History tells us that unchecked power will destroy those without the means to defend themselves. The weak become convenient political scapegoats against the horrific self-serving policies of a corrupt ruling class.
The obsession with "fitness" and "superiority", common talking points of conservatives, reveals conservatives as true cowards. Conservatives are unable to challenge the absurd notion of their own superiority (an ironic weakness, for sure). Nothing scares them more than the simple falsehood of their delusion. And they will stop at nothing to protect their perceived entitlements, no matter how undeserved.
Today, real-life extremists are roaming the halls of Congress, lending a false dignity to the twisted visions driving our legislative priorities. We need to be vigilant and on guard against the radical views of supremacy. There is nothing more dangerous than a nation ruled by cowardly, delusional extremists.
So what are the attributes of extremists? Easy. They'll be the ones promoting abstract benefits that come from giving up environmental protections, civil liberties and human rights.
- We have to solve the problems of global warming by drilling for more oil.
- We have to increase levels of poverty before we can eliminate poverty.
- We have to torture people until we have peace.
- We have to cut taxes on the wealthy to increase wages for the poor.
- We have to eliminate marriage rights to protect marriage rights.
- We have to eliminate safe and legal abortion to protect women's health.
- We have to spy on your family to protect them.
- We must not prosecute Wall Street banks so they can help families crushed by their fraud.
- We have to outsource millions of jobs to Asia so that the money saved can create jobs in the US.
- The free market should determine who should be allowed regular access to health care
- We have to cut pay and benefits of teachers in the most impoverished school districts to ensure student test scores match those districts with the wealthiest families. And India.
- We have to slaughter thousands of innocent people with drones and bombs because there may be a terrorist among them.
The common recurring theme from the extremists is the notion that that you must exploit and punish the majority in order to preserve the power of a corrupt, self-serving minority.
And these days, when you hear conservative extremists lash out at the notion of a "populist" movement, they are simply afraid that the power of the corrupt, self-serving minority is being challenged.
From the tea baggers to 3rd way corporate shills - it isn't a matter of lesser evil. It is the same basic evil wrapped up in abstract notions of patriotism on the one hand, and a "free market" on the other.
There have been many horrific posts on this forum, but this one takes the cake in recent madness.
Not only do you equate conservatives with Nazis in the very title, but then you make ludicrous connections between Nazi policy and...just regular political postiions.
Oh, and you do this by suggesting conservatives talk about "superiority" and "fitness". I have not heard one conservative even use those words in any speech discussing American citizens. Literally, I cannot think of one time.
Point by point rebuttal of your distortions:
We have to solve the problems of global warming by drilling for more oil. - Conservatives deny that government policy can arrest global warming without bankrupting the country, or else that global warming isn't even real.
We have to increase levels of poverty before we can eliminate poverty. - No conservative supports poverty. They think the best way to elliminate poverty is to produce broad prosperity and give opportunites to the poor to participate in civil society through the market.
We have to torture people until we have peace. - Conservatives may favour harsh interrogation of terrorists...to protect innocent people.
We have to cut taxes on the wealthy to increase wages for the poor. - Who employs poor people? Other poor people?
We have to eliminate marriage rights to protect marriage rights. - Creating a fraudulent view of marriage undermines real marriage.
We have to eliminate safe and legal abortion to protect women's health. - No. we have to impose safety standards on abortion clinics in order to avoid the abuses they have been verified as participating in. That's extremely reasonable: Abortion clinics should be safe medical places, even if that means closing some down because they aren't.
We have to spy on your family to protect them. - The United States doesn't spy on families. The NSA collects broad data on communication trends to help intelligence on international terror rings.
We must not prosecute Wall Street banks so they can help families crushed by their fraud. - No one has actually called for prosecution of Wall Street bankers with specific charges. Moreover, conservatives disfavoured the bail out that kept Wall Street bankers in the money.
We have to outsource millions of jobs to Asia so that the money saved can create jobs in the US. - Free trade is dogma for conservatives and liberals in the US. NAFTA was passed by Newt Gingrich's congress and signed into law by Bill CLinton. Obama is proposing a free trade agreement with East Asia as we speak.
The free market should determine who should be allowed regular access to health care - Why shouldn't it? It's a market service.
- We have to cut pay and benefits of teachers in the most impoverished school districts to ensure student test scores match those districts with the wealthiest families. And India. - Actually, conservatives never cut educational budgets, and passed No Child Left Behind, the largest federal intrusion (and budget increase) into education in history. America also pays more per capita on its students, across the board, than any other country. The problem with education in America is far deeper than funding, which is actually not at all an issue.
We have to slaughter thousands of innocent people with drones and bombs because there may be a terrorist among them. - Most people killed by drone attacks are actually terrorists. Few are innocents.
You sir, are a dishonest sophist who spreads propaganda instead of facts. This was a shameful thread that showed a radical disregard for the facts and a rhetorical dishonesty to tie Republicans with Hitler.
In other words: This was a steaming pile of horse shit and I just got the shovel.