What Elvenlord said. There's so much irrational things coming out of those mouths that does not make sense. If they at least had the wits to backpedal and admit that isn't the truth or that they were mistaken in how it was, it would have been slightly better. But that is political suicide so they rather not.
The problem is that they don't keep their mouth shut after its been pointed out either. They don't care about how wrong it is. it gets them votes if they sell these falsities, so they sell them. And that is a very, very dangerous path to start walking down. The path of emotion and falsehoods, very closely related to religion. And pretty much what fascism, nazism and communism ran on back in the last century. Simple, insane answers that plays to our inner demons.
Whom YOU despise, you call foolish. Anyone on that level is not a fool despise the fact we may disagree with thier ideologies.
I admit I have very little faith in the fox-news/tea-party group of conservatives that have become the voice of the republican party. Despise is a strong word, fear is a better one. I fear they will bring destruction upon the world with simple but faulty solutions that ignore facts and embrace insanity. I don't really care what they do about abortion and gay marriage and whatnot. These things might be state intervention(hypocritical for republicans that one) but they are irrelevant for the global economy.
I fear their attitude to taxation; to supressing government; to ignoring the threat of corporations; and allowing the defence industry to suck larger and larger parts of the budget into (overpriced)weapons and (incompetently run with massive corruption)wars.
If they were
for at least one or two of them, the west might have a chance at maintaining its position in the world. But if nothing happens, those things will accumulate and the economy of the US and the west will wither under that imbalanced budget.
Not all conservatives are dumb, but most dumb people are conservative. People naturally believe in what has always been there, what they already know. That gives us a tendency to support the status quo against changes. But tradition is a bad source of legitimacy (which is the basic premise of conservatism). It takes an intellectual effort to see the problems in tradition and be progressive instead.
Indeed, tradition is a stupid place to look for modern day answers. The playing field is not the same today as it used to be a hundred or fifty years ago.
Edited by duke_Qa, 02 March 2012 - 07:08 PM.
