Election

Why do Liberals trash Conservatives?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Why do liberals feel it’s okay to publicly trash conservatives?”

It’s funny, but the only time I think of myself as a liberal is when an ideologue draws a line in the sand.

Whenever I encounter a nutbar, I think to myself that the idiot I have encountered is a nutbar. I don’t care much about triangulating their ideological affinity. I prefer interacting with people as people and not as idiotologues who are myopically affixed to a flag embedded in quicksand.

Sadly, though, it’s become almost impossible not to assume the nutbars I encounter are ideologically conservative. It has been so consistently this way for so long that I was surprised recently to discover a nutbar group that was ideologically left-wing.

I had to do a double-take because I hadn’t encountered anyone I could remember who had extreme views (from my biased perspective).

If you feel conservatives are unfairly trashed, then you are obliged to speak out against the people who have co-opted the conservative brand. It’s not like the MAGAts among you are the silently incognito types in your group.

You don’t get to complain about liberals mocking conservative stupidity because that’s the only brand of conservative appearing on the horizon.

“All that is required for evil to exist is for good people to do nothing.” — Edmund Burke

If you wish to identify yourself as conservative and be treated with respect, then you have a house to clean up.

Standing on the sidelines and complaining about being trashed isn’t defensible. It makes you a coward and a hypocrite.

If you have a problem with liberals trashing conservatives, then you should be going after the people who are giving liberals something to trash.

You should be screaming at the top of your lungs at the treasonous monsters who are making you look bad.

Complaining to liberals about being trashed only makes you look worse.

Grow some Liz Cheney-sized cojones and fight to take your party back. Clean out the trash clogging up your house and take the garbage people out with it. You need to stop behaving like a snowflake because you bear responsibility for this happening.

You’re supposed to work with your honourable opposition to create solutions to our common problems, not treat them like enemy combatants while mindlessly cheering for your team and trash-talking the other like politics were a sporting event.

Real lives are at stake, and your nation deserves better. The entire world deserves better. Democracy demands better.

Bonus Question:Why do many democrats oppose ICE deporting illegal immigrants?

Your question needs to be fixed:

“Why do many Democrats oppose ICE deporting people without first identifying and proving that they legitimately are immigrants who are in the country illegally?”

You’re welcome.

A bonus question you could add is, “Why does the Trump administration commit human rights violations against American citizens by ignoring an 800-year-old legal precedent from the Magna Carta that’s more than three times as old as the U.S.?”

Yet another question you might want to ask is, “Why am I not scared of being hauled away in the dead of night and sent to a foreign concentration camp?”

Being placed on an International Human Rights Watch list should deeply disturb you. If it doesn’t, you’re the problem, not the people who fight to protect rights you take for granted. Before rewording their protests to suit your biases, you should try to understand what they are saying.

Why has the term “weird” gotten into Republican heads?

Norman from “I, Mudd”, Star Trek TOS

The term “weird” has been a success due to having correctly pegged their audience.

One of the worst insults for a child in grade school struggling to fit in is being called weird, and being called weird means being ostracized by the group while one’s socialization skills have barely begun developing.

To be called weird at that age means being forced into becoming an outsider, and that induces a deep sense of loneliness and despair within a child.

Drumpf is an extreme and highly malignant narcissist who craves validation through attention. He’s been able to buy and bully his way into always being the centre of attention throughout his life.

Becoming president is a way for him to convince himself that he is relevant to society, and that soothed the young boy inside who had never grown up.

Weird strikes at the heart of his dysfunction and throws him off balance because it confronts his addiction to attention at its core.

It is particularly effective because it’s a relatively benign word for most mature adults with little impact on healthy psychology.

It’s also a word that can be used in many cases. Practically anything can be described as weird, but it’s a word that “has a frequency effect,” like a dog whistle no one else can hear but him and those who (ironically) empathize with him. It gives him a headache while everyone else wonders what’s happening because they can’t hear anything.

This word choice is three-dimensional chess like the word “woke” is. They’re both fun words to use because they’re simple and punchy without being offensive.

They are words that “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee,”… and that pisses all the Reichtoids off to no end.

It’s like the logic problem Captain Kirk gave Norman to cause it to overload in the episode, “I, Mudd.”