Conservatism is 100% FEAR based.

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FarLeftFist (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon May-09-11 01:16 AM
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Conservatism is 100% FEAR based.   Updated at 1:16 AM
   
-Ignorance is Bliss: FEAR, never hope.

Conservatism is 100% FEAR based. Conservatives live by the saying "out of sight out of mind". They don't want to know about the problems in the world, they don't want to know that cutting peoples benefits or pensions may literally lead to death, homelessness, children and families going to sleep hungry without a nutritious meal, etc. They don't want to believe that mere mortals like us could actually reap devastation on something as huge (and flat) as the Earth, they don't want to hear about how broken our healthcare system is, ("best in the world!" uh, no, try 37th) that 50,000 anonymous people die every year JUST because they put profits over humanity and, "oh well, thats how the capitalist system works in America, life isn't fair, what are you a socialist?!" They don't want to know what happens to the babies they force the mothers to keep even though they may be homeless, they don't give a **** about THAT baby, because if they did they wouldn't spend every waking hour trying to pass legislation that will give that child the hardest ****ing life imaginable, they don't want to hear shit about the family whose unemployment benefits get taken away ("oops, a foreclosure? probably just a slacker, not the banks fault"), or what happens financially to people with pre-existing conditions. They don't care about the repercussions throughout society that their fascist legislation leads to. They don't care about its ripple effects. Because in reality, republicans/conservatives don't really want a smaller Govt, they just want a smaller population...For "pro-life" republicans, human life is cheap.

-Appropriately, United We Stand, Divided We Fall.

All these assaults by the GOP republiCons are assaults on the working people. The middle class people. The working poor. And the most vulnerable amongst us in society. They have become so transparent in their effort to **** over our citizens that I seriously believe the only people that still vote republican are 1-The top 2% and 2-Everyone else who has not yet taken the next ****ing evolutionary step in the new Enlightenment that is occurring in our society at this present time. They remain blind and ignorant. Everything about conservatism leads back to FEAR, from fear of other religions/nationalities, to fear of an invisible man in the sky, to fear of change and progression, to fear of the Govt, to fear of not being raptured, to a fear of knowledge and education, fear of facts, to fear of climate change, to fear of workers rights cutting into their profits ("Strike?! You're all FIRED!, NO you can't have a raise to match cost of living!") to just the basic fear of genuinely confronting challenges and having to use rational thinking for problem solving. FEAR FEAR FEAR! NEVER hope. No matter what they do as citizens or try to legislate as politicians, everything they do is based on one common principle: FEAR. And they sell it real cheap to their mindless drones and the weak minded/gullible amongst us. Conservatism uses FEAR to prey on our citizens. They are the Anti-Hope. They are the Swamp of Sadness in the Never Ending Story, just slowly devouring peoples hopes of a better future and replacing it with misguided outrage. They hypocritically run for GOVT. OFFICE while telling their audience "We musn't let Govt get TOO big", they instill deficit fear into the hearts of their voters while waging trillion dollar wars on every continent, giving tax breaks to people who never saw a recession in their lives, then when the money runs out they raid YOUR ****ing bank accounts while trying to lock us down in a police state, because "we love America and we're trying to protect your safety, so don't mind if we videotape you on every corner while tapping your phone calls and internet connection, what free speech?!!!" etc bullshit nonsense, you guys know what I'm talking about. They're just plain evil, we are a society built on the collective and they live in a "**** you I'm out for myself" society.

-That awkward moment in time if Homo Sapiens lived amongst Neanderthals.

You can't even argue with these people, they live in an alternate ****ing universe where the only rule is: There are no rules. Confirmation bias is their best friend and they don't care if you pull up 10 terabytes of factual information they will still not believe a word you say, because, did I mention, they fear Liberals also. So as long as a Liberal is the one debunking their amateur lightweight ass they will not listen to a word you have to say. They will continuously keep making a sharp right turn into the looney bin, spouting off lies and distortions like a malfunctioning automated robot. If Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh aren't grounding up the chop meat, and FOX news isn't forcibly inserting it down their throats 24 hours a day 7 days a week, then it doesn't exist. Logic, facts, and reasoning have no place inside their hearts. And thats why they love George Bush so much, because Bush was never seen, Bush never came on TV to address the issues America REALLY faced, NO, Bush would emerge from his dungeon once every 6 months and just mumble something about "evil-doers, fear, alert level orange, blah blah, blah" and then re-enter his dungeon where no one knew what the **** he was doing or was up to. (I'm pretty sure he spent most days not even changing out of his pajamas and drinking Jim Beam). It was either that or he was clearing brush while on vacation or embarrassing the US while visiting some foreign country. This guy LITERALLY spent more time at his own home than his job at the WhiteHouse. And thats what it really all comes down to, these conservatives today are just the same idiots who never gave a shit about America before because they never KNEW shit about America before. They never heard about the problems America faced because America didn't have a voice for the entire last decade. When we did have a voice we would accused of being un-patriotic or blinded by our ideology, any hint of being against Bush's wars, policies, etc. led to being called "America-hatin' communists!". All these people give a shit about when it came time to vote is based on one thing: FEAR. Which candidate is white, christian, republican, "pro-life", pro-gun, war monger.......WHY???.....
Because they're afraid of anything or anyone else, of course. FEAR. ("out of sight out of mind, if I don't hear about it or know about it then it doesn't exist, not in my America is their starving children, poverty and gun crime!") ("Oh, I don't pay attention to the "Lib'rul" media") Yes, double quotes.

