Nickolai wrote:
You got it bassakwards its the right that wants those things. Conservatism is one of the saddest conditions in the world. Conservatism sets its believers apart and against all "others." This means all of nature, and all people who are different, are to be feared, denigrated, conquered and exploited, rather than loved and protected. Meanwhile, conservatives are mired in perpetual defense of myths that are centuries, if not millennia, out of date and dangerously discordant with the revealed truths of the modern world. And so they are forever embattled, enjoined in a "culture war" they can never win, and that in fact they have been losing, little by little, or sometimes by sudden landslide, for hundreds of years. Conservatives know in their hearts they have lost control of a world that has passed them by. They are well aware of this slip-sliding away of their "traditional" culture, and so they recoil, react, hunker down, and double-down on their mythology, desperately searching for scriptural phrases and nationalistic demagoguery that justify their anger and fear, while totally ignoring the more fundamental precepts of both Christianity and Americanism that would lead them out of the wilderness of selfishness. Meanwhile, most of the progress that they have fought so hard to prevent actually benefits them and their children and grand-children.
You got it bassakwards its the right that wants th... (
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Boy, you can lie like a Turkish rug. That is one hell of a tall tale, bubba.