Conservatives Hate America, Part 2

Within days of Barack Obama's election to the presidency, Mitch McConnell, who was Senate Minority Leader at the time, declared that the number one priority of the conservatives in the Senate and the House of Representatives was not to create jobs, not to strengthen our ailing economy, not to defend our nation against terror or foreign aggression, and not to serve We the People... to the best of their ability.  No, the number one priority of the conservatives was making Barack Obama a one-term president.

Since then, the conservatives have tried to block every move the Obama administration has made.  Every proposal, every policy change, every appointment, every military decision, every funding decision, every enforcement decision made by the president and his staff has been opposed by the conservatives.  No exceptions.  There are no counter-examples.  Everything, no matter how necessary, no matter how inexpensive, no matter how innocuous.  The conservatives are perfectly happy to allow America to sink if it gives them a chance to paint Barack Obama as the bad guy.  They are willing to allow our economy to go down the tubes, and even to damage the security and well-being of the American people, if it means they stop Barack Obama from succeeding at anything whatsoever.

I'm quite convinced that if they could sneak someone into the man's bedroom, they'd try to sabotage the president when he was tying his shoes.

This tactic of blocking and saying no to everything reached its absolute low-point when Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy took the full faith and credit of the United States of America, not to mention the idea of a democratically elected government, hostage by threatening to not raise the debt limit, thereby forcing the United States to default on its loans and debts that previous Congresses had promised to pay.  Conservative grand-standing earned the United States the very first downgrade in its debt rating since the country was founded 238 years ago.

And with no shame whatsoever, they then blamed Barack Obama for the downgrade.

In 2013, they did it all again by actually shutting down the government unless President Obama defunded the Affordable Care Act.  There is nothing in the Constitution of the United States that allows any branch of government (much less any political party) to shut down the operations of that government in order to prevent another branch from doing its job by enacting a law that was passed by Congress, signed by the president, and verified as legal and constitutional by the Supreme Court.  They had no authority granting them this power.  They just did it.  In my opinion, this crossed the line into "treason" territory.  They were actively working to harm the nation.  Treason.

And believe me, you can bet that if the roles were reversed, if a Republican president had been in office and it had been Democrats who shut everything down, the conservative-controlled media would be howling for blood.

One of the standard conservative tactics is to claim the sky is falling.  They did it with public education, the rights of workers, women's suffrage, Social Security, Medicare, voting rights for minorities, the Americans With Disabilities act, Equal Employment Opportunity, and many other programs.  These things cannot be put into place, they argue, because it will harm the nation and ruin America.  Except, of course, none of those things ruined America.  They never have any facts to back up their nonsense, mind you, but they're going to tell you its bad over and over and over and over until some gullible schmuck starts believing them.   And now the "train wreck" is the Affordable Care Act.

Again and again, conservatives try to impose a rigid ideology on the people of the United States that is based purely on myth and is totally lacking in what intelligent people call "empirical evidence".  This ideology has been repeatedly proven to be nothing more than a total disaster for the country.  Multiple times in American history, so-called "laissez-faire" economic policies (that is, those policies whose central tenets are "just let the market run, it will sort itself out") have torpedoed the American economy.  Conservatives are either too ignorant to change or are actively refusing to learn this lesson.  Either way, they continue to place America at risk with their recklessness and their dedication to a debunked economic theory.

These days they seem to be doubling down on it.  They bellow constantly for less and less regulation of business, less and less oversight, less and less control.  And they do this just a short time after this very thing -- a wildly speculative banking and investment industry -- nearly drove the economy of the entire globe right into the toilet.  These conservatives, who would gleefully bankrupt the entire planet just so they can personally accumulate a few more millions of follars in their personal accounts, are the greatest threat our nation has ever faced since the Civil War almost tore us into two countries.  Abraham Lincoln said, "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher."  He was speaking the truth.  We're not going to be destroyed by any other nation, and we're certainly not going to be destroyed by terrorists.

No.  Sadly, its going to be people who call themselves Americans who bring this country to its knees from within.  Don't believe me?  Consider this statement made by an anonymous writer in the the newsletter of the Virginia Republican Party, back in 2012.

We shall not have any coarse (sic) but armed revolution should we fail with the power of the vote in November.  This Republic cannot survive for four more years underneath this political socialist ideologue.

Right.  Barack Obama, whose personal politics and voting record reveal that his ideals are those of a moderate Republican despite his membership in the Democratic party, on whose watch the economy has mostly recovered and on whose watch the stock market value has doubled, is a socialist ideologue.  The Virginia Republican who wrote this quote is either an utter moron, a deliberate liar, or (most likely) both.  He and those who agree with him are threatening to thwart the democratic system, and thus are skating on the thin ice of treason.

