The Conservative Worldview--Fantasy or Reality

[Decker]

Right Wing Fantasy:

The conservative worldview is totally committed to "the ideal of laissez faire, meaning minimal government interference in the marketplace, along with hostility to taxation, regulation, organized labor, state ownership, and all the business community's other enemies. "The conservative movement promotes the interests of business exclusively over all else in accordance with the motto, "More business in government, less government in business." So-called "big government," also tagged as the liberal state, is the enemy; in fact, virtually all government is the enemy, other than the national defense.

The Sad Reality:

Conservatives have repeatedly run the country into huge spending deficits in order to "defund the left" while simultaneously politicizing government management positions by favoring ideology over competence. The end result under Republican conservative stewardship is government that demonstrates itself as ineffectual and incompetent, offering but further proof that big government is inherently incapable of working and needs to be outsourced to private, professional concerns who can do the job correctly (and then inevitably failing to do so).

...[C]orruption, nepotism, income inequity, slave labor sweatshops, and local political control exercised in the name of big business is the perfect and ultimate model of the conservative movement ideal, a truly horrific prospect.

...[T]he morass that is today's Iraq is equally a product of the attempt to force fit these same free market ideals to a foreign country, implemented (so the Bush Administration hoped) by inexperienced, wet-behind-the-ears young idealogues, home-schooled ultra-Christians with college degrees from the likes of Patrick Henry College, Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, and Pat Robertson's Regent University. Iraq constitutes "a laboratory of liberty," modern-day "capitalists' dreams" whose realizations are (or at least should be) shameful American nightmares.

...our national government has been hollowed out under Republican conservative control, savaged into an ineffectual husk. Furthermore, ...this was no mistake, that it is part of a deliberate process not just to privatize government and eradicate government regulation but to make these changes permanent by destroying the liberal left (and with it, of course, the Democratic Party).

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I think this summarizes the modern rightwing conservative movement fairly well.  These rightwing people are undermining America.  They put party politics first which inures to the benefit of plutocratic elites--the true masters of conservative politics.

[timfogarty]

there are the people in power who have used the conservative movement to further their personal gain.   and there are the common folk who have conservative values.  the former are just opportunists.  here is my explanation of the later:

some children are brought up in a sheltered environment.  they are given a simple view of what is right and wrong.  "this is the way the world is.  follow these rules and you'll find success and be happy."  there is no injustice in their world.    then they grow up and move out, and find the world a very different place, with lots of strange people.   but they don't realize that the world view they were given was incorrect.  Instead, the world changed.  "If only we could get back to the way things were when I was a child, all would be good again in the world."

[Buffgeek]

there are the people in power who have used the conservative movement to further their personal gain.   and there are the common folk who have conservative values.  the former are just opportunists.  here is my explanation of the later:

some children are brought up in a sheltered environment.  they are given a simple view of what is right and wrong.  "this is the way the world is.  follow these rules and you'll find success and be happy."  there is no injustice in their world.    then they grow up and move out, and find the world a very different place, with lots of strange people.   but they don't realize that the world view they were given was incorrect.  Instead, the world changed.  "If only we could get back to the way things were when I was a child, all would be good again in the world."

LOL that is what you think of Conservative people?

How about this genious? some people are brought up in broken homes with teenage mothers who party and do drugs because she was abused as a child. Some people grow up with a stepdad/mom who constantly fights with their parents and the cops have to come and take them away periodically. Some children grow up in a family barely able to put food on the table and keep the sorry excuse they have of a home warm. Some kids grow up learning that if they work they can start to get what they want. They peel bark off trees to make money to help their parents put food on the table, pick peas in teh summer for extra money and they get jobs as soon as possible because they begin to realize the only way they can make it is to work hard.

Then... when those kids grow up and look back at their shitty childhood. They begin to want more for their children. They dont want to accept the BS they had to grow up with. They want to instill those values that made them sucessful but not at the cost of what they had to go through.



You view above more accuretly describes liberals. You guys do everything based on emotion rather than logic and reason. When things are given to you you dont appreciate them and feel the need to preach and judge others for what you are unable to do yourselves. Yours is a party of lords and serfs. Lords who are privledges who preach but do not actually follow what they preach and serfs who do not want to work for what they have and want handouts which are freely given by the rich members of their party for just the price of blind devotion.