Frank Trollman

Frank Shannon · Post by **Frank Shannon** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:51 am

I've used a couple of quotes of yours for my blog. I'd use another but I'm not sure how to quickly navigate back there it was on about the 60th page of the politics megathread you were naming categories of conservatives.

Later.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:13 am

I like how an actor who died before I was born is writing a blog and quoting Frank Trollman.

Grek · Post by **Grek** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:30 am

Plug a snippet of the quote into google along with "Frank Trollman" and "site:www.tgdmb.com" tossed in to narrow it down to only posts on this forum by Frank.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:50 am

I suspect it was this post;

FrankTrollman wrote:That is a very good point. The Right is also a completely non-homogeneous group who believe all kinds of different things. The Republican Party Leadership presents a very unified face and exert a level of control on legislators so severe that they can get former POWs to retract condemnations of torture so as to present a more unified message. But the actual people who identify as Republicans do not share the same opinions, values, or goals.

When someone says that they consider themselves a conservative, or that they vote Republican in US elections, they are saying that they are one or more of an: Evangelical, Classical Liberal, Libertarian, Corporatist, Neocon, Militarist, Legalist, Aristocrat, Supply-Sider, Fundamentalist, Isolationist, Racist, or Objectivist. Or you know, one of the more obscure or controversial designations like Fascist (which should probably just be considered Militarist, Racist, Evangelical Corporatism anyway).

Nominally "Right Wing" identification of and solutions to problems usually rely on one or more of: Appeal to Tradition, Open Market Action, Use of Force, Fiscal Savings, Power Consolidation, or Intuitive Assertion. Right Wing justifications for a course of action are often composed of one or more of the following: Nationalism, Tradition, Religion, Danger, or Money.

Let's consider our most vocal conservatives: Tzor, Doom, and Psychic Robot. Tzor is a Religious Supply-Sider, Doom is a Classical Liberal Austrian, and Psychic Robot is an Isolationist Libertarian. Once you get away from conservative identity questions like "How bad is Hilary Clinton?" or "Should we punch hippies?" they agree on pretty close to nothing.

-Username17

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:52 am

I think that was it, yeah.

-Username17

Frank Shannon · Post by **Frank Shannon** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:48 pm

thanks