American Conservatives are Embarrassing

[IsaacNewton]

God fig, I am starting to beli vet you are just a teenage troll. There was tarp and then there was stimulus, two different things. Hello! Here is a rather sober objective article about th stimulus that supports the theory that the idea is good but the implementation was a failure, like everything Obama.

http://nypost.com/2012/01/29/how-the-800b-stimulus-failed/

And I hate to bust another of your balloons and have you praising bush but tarp was created and passed by bush. According to you pretty good deal eh?

Bush signs bank bailout, Oct. 3, 2008

You poor thing. The link I posted goes over the TARP as well.

Reading, it's what's for dinner.

 

[midcan5]

'Sam Brownback declares war on Kansas'

When you manage the minds of the children you manage the society. Ultra conservatives want a Maoist like red state, the irony of Mao's red book is that Kansas, and the American right, now imitate communist China. Color oddly invokes similarity. Education must no longer be liberal, inclusive, and rational, science has no place in a conservative educated America. Science must adhere to market and religious values.Control requires robots and robots only accept and follow the party line. While America fights ISIS, who desire a religious state, America's caliphate grows in republican run, conservative states, places where law now means you only have to obey law if it fits into your religion ideology. The American right is slowly destroying a wonderful democratic experiment.

Sam Brownback declares war on Kansas: This is how extremists gut a state — and democracy

"Looking just at education, in 2015 there were 172 measures introduced in 42 states based on ALEC model legislation, according to the Center for Media and Democracy. The general goal being to “… transform public education from a public and accountable institution that serves the public into one that serves private, for-profit interests.” With public education commonly comprising a significant portion of state budgets, this dovetails nicely with ultraconservative legislation focused on drastically shrinking government and reducing taxes."

Add Mississippi and North Carolina to states that have lost the democratic spirit. Another historic incident similar to conservative republican control of knowledge is Lysenkoism. It set back communist Russia just as the control of education sets back America. Republicans today curiously emulate communism's control of information and science.

Ironically Mao sounds more reasonable than conservative republicans, but control of knowledge remains the fundamental point.

"The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression. To be able to carry on their production and studies effectively and to arrange their lives properly, the people want their government and those in charge of production and of cultural and educational organizations to issue appropriate orders of an obligatory nature. It is common sense that the maintenance of public order would be impossible without such administrative regulations. Administrative orders and the method of persuasion and education complement each other in resolving contradictions among the people. Even administrative regulations for the maintenance of public order must be accompanied by persuasion and education, for in many cases regulations alone will not work." Mao Tse Tung, 'On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (February 27, 1957)

 

[Dhara]

The OP is written by the creator of the Dilbert character. It's funny and makes the point. Bravo.

 

[jillian]

"By an accident of birth, I fall into the White Guy category. To keep this on a positive note, let’s call it my brand. And that means that if other people with my outward characteristics do dumb-ass things, it reflects on my brand." Scott Adams

White conservative Americans have become an embarrassment. I know that's not politically correct, but face it folks we are starting to look like a nation of idiots. Think about that for a minute. Our white conservative Congress is voting again to repeal healthcare, you know healthcare that is slavery. Texas Governor Greg Abbott wants to make America Somalia, no need to obey federal laws - articles of Confederation redux. Kansas Governor Brownback bought into the insane idea idea that reducing taxes brings forth magic. Now the state is a mess. Kansas is just one state run by a white conservative republican. Was Brownback alive in 2008 and 2009 or was he lost in some imaginary supply side universe. Laffer is so appropriate a name.

What's the matter with white America is the question of the day. Recently a group of white militia conservatives took over a garage sized nature center in Oregon because they have the mental acuity of a spoiled five year old. Give children guns and they soon think they are warriors. Reminds you of a five year old who won't come in for dinner. One wonders what the idiots will do when tourist season arrives, maybe they'll give 'take over nation' demonstrations one garage at a time. If another American had asked for this land it would be welfare, how is it America belongs to the select few white Americans? The nation's Indians should tell them they're way late.

Then we have Maine Governor Paul LePage, of course everyone knows racism is alive and well in America, that is except white Americans, they think they are colorblind, try really hard to forget their narratives. Didn't a Marxist Kenyan president change all that. One can only wonder at the level of insanity when a woman becomes president. She is white, will that help? Are you kidding me. Anyone watch the Benghazi hearing. If hate required a face there were plenty of opportunities. Can you spell just plan nuts. And Deez even got some votes.

