tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post3238852546562222736..comments2024-03-16T02:16:54.082-07:00Comments on Vagabond Scholar: The Four Types of ConservativesBatocchiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-34946347294002325922012-12-29T19:57:19.414-08:002012-12-29T19:57:19.414-08:00Best analysis ever of the Republicans. Should have...Best analysis ever of the Republicans. Should have been in a major publication.Hattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02621439195920479957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-66394901713065633472012-08-23T16:35:14.324-07:002012-08-23T16:35:14.324-07:00Simplified categories - I've yet to find an ex...Simplified categories - I've yet to find an exception:<br /><br />All conservatives are either rich or stupid (often both.)<br /><br />All conservatives are greedy.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-42900765855454052112012-08-20T03:34:27.528-07:002012-08-20T03:34:27.528-07:00fsfsffsfsfabchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16009783030535749392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-66214731182222730022012-08-06T11:07:37.910-07:002012-08-06T11:07:37.910-07:00Excellent post. Thank you.
I was once a Republica...Excellent post. Thank you.<br /><br />I was once a Republican. I started as a proud zealot, but then, to my great shame, intrusive little <b>facts</b> kept showing up and not going away.<br /><br />I tried to deny them, but every time I was forced to make a 'sober adult' stand, I was pushed out of the Republican silo, one little shove at a time.<br /><br />And if you allow any one flag toHoward Bannisternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-51738431928865602162012-08-06T06:43:06.935-07:002012-08-06T06:43:06.935-07:00to everyone who reads this column: print it out i...to everyone who reads this column: print it out immediately, and seal it in a stout bottle (not necessarly a guiness bottle) and toss it in the nearest river, stream, or ocean, so that some future anthropologist (probably from another galaxy) will find one of them and know that we were *all* not a bunch of fools...Alan Abramshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00627863843668512201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-6576378915294742402012-08-05T20:15:23.642-07:002012-08-05T20:15:23.642-07:00A great post! I would add that we still have sober...A great post! I would add that we still have sober Republicans in the USA - they are the controlling wing of the Democratic Party. And those who are now considered fringe left radicals were once the controlling wing of the Democrats. Hard to see how this pathological process will continue. I suppose in the bigger picture it will be (quite literally): après nous, le déluge...stockholm slenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16909107517362691387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-64246307420066563822012-08-05T04:40:10.872-07:002012-08-05T04:40:10.872-07:00This is an excellent analysis of the dire situatio...This is an excellent analysis of the dire situation in America. Even at my mature age,nothing has made me fear for America more than the rise of these neo cons and their seeming acceptance by the media. <br /><br />At the same time I realized they could not be trusted and should be treated en masse as narcissistic teen-aged brats rather than reasonable people, I began to feel the same Rebecca Franswayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11010422139831791461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-28133432111045647712012-08-04T20:46:14.166-07:002012-08-04T20:46:14.166-07:00One thing you didn't address was how these Rep...One thing you didn't address was how these Republicans group break down by age and/or occupation or region. It might be helpful to document so people can address questions they often have with their families, like why does Grandma uncritically swallow everything on Fox News, thus turning her into a Proud Zealot, or is my Uncle Dan who's a Doctor a Sober Adult or a Stealthy Extremist, or Lit3Bolthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10407681812425172672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-75701866957815362892012-08-04T20:34:36.694-07:002012-08-04T20:34:36.694-07:00Bravo! I haven't even finished reading it but...Bravo! I haven't even finished reading it but this is a rock solid post. I'm gonna show it to my family and friends and use it as my explanation for why I changed from a squishy moderate in the early 2000s to a hardcore liberal, a label I'm proud to wear because it means I'm not a bat-shit-insane-and/or-evil conservative.Lit3Bolthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10407681812425172672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-40235854510880928312012-08-04T18:49:52.722-07:002012-08-04T18:49:52.722-07:00Thanks, Vagabond - this is excellent!
