I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

Maha, I’d love to hear your take on this. Please!!!

To quote from my earlier post (yes, I know it’s vain):
Liberalism: We all share the burdon.
Conservativism: The burdon is on YOU.
If you can afford it, conservativism’s a fine idea. If you can’t, it’s a disaster.

What’s tragic is that you wingers cannot see that a right wing takeover of the US has already spawned many of the exact things you fear a liberal takeover would bring.

Our country’s spending and debt are out of control, due to 1) stupid and costly wars of conquest, fought for the benefit of Bush’s pals in the oil and arms industries (among other reasons), and 2) tax cuts mostly benefiting those who don’t need them, while letting spending run amuck, with the intention of crippling the government (Grover Norquist’s drowning the government in a bathtub).

As for terrorists, according to the NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) we are less safe now than before. You think we are killing terrorists by the boatload, when in reality we are generating more of them, according to the NIE. It doesn’t take much of a brain to see that people hate us more than ever for what we’re doing, and they will surely find a way to get back at us – what the CIA calls and fears “blowback”. This is also called Karma, or as the Golden Rule expresses it: You reap what you sow, big time.

Your side has vastly diminished the protections provided by the Constitution, and believes in “the unitary executive” which, in different words, is something the founders of this country fought and died fighting against. You talk about Stalin and Mao, and rightly fear their legacies, while being blind to the police state and far right dictatorship/enslavement you are helping to create here at home.

You talk about the left’s supposed Godlessness, and you trot out the supposed horrors of homosexuality, polygamy, abortion and the like – when you utterly fail to see your own Godlessness, your own worship of money (aka the Free Market), your own failure to follow Christ’s commandments to love your neighbor as yourself. He never once talked about homosexuality, abortion and the like, but he commanded over and over to love one another. You simply don’t get this – your reflexive hatred of anything resembling socialism prevents you from being serious about doing what Christ himself commanded. It’s touching that some of you do contribute and volunteer yourself, but this is so inadequate to what is really needed and to what is possible.

Most of all, you utterly lack introspection, and fail to see that so much of what you hate on the left is simply your own projection – you ascribe to the left what you on the right have been doing all along. The points I’ve cited above are examples of this, but there are countless others. You simply refuse to look at yourself in the mirror and be honest about what you’re saying and ascribing to others. When you start to blame liberals for X, ask if you are not doing the same thing. It’s the old saying: when you point one finger out, there are three pointing back.

Your own words sound as though they were spoken by frightened children stuck around the emotional age of seven. You don’t know how to deal with a much larger world, except through creating enemies out of everyone who isn’t like you. You wouldn’t think of talking to an actual liberal, to find out what they thought – instead you create endless strawmen, as Hawkins did in this post. This is a stupid, wasteful, and immature way to deal with the world. It won’t work.

This isn’t to say that there aren’t dangerous enemies out there – there are – but the ways you people advocate dealing with them have obviously failed, and are obviously only creating more enemies. Your stupid, myopic positions are ruining and wasting this once great country. It is you who will be to blame when America falls.

Lambert’s comment is priceless, and the Hawkins worldview is just astounding.

As to conservative humor — I always think of Bush mocking Tucker pleading for her life. Most conservative humor is a bullying, degrading, frat-boy style. I think it was Paul O’Neill who felt (correctly) that Bush used nicknames to bully people, and most conservative humor isn’t based on wit, or reflection. It’s all about putting people in their place.

Didn’t Tom DeLay wear his patriotic lapel pin in his offical police mug shot?