Why I Hate Conservatives

The title of this post might seem a bit blunt, but I was actually raised as a Conservative. I was raised a Roman Catholic in Texas, and that is a high risk group for Conservatism. The reasons why I turned against Conservatism are varied and complex. One important turning point came during the 80's the Presidency of Ronald Reagan. Reagan, the most effective commercial spokesman of all time, managed to tell the most absurd lies while maintaining a straight face. Whenever somebody called him out, Reagan would just smile vacuously and pretend he hadn't heard.

Conservatives, not just the GOP, discovered they could get away with lying they have come to use it as a deliberate tactic. Notice the recent campaign against Planned Parenthood. Even though these is no evidence of any wrongdoing on the part of Planned Parenthood, the Conservative noise machine continues to make up falsehood and allegations. The Conservative Movement have become "Mayberry Machiavellis" and not only in terms of foreign policy. The worst liars are the ones who believe their own lies.

Trump Is Not a Man of Peace

Donald Trump, in his scattered way has been making statements about how the invasion of Iraq was a "mistake" and suggesting that the US military should withdraw from Korea (first proposed by Jimmy Carter back in 1977). This has brought down the ire of the unrepentant neo-conservatives, especially at the Washington Post. Some people have even started referring to Trump as an "isolationist" or even a "pacifist." He is neither. Statements like the aforementioned need to be weighed against his bombastic calls for "American greatness." Putting an unstable maniac like Trump in charge of 4,760 nuclear weapons is a worst case scenario come true. Trump is not only a threat to American democracy, he is a threat to the existence to life on this planet.

Democrats Still Clueless

The so-called leaders of the Democratic Party are so determined to make sure that Hillary Rodham Clinton wins that they have done everything except stuff ballot boxes. The "Top Dems" are convinced that HRC is electable simply because she leads Trump in several polls. These people seem not to realize that polls can change. HRC seems to think that she's the most "competent candidate," the same stance that failed for Dukakis in 88 and Kerry in 2004. Trump is playing off of the cult of the CEO. There is no cult of the middle manager that HRC can appeal to. The Presidency isn't about "management" but leadership.

Come election time if the mass of GOP voters decide they hate HRC more than they dislike Trump, then she's going to lose no matter what the polls say.

Curtains for Jeb

Jeb Bush has dropped out of the race, without winning a single state. While it's good to see the end of the Bush dynasty, the GOP base has gone insane for Donald Trump. It's not getting better for the GOPers but worse. Unless a lucky meteorite should land on Trump. Of course.

The Bigot Demographic

Those who support Donald Trump are part of the reactionary tradition within American life: the Prohibitionists, the Ku Kluxers, those who would define themselves in narrow racial terms. Trump's career is hardly reassuring; he seems to have no ideas or principles, and his only strong beliefs are racial bigotry. His followers see what they want to see; the worship wealth, because he is a "winner" and a "hard ass" who can get away with obnoxious behavior.

Trump appeals to a generation that has been rendered mentally passive by television and the corporate media. Without getting bogged down in "essentialist" arguments about what constitutes totalitarianism, there is a recurrent pattern that we can see in many nations. When a faction declares itself to be the "real people" and becomes preoccupied with taking power even if by force, then we are all in danger. It's not even a question of ideology but methodology. It doesn't matte whether the faction is Left or Right, religious or secular, or even if it claims to be acting in the name of "freedom." People like that are a danger to democracy.

HRC Plays the Misogyny Card

I used to support the candidacy of Hilary Rodham Clinton, until she started making foreign policy statements that made he sound like Marco Rubio. It also doesn't help that she promises to "get along" with the Congressional GOP. Her husband "worked with" Congressional GOPers hell he virtually gave away the store, and for all that they still tried to impeach him. It's obvious that HRC's progressive credentials are rather dubious and she's said nothing to make us think otherwise. So now her campaign is accusing her critics of "misogyny." If you don't support her you must be some kind male chauvinist "get in the kitchen" type of cretin. That may be accurate of her critics on the GOP side. They hate her for the wrong reasons perhaps. But HRC herself hasn't really given us any reason to vote for her. The real imperative is to choose the best person for the job, regardless of gender.

A Threat to Us All

Ammon Bundy and his gang of idiots have ended their siege of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge and are under arrest. One of the gang was killed, but then damned fools are seldom missed. The Bundyites it turns out have almost no support amongst the people of the area. It seems that most people are glad to be rid of them. The point is that while the Bundyites and others claim to be against "the guvment" they are actually against everybody else. They are a threat to all of us. Once again, we must remember that stupidity isn't harmless. Stupid people can do a great deal of harm when they set their minds to it.