insight into the conservative mind?

[gospelized]

tonight my girlfriend and i went to dinner; and as we were waiting to be seated, someone accidently knocked over a stack of boxes.

everyone in the area rushed to help him pick them up, except for one man standing near us, who just stood there and watched blankly. i thought it was kind of assholeish.

after we were seated, a few minutes later that guy's party was seated right next to us. well, he proceeded to practically preach middle eastern genocide to the 2 others with him; and went on and on about volunteering for */cheney.

i thought the box incident was pretty telling of the kind of people we're dealing with. just bad people by nature.

i made a pledge to my gf to not discuss politics over dinner, because she's not nearly as interested as i am, and i get way too into it. otherwise i would've played devils advocate and started declaring loudly that palestine needs more israeli land.

[DemBones DemBones]

1. Looking into the conservative "mind" is, all too often,

like gazing into a septic tank.

[jhain]

2. there's an oxymoron there somewhere...

[TahitiNut]

6. Or an oxymoran, maybe.

:silly:

[FDRrocks]

3. "Conservatism", as it relates to Republicanism, is all about selfishness

What constantly pisses me off about these people is that they keep preaching against "Big Government."

"Big Government," to them, is all about taxes, and monetary issues.

"Big Government," to me, is having the Patriot Act. It is knowing that the 5-09 can bust down my door and torture me without trial... for whatever reason they want. What we have is the begginings of a police state. The government taxes me, and I don't like it. That is only because I would rather my taxes go towards education and national healthcare, among other things.

Fuck these kinds of Republicans, they are just seeking justification for self-worship.

[Philostopher]

5. Indirectly, I think we (as a culture)

have Ayn Rand and her followers to thank for that. She preached a completely egotistical, selfish way of thinking not only as acceptable but as superior. She's not the only one, of course -- anybody with the ability to rub two brain cells together, or a noun and a verb together for that matter, could have written pandering bullshit that would make people who already had a conservative bent happy. Tell them that it's okay to blame the victim, to be greedy and self-serving, to pound anybody who's different from you simply because they're different, to march in lockstep with others because you don't have the imagination to plan your own life is, again, not only acceptable but superior. Coat it all in a hard candy shell of evangelical Christianity (a more modern addition -- Rand was an atheist), and you have the modern conservative philosophy in a big plastic bag, in bright colors. Because if it isn't in bright colors, conservatives will be too dumb to pick it up and put it in their mouths.

[Anakin Skywalker]

10. You Forgot Something.

They are all FOR Big Gov't when it comes to "fixing immoral behaviors". They have absolutely no problem peeking into your bedrooms, or in the case of those nutjob Constitution Party type, even your kitchens.

[nankerphelge]

4. You should have at least told him...

that his underpaid waiter )with no health insurance) spit in his salad.

[gospelized]

7. well

the restaraunt we were at has some kind of program, i've noticed, where they hire a lot of eastern european people. the waitress' name was Pavlova. so he probably had already scolded her on the evil of not being born in america.

[m berst]

8. which is which?

Are Republicans disturbed individuals, or are disturbed individuals attracted to the program that the Republican leadership is pushing? I think that it tends to be the latter, and looking at it that way deprives the disturbed and violent people from using the Republican party for cover and presumed legitimacy for their outrageous and anti-social behavior, while allowing the sane people in the party to do some soul searching without being put on the defensive.

Are Republicans emotionally disturbed? No, not all of them.

Are emotionally disturbed people attracted to the Republican party? I would say, yes.

[NAO]

9. Bushism As Collective Psychosis - Exposition on Psychopathology of Bush

THE MADNESS OF GEORGE W. BUSH: A REFLECTION OF OUR COLLECTIVE PSYCHOSIS
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/georgew.html