Anyone watching the republican debates would marvel at the level of dialogue, when it isn't the same reduce taxes on corporations and the wealthy and the economic genie will appear, they are upping each other like some chest pumping pretend wrestler, bomb em all. Bomb em all, bomb em all, is it fear, paranoia, everything has become Munich. Have any of them served in the military, had they maybe a rational thought would arrive.

Have you seen the crowds at Trump rallies, cheering the blond platitude, an inherited real-estate developer, now the darling of white conservative America. Trump engages in so much hyperbole, historians and sane media journalists now require therapy. While Nazi references are badly overused by these conservative republicans, recently a Muslim woman stood up and was escorted to door, that wasn't the proper sign of allegiance to a mountebank wearing a trite slogan. Remember the Gay soldier. Booing in this crowd is a substitute for thought.

And this comedy of white conservative sloganeering would just be funny until someone like Governor Rick Snyder poisons the people of Flint, Michigan to save a buck. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn't just dumb, he wants all the citizens of Wisconsin on an equal level. Why fund education when anyone who isn't as extreme as you is just not conservative enough. How many teachers does Governor Rick Perry want to fire, he can't remember that either. And then there is Rick Scott. Any need to go on.

Have you noticed none of the republican governors support education. This would be funny until you look at the warriors in Oregon, or the tea party signs to keep government out of their medicare, or poisoned water, add tornadoes and floods which only matter if you happen to be in one. Education is power, it is feared by the powerful for it focuses attention on cause rather than aimless finger pointing. Pay close attention to Governors and candidates who listen the likes of the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson.

"If we held the White House, taxes would be lower, spending slowed and the military strengthened...." Governor Nikki R. Haley of South Carolina responds to the SOTU. She forgot 'freedom.' If a listener read history they know how often these same words are used, and they'd know too how meaningless they are. Can you spell voodoo or oligarchy.

Idiocy mixed with fear is so dangerous a mindset, anyone find those WMDs or witness the wonderful spread of democracy in the Middle East? If you have, let the rest of America know. So long as big money buffoons, corporate lobbies, think tanks that do anything but think exist, militiamen armed with AK15s isn't a reality show, it is reality.

It would give solace to the sane American if after President Obama's term, sanity in America returned, but given the House under 'missing a heart Ryan' is still voting to end slavery, aka healthcare, no hope is in sight. It has to be clear now, elect a conservative white governor and your state gets dumber, you lose healthcare, your environment is polluted, and your state goes into massive debt. All the while they throw out, weakness, appeasement, surrender, Chamberlain, again and again, is there any hope white America.

If anyone has an idea on how sane white Americans, who still believe in a land of promise, inclusion, fairness, and accomplishment can separate themselves from dumb white America. Please, please let America know. By the way, suggested forehead tattoos, would help but people do occasionally change. Imagine for a minute the Donald's audience cheering bigotry, slogans waving, 'make America great again', Palin rambling, dissenting Americans booed, and you witness the absurd theater white conservative republicans have created. And so it goes....

Source Information:

Scott Adams Blog
The 8 Worst Governors in America
Thank you, Oregon militiamen: The longer you stay, the more ridiculous you and the conservative movement look
The 12 Worst Presidents Ranked by Their Inhumanity
Why bullshit is no laughing matter — Aeon Opinions


Reading

'Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class' by Ian Haney López
'The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy' Albert O. Hirschman
'Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal' Kim Phillips-Fein
'It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism' by Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
'Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong' by James W. Loewen
'Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free' by Charles P. Pierce
'Liberty Under Siege: American Politics, 1976-1988' by Walter Karp
'Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming' by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. M. Conway
'American High: The Years of Confidence, 1945-1960' by William L. O'Neill
'A Bubble in Time: America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001' by William L. O'Neill
'Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960s' by William L. O'Neill


'The American conservative has become a sort of trained bumpkin, they outsource their work and pay them nothing and he unconsciously blames government when she doesn't blame some racial or ethnic group. Years of training have made them puppets. One could say corporate puppets, the corporations play them like children. Has the conservative always been this naive a tool of others? Maybe they have, for power knows all you need to do is have an enemy to occupy them. When it isn't government it's progress, or for some conservatives it's another human being of difference. I guess when one's mind is empty of education or history, it gives comfort to know satan caused all that is wrong. Satan can be whatever the powers that be tell them. No need to name names' mc5


And I give you this idiot to add to the point. Some Michigan politicians say Flint water crisis a hoax

You have a point with this or you just parroting left wing talking points?

tissue?

it's always funny when rightwing extremists who can't respond to anything and can only parrot rightwingnut talking points, accuse others of relying on talking points.

