The Death of Conservatism - by Richard Belzer at Huffington Post

The Death of Conservatism
by Richard Belzer
Huffington Post
Sept 7, 2007

The heartless, spiritually bankrupt intellectual frauds who openly court -- and are disturbingly non-judgmental of -- the most intolerant loathsome elements of the political landscape (who for some unconscionable reason have been consulted about virtually everything our government has been doing or undoing for the past six plus agonizing years) -- these are the fruits of a particular strain of conservative idealogues with a shared affinity for the Hobbesian view of humanity, which postulates that people are essentially evil and the role of the ruling class, the government, was to have a standing army and police presence and little else. Essentially that the "people" were totally on their own, frontier-style with no public services, healthcare, college grants, headstart, maintenance of roads and bridges, public defenders, job training programs, Medicare, Medicaid; you get the picture.

Also violently opposed to the Jeffersonian assertion that people were basically good and part of a government's function is to engender the conditions where life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are possible through education, hard work and a sense of community, whereas conservatives have only contempt for the notion of a fair playing field.

Conservatism is in its last throes if you will, twisting in the wind, dying like communism did because neither philosophy works by definition -- they both operate from the fraudulent premise built around contempt for and control of the people.

In the coming months and years history will not absolve them. These multimillionaire radio and television personalities who stoke and taunt "Joe Sixpack" with cleverly and sometimes not-so hate speech, railing about the danger of gays taking over and turning everything and everyone gay; Hollywood liberals seem to be among the most evil people since Sodom and Gomorrah, African-Americans are attacked in veiled terms that are usually not as veiled as they think, playing on people's fear of losing their job, demonizing foreigners seemingly from everywhere, scoffing at the notion that there is no class system in this country. All the while looking down on rubes and suckers who vote against things that are in their self interest and very survival to help further a cynical, mean-spirited political movement that has become a dangerous parody of the most astoundingly inept, impotent bully wannabes who can count among them physical and intellectual cowards who knowingly and smugly perpetrate lies that have literally cost untold lives.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-belzer/the-death-of-conservatism_b_63480.html

I am not sure that conservatism is in its last throes because even after the ultra conservatism of the 50s and early 60s, it still thrived among certain populations. How he describes the new batch conservatives is spot-on and I do hope that they lose influence soon, politically speaking.

on with it loopy agenda. We can always hope it gets worse. It is pretty bad for the GOP now.

I stil can't believe though that people aren't running this guy out of town.

And thus conservativism will always be with us. It's the political philosophy of being terrified, and trying to get everyone to join you in it.

that's how they get their votes - blaming problem son gays, welfare mothers, immigrants - when the people REALLY causing damage are, well, whilte conservative males

:loveya: I've seen him on Bill Maher a few times, and he just knows his shit.



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