Slippery Slop

[VioletLake]

Republicans never pass up a chance to assail liberalism as the fount of "moral relativism."

"Everything is equal to you people," they say. "If we don't stop your amoral, valueless activism, eventually things like incest, bestiality, and cannibalism will be perfectly acceptable life-styles. My children... God's word..."

(Yawning) You know the spiel.

Try telling a republican that their political philosophy is an offensive, decaying, half-baked pile of logical fallacies, megalomaniacal superstitions, and hijacked words.

Of course it'll probably take more than just a sentence, but see how fast you can make them seek the protection of the "moral relativism" they love to decry.

"Just because I believe that doesn't make me a bad person," they'll say. "I have a right to my opinion too you know; it's a free country. How dare you... God made..."

It's terribly touching. Who would have guessed that fascists were such sensitive, vulnerable people?

Tell them that if their philosophy were a meal, it would be a bloody goat bladder filled with high fructose corn syrup, preservatives, and tiny photos of real food.

Try marketing that shit, Karl Rove.

Note: If you're a republican, and you take offense at being lumped into the above pile -- stop hanging out with people that make you look bad. If that doesn't work for you, try taking your party back from the fools you invited.

[displacedtexan]

1. Republican'ts just don't want to share.

I remember learning that there were two factions with power when our brand new country was first being formed: those who wanted a national government and those who wanted individual states to be mostly "sovereign."

The compromise (states reserving powers NOT NAMED in the Constitution) is still plaguing us today. Everything has to end up in the court system, and we can't guarantee that "activist judges" (like Scalia) won't trample the rights of citizens because they (the judges) harbor those worn out states' rights ideals.

Those states' rights people still want federal dollars for roads, bridges, and other elements of infrastructure, but they don't want to pay for them... and they really don't want their tax dollars to benefit the needy!

[skygazer]

2. Hmmm, incest, bestiality and cannabalism

Sounds like life in Jack Ryan's world.... or any other of these "moral" Rebugs we hear so much about.