The right wingers are fundamentally stupid.
They talk shit but never back anything up with actual evidence.
They SAY socialism, and have no comprehension whatsoever of what socialism is...
They say the government can't do anything right or affordably, yet they are staunch defenders of the US military ( which is government run and controlled ) and they drink government purified and distributed water without a second thought to its safety, or cost.
They drive on the interstate highway system all the way to the National Parks and never see the irony that the government handles SO MANY THINGS, SO WELL that these dumb hicks never even NOTICE that its all PUBLICLY FUNDED.
They can not manage to wrap their imbecilic minds around the fact that, if government run programs were BAD for business, that Defense contractors would all be bankrupt.
They can't manage to comprehend that other nations spend LESS per capita on health care than we do and get LONGER healthier lives...
THE ONLY people who lose out on national health care are the INSURANCE companies... those assholes in the middle who have nothing whatsoever to do with providing you with care, but who add 34% to the cost of every fucking thing.
The private corporations that actually INVENT the medicine... they will still get paid...
There just won't be a whole group of skinflint fucks SPECULATING on whether you live or die.
Free Market economics is voodoo hogwash foisted by the wealthy to cover the theft of public monies.
ANYONE supporting Republican agendas is supporting the financial decimation of the middle class.
But conservatives are driven entirely by fear.
That is why all their positions have that edge of hysteria...
You have to have compassion for a group that stumbles so ignorantly and blindly thru life...
But we really should not allow them to vote...
or, really, speak in public.
From what I've witnessed, the more left wing people tend to provide evidence to support their claims, or at least do so in a calm manner (we have our share of idiots too though), and very few resort to dismissal by labelling.
Good thing I put in that escape clause. :smile:
Some things done by the Republican Party are genuinely good things, just as some things done by the Democratic Party are borderline retarded. The fact that we can pick and choose between both ideologies for each issue is one of the things that makes our country so adaptable and prosperous.
I have been fed up with Republican antics in recent times, but it isn't their ideology that fuels this. It's that lately the dumber Republicans have been the loud ones, and have been spouting total lies from political rumormongers as if they were truth. This kind of behavior is the reason why I didn't vote for McCain in the last election, despite his more impressive qualifications. Liberal ideology isn't at the heart of absolute government control by socialist rule, fear is.
During the entire campaign, I watched as the Republican Party terrorized the American public with lies and propaganda, polarizing the nation along party lines at a time when even they were saying that cooperation of all was necessary to persevere through the obstacles in our path. I watched as Republican tried to discredit Obama not through policy debate or their own qualifications, but because he was a gay shiite Muslim with terrorist connections who was not a US citizen, planned to institute Sharia law in the United States, and would open the US borders to invading terrorists after somehow repealing the Second Amendment in order to make sure we couldn't defend ourselves. I remember seeing the panic and fear this caused among otherwise rational adults, while most of those who were too young to vote had no problems googling a few sources to disprove all of the irrational claims. I personally knew many, including myself, who had gotten in fights with their parents or loved ones over the decision to vote for Obama, because of this fear.
Despite McCain's greater depth of experience, I couldn't bring myself to vote for someone whose conscience could allow him to perpetuate that kind of fear in our nation, particularly when the proposed solution involves them voting to give him additional power. I voted against him because I disapproved of the notion that Americans could be bullied into believing and going along with whatever the political machine wishes them to; quivering in fear and asking the government to protect them from the boogeyman.
For those unfamiliar with history, how was it that Mussolini and Hitler both took totalitarian control of their government? The people gave it to them. Both of them identified crises within their nation, drummed up fear in the general populace about the severity of these threats, postulated that they would be the savior of their respective countries, requested emergency absolute powers to deal with the problems, and voila! Instant dictator. Not saying that the US is going to be subject to dictatorial rule any time in the future, but the same elements of control through terror are present. Quite frankly, I'm getting tired at seeing the greatest nation in the world panicked like a scared little sheep due to political machinations.
