arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 04:50 PM
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Would conservativism even exist without "enemies"?
It's my opinion that ultra-conservatives need some kind of "enemy" upon which to place all blame. Historically, that list has included communists, socialists, trade unions, liberals, gays, Jews, gypsies, American Indians, African Americans.... <deep breath> well, you name it.
Would - COULD - conservative "thought" even exist without an enemies list? Not on your life.
gmoney (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 04:52 PM
Response to Original message
1. Their enemies are change and progress
ck4829 (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 04:52 PM
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2. That's the basis for conservatism. Slowing progress towards equality for those "uppity minorities"
Edited on Tue Mar-30-10 04:52 PM by ck4829
Conservatism is about using political means to delay equality and progress.
laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 04:56 PM
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4. Even that is just a strawman by which they get the right leaning masses to vote against their own
self interests. Our side just sells different boogeymen to acheive the same goals. The goal is to keep funneling the money to the top and make sure no one who is not at the top can get any of it.
Um-m-m...which side keeps pushing inefficient centralized control schemes?
Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 04:53 PM
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3. No. Remove the need to hate & attack an 'enemy' & RW movements cease to be
Remove other people's money and the left has no source of political power.
Check this hypocritical jackhole's username:
ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 04:58 PM
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6. Wrong. They'll just invent an "enemy" to hate and attack. It's a psychosis. Read...
...John Dean's "Conservatives without Conscience."
AssWarrior: Because IMAX doesn't project big enough
Laura902 (242 posts) Tue Mar-30-10 04:58 PM
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5. They create their own enemies, their self-sustaining n/t
The thread filled up fast as they try to outdo each other in denouncing the hated haters.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x80521181) No one on our side complains about Jews, gypsies, Blacks or Indians.
You're just lying to make yourself look better.
2) Let's look at YOUR enemies list, reiterated daily on DU:
Patriarchy
Christians
Big Pharma
Big Tobacco
Big Oil
Big Auto
the Zionist Lobby
the Gun Lobby
Homeschoolers
Cops
the military
FOX News
talk radio
the internet
the "banksters"
corporations
SUVs
anyone who makes money in the US
anyone who makes money overseas
pro-lifers
welfare reformists
the insured
people with jobs
people with savings
people with investments
RePUKE-LICKIN's
conservative blacks
conservative women
Tea partiers
the "rich"
AGW skeptics
capitalism
Shall we go on?
