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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEver notice how the word (con)servative has the root word of con in it?
Just saying. Just about every conservative I have ever known has been a worthless, air sucking, shit stain, fraud
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)...you have firm grip of the obvious. (wink)
Enjoy your Fourth!
just venting, because every once in a while I get sick of the hypocrisy
former9thward
(32,025 posts)gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)I do get your point though
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)studied Latin with a nun standing over me with a thick wooden ruler. I know what it means, but was speaking tongue in cheek as to it's modern use in our political lexicon
Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)I was just being cheeky, haven't had my morning coffee yet
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)Response to gopiscrap (Original post)
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nolabear
(41,987 posts)My entire family of origin is conservative. Mississippi conservative. I'm on the far left of every opinion just about all of them have. And they are also funny, smart, generous, caring, honest, creative, talented people who might think things that are unfathomable to me but honey, they ain't frauds. I'll work to oppose most of the things they think are great ideas, but I can go to them any time and they to me, as can many people, those they know and those they don't.
Sure, there are frauds among them. There are frauds among us, too, and everywhere in between. The "con" of conservative and the "con" of confidence man are polar opposites. That's the whole point of the term; a confidence man gains your sense of him being "with" you in order to take advantage of you.
This is the part of "liberal" that I find dangerous and just as unfathomable as I do conservatives. We looooooove people, we want the BEST for people, but lots of them are air sucking shit stained frauds, not "people."
Igel
(35,320 posts)Or the very idea of con-fidence.
Of course, that's the origin of the clipped form "con". A con man was a "confidence man", who works by building up your confidence when there's no way he can keep or intends to keep what he's selling or getting you to buy.
Any politician who tells you he'll do something that he probably can't is conning you.