Let\u2019s face it: The Other Side is held hostage by a radical, failed ideology. I have been doing some research on the Internet, and I have learned this ideology was developed by a very obscure but nonetheless profoundly influential writer with a strange-sounding name who enjoyed brief celebrity several decades ago. If you look carefully, you can trace nearly all the Other Side\u2019s policies for the past half-century back to the writings of this one person.<\/p>\n
To be sure, the Other Side also has been influenced by its powerful supporters. These include a reclusive billionaire who has funded a number of organizations far outside the political mainstream; several politicians who have said outrageous things over the years; and an alarmingly large number of completely clueless ordinary Americans who are being used as tools and don\u2019t even know it.<\/p>\n
These people are really pathetic, too. The other day I saw a YouTube video in which My Side sent an investigator and a cameraman to a rally being held by the Other Side, where the investigator proceeded to ask some real zingers. It was hilarious! First off, the people at the rally wore T-shirts with all kinds of lame messages that they actually thought were really clever. Plus, many of the people who were interviewed were overweight, sweaty, flushed, and generally not very attractive. But what was really funny was how stupid they were. There is no way anyone could watch that video and not come away convinced the people on My Side are smarter, and that My Side is therefore right about everything.<\/p>\n
Besides, it\u2019s clear that the people on the Other Side are driven by mindless anger \u2013 unlike My Side, which is filled with passionate idealism and righteous indignation. That indignation, I hasten to add, is entirely justified. I have read several articles in publications that support My Side that expose what a truly dangerous group the Other Side is, and how thoroughly committed it is to imposing its radical, failed agenda on the rest of us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So give Your Side\u00a0power, because as soon as they are done doing the few things that are slightly more important than the good you seek, they are going to make all your dreams come true.\u00a0Really.\u00a0 This time for sure.\u00a0And stop asking why the obvious and supreme overriding Good you seek is perpetually less important than budget squabbles, or unjust wars, or forcing people to deny their conscience or tax cuts for rich people or the countless other things that always seem to get in the way of the elementary proposition that murdering innocent children is the great moral issue of our time\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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