By Richard Girard
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."--Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American Author, Foundation (1951).
"We live in an era of nuclear giants and ethical midgets."--Omar N. Bradley (1893-1981), General of the Army, First Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."""Friedrich Nietzsche(1844""1900), German philosopher. The Anti-Christ, aphorism 54 (1895).
Violence pervades most conservatives' souls like kudzu pervades the southern woods.
These conservatives wear buttons that say "There are few problems in the known universe that cannot be solved by a suitable application of high explosives," and "You'll take my gun from my cold, dead hand." Many claim to be pro-life and for capital punishment, all in the same breath. They look back fondly on the multiple, hard spankings (if not beatings) they received as children, and claim that this is what made them "good, God-fearing people." They go to church almost every Sunday, but are intolerant of any denomination that does not closely mirror their own.
They live a life based not on reason, but on a patchwork of simplistic platitudes and aphorisms, handed to them by some authority figure who knows that the easier the slogan is to remember, the less likely it is that the conservative will question its veracity.
They believe in the dog-eat-dog world of social Darwinism, where it is every man for himself. But they are the ones who complain the loudest that it is the fault of blacks, Jews, gays, women, immigrants, etc., for their failure, and not the system that they all but worship. And should they succeed, it is all their own doing; ignoring the help they received from coworkers, employees, advisers, mentors, teachers, friends and family. They are blind disciples of the current amoral, antisocial capitalist system that, like cancer, has as its mindless goal to become ever larger and more invasive in the lives of everyday Americans.
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