-There are millions of more examples, and I could write endlessly on this subject, but....

Let me just say, I am actually embarrassed to call them my fellow countrymen. They are why we are viewed the way we are by many other countries, no matter how many cures we find or technological breakthroughs we make, all it takes is one George Bush, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh to land us right back at square one in the eyes of the world. The one thing they fear the most? TRUTH. Like I said, sometimes I feel like we have taken one giant mental evolutionary step and we're just waiting for the rest to catch up. We strive for truth and progress while they settle for blind faith and fear. That being said, if I saw one of them get hit by a car or injured while in my presence I would still rush over to them and try to save their life, I would even rip the shirt off my back and use it as a tourniquet for their gaping wound. Thats why we're better than them.....We choose hope over fear, every time.

It all makes sense. Conservatism is fear, paranoia, and mis-guided hatred. They've LITERALLY privatized hate, and some of them are LITERALLY making a killing off of it...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1067426

What a total load of crap.
First of all if you want to talk about fearful people, it is those on the left. They fear their own shadows and need govt to hold their hands through everything. They need govt to protect them from themselves. They need govt to provide their every need and want. They fear being responsible for themselves, they fear hard work, they fear people who have a different opinion, they fear that any day global warming will kill them off.

TransitJohn (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon May-09-11 01:18 AM
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1. Conservatism is a social pathology
   
motivated by hate, fear, and greed.

Sounds more like liberalism, liberals hate anyone who they disagree with, they fear everything in life, they see someone who has money and think that person owes them something.

ErikJ (122 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon May-09-11 01:50 AM
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9. 50% pure HATE
   
I find it interesting how the RW propagandists zero in on someone on the left to demonize their name so that every time their listeners hear it they start foaming at the mouth. Obama is the best example of course. They just relentlessly pound on his name day and nite
every little thing he does or says. So just say Obama to a RWinger and their blood pressure rises 50 points. Pelosi, Reed, Soros, Gore......... the same thing.

If you want to see someone go into a tizzy, just mention Bush, Rove, Cheney, Limbaugh, or Palin to a DUmmy.

[MrsSmith]

Why Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals
By Dennis Prager

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/23/why_conservatives_are_happier_than_liberals_108033.html

According to polls -- Pew Research Center, the National Science Foundation -- and studies such as Professor Arthur Brooks' Gross National Happiness, conservative Americans are happier than liberal Americans.

It's because we're afraid of everything.  Right.  

For one thing, conservatives on the same socioeconomic level as liberals give more charity and volunteer more time than do liberals. And as regards the suffering of non-Americans, for at least a half-century, conservatives have been far more willing to sacrifice American treasure and American blood (often their own) for other nations' liberty.

Because we hate everyone!!!!!   

[JohnnyReb]

Oh my....I'm shaking in my boots...........

[Thor]

I guess that Conservatives are to become the modern slaves ?? We work, pay taxes, all so some deadbeat can sit on their ass and collect SSDI, welfare or some sort of other government handout. (And let's not get into the SSDI issue as I know of quite a few people that would qualify for it but refuse to apply for it. I'm one of them!!)

[JohnnyReb]

I guess that Conservatives are to become the modern slaves ?? We work, pay taxes, all so some deadbeat can sit on their ass and collect SSDI, welfare or some sort of other government handout. (And let's not get into the SSDI issue as I know of quite a few people that would qualify for it but refuse to apply for it. I'm one of them!!)

...and I know a bunch that are on it but shouldn't be. I'm sure we all know a few of those.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

We have all the guns, money and power; why should we be scared?   

[MrsSmith]

...and I know a bunch that are on it but shouldn't be. I'm sure we all know a few of those.

Especially the ones that eat themselves onto it.      Our government spends millions of dollars to reduce obesity, yet subsidizes it with SSDI.   

[DumbAss Tanker]

Fear-based?  Just because we have a power you Libs seem to lack, to look ahead and at least dimly make out that there may be bad consequences to your birdbrained (for MSB) or hare-brained (For Ptarmy) schemes?  Bullshit.

Liberalism, as practiced by the grazing flock rather than than their cynically-manipulative political shepherds, really is entirely based on feeling without thinking, though. 

[jukin]

Yet, the left will ban and censor any speech that dares to provide another viewpoint to the ideology of regressivism.

So who is scared?

[delilahmused]

The sweetest thing about their delusions is their collapse into depression, anger, and disbelief when they're shattered by reality. The entire country now knows who the selfish, petty, mean-spirited control freaks are and who believes in freedom. To these people freedom means unlimited abortion, gay marriage while squelching free speech that keeps their little pets from getting their feelings hurt.