 

[Unkotare]

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Ironically Mao sounds more reasonable than conservative republicans......

What a surprise that a brainless left-wing zealot would think so.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

Shouldn't this thread be removed since the OP copied this from somewhere else.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

The problem with 'liberals' is that they tend to believe that they are better than others. When was the last time a liberal didn't try to make an argument that relied on opinions of the 'elite' in some form or the other or dismiss someone else's opinion simply because they deemed them less intelligent than themselves. The snobbery is so intense sometimes. It comes through in everything they say or write.

 

[midcan5]

The one thing that becomes clear when watching the conservative republicans is just like online republican conservatives all they ever do is whine that someone or another, usually government, isn't paying enough attention to them. Like children they miss the fact they are citizens who do nothing constructive or even useful for the American people. And yet the likes of Paul Ryan wonder at the rise of the wonder boy Donald Trump. What Trump will actually do is a mystery should a miracle occur in November. And so it goes....

'The GOP-dominated Congress can't seem to legislate its way out of a paper bag. But it can do this dumb stuff.'

"On Thursday, the Guardian reported on Facebook’s methods for manipulating what topics show up in the Trending widget. In doing so, the paper revealed that the company relies primarily on the top stories that are running on 10 major outlets. Two of these outlets are Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. But Facebook usually looks for stories that are leading on five of the 10 news sites. So while the company has conservative news sources in its mix, the fact there are so few means it won’t carry stories on the topics that animate conservatives, like how Obama is the most lawless president ever or Obamacare is the greatest imposition on freedom since slavery was abolished."

Here are some of the insane things our do-nothing Congress is wasting taxpayer money on

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The main problem is that Progressives have been brainwashed into believing that the government IS the economy

The main problem is that conservatives have been brainwashed into believing that the government is supposed to be a for-profit business.

Thats ESPECIALLY rich coming from a Gipper- worshipper who based the economy on borrowing taxpayer $$$ and giving it to defense (offense) contractors (crony capitalism) to create an economy

Government is the Progressive religion, it gives you everything you need to make sense of life

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The one thing that becomes clear when watching the conservative republicans is just like online republican conservatives all they ever do is whine that someone or another, usually government, isn't paying enough attention to them. Like children they miss the fact they are citizens who do nothing constructive or even useful for the American people. And yet the likes of Paul Ryan wonder at the rise of the wonder boy Donald Trump. What Trump will actually do is a mystery should a miracle occur in November. And so it goes....

'The GOP-dominated Congress can't seem to legislate its way out of a paper bag. But it can do this dumb stuff.'

"On Thursday, the Guardian reported on Facebook’s methods for manipulating what topics show up in the Trending widget. In doing so, the paper revealed that the company relies primarily on the top stories that are running on 10 major outlets. Two of these outlets are Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. But Facebook usually looks for stories that are leading on five of the 10 news sites. So while the company has conservative news sources in its mix, the fact there are so few means it won’t carry stories on the topics that animate conservatives, like how Obama is the most lawless president ever or Obamacare is the greatest imposition on freedom since slavery was abolished."

Here are some of the insane things our do-nothing Congress is wasting taxpayer money on

Did you know that Conservative and Republican are two different and mostly contrary things?

Yeah, didn't think so

 

[Iceweasel]

The one thing that becomes clear when watching the conservative republicans is just like online republican conservatives all they ever do is whine that someone or another, usually government, isn't paying enough attention to them.

Nonsense. You are insane.

 

[Dot Com]

The one thing that becomes clear when watching the conservative republicans is just like online republican conservatives all they ever do is whine that someone or another, usually government, isn't paying enough attention to them. Like children they miss the fact they are citizens who do nothing constructive or even useful for the American people. And yet the likes of Paul Ryan wonder at the rise of the wonder boy Donald Trump. What Trump will actually do is a mystery should a miracle occur in November. And so it goes....

