Insanity
by DarkSyde
Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:10:44 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/Can someone tell me what it is conservatives are so afraid will happen if Obama wins? They sure sound angry and terrified about the prospect, but why?
It can't be that they're afraid women will be suddenly awarded the right of reproductive choice; women already have it and the GOP did nothing to change that when given the chance of a lifetime. Fuel prices have tripled under the Republican reign, they seem fine with it, and so we have to assume that that worry is not a factor in the conservative calculus. Nor can they be legitimately concerned that democrats will vastly increase federal spending, or enact horrendously expensive new entitlement programs supported by taxes socializing healthcare costs and bar the government from benefiting from the cost saving magic of the free market. Nope, those horses have all fled the barn, no use closing the door now.
Maybe they're worried democrats will be vacationing, sound asleep at the switch, while the intel community frantically tries to warn them of a vast, pending terrorist attack that could kill thousands of innocent Americans. Some might even be concerned that democrats will exploit such a tragedy for personal political gain and still fail to capture or kill the criminal masterminds that planned it. Others might speculate Obama will respond by foolishly attacking the wrong nation on a false premise and get us embroiled in a trillion dollar bloody boondoggle that wrecks out military readiness, destroys our international credibility, and gets thousands of US soldiers and untold hundreds of thousands of innocent bystanders killed or maimed for life. Worst case scenario: after all that misery and money, weak willed democrats will roll over and hand a date for US failure to the insurgents in Iraq.
Then again, maybe conservatives are thinking closer to home. What if progressive economic policies wrecked the economy, rocked Wall Street, caused hundreds of thousands of people to lose their homes and jobs, and turned over our national economic future to the tender mercies of fundamentalist Sunni Monarchs and the communist Chinese? Or expand government intrusiveness making toilet paper out of the US Constitution? Maybe, in their darkest fears, they're afraid democrats would foolishly go on vacation and ignore their responsibilities while a massive hurricane lumbers into the US coast at a slow jog and sinks a major American city.
At least one source of conservative anxiety is imminently plausible: Democrats might rescind tax breaks for companies that ship American jobs overseas, divert corporate welfare from insanely profitable corporations to uninsured or sick children, raise taxes on billionaires and oil companies, and create a more equitable healthcare system. That such possibilities strike fear into the corrupt soul of conservatism says a lot more about their decedent priorities than the middle class values of their opponents.
I guess that's what confuses a lot of voters: Conservatives are worried that Democrats might do the same astonishingly lousy job Republicans have done for the last eight years. To avoid even the possibility that that might happen, conservatives prescribe electing more members from the same crew who wrecked the country, in what is clearly to any lucid external observer the ridiculous and desperate hope that the same party will fix it all by continuing, uninterrupted, the same policies that produced the damage in the first place. In the alternate reality fabricated by the seamlessly integrated conservative PR apparatus, this extension of the failed status quo is called change, in the rest of the world it's one of the better known definitions of insanity
They're so invested in the status quo (16+ / 0-)
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that they perceive any changes therein to be threatening.
"Cornyn has voted with Bush 98% of the time...I don't agree with my wife 98% of the time!" - Rick Noriega
by ScottyUrb on Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:12:16 PM PDT
They are invested in the Republican Party (12+ / 0-)
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**** "Country First." For them, it's "Republicans First." They will tolerate anything as long as it's done by a Republican. Out of control spending? It's okay if done by Republicans. Teen pregnancy? It's okay if it's done by Republicans. Invasion of privacy? It's okay if done by Republicans.
There is nothing coherent about Republicans. They are a nativistic tribe that only trust their own.
Cindy McCain: "This Is A Time When We Take Off Our Republican Hats and Put on Our American Hats" (I guess they admit they're mutually exclusive)
by John Campanelli on Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:16:07 PM PDT
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but what makes it ok.......greed? self-interest? (1+ / 0-)
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it certainly isn't compassion or empathy. I know we consistently see the republican party as lacking these virtues but it's difficult for me to understand how individuals can be so heartless in their views. The ultimate in individualistic thinking I guess.
OBAMA/BIDEN '08
by juslikagrzly on Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:20:00 PM PDT
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wingnut ego is my guess, they refuse to 'see' the (0+ / 0-)
facts
by pickandshovel on Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:21:51 PM PDT
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These are Republicans (0+ / 0-)
What have you observed in them that makes this conclusion at all hard to believe?
I can't expect to live in a democracy if I'm not prepared to do the work of being a citizen.
by Dallasdoc on Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:22:19 PM PDT
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Yep, they're afraid of losing power (2+ / 0-)
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They like using the Federal government as a giant piggy bank handy for robbing whenever they like. They like writing the rules of the game for their own benefit. They like the fact that holding power allows them to ignore their differences while piling up the advantages of power.
Walt's right below, too. Among the power brokers, I'm sure there's a deep fear that an unknown number of them might wind up in the cell Bob Ney just vacated. Being bunkmates with Jack Abramoff might not be as alluring as golfing with him at St. Andrews.
I can't expect to live in a democracy if I'm not prepared to do the work of being a citizen.
by Dallasdoc on Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:21:34 PM PDT
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I just check out mediamatters and (0+ / 0-)
they have a story about how McCain is attacking the media. My point is: If the media really wants to get back at McCain, they should stop airing McCain and Palin speeches.
by christine20 on Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:22:26 PM PDT
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Nah, what they REALLY fear is the investigations (12+ / 0-)
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They know their asses are collecively grass once real justice is brought to this nation.
Mrs. Palin needs to be reminded that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.
by Walt starr on Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:16:34 PM PDT
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as my late mother used to call them (6+ / 0-)
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Old Fuddy Duddies...Afraid of Change..Afraid of their own Shadow..Cowards..who hide when confronted and believe their own lies.
I miss Mom.
She was so looking forward to this election.
She also said..
They are held hostage by Fear. Fear cripples them from moving forward.
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by wishingwell on Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:18:54 PM PDT
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And some use fear to hold this nation hostage (4+ / 0-)
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"Cornyn has voted with Bush 98% of the time...I don't agree with my wife 98% of the time!" - Rick Noriega
by ScottyUrb on Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:19:39 PM PDT
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Many are invested in the End of Days (0+ / 0-)
and Armageddon
It seems the Christian Right loves the apocalypse
and McSame following Bush might just bring it.
Republicans 2 things to offer What to FEAR and Who to BLAME
by aurabass on Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:20:37 PM PDT
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What are they scared of? (13+ / 0-)
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Reparations.
I'm not kidding.
Bruce is still God, but Michael Phelps is moving up the rankings.
by ChurchofBruce on Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 06:12:38 PM PDT
