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why are liberals sucking hollywood dry


why is it that every movie has to be infused with liberal hate mongering speeches dispatching conservatives and former presidents bush and reagan? ohh wait, i know, cause liberals are overbearing confident they are right about everything, closeminded and rude.

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Just saw this post and I have a little anecdote which I think is very relevant regarding liberals supposedly thinking they are right about everything and close minded. I'm from the UK and spent my honeymoon in the US back in 2009. We travelled from Chicago down to Mississippi, so met a really broad range of people. It was right around the time Obama was trying to push the new Health Service legislation through so was a topic on a lot of peoples minds.

Now I wasn't especially in to US politics at the time but one thing really struck me. With 100% consistency, every Republican we met told us how bad the Health Service in the UK was like(that's right, the country we were from!). Whereas every Democrat asked us what it was like. And when I say every, I really do mean every - there must have been around twenty conversations split pretty evenly across Democrats and Republicans and it was the same every time without exception! Not people expressing their views on it's suitabilty to the US, but actually telling us how bad the NHS was in a country they had never visited and we had lived our whole lives in!

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Why are conservatives sucking America dry?

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Why don't you just stick with the Hallmark Channel. Then you won't have anything to get upset about.

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So go watch a conservative film. Its their film they can write what they want. The lead character worked for Clinton - duh

That's a word that hates women. Tim: What? "Twat"? Daisy: No, "jumpsuit."

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Its their film they can write what they want.
Exactly! It's part of the story that Will and (apolitical) April develop their relationship against the backdrop of the night of Clinton's win, not Bush's or Perot's loss.

By the end of the film disenchanted Will has well and truly left the political sphere. I thought the film was a rom-com, not a political drama.

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If you are still playing the partisan blame game then you are part of the problem. The whole damn system is illegitimate and corrupt. Not until you realize this fact will you be able to affect change in a positive direction.

There is no winning move in a rigged game. Do you want punched in the face by my left hand or my right hand? Either way you lose. That is voting for you.

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Excellent post. The punching analogy was perfect, as you said doesn't matter which hand they use you still are getting punched.

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Why do people like you insist on turning everything into a political battleground, even benign sources of fun and entertainment? Is it really asking too much for you to just watch a *beep* movie without spinning it into a political debate? This my friend is not behaviour becoming of a stable, rational individual.

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