'The GOP-dominated Congress can't seem to legislate its way out of a paper bag. But it can do this dumb stuff.'

"On Thursday, the Guardian reported on Facebook’s methods for manipulating what topics show up in the Trending widget. In doing so, the paper revealed that the company relies primarily on the top stories that are running on 10 major outlets. Two of these outlets are Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. But Facebook usually looks for stories that are leading on five of the 10 news sites. So while the company has conservative news sources in its mix, the fact there are so few means it won’t carry stories on the topics that animate conservatives, like how Obama is the most lawless president ever or Obamacare is the greatest imposition on freedom since slavery was abolished."

Here are some of the insane things our do-nothing Congress is wasting taxpayer money on

Did you know that Conservative and Republican are two different and mostly contrary things?

Yeah, didn't think so

Wouldnt have known that seeing you people voting as a block for the Repub nomineee for the last..... forever.

 

[Trump.Stamped]

Its sicking. They're starting to act like the fucking taliban and want everyone dumb, relgious and backwards.

Is this why we're fighting a war against savages for? To become like them. We should fund education, infrastructure and be a respectable nation.

Jesus, run a spelling and grammar check before you post...

I have a specialll puter that puts a squiggley red line under all my misspellings. Its super kool.

 

[Trump.Stamped]

"By an accident of birth, I fall into the White Guy category. To keep this on a positive note, let’s call it my brand. And that means that if other people with my outward characteristics do dumb-ass things, it reflects on my brand." Scott Adams

White conservative Americans have become an embarrassment. I know that's not politically correct, but face it folks we are starting to look like a nation of idiots. Think about that for a minute. Our white conservative Congress is voting again to repeal healthcare, you know healthcare that is slavery. Texas Governor Greg Abbott wants to make America Somalia, no need to obey federal laws - articles of Confederation redux. Kansas Governor Brownback bought into the insane idea idea that reducing taxes brings forth magic. Now the state is a mess. Kansas is just one state run by a white conservative republican. Was Brownback alive in 2008 and 2009 or was he lost in some imaginary supply side universe. Laffer is so appropriate a name.

What's the matter with white America is the question of the day. Recently a group of white militia conservatives took over a garage sized nature center in Oregon because they have the mental acuity of a spoiled five year old. Give children guns and they soon think they are warriors. Reminds you of a five year old who won't come in for dinner. One wonders what the idiots will do when tourist season arrives, maybe they'll give 'take over nation' demonstrations one garage at a time. If another American had asked for this land it would be welfare, how is it America belongs to the select few white Americans? The nation's Indians should tell them they're way late.

Then we have Maine Governor Paul LePage, of course everyone knows racism is alive and well in America, that is except white Americans, they think they are colorblind, try really hard to forget their narratives. Didn't a Marxist Kenyan president change all that. One can only wonder at the level of insanity when a woman becomes president. She is white, will that help? Are you kidding me. Anyone watch the Benghazi hearing. If hate required a face there were plenty of opportunities. Can you spell just plan nuts. And Deez even got some votes.

Anyone watching the republican debates would marvel at the level of dialogue, when it isn't the same reduce taxes on corporations and the wealthy and the economic genie will appear, they are upping each other like some chest pumping pretend wrestler, bomb em all. Bomb em all, bomb em all, is it fear, paranoia, everything has become Munich. Have any of them served in the military, had they maybe a rational thought would arrive.

Have you seen the crowds at Trump rallies, cheering the blond platitude, an inherited real-estate developer, now the darling of white conservative America. Trump engages in so much hyperbole, historians and sane media journalists now require therapy. While Nazi references are badly overused by these conservative republicans, recently a Muslim woman stood up and was escorted to door, that wasn't the proper sign of allegiance to a mountebank wearing a trite slogan. Remember the Gay soldier. Booing in this crowd is a substitute for thought.

And this comedy of white conservative sloganeering would just be funny until someone like Governor Rick Snyder poisons the people of Flint, Michigan to save a buck. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn't just dumb, he wants all the citizens of Wisconsin on an equal level. Why fund education when anyone who isn't as extreme as you is just not conservative enough. How many teachers does Governor Rick Perry want to fire, he can't remember that either. And then there is Rick Scott. Any need to go on.