To quote the president, let me be clear.  A real patriot loves America.  He (or she) loves the land, the people, and the ideals on which this nation was founded.  A conservative has absolutely no respect for any of that.  A conservative doesn't give a tinker's damn about protecting America's natural beauty from environmental damage.  A conservative doesn't give a damn about the animals who live on that land.  A conservative hates pretty much all other Americans.  And a conservative absolutely does not believe in the founding principles of this country, including the ideal of democracy itself.

Instead, they bitch and moan about having to pay their fair share of the tax burden, obstruct and endanger the operation of the government, thereby harming the American people, and actively hate (and promote the hating of) America itself.

Patriots?  Not even close.

On the contrary, conservatives are a temper-tantrum away from committing High Treason.

Conservatives Hate America

Let's make one thing tragically clear right now.  Conservatives in general are not patriots, and the more hardcore conservative they are, the less patriotic they are.  The very idea of a "conservative patriot" right now would be a complete joke if it weren't so fucking tragic.  They are far from being patriots.  No, conservatives are too reckless and dangerous to be patriots.  They consistently veer closer and closer to being traitors to this country, and in the last twenty or thirty years they've enthusiastically crossed that line several times.

During the American Revolution, the Conservatives were actually against fighting alongside Britain.  They sided with the British against their own colonies.  They were the "Party of No" way back then, too.  Keep in mind that a conservative is someone who wishes to "promote, preserve and or restore traditional values, hierarchies, and institutions."  Well, in 1776, that meant they wanted absolutely no part in separating from England and the monarchy.  They liked being subjects of King George III.  They were called "Tories" then, and that name is still used in England by the Conservative Party.

Conservatives in this country started on the wrong side of history, and that's where they've been ever since.


After the American Revolution, many conservatives fled back to England, or ended up moving to Canada or one of the Caribbean islands.  Good riddance.  Unfortunately, many conservatives fled to Florida, which at the time of the Revolution was the one British colony (the British having acquired it from the Spanish) that sided with England during that time.  When Florida was acquired by the United States, the US got all those traitors back.

After the Revolution was over, the conservatives in the new United States began predicting the country's demise.  Almost universally, they believed that the "common rabble" could not govern themselves without the entire thing falling to chaos and anarchy.  To a man they refused to call themselves "American", and many vocally expressed anticipation on the British returning to America and "liberating" the colonies from the "barbaric commoners" who had taken it over.  As such, when the War of 1812 broke out, they once again returned to form and supported the British against the nation of which they were supposedly citizens.

That same war was the one that finally dashed the hopes of American conservatives that Britain would come and "liberate" the American colonies.  The conservatives, as I noted, might have welcomed the British with open arms, but their love of the British died when the British began looting, burning, and pillaging everywhere they went.  The British also incited the various Indian tribes to attack frontier settlements, once again stopped trade, and so on. 

This didn't sit well with the American conservatives.  Their supposed saviors turned out to be just another pack of rampaging barbarians, and for the first time the conservatives began identifying themselves as "American."

Better late than never, I suppose.

Make no mistake, though.  The nascent loyalty of the American conservatives to their own country was weak, tenuous, and easily broken.  This was readily apparent in 1861, when conservatives decided that they'd rather betray their country than put up with Abraham Lincoln as president.  They stomped off in a huff so they could form a nation where "states rights" triumphed Federal law, and where all right-thinking, decent Americans were free to own as many other human beings as they could afford.  This act of arrogant conservative ideology run amok killed over seven hundred thousand Americans, and brought about the first assassination of a political leader on American soil.

You'd think that such a shameful chapter in their history would have at least shamed conservatives into thinking before they started talking, but no.  One hundred and fifty years later, the descendants of these traitors are proud of their ancestor's treason.  Conservatives proudly fly the Confederate flag.  Sometimes they actually place that treasonous banner in a place of honor over the national flag of the United States.

Not only that, but many of them seem to be planning another try at secession.  Several Texas conservatives (including Rick Perry, the current governor of that state as I write this) have remarked openly about seceding.  Up in Alaska, former governor-turned-vice-presidential-candidate Sarah Palin belongs to a group called the Alaskan Independence Party, which advocates secession.  Local and state-level conservative politicians from Wyoming, including former Vice-President Dick Cheney, have remarked that the people of Wyoming are actively considering secession.

