unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Sampling of modern American conservatism:
- "Police never detain or kill with sketchy reason, and excessive use of force is never unlawful. You people are all snowflakes with no good reason to be upset or alarmed. Learn to lighten up. Did you see that guy's head bounce off the pavement? Hahahaha!"
- "Stop paying attention to the little stuff. We're bombin' Assad right now! So all you people who continue to scrutinize or disagree with any of our Republican administration's policies are especially unpatriotic obstructionists who should be taken out back and shot. Keep talking and we'll bomb your libertard traitor city next."
- "It is ideal for the US to shrink our government and cut back on agency overreach. But because I have nothing to hide, I am totally indifferent to myself and others being surveilled by the very nanny state I so despise."
- "The idea of unregulated corporate ascendancy makes my dick hard because policy decisions engineered to give mega-firms another leg up are for some incoherent reason beneficial to my small business and its double-digit earnings. It really makes me feel more confident and in charge."
This is just some of the Republican-loyalist schlock that I've heard during my last several political conversations. Completely oblivious to any of its own irony (when present). With a sage nod, one invoked the "changing horses midstream" idiom like he wasn't weirdly conflating the 1860s or 1940s reelections with the first few months of Trump's presidency in a disjointed attempt to defend it. Another went on for some length about how Americans needed to come together in these trying times against ter'rists and Assawd, then capped it off by pining for a MOAB be to be dropped on Hollywood or some other libertard city as a nice little followup to "bommin' ISIS" or whatever.
I mean, I expect this stuff on Yahoo! News comments or forums on a regular basis from people who share space on a Venn diagram with weirdos who like to wax poetic about Germany's economic recovery under Hitler and the Nazi fighting spirit. But I'm still gobsmacked when I encounter it in person. Some people have been so thoroughly exposed to brain-off, right-wing programming, and are so unaccustomed to or conditioned against being disagreed with, that you're constantly walking on eggshells to avoid a fight. And they have the temerity to call other people 'zombies of the media' or
snowflakes. Barf.
On the scale of you're with us or against us, you seem to be against us.
Having seen this play out a few times the hypocrisy still amazes me.
When a Republican is in the whole machine spins the same line, "He's the commander in chief, you have to show him respect, get with the program, you hate your country, you're a traitor, blah blah blah"
When a Democrat is in "Its my sacred duty as a patriot to oppose everything the President does and undermine him at every turn, best to burn down the house to kill one flea, etc etc etc"
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