Have you noticed none of the republican governors support education. This would be funny until you look at the warriors in Oregon, or the tea party signs to keep government out of their medicare, or poisoned water, add tornadoes and floods which only matter if you happen to be in one. Education is power, it is feared by the powerful for it focuses attention on cause rather than aimless finger pointing. Pay close attention to Governors and candidates who listen the likes of the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson.

"If we held the White House, taxes would be lower, spending slowed and the military strengthened...." Governor Nikki R. Haley of South Carolina responds to the SOTU. She forgot 'freedom.' If a listener read history they know how often these same words are used, and they'd know too how meaningless they are. Can you spell voodoo or oligarchy.

Idiocy mixed with fear is so dangerous a mindset, anyone find those WMDs or witness the wonderful spread of democracy in the Middle East? If you have, let the rest of America know. So long as big money buffoons, corporate lobbies, think tanks that do anything but think exist, militiamen armed with AK15s isn't a reality show, it is reality.

It would give solace to the sane American if after President Obama's term, sanity in America returned, but given the House under 'missing a heart Ryan' is still voting to end slavery, aka healthcare, no hope is in sight. It has to be clear now, elect a conservative white governor and your state gets dumber, you lose healthcare, your environment is polluted, and your state goes into massive debt. All the while they throw out, weakness, appeasement, surrender, Chamberlain, again and again, is there any hope white America.

If anyone has an idea on how sane white Americans, who still believe in a land of promise, inclusion, fairness, and accomplishment can separate themselves from dumb white America. Please, please let America know. By the way, suggested forehead tattoos, would help but people do occasionally change. Imagine for a minute the Donald's audience cheering bigotry, slogans waving, 'make America great again', Palin rambling, dissenting Americans booed, and you witness the absurd theater white conservative republicans have created. And so it goes....

Source Information:

Scott Adams Blog
The 8 Worst Governors in America
Thank you, Oregon militiamen: The longer you stay, the more ridiculous you and the conservative movement look
The 12 Worst Presidents Ranked by Their Inhumanity
Why bullshit is no laughing matter — Aeon Opinions


Reading

'Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class' by Ian Haney López
'The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy' Albert O. Hirschman
'Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal' Kim Phillips-Fein
'It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism' by Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
'Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong' by James W. Loewen
'Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free' by Charles P. Pierce
'Liberty Under Siege: American Politics, 1976-1988' by Walter Karp
'Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming' by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. M. Conway
'American High: The Years of Confidence, 1945-1960' by William L. O'Neill
'A Bubble in Time: America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001' by William L. O'Neill
'Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960s' by William L. O'Neill


'The American conservative has become a sort of trained bumpkin, they outsource their work and pay them nothing and he unconsciously blames government when she doesn't blame some racial or ethnic group. Years of training have made them puppets. One could say corporate puppets, the corporations play them like children. Has the conservative always been this naive a tool of others? Maybe they have, for power knows all you need to do is have an enemy to occupy them. When it isn't government it's progress, or for some conservatives it's another human being of difference. I guess when one's mind is empty of education or history, it gives comfort to know satan caused all that is wrong. Satan can be whatever the powers that be tell them. No need to name names' mc5


And I give you this idiot to add to the point. Some Michigan politicians say Flint water crisis a hoax

Newsflash Homer - its 2016. You don't have to be white anymore. Just start associating as a black person. Get yourself a big gold chain, a raiders hat, and BOOM - you aren't white anymore.

You can probably do something about that male thing too. There is that Jenner thing that you lefties are so obsessed with.

So, no excuses!

 

[IsaacNewton]

The one thing that becomes clear when watching the conservative republicans is just like online republican conservatives all they ever do is whine that someone or another, usually government, isn't paying enough attention to them. Like children they miss the fact they are citizens who do nothing constructive or even useful for the American people. And yet the likes of Paul Ryan wonder at the rise of the wonder boy Donald Trump. What Trump will actually do is a mystery should a miracle occur in November. And so it goes....

'The GOP-dominated Congress can't seem to legislate its way out of a paper bag. But it can do this dumb stuff.'