Ironically, all this fuss and feathers involving secession is once again been caused because these people would rather betray their country than put up with Barack Obama in the White House.  Its the same childish posturing, the same macho angst.  The same bluster.  And it just goes to show how shallow any real patriotic feeling flows among these so-called "conservative patriots."

Conservatives have always wanted to thwart the democratic process, since the beginning.  When the Constitution was being written, it was the conservatives who wanted to restrict citizenship to white men who owned property above a certain number of acres.  They also wanted Senators hand-picked by state office-holders.  The reason for these two measures was simple:  they were "conserving" the aristocracy.

By the way, these same measures are precisely how the old aristocracy has the British House of Lords rigged up.


It is a statement of historical fact that the conservatives in this country have stood in opposition to every effort to expand the vote away from white male property owners.  They have also stood opposed to all efforts to have most government positions, including senators, congressmen, and even the presidency itself open to popular vote. 

They have stopped at nothing, and will continue to stop at nothing, in order to interfere with the popular vote. 

Over the years they have thrown up poll taxes, literacy testing, blatant intimidation, inconvenient and unnecessarily strict ID requirements, setting up onerous and punitive restrictions on voter registration, outlawing voter registration programs, providing insufficient numbers of voting machines, blatantly rigging elections, tampering with vote counting, and even getting the United States Supreme Court to violate a sovereign state's Constitution in order to hand-pick a President, just to name a few of the malodorous and unethical tactics that have been used by conservatives to lower voter turnout among the "common folk".

And do not think that these tactics are things of the past.  Many of them are being put in place as I write this. 

Quite recently as I write this, conservatives such as Justice Antonin Scalia, Governor Rick Perry of Texas, former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, Senator Zell Miller of Georgia, and many others have actively pursued the repeal of the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution, which grants the right to vote for their senators to the people of the United States.  Instead, they want Senators to be hand-picked by the state legislatures.  In other words, they want to take power away from the common folk and hand it back to the aristocracy.

Even worse, since the last time conservatives were allowed to nearly bring this country to its knees back in the 1920s, conservatives have deliberately been disseminating propaganda which paints any government that isn't run by themselves as evil, corrupt, and bad for the nation.  When they aren't in control, conservatives do everything they can to disrupt and delegitimize the political authorities of the duly elected liberals who are in charge.  This is a hair's breadth away from High Treason.  K'ung Fu-tzu, the Chinese philosopher and politician known better today in the United States as "Confucius", once said that it would be better for nation to lose its security and all of its food than for the nation's government to lose the trust of the people.  Many otherwise powerful nations over history have fallen apart because such trust was lost.  Once the people lose their trust in their government, civil strife and anarchy are sure to follow.

And do not for one moment think that the conservatives don't know this.  They can read history just as well as I can, and they know what it means.  Why do you think they're trying to undermine trust in the government?  It's a power play.  They believe that once the common people mistrust their government, they'll be able to sweep in, making promises left right and center, and the people will love them so much that they (the common folk) will never know that the conservatives want to bring us back to the days of feudalism.

This nefarious scheme has won conservatives elections, but it has been one of the most disastrous strategies for the country itself of any political tactic in the history of the United States.  This scheme intentionally fosters deep and passionate division among the people, and a divided people are much easier to rule.  Conservatives are gleefully fanning the flames of not just disagreement but outright hatred for all things that aren't conservative, no matter how moderate these non-conservative things might be.  Over the past fifty years, conservatives have spit venomous bile at the likes of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and most particularly Barack Obama, along with any ideas and proposals they make.

And they do this even when the ideas and proposals were originally put forth by conservatives, like "ObamaCare", which began life as "RomneyCare," a creation of former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts.

This is the point at which some of my Libertarian friends will say, "There is no difference between parties.  They both do these things."  No.  This is a blatant lie.  The vitriol spewed by conservatives for their liberal counterparts are entire orders of magnitude more venomous and hate-filled, and more damaging to national unity and stability than anything coming from the liberal side.

Conservatives value party ideology and dogma over American ideals and values, including the all-important idea that we are one nation, united.  Guided by their disloyalty, conservatives seek to divide and separate themselves, whom they consider "superior", from all others, whom they regard as "inferior."  This naturally pits them in direct opposition to most Americans.  but then, they do not like most Americans.  They demonize and blame the country's problems on the blacks, on the Hispanics, on the poor, on the homosexuals, on the immigrants, on unions, on teachers, on firefighters, on government workers, on lawyers, and naturally, on liberals.  They blame anyone and everyone who is not one of them.  Not a fact in the world can possibly justify this arrogant assumption of superiority, nor support the blatantly prejudicial thinking that supports it, but conservatives truly believe that if you spread a lie wide enough and often enough times, if they spew their prejudicial hate-mongering message loudly enough, just enough gullible voters will believe it, and once enough people believe it, no one will ever remember that it all started out as a big fat lie.

