Conservatives vandalize Liberals' homes, cars

[mudesi]

http://www.torontosun.com/canadavotes/news/2008/10/05/6988871.html

In Canada.

In some cases, they cut their brake lines, which could have led to somebody being killed.

It just goes to show you that Conservatism is a mental sickness. They're the same throughout the globe. Stubborn, selfish, immature, criminal, ignorant, intolerant Neanderthals.

[McCCain4retirment]

1. Ha ha,today

I was driving to my hair appointment,and I have 2 obama bumper stickers and an obama change flag on the top of my car,and I got cut off my this 80 year old red neck with a ant-obama bumper sticker all over the back of his car.

these guys never surprise me anymore.

[southernleftylady]

2. My hubby has told me to take my stickers off my car because someone could do something tome. ..

I was threatened during the kerry election while holding a sign.. 7months preggo.. by big ol' good ol' boys in a truck.. ugh I hate rednecks!

[roamer65]

3. Perhaps these CONS need to be sent to "re-education" camps.

They are a danger to society.

[TahitiNut]

4. To be "re-educated" they'd have to be educated the first time.

Maybe more rigorous high school graduation standards would be a better idea? :shrug:

[marmar]

5. In a different era and locale, these people would be saluting the Fuhrer....

Easily led, insecure and full of misdirected rage.....Lethal combination.

[TahitiNut]

8. I have little doubt that some still are.

I'm old enough to recall when Ford, Lindbergh, anc Coughlin were "recent events" still discussed.

[DBoon]

6. The US right wing is basically a bunch of fascist thugs

Their ideological heroes are people like Francisco Franco, Joe McCarthy, and General Pinochet

All throughout the 1950's and 1960's, National Review was touting Franco as a good christian leader

With founding fathers like this, it's no wonder the rank and file are so rank

[alfredo]

7. they're poopy heads too.

[Juche]

9. Basically yeah

http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml

Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include:

Fear and aggression

Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity

Uncertainty avoidance

Need for cognitive closure

Terror management




One of the personality traits associated with conservatism is a lack of inner strength and inner confidence, which leads them to lean on and rely on external, more entrenched external sources of authority and power. You can see that in their worship of the church, military, state, traditional values and of powerful corporations and their disdain for the poor and culturally taboo (aka those w/o power). Right now conservatives are blaming the poor for this economic crisis, saying they demanded loans they didn't deserve.

Yeah, basically. Conservatism is not something to be proud of if you examine its track record. If conservatives had always gotten their way in American history we would still have slavery, jim crow, child labor, oppression of women because conservatives supported these things and progressive fought to end them. At the same time women wouldn't be able to vote, no medicare, no medicaid, no unemployment benefits, no minimum wage, no environmental standards, human rights wouldn't be part of our foreign policy.

Prove me wrong. Show me how the right wing took initiatives to stop these things when they first came out. Reagan tried to eliminate the human rights chair that Carter created.

I'm not saying all conservatives are bad all the time, just that when society makes a move towards more justice and equality, conservatives always push back.