House of Eratosthenes

One Revolution Away Back when conservatives were in power and liberals were out of power, the conservatives looked at the liberals with a mixture of scorn and distress, regarding the content of the liberal ideas. George Bush and Dick Cheney should be tried in the Hague for war crimes, 9/11 was an inside job, the Jews are making all the decisions about military operations, the President was going to invoke martial law and ban elections, et cetera, et cetera…all that stuff.

Now that the liberals are in power and the conservatives are out of power, the liberals look upon the conservatives with dread…with an urgency that Something Must Be Done, because the conservatives have too much power (still) to make their thoughts heard.

Now, what are these thoughts, exactly? You don’t have to say much to convince the nearest good liberal that you need to be shut-up or shut down. Skepticism that the new President’s stimulus plan is constitutional…is supported by history…will be effective. Old-fashioned dissent, in other words. It isn’t too much about the content. President Obama’s ideas for reviving the economy are uncertain, untried and untested; even the most enthusiastic Obama fan is entertaining some doubts about whether or not they’ll work. (Why else, all the hubbub about Rush Limbaugh hoping Obama fails?) No, it isn’t the content of the message, it’s the ability to get it out there. The conservative cause has not yet been gutterballed enough.

Perhaps this is of interest to us outside of the realm of politics. There seems to be an intrinsic, perhaps subconscious, knowledge that these methods we’re invoking to revive our economy — they’re ineffective if the last residues of audible dissent are still reverberating somewhere. That they require complete buy-in, with unanimity…or virtual unanimity. Kinda like Tinkerbell, she won’t come back to life unless everyone claps their hands.

Or maybe they understand their ideas only look good when nobody is around to articulate what might be wrong with them.

Either way, it’s obvious they still need (or want) some more change.

The divide between political ideology and religion is not as great as we presume.

Liberals believe they are saving the world. The Global Warming Scare, the Ice Age Scare in the 70’s, pollution, nuclear Armageddon, Silent Spring, all play into this. They are moral crusaders and they get a high off the feeling of righteousness when they march in their Crusades on the cheap. They are obsessed with moral purity in a way that would have embarrassed a medieval priest. The west and Israel as an extension of the west is held to a vastly different standard than our enemies for exactly this reason.

They are Utopian in their belief that they can recreate Eden. A world in which there will be no hunger, no poverty, no homeless in the streets, no one will be unwanted, no ignorance, no racism, no sexism, or homophobia. The rich shall lay down with the poor and all shall be right with the world. And as long a one child weeps their work is not done!

So what kind of scum sucking villain would try to stop all this?

Well I will tell you what kind! Conservatives! Haters!

War crimes! We are lucky they are willing to grant such villains a trial before shooting them.

With so much in the balance what wouldn’t a rational person do to destroy the enemies of all that is good and right? To lie, slander, distort and deceive are almost required.

To the pure, all things are pure!
- Travis | 04/07/2009 @ 14:50
Frankly the political discourse in this country has ceased to resemble policy debate and started to sound more like a couple of six year olds on the playground. All this demonizing of the other side (whichever side you are on) adds nothing to the discussion of what we should be doing to make the country stronger and the economy better. Plus, it’s just silly and inaccurate. The conservatives I know aren’t fascists and the liberals are socialists. They just disagree on certain issues. And I’m frankly disappointed in the tone of conservative boilerplate lately. After eight years of talk about how if you don’t support the president’s plans then you hate America it seems patently absurd to suddenly start accusing the new president of all kinds of imaginary goals. (BTW, that’s why Limbaugh’s hoping he fails seems so disingenuous to so many folks.) Obama is no danger to your guns and no threat to capitalism in this country. And after Bush saying that God picked him to be president, talking about Obama being messianic seems more like projection than fact.
- memphisto | 04/08/2009 @ 12:27
…adds nothing to the discussion of what we should be doing to make the country stronger and the economy better.

An “economy” is a relative measurement of the earnings or prosperity of a region. As we saw with the AIG-executive-bonus-flap, it is anathema to the liberal viewpoint that people should earn anything above some certain quantity.

Obama benefitted enormously by fusing together two unrelated issues: The bailout measure itself (which, He Himself noted during his gigglepuss “punch drunk” interview, is highly unpopular even though He now has His political future fused to it), and this situation in which some of us have more valuable skills than others of us, and therefore make more money. He was able to make it look like mainstream America, not liberal America, was upset about the latter of those two, rather than the former.

But liberalism is dedicated to “trickle up poverty”; if there’s a discrepancy in livelihoods anywhere, that is the flammable fuel that will be driving the liberal engine. If not today, then tomorrow. They want a limit to what people can make. It’s been well-established, by now, that if your attitude is “I’m glad that guy over there is making so much more money than I am, I hope he tells me what I can do to emulate him” — then you are an enemy of liberals everywhere. This really isn’t up for serious debate anymore.

Which means, they don’t have any ideas about how to make the economy better. The economy is people making money. A better economy is people making more money. That’s not what they want.
- mkfreeberg | 04/08/2009 @ 13:20

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