"On Thursday, the Guardian reported on Facebook’s methods for manipulating what topics show up in the Trending widget. In doing so, the paper revealed that the company relies primarily on the top stories that are running on 10 major outlets. Two of these outlets are Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. But Facebook usually looks for stories that are leading on five of the 10 news sites. So while the company has conservative news sources in its mix, the fact there are so few means it won’t carry stories on the topics that animate conservatives, like how Obama is the most lawless president ever or Obamacare is the greatest imposition on freedom since slavery was abolished."

Here are some of the insane things our do-nothing Congress is wasting taxpayer money on

Conservatives have declared themselves the most persecuted minority. They get the most welfare from government but whine about how much others are getting. They break their backs to gain control of government at the same moment they are saying they hate government.

Thanks for Faux News and conservative talk radio this group of people has come to see themselves as a stepped on minority who needs government to save them. They go about gaining state legislatures and then immediately start passing voter suppression laws because democracy just doesn't work for them anymore. They know their days of any kind of dominance in the public square is fading away very quickly now. They will likely be a large minority of voters for a long time, but the days of a Republican winning a national election are going away. And their answer is to double down on the racism and xenophobia.

Now the Republicans in Congress refuse to follow the Constitution and approve a new Supreme Court nominee by a duly elected president.

Conservatives see the writing on the wall, they either have to cheat on everything at every turn or lose. So they are excelling at cheating.

 

[midcan5]

There are way too many threads today, life for some of us is busy and productive, there isn't time to counter every absurd argument from the right wing conservatives in America so I thought what the heck, I'd post this piece here.

"As a political force, American conservative movement has been morally and philosophically bankrupt for decades, which is one of the big reasons we are where we are right now. Largely in the interest of preserving their own power and empowering a massive money-grab by the class they represent, Republicans have cobbled together cynical coalitions by trying to appease multiple constituencies with competing and often contradictory interests: Libertarians, the Christian right, the post-industrial white working class, finance capital and the billionaire caste. "
From Edmund Burke to Mr. Burns: In the age of Trump, conservative thought has died at last


"To the extent that analysts have discerned any new philosophy behind Trump’s rise, they have focused on the vicious, bigoted internet stylings of the so-called alt-right. But the unabashed white nationalism, anti-Semitism and misogyny of that hitherto underground movement constitute only one strain of Trumpism. The larger ideology that the president-elect represents is a post-Iraq War, post-crash, post-Barack Obama update of what used to be called paleoconservatism: On race and immigration, where the alt-right affinities are most pronounced, its populist ideas are carrying an already right-wing party even further right. On a few economic issues, such as infrastructure and entitlement spending, they could direct the party toward the political center. On trade and foreign policy, they threaten to demolish the internationalism that has governed the GOP since Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency. In each of these ways, Trumpism represents a significant break with the conservatism that has dominated the Republican Party for decades." David Greenberg

 

[GWV5903]

There are way too many threads today, life for some of us is busy and productive, there isn't time to counter every absurd argument from the right wing conservatives in America so I thought what the heck, I'd post this piece here.

"As a political force, American conservative movement has been morally and philosophically bankrupt for decades, which is one of the big reasons we are where we are right now. Largely in the interest of preserving their own power and empowering a massive money-grab by the class they represent, Republicans have cobbled together cynical coalitions by trying to appease multiple constituencies with competing and often contradictory interests: Libertarians, the Christian right, the post-industrial white working class, finance capital and the billionaire caste. "
From Edmund Burke to Mr. Burns: In the age of Trump, conservative thought has died at last


"To the extent that analysts have discerned any new philosophy behind Trump’s rise, they have focused on the vicious, bigoted internet stylings of the so-called alt-right. But the unabashed white nationalism, anti-Semitism and misogyny of that hitherto underground movement constitute only one strain of Trumpism. The larger ideology that the president-elect represents is a post-Iraq War, post-crash, post-Barack Obama update of what used to be called paleoconservatism: On race and immigration, where the alt-right affinities are most pronounced, its populist ideas are carrying an already right-wing party even further right. On a few economic issues, such as infrastructure and entitlement spending, they could direct the party toward the political center. On trade and foreign policy, they threaten to demolish the internationalism that has governed the GOP since Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency. In each of these ways, Trumpism represents a significant break with the conservatism that has dominated the Republican Party for decades." David Greenberg

So says the dying breed of the Liberal Left, America has had enough...

 

[Unkotare]

The last gasp of the assrash left.