Posted on 03/26/2007 1:25:49 PM PDT by NYC Republican
Sorry .. it's true. Liberals love to paint conservatives as being ignorant, stupid, obtuse, mindless, irrational and, on occasion, retarded. For the most part leftists use this "stupid" tactic in order to avoid actually having to intellectually engage with someone who thinks differently than they. After all ... you really don't have to consider the opinions offered by someone who disagrees with you if you can successfully and falsely brand them as ignorant.
Sadly ... many conservatives seem to have dedicated their lives to lending credence to the left's "conservatives are idiots" claim. You will remember several weeks ago I told you about one Georgia Republican (former Democrat) legislator whose campaign chairman sent out some memos and letters promoting legislation to outlaw the teaching of evolution in government schools. The letter referred the reader to the website of "The Fair Education Foundation, Inc." In this website --- and I'm not kidding you here --- you will learn that the Earth stands still in space ... not even rotating ... while the Sun and everything in the universe rotates around the earth every 24 hours. Think I'm kidding? Check it our for yourself.
Well .. there's more. Sunday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells us about another website, this one run by Andrew Schlafly, the son of Phyllis Schlafly. Conservapedia pushes the creationism theme with revelations that dinosaurs and humans roamed the Earth at the same time.[video] You'll also learn that atheism has led to a large increase in bestiality. But once again you'll learn that not only is the Earth standing still, but it's actually flat ... and sitting still in space while everything revolves around it.
Tell me .. how do you counter the "conservatives are ignorant" argument, and how do you manage to recruit more people to the cause of lower taxes, less government and more individual responsibility when you have people running around loose calling themselves conservatives, getting elected to office as conservatives, and running websites as conservatives all the while telling us that the earth does not spin on its axis and does not revolve around the Sun .. and that everything in the known universe revolves around the Earth?
If true conservatives really want to expand their philosophy and mount a sustained movement that just might save individualism, freedom and economic liberty --- they had better jettison these zealot nut-cases .... and FAST.
This all sure makes me glad to be a Libertarian.
Links here www.fixedearth.com and here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6LZzVCpYDY
Here is more:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807023/posts
Yeah but they are good on values so that makes it okay in people's eyes. Bortz is a liberatrian so he wants open borders, free porn for everyone and lots of drugs.
Large tribes have factions, typically, and conservatives are no exception.
Only mine is the right variety. Unless you disagree, in which case... "I am right and everyone else is wrong."
*Yawn*
you will learn that the Earth stands still in space ... not even rotating ... while the Sun and everything in the universe rotates around the earth every 24 hours
well, duh...doesn't EVERYONE know this???
And don't forget, as a Conservative, you are also a racist/sexist/homophobe/Nazi/polluter/Islamophobe/whatever else a Leftist deems you to be.
I don't like Boortz either, and am far from a libertarian, but he has some good points here.
I don't think it's conservatives in general. It is true that there are a lot of religious folks who don't give a damn what science says, and have their own interpretation of the Bible that contravenes basic science.
But we live in a free society where people are permitted to have their own religious viewpoints, and it strikes me as exceptionally intolerant for someone to attack someone else just because of their religious beliefs.
Now if they were blowing up aircraft, that might be different.
What's wrong with these people? Religious zealots, of any faith, are a sham.
Speculating...
Isn't it possible that the former democrat is a plant and he's a temporary republican only to make republicans seem stupid and he will become a democrat again once his job has been accomplished?
A former democrat like the one mentioned cannot ever be considered a true republican. I wouldn't.
FWIW, if these same ideas were put forth by "native Americans" or "indigenous peoples" anywhere on earth, they would be treated with great seriousness as "alternative origin stories."
Just look up the gravity with which Indian tribal claims that their people have "always lived here" are taken, despite excellent archeological and other evidence that they moved into the area perhaps 200 or 300 years ago.
Of course not, it's a small fraction of conservatives, we should just disassociate ourselves from these nutjobs.
"you will learn that the Earth stands still in space ... not even rotating ... while the Sun and everything in the universe rotates around the earth every 24 hours. Think I'm kidding? Check it our for yourself."
Yes, it's ridiculous.
But I wonder what things would look like if it were true.
You mean like Reagan?
It's NOT a religious belief. It's ignorance. A satellite could, and does, easily disprove these whacky views, yet they refuse to believe them.
Interesting perspective. I don't believe in these type of conspiracy theories, but this one isn't that far-fetched.
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