tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post2868418139695394853..comments2024-03-16T02:16:54.082-07:00Comments on Vagabond Scholar: Diagrams on ConservatismBatocchiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-69598479836985812702010-03-26T17:46:03.873-07:002010-03-26T17:46:03.873-07:00What a great thing to discover now, the week of th...What a great thing to discover now, the week of the passing and signing of the health reform bill! Phenomenal insight. Thank you for your work!QYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14806787004323529188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-54757529280896930832009-08-20T13:03:39.935-07:002009-08-20T13:03:39.935-07:00What fine writing!What fine writing!MBEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04235344225581129734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-54047169129541545322009-07-08T11:01:19.603-07:002009-07-08T11:01:19.603-07:00Awesome. But I've always summed it up in a muc...Awesome. But I've always summed it up in a much more pithy manner:<br /><br />All conservatives are:<br /><br />Greedy and/or<br />Stupid and/or<br />Racist<br /><br />I don't know a single conservative that isn't one of these things.Solar Heronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-66314778287914399742009-07-06T23:15:38.974-07:002009-07-06T23:15:38.974-07:00Eric Berne (sp.) - he of "Now I've got yo...Eric Berne (sp.) - he of "Now I've got you, you son-of-a-bitch" fame) would love the Asshole diagrams.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-30782035990299964472009-07-06T21:43:55.840-07:002009-07-06T21:43:55.840-07:00This is an excellent first chapter for a book.
Th...This is an excellent first chapter for a book.<br /><br />The conservative "movement" has been tacking to the right for many years, and we have reached a moment when the talk-radio fringe is emerging as mainstream. To some extent, this is a deliberate choice: Roger Ailes hired Glenn Beck, Beck built his doom bunker, and the Faux Noise Channel started airing the same sort of Matt Osbornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00775385227870993490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-84873374819859748562009-07-06T19:39:02.756-07:002009-07-06T19:39:02.756-07:00Brilliant post, holmes!Brilliant post, holmes!Comrade PhysioProfhttp://physioprof.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-67633122256489119182009-07-06T19:28:33.779-07:002009-07-06T19:28:33.779-07:00Excellent post. You hit on many of the most glarin...Excellent post. You hit on many of the most glaring defects of the conservative. The "conservative" beasts these days are really more like mindless reactionaries than true conservatives IMHO. <br />A definition I heard a while ago and like a lot is:<br />Conservative philosophy is based on greed. <br />Liberal philosophy is based on doing good for others.<br />I think that pretty well Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-43789079595248577432009-07-05T13:00:12.350-07:002009-07-05T13:00:12.350-07:00I read you for sanity, my friend.
You rock (and t...I read you for sanity, my friend.<br /><br />You rock (and this one particularly!).<br /><br />S<br /><br /><i>And it's not as if national Democrats as a whole, too beholden to corporate interests, are that admirable, either.</i><br /><br />P.S. And Dcap also:<br /><br /><i>more like a bowel movement.</i>Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-15772317365114618772009-07-04T11:38:35.879-07:002009-07-04T11:38:35.879-07:00'just wanted to say thank you for this. Great ...'just wanted to say thank you for this. Great work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-18219874699817037422009-07-04T10:20:27.596-07:002009-07-04T10:20:27.596-07:00I got drunker than a piss boiled owl last night an...I got drunker than a piss boiled owl last night and woke up and here I am. I have no clue how I got here but I just read this whole post and could not agree more!<br />Excellent breakdown.<br /><br />Crazy fucks know exactly what they are doing, I might add and three quarters of the media in this country should be unemployed for giving these whackjobs a platform to distribute their bullshit.<br /Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15695733883033137146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-42533296944738888222009-07-04T10:14:26.379-07:002009-07-04T10:14:26.379-07:00So much of conservative ideology as I see it, boil...So much of conservative ideology as I see it, boils down to self-preservation and a fear of losing what they have. <br /><br />It's almost as if they believe we are in some kind of fallen world and can't wait to be the miner's canary, ready to predict the end. Which begs the question---at which point does wishing to be the prophet in the wilderness just to say "I told you so&Comrade Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11393718048145784837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-91103777476695632292009-07-04T09:53:35.566-07:002009-07-04T09:53:35.566-07:00Recently I heard that Porky Pigger Frank Luntz tal...Recently I heard that Porky Pigger Frank Luntz talking about our health care reform. The words he used to describe it were "Nationalizing Healthcare". These are scare tactic words as everyone who follows these Repiglicans knows. Words are Luntz's game as you well know. He went on to include in his Repiglican ideology, the fact that they do not think it's fair for poor/middle Cheyannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01744837681373675637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-39920337752526485172009-07-03T17:57:57.807-07:002009-07-03T17:57:57.807-07:00i always knew geometry would come in handy some da...i always knew geometry would come in handy some day<br /><br />what a terrific post.........<br /><br />as for the conservative movement --- it is a movement all right, more like a bowel movement.<br /><br />because they have the media<br />a) in their palms<br />b) spreading the message (so they can get the get)<br /><br />the conservative movement will continue to think they are mainstream --- Distributorcaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10149154929149577121noreply@blogger.com