Saturday, October 23, 2004
(4:39 PM) | Anonymous:
I Find Conservatives Morally Reprehensible.
I did a bad, bad thing. No, I didn't cheat on my wife or buy drugs from the guys across the street. I've been reading conservative blogs out of boredom. This always starts out innocent, like that first time you heard Rush Limbaugh and couldn't stop listening due to your utter disbelief that anyone could actually believe this shit. It's so bizarre, so different and it becomes slightly entertaining. I have, after all, always had a passing interest in propaganda techniques. This stuff really is an art.That interest always wears off in the face of reality. When I read that conservatives still support a President who isn't a conservative I realize they aren't artists, they are immoral fucks. I know that morality is usually the domain of the conservatives, but what they call morals is really just obscuring the fact that they have no positive plan for the future of America or the world. Really, they stand to serve the interests of their constituents in the upper echelons of society. So I think morals, as a word describing actions that will keep you from having a bad life, should be reclaimed by the left.
When I talk to a conservative I feel a bit like Kant. If we can't agree on a fundamental issue, like the fact that the Iraq war was at best an instance of extreme idiocy, then we just can't talk. Or maybe, at the very least, admit that Bush is not a Republican. He's for big government, expansionist foreign policy, and all the faux moral issues, like abortion, serve only as rhetoric tools since his office knows it is essential a non-issue.
Basically, I read these blogs and get angry. I want them to just go away. Maybe I should move to France, sure they may be appeasing bastards that eat too much cheese, but at least in France no one argues over the definition of torture.
