Conservative ?!
Don't Give a Good word for Bad people
They are not conservatives, they are Authoritarians
Karl Rove must smile when we use this good word to describe his radically destructive friends.
Somewhere in our minds conservative means avoiding risks and protecting what's valuable.
Should our leaders be conservative?
When getting on an airplane, most want a Risk Averse pilot, one who is cautiously moderate. We don't want to be part of experimental tricks up in the sky. There is something positive about prudent, careful stewardship.
This important positive connotation is bound with that tern conservative. Yet, this is exactly what "the conservative movement" is not.
There lies the mind f*ck.
to call such radical authoritarians "conservative" is to sabotage communication and / or clear thinking, and help the current ruler's strategy of confusion.
No wonder so many apparently can't think straight about politics today.
Pardon me:
What is conservative about:
rushing into
an unnecessary war? destroying our
civil liberties? destroying our environment? destroying the
separation between church & state? record deficits? lowering taxes on the rich during a time of
war? exporting jobs overseas? destroying the
dollar's value?
Language is democratic, much more democratic than any Diebold run election. It's easy, just start the habit of calling them Authoritarians, or right-wingers, regressives, plutocrats or something else that is accurate.
Financing a war of choice on a credit card is the opposite of conservative.
Deficits *do* matter, Mr. Likes-to-call-himself-conservative
- Paul Craig Roberts: 'Bush is no conservative'
- Newspeak and the corruption of politics
- Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative
- The Moral Collapse of Modern Conservatism
- 1/2 the American Mind M.I.A.
- Bush: Conservative?
- Republicans for Humility.
- Language Links Quotes
- Fact or Myth Blog
Refer to the Authoritarians by their true name, not the false name repeated by the dominant media.
Comments? webmaster@factormyth.com