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Fatally Flawed Conservative Values; on Hypocrisy
By Edwin Rutsch (about the author) Page 1 of 3 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Edwin Rutsch - Writer The only vice that can not be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. William Hazlitt Several people I asked about the failure of conservative values mentioned hypocrisy. Michelle, Owen and Steve brought up areas of conservative hypocrisy in; family values, education, finance, the economy, the occupation of Iraq and in human rights. While we all may exhibit varying degrees of hypocrisy in our lives, it seems that the conservative movement has embraced and institutionalized this value. 
Michelle
Failed Conservative Values: Michelle on Hypocrisy
I’m Michelle Gabriel from Oakland, California. I think that they fail because they say one thing and they do another. Talk about family values – look at all the Republican candidates. They have all these divorces and scandals.
You say family values, yet there is no issue about killing a million Iraqis. I mean, 4,000 of our citizens, you keep hearing about them. You don’t hear about all the Iraqis that got killed also. You hear about the strength of our country and the fact that we have such a great population from immigration. Yet, they have all this immigration reform to stop immigrants from coming in.
They say one thing and they do another. And that’s the real failure. And unfortunately, people listen to the rhetoric, and they don’t follow the reality.
A metaphor for Failed Conservative Values?: I can’t think of an animal or machine. I just think it’s kind of like selling your soul
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. Abraham Lincoln
Failed Conservative Values: Owen Jackman on Hypocrisy
Hi, my name is Owen Jackman. I am a school teacher in Sacramento. I think of how conservative values have failed is “No Child Left Behind”. I think they have outlawed water boarding as illegal. This is nothing more than torture. We are being set up to fail. We are not serving our children. We are pretty much cutting and slashing the whole of arts, music, physical education.
A metaphor for Failed Conservative Values?: The type of animal? I don’t know. Maybe a hyena as kind of two-faced. You know, we say one thing and we do another. That might be the animal, but really, it’s hypocrisy.
It’s speaking for fiscal responsibility, but spending money crazily. Fighting a war, but not asking people to sacrifice. Wanting to be competitive, but not adequately funding our education system. Saying that they’re for the rights for the unborn, but yet not providing childcare, not providing health care, not providing adequate housing. Saying they’re for fiscal responsibility and yet leading us to our worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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