Maggie's Farm

About which topic rightists are as enthusiastically unconservative as the most ardent progressive. Judas Maude you people are dim.

And on and on goes the dim brigade (as egotistically as it is ignorant in Windy's case).

Is it conservative - or intelligent - to cheerlead issues in which the facts and figures prove you so wildly wrong? Or is that really just a trendy assumption made by you patriotic corporatists who lost the tune back when a Clinton was in office?

I'll spend a half hour assembling the pertinent facts (and statistics) for this room of partisans if you'll agree not to be as reactionary about those simple facts as the original poster was in asserting the hogwash that set everybody's nodding partisanship off like it did. Because that was reactionary in more than a few ways.

See, we can argue or conservatives can actually be conservative, starting with doing the work of figuring this all out yourselves. (Or you can pull a Windy and magically make personal wage tax the same as a US passport).

Except where money is concerned, being informed and reasoned is what rightists fancy most about themselves. There they know even less than the Democrats they've been shrieking at all these decades, calling it conservatism.

Deal? If y'all's minds are as made up as usual I'm not going to bother arguing with concrete.

Even if I hadn't the proper conservative view of the problem that'd still be bait, transparently. But I do. And since I'll never reason you out of a view you weren't reasoned into, you'd need to sell me on why anyone should try.

So what. Point made the same way it always is: Rightists are too busy shrieking after a Clinton or rigidly painting Democrats as the universal moral evil or windmills as the ultimate cultural folly or whatever instinctive, ignorant social affection they're all on about 24/7 to reconsider their proud 100 year tradition of losing a nation because of sloth. Losing elections but more importantly, losing conservatism. Losing real, actual, structural, definable conservatism.

Hell, the average lowly alt-righter knows more real, authentic, structural American conservatism and none of them even identify it as such! They've happened on the principles you abandoned lying in the street and actually adopted what you can't even name anymore. Some of them probably even know this while none of you have figured it out yet. If you had you'd not keep doing it.

It's because y'all are statists of a incrementally different hue and partisans of what you only somehow think is a completely different primary color. Funny if it wasn't so tragic.

You're why I'm meh.

If you weren't so dead-ended you'd know yourselves why this is a notable issue and then how reactionarily wrong you've been about it. So tTell me who's going to do for you what for decades you've yet to do for yourselves.

Thanks for admitting ignorance. In some tragic way I suppose it's affirming, not least because it shows how the right gave everything it thought it valued away.

The rest of your piece is customary for the right: Blind fealty to a Corporatism the right is as schizophrenic about as it is utterly illogical about. Your assumptions are downright contradictory and wrong on points, not least of which is the excessively narrow legalese and zero-summing rightists invariably pepper their appeals to incredibly rudimentary, terminally-foreshortened logic with. Example? Look at BD's. Don't even bother with the details; the universe of facts. Just zoom in on that zero-summed bottom line.

Rightists are hardcore statists. They're wage and debt slaves which they defend as "capitalism". They're unquestioning. They're serfs in a kingdom they spend all their political time hollering about, completely blind to what it is, how it works, and their place building it, brick by brick. Blindfolded, they beat fists on one cornerstone of the thing endlessly.

What was that old adage about chains and lying lightly? Rightists forge those links.

I'm just going to have to learn to live with the full weight of that crushing rejection Tex.

You'll be further pleased to know that it's proportional to the local vigor of "conservative" goodness and virtue in all things "small government" and "personal rights".