OMG, the idiocy here is off the charts!
"History tells us that unchecked power will destroy those without the means to defend themselves. The weak become convenient political scapegoats against the horrific self-serving policies of a corrupt ruling class."
Liberals are the ones who want to give the federal government more and more unchecked power, not conservatives. It's why Communism/ Socialism (The political system most DUmmies seem to really want, whether they realize it or not) has led to horrific, nightmarish dictatorships wherever it's implemented.
" Conservatives are unable to challenge the absurd notion of their own superiority (an ironic weakness, for sure)."
The irony of this DUmmy saying this in a thread all about how liberals are supposedly intellectually and morally superior to conservatives is staggering.
" We have to solve the problems of global warming by drilling for more oil."
Nobody has ever said that. We believe in responsibly drilling for more oil (i.e. doing so in ways that will not be much of an impact on local ecosystems, and conform to proper safety regulations to protect both the local ecosystems and the lives of workers) on the basis that doing so will lead to greater energy independence for us and promote economic growth and the creation of more jobs.
"We have to torture people until we have peace."
We engage in enhanced interrogation of known terrorist suspects, in ways which are FAR more humane and merciful than what our nation's enemies do, and our methods are often more psychological than physical in nature (i.e. playing loud music, properly- performed waterboarding). Doing so has provided us with information that has led to finding and taking out Osama bin Laden and various other dangerous terrorist leaders, and thwarting several terrorist plots that could have been potentially devastating (i.e. a plot to bomb the Brooklyn Bridge, a plot to engage in a 9/11- esque airplane attack directed at California).
"We have to cut taxes on the wealthy to increase wages for the poor. "
Wrong again. We believe that putting ever- increasing tax hikes on the wealthy will cause the poor who work for them to be the ones who end up suffering most (i.e. leading to the wealthy employers having to cut hours, wages, and ultimately jobs in order to keep things in the black).
"We have to eliminate safe and legal abortion to protect women's health."
Don't you ever get tired of being wrong? Very few if any political leaders believe in abolishing abortion. However, many believe that it is wrong for employers to be forced to bankroll their employees's abortions via their healthcare plans if doing so would be in violation of the employers' personal beliefs. Also, the reason for our stance isn't "Women's health"; It's due to our belief in the sanctity of life, and ensuring that employers' religious beliefs and stances are respected.
"We have to spy on your family to protect them. "
Blame Obama and the NSA for such practices, not to mention how much Obama delights in spreading paranoia among Americans and deliberately turning American citizens against each other along political, economic, social, racial, and religious lines.
"We have to outsource millions of jobs to Asia so that the money saved can create jobs in the US."
Libs like you would prefer that all those jobs go to illegal immigrants. That's not much better.
"The free market should determine who should be allowed regular access to health care."
Libs like you believe the free market should be abolished.
"We have to cut pay and benefits of teachers in the most impoverished school districts to ensure student test scores match those districts with the wealthiest families. And India."
Libs like you believe that mediocre (At best) teachers should be rewarded for not teaching their students anything useful (i.e. caring more about teaching them sex ed and "Self-esteem" than teaching them to read or do basic math) and for letting their schools turn into war zones. Look at Chicago: Their teachers are among the best paid in the country, even as their public schools are among the worst in the country in every sense (i.e. only a very small percentage of Chicago's 4th graders are able to read at a 4th grade level). And yet, their parasitic and incompetent teacher's unions STILL threw protests and temper tantrums over wanting to have even more taxpayer money thrown at them with zero accountability. You also believe student testing is racist and should be abolished.
"We have to slaughter thousands of innocent people with drones and bombs because there may be a terrorist among them."
You libs believe that nothing should be done to stop Islamic terrorists. Then, when they inevitably slaughter American citizens in their terrorist attacks on our soil, you initially claim that it's the work of imaginary right- wing redneck terrorists (Seriously, whenever a terrorist attack happens on American soil, that's literally the first conclusion the DUmmies come to, regardless of evidence). Then when it turns out that they were indeed Muslim extremists, you blame America for it, put the terrorists on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine looking like rock stars, and portray them as heroes just standing up to evil racist America.
As for wanting to "Destroy the unfit," let's look at how the Left treats the disabled:
Obama makes jokes about the Special Olympics on national television.
Showbiz liberals like Seth MacFarlane make heartless "Retards are funny, let's laugh at them" jokes in their "Comedy" movies and TV shows. Then, when special- needs advocacy groups complain about such repulsive, bigoted portrayals, the standard response from the showbiz leftists is "You're just a bunch of prudes with no sense of humor, and you're too stupid to understand our brilliant jokes!"
All through the Bush administration, liberals like you DUmmies made jokes implying that he was/ is retarded.
In the 2004 election, liberals circulated a pamphlet saying "Voting for Bush is like running in the Special Olympics: Even if you win, you're still a retard," with a picture of Bush's head superimposed on the body of a Special Olympics runner.
As others have noted, the left's treatment of Trig Palin was/ is flat- out inhuman. They did everything from more mean- spirited "Ha- ha, he's a retard" jokes, to openly yelling at and criticizing Sarah Palin for not having him aborted as soon as she learned he was going to be different.
Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, a woman openly admired and fawned over by the Left, was a major racist and eugenicist who viewed abortion as a priceless way of getting rid of the "Unfit."
