Reply #8: A-Freakin'-Men [View All]

[Cats Against Frist]

"Mainstream Conservatism," is way the hell out of the ballpark than any serious liberal movement in this nation has EVER been.

What conservatives can never admit to is that they're "ideology" doesn't really adhere to the things they think it adheres to. Huge deficit spending, Christian reconstruction, indoctrination and engineering, "tinkering" with the Consitution, laws against prostitution & drug possession, the FCC crackdown on television, militarization, corporate welfare and subsidy, pre-emption as foreign policy, and even the national law enforcement agencies go against the classical liberalism that they pretend to represent.

What isn't "big federal government" about all of this?

Their attempts to shut out the claim for governance for the left, under the guise of "they're big governemnt, we're not," is disengenous to our foundations and our liberties.

It is exactly what Perlstein referred to when he said something to the effect of "ideologies stacked on a tooth-pick foundation." GOP ideology is a mish-mash of Libertarian philosophy, combined ever-so-oddly with Christian Reconstruction -- a "Rand finds God," philosophy, that I'm pretty sure was the creation of Milton Freidman, and it rests on fundamentally contradictory philosophies.

These people have contempt for the Bill of Rights, and the judiciary in general, and are actively trying to strip the judiciary of its power, and make, particularly religious issues, subject to a majority vote, instead of the super-majority needed to pass a constitutional amendment, or let the laws stand up to a Constitutional test -- effectively rendering useless a couple of centuries of precedent, in YES, an effor to establish Christianity as an official religion.

I don't understand the Bush-love at all -- as I don't understand the Bush hate, sometimes. For me, I'm not voting against Bush, so much as I'm voting against extreme right-wing ideology and FOR the Constitution. What's sick isn't just Bush, but the whole GOP.