The sad thing is, they're right about this.

So, as they are by nature in opposition to the interests of the American people, a Conservative's only real means of controlling the people is by way of dividing and conquering.  Conservatives know they cannot win by standing on their positions and their true agenda.  Rather, they must lie, deceive, frighten, divide, and subjugate.  The whole idea of a United States of America is contrary to conservative objectives.  What they want is an America divided into a caste system; a distinctive separation into a hierarchy between the politically and economically powerful haves and the utterly disenfranchised and subjugated have-nots.  They want a system of oppressors (themselves) and oppressed (everyone else).  And boy howdy, do they have a real problem with the idea of "We the People..."

To quote William F. Buckley, conservatives stand athwart democracy, yelling, "Stop!"

Conservative politicians wrap themselves in the flag and wallow in false patriotism.  What they are actually doing is everything they can to stop the democratic process while denigrating and foment distrust for the American government.  From Warren G. Harding's corrupt cronyism to McCarthy's witch hunts to Nixon's paranoia to Reagan's blatant disregard for the law to Bush's willful incompetence to the unprecedented obstructionism of today's Republican party, conservatives in America are actively working to murder their own nation.

Because they hate their own nation.

A Day in the Life of Joe Teabagger.

Joe Teabagger is an ordinary working class guy.


Every workday, he gets up at 6:00 am like clockwork to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards.


He takes six different pills every day, usually with his first swallow of coffee. The medicines he takes are safe to take and effective because some liberal fought to insure that drugs don’t poison people and that they do what the doctors say they’re supposed to do.


Joe only pays $10.00 for his meds.  The rest of the $1500 a month cost of his medication is paid for by the medical insurance he gets from his job because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance.  Joe gets it too, even though he’s not a union member.


Joe prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe's bacon is free from parasites or food-born bacteria because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.


After breakfast, Joe takes his morning shower.  The shampoo he uses is in a bottle that’s properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.


Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.


Since the train station his so close, Joe usually walks rather than drives to catch his ride to work.  The railway he rides into town is subsidized by the government, and it saves him a lot of money in gas and parking fees, not to mention time he doesn’t have to spend out on the congested highways.  This is because some liberal fought for affordable public transportation.


In addition to the medical insurance he gets from his job, Joe enjoys an excellent ray rate, has paid holidays and vacation days, and when he retires will get a really great retirement plan that will keep him from starving in his old age.  This is because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards.



If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of he has a run of bad luck.


At noon, Joe spends his lunch break at the bank, depositing his paycheck so he can pay his bills.  The deposits he makes are all federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberals decided that we really didn’t need people starving to death in another Great Depression.


Joe also makes a payment on his mortgage, which is held by the Fannie Mae corporation, and on his federal student loan.  He can do this because some idiotic liberal decided that Joe would be better off if he had a decent education, and thus could earn more money over his lifetime.


On the weekend, Joe decides to go visit his mom and dad who live on a farm out in the country.  So he gets into his car and takes the drive.  His car is among the safest in the world, because a bunch of liberals took an interest in car safety standards.


The farm Joe grew up on was originally financed by the Farmers Home Administration and not a bank, because back in the 1930s, when the farm was owned by his grandfather, no bank would issue a loan in a rural area.


In addition, the farmhouse didn’t even have electricity or running water until some big government liberal stuck his fat nose where it didn’t belong.


Joe’s always happy to see his mom and dad, who are both retired.  His parents live on Social Security and dad’s union pension, because some no-account liberal wanted the elderly to be able to take care of themselves.  That way, Joe wouldn’t be burdened with caring for them himself (not that Joe would mind doing so; he’d just have to struggle more than he wants to).


After his visit with his folks, Joe drives back home.  While driving, Joe turns the radio to the Sean Hannity show.  Joe likes Sean Hannity.  He agrees with pretty much everything Sean Hannity has to say.  He especially likes how Hannity says that liberals are bad and conservatives are good.  (Of course, Hannity doesn’t tell Joe that his beloved conservatives have fought against every single protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day.)


Joe agrees with Hannity.  And while driving, Joe says to himself, “We don’t need those big government liberals ruining our lives with their tax-and-spend communism!  After all, look at me!  I’m a self-made man!  Those liberal assholes should get off their butts and take care of themselves, just like I do!”