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What Are Conservatives Conserving
Anyway?
- By Allen Snyder
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- www.opednews.com
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- It’s always amused me when conservatives get themselves all worked
into a persnickety self-righteous lather about the evil, immoral, and
decadent slippery slope they think the country is always hurtling
toward the bottom of. There’s
always some group with a dangerous and life-threatening agenda trying
to force itself in on their happy, peaceful little ‘Father Knows
Best’-like homes, always somebody forcing their bizarre and depraved
lifestyle on them; homos, pinkos, feminists, minorities, commies,
immigrants, peaceniks, anti-gunners, flag-burners, abortionists, labor
unionizers, atheists. They
either want to convert us all to Faggotry, stop whatever wars we’re
fighting, make us all speak Spanish or Ebonics, repeal the Second
Amendment, make the country socialist or communist, ban the Bible,
feed Christians to the lions, or just plain hate, Hate, HATE, America
and everything it stands for.
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- Conservatives (especially those on the increasingly psychotic,
knuckle-dragging Christian Right) are forever playing the agonized,
tortured victim, their divine rights are always being egregiously
violated, their morally superior, ultra-indignant, and self-proclaimed
Christ-like ‘way of life’ is always in danger from someone or
other (first godless commies, now terrorists and married gays), the
foundations of Western civilization are always being torn asunder, and
they’re always the sole voices of reason (and the only true
patriots) amongst the perpetual intellectual din of moral grayness and
annoying nuance that is the stuff of liberalism.
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- Absent a convenient boogeyman at which to pin the blame for their
illusory misfortune, they invent, create, or manufacture one out of
thin air. Just like that
person who’s not content unless they’re constantly smack in the
middle of divisive and emotionally-charged situations, conservatives
aren’t content unless there’s someone to hate, blame, oppress, and
kill.
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- Thanks to exit polls that right wingnuts have deemed worthy of
belief (the ones saying Kerry won be damned!), we’re told that
‘moral values’ were a big deal in the recent questionable
election. Of course, such
values talk is a purely spectacular pile of horseshit, since if given
the choice, anyone (especially a blindly loyal Bush-lover) would
rather respond that they voted for their guy ‘cause he’s
‘good’ than ‘cause he’s an idiot and a war criminal.
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- But nevertheless, this ‘values’ crap is being crammed down our
throats like stuffing up a Thanksgiving turkey’s ass.
It’s been given the
Lazy-And-Useless-Mainstream-Media-Seal-of-Approval that has them
gushing about the solidified political clout of fundie evangelicals,
the radical Christian right acting as though their silliness and
ignorance has been nationally validated, desperate Democrats running
to the nearest river revival for born-again baptisms, and us real
liberals retching and twitching in spasms of nauseous disbelief.
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- It all has me wondering what conservatives think they’re
conserving? Seems
they’re locked in a perpetual state of
‘Things used to be so much simpler when…’ or ‘Wasn’t
it better when…?’ or some other such empty and meaningless bilge
(‘upholding traditional values’ is another good one).
The problem with this view is they’re hearkening back to and
yearning for an dystopian America that liberals and other concerned
patriots and lovers of freedom, liberty, equality, and democracy have
spent whole lifetimes (often short violent ones) trying to eradicate.
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- They appear to envision a world where misogyny rules virtually
unchallenged, testosterone pumps strongly and wildly, white reigns
supreme, blacks and browns know their place, violence is the first
resort (if it’s the last, you’re a girly-man), women are to be
seen, then fucked, but rarely heard, and where not only every
pregnancy is brought to term, but a living breathing child’s
well-being is secondary to that of some nondescript microscopic glob
of cells – all because one day it might grow up to vote Republican
(thanks, Bill).
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- Sadly, the only things that can fill in for the ‘…’ above are
repressive, regressive, de-evolving actions that take us further and
further away from the democratic ideals that conservatism should
really be interested in conserving.
Instead, the progress that makes
America
great, the constant battles waged for the poor, unemployed, elderly,
disabled, homeless, and needy, the desperately just attempts to extend
liberty and equality to those in our own country unable to achieve it
for themselves is the sole providence of liberals and liberalism.
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- Conservatives continually obstruct any such progressive policies are
always at the forefront of limiting equality, stifling freedom,
curtailing rights, even while they try to expand them for themselves
and other like-minded ignoramuses.
Conservatism is nothing but the gateway to ignorance,
intolerance, hate, oppression, theocracy, and fascism.
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- Allen Snyder can be reached at asnyder111@hotmail.com
This article is copyright by Allen Snyder and originally published by
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blog, or web media so long as this credit is attached. Read more of
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