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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
If liberals are borg I guess the ferengi are conservatives?
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?The main problem is that the Democrats have effectively become the Liberal, Moderate and Conservative party. All at once.
As Fighteer said. The fact the Democrats are simultaneously all those camps is a sign of how pathetic American politics is. The British for example, must be wondering why our choices are effectively the Tories or the BNP.
Also, I do think Maxima is a Republican/Conservative. He's just one from a bygone era, the extinct "Rockefeller Republican" who, representative wise, have all been culled from the Republican Party.
I guess that means all the Democratic candidates since George Mc Govern pretty much count as conservatives. Kerry being the worst offender.
While every Republican since The '90s can be considered Romulans.
Then again I'm not really a Trekkie,I'm only going off what I've heard and trying t piece it together.
...Nah, the Borg are more leftist than liberal, and the Ferengi are more rightist than conservative.
The difference being that liberal and conservative deal with how one views change, and leftist and rightist deal with how one feels we should handle the economy. I mean, it's true that the majority of liberals are leftist and the majority of conservatives are rightist, but that's not a certainty. For example, Marxist Communism is a conservative version of leftist policies. It holds that leftist policies are good, but we should adopt them slowly, starting with a dictator to help us transition to democracy, rather than saying that we should just going to democracy.
Going off of that, the Borg are very leftist as they are basically communists and the Ferengi are very rightist as they are basically all capitalists in a society that believes in the free market. Both are liberal, though. The Borg assimilate different cultures into them, allowing them to change and adapt, while the Ferengi will do anything to make a profit, changing and adapting to fit the circumstances to help them do so.
Like I said Communists are The Borg.
Even Carter, Mondale and Dukakis?
edited 19th Nov '12 4:37:41 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Wait, so I'm really Buck Rogers In The25th Century??
This just keeps getting better ![]()
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Guess I'm just a center-left human. Eh, could be worse.
Personally, though, I'd rather be an Ork.
edited 19th Nov '12 4:38:54 PM by Ekuran
Upon further thought the ferengi are pacifists so I guess current republicans are more klingon then anything.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
Ah, you're an Enteprise-era Vulcan, pre-Syrranite revolution.
No, they'd have to have more honor. If Worf met Newt Gingrich, he'd rip his head off where he stood.
edited 19th Nov '12 4:43:59 PM by TheStarshipMaxima
It was an honorNo, this is on topic. What we're doing it making American Politics more accessible to our geeky minds by comparing the parties to things we have more familiarity with. We are using metaphors to clarify our discussion.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dickhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Republican
I'm just going to leave this. Most of this sounds like Maxima. The problem is most of these view points were discredited in the Republican Party when Nixon was found to be uh. Effectively nuttier than a fruit loop in terms of paranoia.

Wow, there's actually a movement to assimilate people into the Liberal Borg. God, I love TV Tropes OTC.
It was an honor