The Passion of the Republican Party Reptile
> I've leafed though some of Dawkin's work before, and he is very good at
> explaining the possibility/probability of evolution. But, I am curious,
> Reptile, I assumed ALL conservatives believe the Earth was created in 7
> days! I realize I shouldn't generalize here, but can you explain that for
> me, please? Thanks!
Just because I'm not religious doesn't mean I can't recognize that liberals f***ing suck.
That's my short answer for those who don't wanna read much.
Here's the long answer....
A Republican Party Reptile (which is the title of a book by PJ O'Rourke) is not that kind of religious right type. To me it means something along the lines of a "South Park Republican." Trey Parker and Matt Stone are my kind of people. Andrew sullivan of www.andrewsullivan.com is my kind of people. Arnold Shwarzenegger would be my kind of president.
So I'm mostly libertarian, which is what CLASSICAL liberalism is! But I guess I'm a "neo-conservative" on foreign policy...whatever that means.....
As the South Park guys said in an interview promoting Team America, Americans have become the dicks of the world just like cops are dicks. And people understandably are gonna hate us for it. But the world needs dicks because there are assholes on the loose out there (bin Laden, Kim Jong-il, Saddam...), so quit being such pussies (Michael Moore...).
If I'm a "conservative" it is because I want America to be AMERICA, guided by and aspiring towards our founding principles. It is those principles I wanna conserve. I don't want us to be like other countries. We didn't get to the top of the heap with that kind of "Lets fall back into the pack and be as lame as everyone else" attitude.....
I made a screenname with republican in it because it's such an unfairly demonized label in some circles. I find the level of hatred directed at Bush to be disturbing and hysterical, possibly mass mental illness.
I found the way half the democrat party didn't even seem to understand we were at war, or if we were, our side was the one to root AGAINST, absolutely mad.
Every time I walk into a book store they have a table set up with like a f***ing thousand "I Hate Bushitler" type books. It mostly makes me laugh, but when I look thru those books I get ill at the thought of such people getting their hands on the wheel of power.
So I found it amusing to finally just embrace the "republican" label in this time of mass anti-Bush hysteria, and post on boards with many liberals. And let them hate me and crucify me for it.
The passion of the republican party reptile.
The thing of it is, the "republican" label, just like the "democrat" label, doesn't mean much, so I'm like, what's the big whoop about it. Half of the the most diverse country in the world votes Republican. 60 million people voted for a Republican. What do you really know about a person from one of those labels? How can 60 million people be stereotyped? You thought I was some kind of creationist. I think that Christian fundamentalists are from the dark ages and should've been left in the dark ages. And I don't worry about immoral lifestyles or a sick pop culture. People should be left alone to live whatever lifestyle they want and enjoy whatever entertainments they like. It's fine to try persuasion, not fine to use government power.
The Christian right does not want to leave people to live the lifestyles they choose and like, and neither does the socialist left.
As it happens, most of the infringements upon my life and my rights have come from the nanny-state left. The hardcore Christians talk big but don't get very far. The liberal nanny-state is taking over everywhere.
On top of that, the government wants to take ever-larger shares of MY income from me without even trying to cut out their waste first, which is highly uncool.....
There's a lot to be said for a Democrat in the White House with a Republican congress keeping his more socialist tendencies in check. That is often the type of balance in which South Park Republicans get more things to go our way.
And PERHAPS one could say something for electing a Democrat commander in chief to force that party to be more serious in the war (would've felt better with Gephart if I'd have gone that way).
However, Kerry and his party became aliens to me in their campaign, with an unhinged mentality infecting the base with respect to the war. I was more worried about those people than the religious types who are a part of Bush's base. We have a constitition protecting me from Christians forcing their ways!!
As someone wrote at slate.com last week, I'll take a modest, god-fearing, deer-hunting Baptist from Kentucky over the mentality I saw on the left the past couple years, thank you. Their demented reactions to the election results only underscores the rightness of my judgment.
All of my life it has been the liberal intelligentsia and other socialist types who have been, not merely highly annoying, but the biggest threat to my life, my rights, and my country's security.
So...at the end of the day, I am in fact a red stater not just in geograpy but at heart. I have a growing contempt for the "Liberal Elite," and you don't have to be a Christian to feel that way.
Liberals just totally suck. When they can't convince the people to accept their agenda democratically they either try and con us or they try and force it through undemocratically. The way of the liberal is, when you don't get your way, you pretend not to be as liberal as you are, or you hire lawyers to sue everyone into submission, or you find ideological judges to try and dictate your agenda.
Many liberals don't even seem to wanna accept election results anymore. Look at all the shit from liberals acting like they won't concede this election. Republicans know what it's like to lose, and they do so far more gracefully. I guess that's because they respect our democracy more. And they're not a bunch of cry-babies who threaten to move to Canada because the election wasn't close enough to take to court. (What's stopping 'em from going to Canada?)
