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subrosaDom -> RE: The ignorance of liberals (7/15/2014 6:31:23 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Skex
Nixon resigned because the writing was on the wall, he was going to be impeached and he was going to be convicted and given the boot. Clinton meanwhile laughed impeachment off because he understood that there was no way it was going anywhere in the Senate and it basically made the Republican's look like the bunch of petty assholes they are.
As to this whole "Ignorance of liberals" nonsense. In my experience most attacks conservatives level against liberals are simply projection of their own flaws. They accuse us of wanting big government but every time they're in power government grows, they accuse us of being financially irresponsible yet the deficit always balloons on their watch (the debt went from a couple hundred million to multiple trillions under Reagan).
Every time conservatives accuse liberals of something I start to look and figure out how they're trying to do that thing they are accusing us of. Did you for instance know that the first gun control laws in the United States were put in place by conservatives in the California legislature and signed into law by that Conservative idol Ronald Reagan? You know the guy who's administration was making deals with terrorists to buy drugs to sell on our streets to finance right wing militias (Read death squads) in Nicaragua.
Fuck conservatives, they've done nothing positive for the species, at every human advance they're the ones dragging their heels and supporting the tyrants and despots. During the American Revolution they were the loyalists and Tories who wanted to remain a part of England, During the Civil war they were the ones who fought to maintain the institution of human slavery.
When early hominids came down from the trees I have no doubt the conservative apes complained about how the trees were good enough for their ancestors and they're good enough for them to. Probably objected to cooking food and wearing clothing as well.
Conservatives were the ones who fought against the civil rights movement, the labor movement, suffrage. Despite the attempt to try and compare prohibition with gun control they were and are the ones who supported the prohibition of drugs and launched the war on the same, a war who's result has been to incarcerate nearly 1 out of every hundred human beings in this nation a rate higher than any other first world nation and eclipsing many of the totalitarian regimes we look down upon.
I've found conservatives to be scared petty hateful people who assume that because they're awful human beings everyone else must be as well.
Consider we're talking about people who unironically believe that government funded climate researchers have more incentive to lie about the affects of humans on the climate than a multi-trillion dollar industry who's very existence relies on the activities that are leading to those effects. That there is more incentive for people telling us a uncomfortable and inconvenient fact that requires us to make major sacrifices to our lifestyles than for those who are paid by the people who profit from ignoring it.
The conservatives leaders are hucksters and snake oil salesmen who make their living telling people what they want to hear. Who tell them that sure you can have it all, you can eat what ever you want, drink as much as you want and horde as much as you want and there will be no consequences and no cost.
These are people who are perfectly happy to enjoy the fruits of our collective society but are the first to cry and whine they are asked to pay their share and pitch in. People who want all the rights of citizenship but want nothing to do with the responsibilities and obligations that come along with the benefits.
Conservatives calling liberals ignorant? People who pride themselves on their ignorance who dismiss experience, evidence and expertise in favor of "common sense" and "gut instinct". The irony boggles the mind.
I can not think of a single case in human history where conservatives were on the right side of an issue. Not one. Slavery? they were all for it. Oppression of women? hell yeah they're all for it. Fascism? They loved it. Civil rights? Racial integration? Labor rights? Religious freedom? oh how they hated and fought against those. The list is near endless. In every time and every age conservatives have been the lackeys and flunkies to the Tyrants, Dictators and general assholes of human history.
Liberalism is the philosophy that we human beings can indeed improve our lot in life, that we have things to learn that will benefit us and the best is yet to come.
In contrast Conservatism is the philosophy that are that all we need to know is already known that we should accept our lot in life and the golden age is behind us.
Well history has shown us that Liberalism is the superior philosophy, it has brought us indoor plumbing, clean food and water, medicine and the science that enabled the creation of this very device we're having this discussion on. It has shown that we can indeed improve our lot in life and that the things we learn do indeed benefit us and as past is prologue there is no reason to think that better things are not ahead of us.
Fortunately, when leftists attack conservatives, it is never a projection of their own flaws, but simply an illustration of the leftists's self-evident superiority. It must be so wonderful to be right all the time. Hugo Chavez looks up from his grave (because surely he would be in hell if such a place existed) and says "Maduro, Maduro, why hast thou forsaken me!? for Hugo was also another one who was universally correct. Just ask Sean Penn.
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