliefs are my political beliefs, I believe if the opposition felt the same way we could eliminate wars in your lifetime but as long as the opposition spiritual belief and political beliefs ARE war, I see no way of reconciliation. between the two.