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Conservatives these days......
What they are thinking?
They want to cut social spending, which is something they have always been about. I get that part. However, there has been something much more sinister going with the conservative "mind" over the course of the past forty years.
Today's conservative has a passion for militarism which rivals that of a teen sexual encounter at the senior prom, and their level of austerity is straight out of one of Charles Dickens' novels. Add religious faith to the mix and the only way one can tell whether they are reading about someone from the United States or someone from the Middle East is whether there is a cross or a cresent by their name.
It's really all about lying.
Remember when Donald Rumsfeld said that we knew were Saddam hid his alleged weapons of mass destruction?
Remember when George W. Bush said that Iraqi oil revenues were going to pay for the war?
Remember when Dick Nixon said that he sought peace with honour in Vietnam-and then he bombed Cambodia in 1970?
And then there is the conservative's level of fear. He seems to fear anyone and anything which is beyond his front door. The funny thing is that you are more likely to be raped in Middle America than you are in the sinful big city. Just ask the FBI, if you don't believe me.
Conservatives fear that Democrats are after their guns, but did they ever take your .22? No, they only went after the guns no one needs and few people are properly trained to operate safely-automatic rifles.
Conservatives fear anyone who isn't white.
Harold Ford, Jr. was railroaded in the 2006 campaign. Remember the dumb blonde chick at the end of one of the ads who said, "Call me!"?
Tom Bradley was winning the race for California governor back in 1982, and then suddenly....people changed their minds and went with the safe white choice.
And then there's the issue of the president and the rumours of his religious faith, despite the fact that he is a Christian.
While a conservatives always speak of responsibility, she is the first to assign blame-and the scapegoat is always the undocumented worker-never mind that she has had them in her home for nine years.
Why do sociopaths have conservative tendencies (Ted Bundy!)? Why do they live in fear when their Bible tells them not to and why have they no compassion for those lives which they wish to force into the world, only to cut money from the school lunch program at a later date?
According to Psychology Today, 88 samples in 12 countries showed that there are several variables for political conservatism.
Conservatives seem to fear death more than others. They hate any sign of system instability. They fear loss. Surprisingly, they have seem to have low self-esteem.
What researchers found most frightening about political conservatism was its resistance to change and its justification of inequality. They also found that conservatives are unable to deal with complexities and ambiguities.
To a conservative who didn’t comprehend the previous sentence, it means that you see things in black and white-and we’re not talking race, now. It’s like being in a Baskin-Robbins and having to decide whether you want Mommy to buy you chocolate ice cream or vanilla ice cream, but not both because you won’t eat it if the chocolate and vanilla mix together.
They also are unable to understand anyone who preaches hope instead of fear.
Look at how a conservative votes, he always votes for the one who tells him to be afraid and to vigilante. He almost never votes for the one who encourages him to look outside his door.
Now, why a conservative would fear death when they think they are going to live forever in Heaven with Jesus is beyond me, but facts are facts. Why would conservatives fear loss when they have lost more under Republican administrations than under Democratic administrations?
GM was the number one carmaker in the world when Bill Clinton was in the White House. It was under the next guy’s administration that Toyota became number one. Wages rose under Clinton and became stagnant after the next guy took over.
The high-paying jobs left America with the white guy, but they want to blame the black guy for their problems.
There you go-conservatism at its lowest.
To summarize, the conservative is someone who looks for a scapegoat while he chooses to live in fear. He withholds, but comes to poverty, as his Bible warned that he would, and he looks for a threat where none exists all the while dooming his own future because he chooses not to address the social needs of his children.
Were he not so cruel, I would say that the conservative should be pitied for his ignorance and intolerance. However, since he is cruel to those whom he disagrees with, I say he should be pointed and laughed at for the ignorance which he accepts as fact-all because he heard it from someone.
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