I hope the day comes when their voters realize that extending those decades long promises to blacks, gays, women, etc. would spell the doom of the democrat party because they'd no longer be needed. Throw their little puppies a bone once in a while and create a boogeyman out of the opposite party and they can continue to rule their little factions.

For people who think they're the smartest people in the room they seem unable to grasp that just a few short years ago when their overlords controlled both the White House and the congress they could easily have legalized gay marriage, instituted higher taxes on the rich and single-payer, given every minority and illegal immigrant a free college education, passed card check, and created a Canadian style offensive speech law. Regardless of how vocal the country was the left held the power. And yet, they didn't do any of the things they've promised. And they still blamed the right and their idiot minions believe that somehow a party that didn't have enough votes to stop a paper cut, who weren't even allowed into any legislative meetings managed to keep the left from finally achieving their government wet dreams.

Cindie

[Karin]

then when the money runs out they raid YOUR ****ing bank accounts while trying to lock us down in a police state

  What in the world is he going on about?  Sounds like it was written from a prison cell. 

[jukin]

  What in the world is he going on about?  Sounds like it was written from a prison cell. 

More likely a padded room.

[Mr Mannn]

There is a brilliant Japanese warlord who wrote a book, The Art of War. (can't remember the name.)
anyhow this guy is required reading by every military academy in the world.

one of the basic rules is: know and understand your enemy. You can counter the moves of an enemy you know well.

DU constantly demonizes any opposition to the point of being unrecognizable. This OP is not unusual, its typical of primitives to write like this. Its utter projection, but they repeat the lie so often, they believe it now.
--and they are surprised when they lose.

[MrsSmith]

The sweetest thing about their delusions is their collapse into depression, anger, and disbelief when they're shattered by reality. The entire country now knows who the selfish, petty, mean-spirited control freaks are and who believes in freedom. To these people freedom means unlimited abortion, gay marriage while squelching free speech that keeps their little pets from getting their feelings hurt.

I hope the day comes when their voters realize that extending those decades long promises to blacks, gays, women, etc. would spell the doom of the democrat party because they'd no longer be needed. Throw their little puppies a bone once in a while and create a boogeyman out of the opposite party and they can continue to rule their little factions.

For people who think they're the smartest people in the room they seem unable to grasp that just a few short years ago when their overlords controlled both the White House and the congress they could easily have legalized gay marriage, instituted higher taxes on the rich and single-payer, given every minority and illegal immigrant a free college education, passed card check, and created a Canadian style offensive speech law. Regardless of how vocal the country was the left held the power. And yet, they didn't do any of the things they've promised. And they still blamed the right and their idiot minions believe that somehow a party that didn't have enough votes to stop a paper cut, who weren't even allowed into any legislative meetings managed to keep the left from finally achieving their government wet dreams.

Cindie

Well, of course.  They have to dole out the bribery a little at a time.  If they gave it all out at one time, they'd lose all that political ammo.  

[DumbAss Tanker]

The sweetest thing about their delusions is their collapse into depression, anger, and disbelief when they're shattered by reality.

How right you are.  Those delicious moments just don't happen as often as I'd like, unfortunately.

[dandi]

That's hilarious. The DUmbass claims conservatism is fear-based, then proceeds to list every bullshit fear liberals have in their mythology - Grandma kicked out of the nursing home, entitlements destroyed, mass starvation, Fascism, Earth destroyed, etc., etc. Liberals practically invented fear and paranoia.

[MASHLover]

There is a brilliant Japanese warlord who wrote a book, The Art of War. (can't remember the name.)
anyhow this guy is required reading by every military academy in the world.

one of the basic rules is: know and understand your enemy. You can counter the moves of an enemy you know well.

DU constantly demonizes any opposition to the point of being unrecognizable. This OP is not unusual, its typical of primitives to write like this. Its utter projection, but they repeat the lie so often, they believe it now.
--and they are surprised when they lose.

It was actually a Chinese man I THINK, name was Sun Tzu and the book is called "Art of War"

[movie buff]

Oh, this is absolutely hysterical!
Liberals are based entirely around fear. Examples:
1. Fear of global warming killing us all unless everyone buries their car, becomes vegan, and goes back to living like the Flintstones.
2. Fear of conservative Americans.
3. Fear of Christians.
4. Fear of George W. Bush (During the Bush administration, I recall a hilarious Rolling Stone article in which the typical ultra- liberal columnist claims that he felt okay criticizing the president when it was Clinton, but that under Bush, everyone's afraid to criticize him out of fear of being put in prison, never mind the fact that not a single person has been put in prison for criticizing Bush) and countless other conservative politicians.
5. Fear of conservative political pundits like Limbaugh, Beck, and O' Reilly exercising their 1st Amendment Rights, hence the push by liberals to silence them through seeking to bring back the Fairness Doctrine.
6. Fear of Sarah Palin, because she is a conservative Christian woman (Notice how libs typically reserve their worst venom for outspoken conservatives who are women and/ or minorities).
7. Fear of the Tea Party movement (Apparently, dissent is no longer patriotic).
8. Fear of wealthy Americans.
Shall I go on?