Conservative Ideology, Objectives

[BlueStreak]

I sit back and listen to conservatives bitch and whine about "protesters", "union thugs" and so on, crying, "Just do as the cops tell you!", "Shut up and do your job!", "If you don't want to go to jail, obey the law!", etc., etc., etc. They just seem to despise anyone who stands up to moneyed power, don't they?

Then I consider their dogged insistence that "America is not a Democracy!", that "freedom of speech" only applies to preachers, "Liberal" bashing propagandists and homophobic bigots...............

Then I attach all of this to their obvious and nearly perverse love affair with armed/uniformed governmental employees such as law enforcement and the military and I can't help but wonder;

Who is it that supports oppressive government?

Really, think about that. They claim they oppose governmental power, but the military budget is never big enough for them, their answer to crime always seems to involve little more than more cops with less restrictions and more prisons and less laws restricting the ability of citizens to kill each other............ Well, just how in the hell do they think "governmental power" manifests itself?

It manifests itself in uniformed government employees cracking the skulls of anyone who ".....gets out of line.". It manifests itself in "protesters" being gagged and beaten. It manifests itself in government making it difficult to impossible to fight corporate abuses.

So, tell me;

Who is it that supports oppressive government?

[nailer]

Oppressors.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by nailer

Oppressors.

I just invented NAILER jokes!

You know who Nailer told me was in the hospital? Sick people!

You know what Nailer got when he crossed a stream and a brook? Wet feet!

You know what really burns Nailer's ass? A brush fire about this high....

[nailer]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

I just invented NAILER jokes!

You know who Nailer told me was in the hospital? Sick people!

You know what Nailer got when he crossed a stream and a brook? Wet feet!

You know what really burns Nailer's ass? A brush fire about this high....

Apparently you're the one suffering from a burnt ass.

FWIW, your answers are wrong.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by nailer

Apparently you're the one suffering from a burnt ass.

FWIW, your answers are wrong.

My ass is fine.

It's amazing how beside the point the 'rightness' or 'wrongness' of the answers is.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

My ass is fine.

It's amazing how beside the point the 'rightness' or 'wrongness' of the answers is.

Wrong as in incorrect.

Understand that you don't get it and are amazed.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

I sit back and listen to conservatives bitch and whine about "protesters", "union thugs" and so on, crying, "Just do as the cops tell you!", "Shut up and do your job!", "If you don't want to go to jail, obey the law!", etc., etc., etc. They just seem to despise anyone who stands up to moneyed power, don't they?

Then I consider their dogged insistence that "America is not a Democracy!", that "freedom of speech" only applies to preachers, "Liberal" bashing propagandists and homophobic bigots...............

Then I attach all of this to their obvious and nearly perverse love affair with armed/uniformed governmental employees such as law enforcement and the military and I can't help but wonder;

Who is it that supports oppressive government?

Really, think about that. They claim they oppose governmental power, but the military budget is never big enough for them, their answer to crime always seems to involve little more than more cops with less restrictions and more prisons and less laws restricting the ability of citizens to kill each other............ Well, just how in the hell do they think "governmental power" manifests itself?

It manifests itself in uniformed government employees cracking the skulls of anyone who ".....gets out of line.". It manifests itself in "protesters" being gagged and beaten. It manifests itself in government making it difficult to impossible to fight corporate abuses.

So, tell me;

Who is it that supports oppressive government?

Authoritarians--now concentrated in the Republican party.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Authoritarians--now concentrated in the Republican party.

No shit!

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Authoritarians--now concentrated in the Republican party.

Yep. They want freedom for themselves (blue collar whites and their corporate overlords), while keeping the undesirables (blacks, Hispanics, LGBT's, Muslims, etc.) in check via a police state. I think we've seen this before.

[Boreas]

They want a big badass military and a matching police force and a whole bunch of guns so they can protect themselves from that big badass military and matching police force