"Conservative Principles" in the US
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The following sounds a lot like a long-former annoyer who posts here, but this is not an excuse for me to talk about myself. Just found this in a comment section online and thought it might be worth passing on and might even get some useful discussion or comments. Hey, it could happen.
May be too full of allusions and slanguage to be worth any effort from anyone outside the most admired and wonderfullest country in the Universe, esp. those who have a broken sarcasm meter. Anyway, here it is.
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They got away with claiming their candidate bench this year was broad and deep and qualified as any pizza peddler, and they are still saying it, even though that bench had all the substance of a soap bubble. Perhaps under a Niagara of lies, damned lie, made up history, and fake statistics, it's not worth even trying to keep their rudderless and capsizing ship on course while Capt. Queeg obsesses over ice cream.
But isn't anyone disgusted by the brazen trumpeting of "conservative" values from these invertebrate wannabes? What the hell is a conservative value? Government too small to regulate the fraud intrinsic to a Wall Street operation completely rigged? Government that wants to leave people alone except if those people are women, or black, fluent speakers of Spanish, poor, sick, or trying to get married or do math on an airplane?
How does a small government manage a glibertarian like Rayn Paul's Christianist pandering to block gay rights, consensual sex, and the relations between a patient and a doctor who might want to discuss gasp contraception (aka abortion), saving a mother's life (abortion), or helping a person die with less pain and more dignity than the one true god allows, at least according to some Bronze Age hodgepodge?
Seriously, this "conservative values" lark is preposterous. Pious Jingle and Sam Brownstain both ran their state surplus into new levels of economic failure. Repeated homophobic opportunists have worked diligently to remove fundamental human rights. Is THAT what they mean by conservative values?
Little Teddy Crud says it is the plan of The god for the US to go back on the gold standard. Is that more central to conservative "principles" than nullification and the overturn of stare decisis? Or is it more important to shutter mosques and issue mandatory religious (and gender!) identity cards?
Far as anyone actually can tell from actual recent practice, all the Gang of Plutes actually stands for is repealing Obamacare, defunding Planned Parenthood, and grinding Hillary into the dirt with unrelenting smears and innuendos. Oh. And tax cuts for the uberrich ubermensch.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition because we're still the cops of the world and anyone can see that is working out really well for everyone. What a conservative triumph it is to make voodoo economics an article of religious faith, just like the weekly ritual of toddlers shooting toddlers in the name of freedom.
Whatever happened to MYOB (mind yr own business) and the famous Biblical injunction to "Be excellent to each other"? Did it disappear about the time that Bible-toting goldbugs started frothing at the mouth about the evils of empathy and compassion? Or did killing off the Fairness Doctrine have anything to do with the 24-hour propaganda cycle dominated by such popular Faux commentators as Lord Haw Haw and Tokyo Rose?
Evidence suggests essential delusions involve falsifying history to turn the U.S. (retroactively) into an evangelical sect, science denial from astronomy to evolution (aka "lies straight from the pit of Hell"). The ability to pull the wool over their own eyes to help fend off "reality's well known liberal bias."
If someone else has any idea about that tautology "conservative principles," please share.