The New Road

Conservatives: In charge again

Conservatives have a formula for power. If they can win elections and hold majorities, then it's majority rules, and to the rest, "shut up! shut up!" If they can't hold the majority then they start carping about how we are a Republic and not a Democracy. A Republic is ruled by the minority you see. Which is so much better than a Democracy anyway, because now and again, the wrong people vote and mistakenly kick conservatives out of office. It couldn't possibly be because conservatism has failed. Oh no.

One true believer for the Republic cause is staff sergeant anonymous here:

We pay his salary and in return he gives us his recipe for sedition. It's one part Republic vs. Democracy, and one part second amendment rant. Let's hope the whole adds up to a court martial.

On the one hand, this wing-nuttery pisses me off. I pay this guys salary and here he is lecturing me on how he is this great patriot who is going to overthrow the government. On the other hand I'm thinking, "you go girl!" Not that I want him to succeed. I just love seeing these kooks driving more moderates away from the Republican party. Go on birthers! Lecture us all about how Obama's birth certificate is fake. Go on Limbaugh! Tell us about how you want Obama to fail (which is exactly what he said). Go on Beck! Tell us about how building roads and schools is just like Stalin! Go on!

The right does an excellent job of driving people away from their party when they shift into hard right mode. Remember the Clinton impeachment? Clinton had a sixty percent approval rating before the impeachment, and a seventy percent approval after. So please, conservatives, go to the hard-hard right. Tell us about how you will take up arms and overthrow the government for having the audacity to build schools, fix bridges and provide health care. It will work! I'm telling yah!

I would love for their to be a moderate conservative party in this country that could be a reasonably check on Obama. That's how it should be. But we don't have that. We have a bunch of dittoheads disguised as a political party who need to be taught a lesson in just how unpopular their ideas really are. I can only hope that they start listening and internalizing what's been said about Bush. But they won't. The hallmark of the true conservative is a total inability to self-reflect.