If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, or following me on Twitter, you’ll have noticed that I’m sometimes a bit harsh on conservatives. Well, here’s why:
The latest viral wingnut e-mail, sent early on Tuesday, reveals that teabaggers (with the help of the G0P) are organizing a nationwide “Keep Your Kid Home From School Day” to protest President Obama’s upcoming address to schoolchildren on the importance of studying hard and getting a good education. [...]
Unless these people don’t want their kids to be encouraged on studying hard, there’s only one reason for them to have their children play hooky: an irrational fear of President Obama.
What this boils down to is this: these people’s hatred of Obama takes higher priority in their lives than their childrens’ education. Throughout history, when hatred has taken precedence over knowledge, it has led to things like hate crimes, cults, assassinations, civil wars… even genocide.
These hard-right conservatives aren’t coming out against health care reform, or tax-and-spend policies, or cap-and-trade. They’re coming out against one man. They’ve made what should be a productive national debate into a childish personal vendetta.
What a great example to set for their children.
September 3, 2009 at 3:37 am
Haha, somewhat harse on conservatives? Oh don’t limit yourself to them man!
People who’s entire thought process is based on a lunatic fear of change will always turn everything they can into a childish personal vendetta because that means they never have to contemplate the change they are so fearful of and therefor never run the risk of giving it validity(therefor actually having to consider it).
September 7, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Let’s assume there isn’t a class of society that controls 90% of the nation’s wealth.
Then, no one is wondering “How can we maintain the status quo?”
An educated population would be a terrible idea, as people would see through the smoke and mirrors.
A not-so-well-educated population is much easier to “work with”.
When election time comes, you dial up the noise until the signal-to-noise ratio hit the floor, then you systematically have a 50% chance of winning, regardless of your agenda, beliefs, opinions, views.
Add a pinch of hatred that hit on some primal fear and you get that 1-5% that makes the difference between the triumph of reason and the reign of status quo.
Even if reason wins, you can continue drowning common sense, logic and science into a dam-full of noise and ensure status quo lives on.
September 12, 2009 at 9:07 pm
They’re racists.
BTW, I heard you moved.