Daily Kos Week in Review: The Nick at Nite Right
A popular liberal talking point in the '80s was that President Reagan couldn't distinguish between movies and reality. This past week, Kossacks claimed that conservatives rely on unreal versions of the Bible and the Constitution and that their sense of a bygone America derives not from history, but rather from a classic sitcom.
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Niniane: Conservatives are cafeteria constitutionalists
...[S]ome of my more conservative friends and acquaintances do have hearts, and some still have some semblance of a mind.
Lately, they all seem to agree on one thing, one concept...Somehow they feel that they, and by extension, their chosen candidate is superior because they are..."Constitutionalists"...
Once again, the unwashed conservative masses have picked up a buzzword to explain the reason for their passion, without realizing it explains nothing at all.
In the same way most conservatives interpret the Bible, the Constitution means whatever fits best with their personal and collective ideology, to be used when convenient, and circumvented when it isn't. And they don't even realize it..
Mark E Andersen: The Tea Party pines for a fictional past
...I now understand your anger. You are not in power. You are not calling the shots, and it pisses you off. Here is the deal. This is the United States of America and while we have our problems we have always persevered—not because we stayed in the past like you seem to want to do. No, we have moved forward by looking towards the future and doing bold things. In your world we would have never settled the west, we would have never gone to the moon. Yet, you say you want your county [sic] back...what exactly do you want back? The United States you seem to want only existed in Leave it to Beaver re-runs.
Hunter: Today's conservatism isn't conservative
...I used to at least respect the notion of conservatism as philosophy...but this [current] version of conservatism is overtly regressive, not conservative. It lacks any coherent point other than the self-centeredness of the practitioner.
...Most of these people aren't ideological about anything. They're just profoundly stupid people. They're not conservative, they're just self-indulgent scolds or self-interested collectors of public power...
Hunter: The right suffers from delusions of oppression
...If you are a conservative, then part and parcel of that is believing that the whole world is out to oppress you. It might be Agenda 21, or climate scientists, or atheists, or gay people, or black people, but the common thread is abject fear over the possibility of someone out there treating conservatives exactly like conservatives treat them...
MinistryOfTruth: Conservatism = sadism
...The thing I take away from watching GOP debates is that the only thing conservatives can cheer for in America anymore is for the things that conservatives like, and a boot stamping on the face of the people they hate. A banker stamping on your fingers as you try to climb the economic ladder, that's the modern conservative movement.
Republicans cheer the death penalty. They cheer for torture. That creeps me out. Now it is getting obvious that Republicans don't just cheer cruelty, they get off on it...
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It never ceases to amaze me,,
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 10:52am.
...about the stupidity of the left, and how naive they think the rest of us are! And this has been going on since the '60's-at least, as long as I can remember!
I really can't tell if
Submitted by ThatDude on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 11:41am.
I really can't tell if they're playing ignorant or if leftists really don't understand right wing ideology. I'm inclined towards the latter because we seem to be completely unable to have a political dialogue where the two conflicting opinions are discussed on their merits.
Is this problem because we don't have enough strong conservative speakers? Or perhaps it's that the media does fully control the narrative and has managed to completely mislabel conservative thought?
Conservatives will never win so long as liberals and RINOs control the narrative.
Taking this Kossack by Kossack.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 11:26am.
1) Niniane - "unwashed masses"? How very 1% of you, and how very descriptive of the sanitation problems currently facing those sites were OWS bowel movement protesters have been attracting rats, multi-drug resistant TB and molestation of young women and men. You want to talk about interpretation to suit your reality, your side has been doing that with the constitution and bill of rights since the day the nations the nation was founded. You have interpreted the constitution in ways it was never meant to be so, including a curious right not to be offended which mentioned nowhere in the document. Mind answering how your smug self-superiority and narcissism can explain that?
2) Hunter - you are as delusional and mendacious as ever. Your party is the one that advocates the position that ALL minorities are oppressed, whether or not they really are. Your party is the one that advocates bashing and lambasting conservative minorities with the most indecent and negative stereotypes. It was your party that had Bull Connor, George Wallace and Eugene Talmadge, all examples of the worst racists in existence. Let us not forget more recently Martin's "cracker counties" comment or the Latino congressman who wanted his own state boycotted in a time of economic distress. Sterling examples of your party's bigotry. And don't try to play amateur psychiatrist--unless you really are trained and licensed--the psychobabble just makes you look like a jackass to those of us who actually are.
3) Ministry of Truth - at least we have a choice in candidates, as the same cannot be said about the Politburo that your party currently has in place. Lest we forget about things that creep conservatives out about Democrats: a) the bigotry and brutal treatment of conservative women; b) the blatant hypocrisy about racism, wealth and power Democrats display; and c) the furious backpedaling your party is now doing from the OWS movement, which proved to be uncontrollable and not the 1968-style wet dream return to hippie culture your party thought it would be.
Did I miss anyone?
Daily POS
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 7:00pm.
The lunatic run insane asylum of the left-wing echo chamber.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Anderson: You're darn tootin
Submitted by nolefan2 on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 1:22pm.
we long for the past, but it is not fictional. Families in the past were closer to those portrayed on Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, etc.than the dysfunctional ones we have today. I wish children of today had the freedom to run around like we did without worrying about being snatched off the street and raped or murdered. My cousins and I walked all over town and spent hours at the movies, down at the pond, in the woods, or pretty much wherever we wanted to go. Everyone in town knew everyone else and helped out each other. If we needed to be picked up from school and our parents couldn't get there, a neighbor or friend would. We were not obese from sitting in front off a tv set for hours. Usually, when we sat, it was with a good book. The worst infractions in school were the boys sneaking out back and smoking a cigarette. We would never have dreamed of showing disrespect to our teachers, even though we might not like all of them. We did not have drive-by shootings on a daily basis. I could go on and on, but won't. Suffice it to say, that YES, I yearn for a return to the past.