The piece th...Thanks, Vagabond - this is excellent!<br />The piece that's missing, however, is a discussion of how the plutocracy has bought controlling interest in all 4 factions.branchwaternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-66309439056458606562012-08-04T18:48:44.744-07:002012-08-04T18:48:44.744-07:00Dammit. Here I've been trying to stop saying ...Dammit. Here I've been trying to stop saying "I hate fucking Republicans" and you've thrown me back into it.M Waltonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-70587333421120207352012-08-04T17:28:37.281-07:002012-08-04T17:28:37.281-07:00Thank you so much for this post. It is so very de...Thank you so much for this post. It is so very detailed, thought out and just packed with jump off points of other ideas that I've bookmarked it just for the references.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-10002193638175887252012-08-04T17:17:08.245-07:002012-08-04T17:17:08.245-07:00I've always said that there's no such thin...I've always said that there's no such thing as a "real conservative" and this backs me up. You depict the sober adults saying "that's ridiculous" to the core positions of conservatism. Therefore they aren't conservatives, and conservatism has zero (not few) sober adults.<br /><br />What happened is that conservative positions that sounded reasonable 30 years steevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12620735494191381865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-19197464738624402992012-08-04T14:37:06.761-07:002012-08-04T14:37:06.761-07:00Excellent. Just bloody excellent. This is what I&#...Excellent. Just bloody excellent. This is what I've been trying to say for years, but more articulately and on steroids. Thank you for writing it.<br /><br />Of course, we're utterly screwed. If the few people I care about weren't here, I'd move to Western Europe and never look back (not that they have much longer, either, which is also largely our fault).Jeff Eygeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11967707883565162538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-89206944454717929912012-08-04T08:36:35.874-07:002012-08-04T08:36:35.874-07:00Before I knew better I had a job that sometimes pu...Before I knew better I had a job that sometimes put me in rooms with men with guns.Sometimes these men were angry,sometimes these men were just good businessmen deciding if now was the time to pull a gun and call this deal done.I always was able to leave that room because I always had a few things I brought to the table.The first and most important was the ability to let the men across from me Jerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11635015326954309804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-38127666135810216312012-08-04T07:38:06.459-07:002012-08-04T07:38:06.459-07:00I agree that conservatives "work the refs&quo...I agree that conservatives "work the refs" in almost every case, to allow them an airing of an uncritical proposal, or viewpoint, it must be mentioned that "the refs" are media primarily owned by conservative-leaning corporations. It's more like the refs are your uncles, and aunts.Dan Uhlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-32576104988773272672012-08-01T06:29:56.237-07:002012-08-01T06:29:56.237-07:00Mission Briefing | My Ready Room
[...]The article...<a href="http://myreadyroom.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/mission-briefing/" rel="nofollow">Mission Briefing | My Ready Room</a><br /><br />[...]The article is long-form but well worth the read; I particularly liked this bit of advice that voters AND media...[...]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-20892330662717787612012-08-01T06:06:21.411-07:002012-08-01T06:06:21.411-07:00Thank you for easily one of the best blog posts I&...Thank you for easily one of the best blog posts I've read in a long, long time.<br /><br />Keep up the great work!<br /><br />RPRetired Patriothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10653011328780251842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-90729721417953239732012-08-01T03:39:14.492-07:002012-08-01T03:39:14.492-07:00The most depressing aspect of the Republican party...The most depressing aspect of the Republican party, as currently constituted, is that, as you pointed out, people <i>simply can't believe</i> they are as crazy and destructive as Dr. No in his volcano lair.<br /><br />Yet, they did unblinkingly lie our way into a war, outing a CIA agent in the process. They are rigging the voting process because they are starting to lose ground. They do WereBearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17746779803342657146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-81724515883582657902012-07-31T20:07:24.055-07:002012-07-31T20:07:24.055-07:00My parents were Goldwater Republicans and it was s...My parents were Goldwater Republicans and it was strange realizing I too miss the party they were so faithful to. They both grew up in the old south and carried all the attendant baggage. The civil rights movement scared them, Yet they supported the voting rights act. They weren't hypocrits. They were not comfortable with change, our family was last in the neighborhood adopters. They were Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14857092.post-4562341725916592172012-07-30T12:43:11.837-07:002012-07-30T12:43:11.837-07:00Well, it's good to remember that we've bee...Well, it's good to remember that we've been suspicious of the "sober" Rethugs (yeah, not really any Repubs left anymore anywhere) for quite some time now mainly because any time they might have been expected to jump in with sensible suggestions/plans, it somehow never quite happened. (Although there was a lot of chat about it from the Lieberman-type crowd.)<br /><br />What we Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com