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I hate your politics
Scalzi.com ^ | 3/22/02 | John Scalzi

Posted on 03/23/2002 9:52:06 AM PST by jesterhazy

I hate your politics.

No, I don't know what they are. And no, I probably don't know who you are, either. Really, those two points are immaterial (no offense). As it turns out about, about 46% of you are liberal, 46% of you are conservative, and the rest of you just want your guns, drugs and brothels (here in the US, we call them folks "libertarians").

Each of you carries baggage from your political affiliation, and all of that baggage has a punky smell to it, like one of your larger species of rodent crawled in and expired in your folded underwear. Listening to any of you yammer on about the geopolitical situation is enough to make one want to melt down one's dental fillings with a beeswax candle and then jam an ice pick into the freshly-exposed nerve, just to have something else to think about. It's not so much that politics brings out the worst in people than it is that the worst in people goes looking for something to do, and that usually ends up being politics. It's either that or setting fires in trashcans.

In the spirit of fairness, and of completeness, let me go down the list and tell you what I hate about each major branch of political thinking.

Liberals: The stupidest and weakest members of the political triumvirate, they allowed conservatives to turn their name into a slur against them, exposing them as the political equivalent of the kid who lets the school bully pummel him with his own fists (Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself). Liberals champion the poor and the weak but do it in such condescendingly bureaucratic ways that the po' illedumacated Cleti would rather eat their own shotguns than associate with the likes of them. Famously humorless and dour, probably because for a really good liberal, everything is political, and you just can't joke about things like that.

Defensive and peevish even when they're right. Under the impression that people in politics should play fair, which is probably why they get screwed as often as they do (nb: 2000 Presidential election). Feel guilty about the freedoms their political positions allow them, which is frankly idiotic. Liberals are politically able to have all sorts of freaky mammal sex but typically don't; good liberal foreplay is a permission slip and three layers of impermeable barriers. The only vaguely liberal person we know of who seemed to enjoy sex in the last 30 years is Clinton, and look what he got out of it.

Fractious and have no sense of loyalty; will publicly tear out the intestines of those closest to them at the most politically inopportune times. The attention spans of poultry; easily distracted from large, useful goals by pointless minutiae. Not only can't see the forest for the trees, can't see the trees for the pine needles. Deserve every bad thing that happens to them because they just can't get their act together. Too bad those they presume to stand for get royally screwed as well.

Conservatives: Self-hating moral relativists, unless you can convince me that an intellectual class that publicly praises family values but privately engages in sodomy, coke and trophy wives is more aptly described in some other way. Not every conservative is an old wealthy white man on his third wife, but nearly every conservative aspires to be so, which is a real waste of money, youth, race and women. Genuinely fear and hate those who are not "with" them -- the sort of people who would rather shit on a freshly-baked cherry pie than share it with someone not of their own tribe.

Conservatives believe in a government by the oligarchy, for the oligarchy, which is why the conservative idea of an excellent leader is Ronald Reagan, i.e., genial, brain-damaged and amenable to manipulation by his more mentally composed underlings. Under the belief they own the copyright on Jesus and get testy when other political factions point out that technically Christ is in the public domain. Conservatives don't actually bother to spend time with people who are not conservative, and thus become confused and irritable when people disagree with them; fundamentally can't see how that's even possible, which shows an almost charming intellectual naiveté. Less interested in explaining their point of view than nuking you and everything you stand for into blackened cinders before your evil worldview catches on like a virus. Conservatives have no volume control on their hate and yet were shocked as Hell when Rush Limbaugh went deaf.

Conservatives clueless enough to think that having Condi Rice and Andrew Sullivan on the team somehow counts as diversity. Pen their "thinkers" like veal in think tanks rather than let them interact with people who might oppose their views. Loathe women who are not willing to have their opinions as safely shellacked as their hair. Let their sons get caught with a dime bag and see how many are really for "zero-tolerance." Let a swarthy day laborer impregnate their daughters and find out how many of them are really pro-life.

Libertarians: Never got over the fact they weren't the illegitimate children of Robert Heinlein and Ayn Rand; currently punishing the rest of us for it. Unusually smug for a political philosophy that's never gotten anyone elected for anything above the local water board. All for legalized drugs and prostitution but probably wouldn't want their kids blowing strangers for crack; all for slashing taxes for nearly every social service but don't seem to understand why most people aren't at all keen to trade in even the minimal safety net the US provides for 55-gallon barrels of beans and rice, a crossbow and a first-aid kit in the basement. Blissfully clueless that Libertarianism is just great as long as it doesn't actually involve real live humans.

Libertarians blog with a frequency that makes one wonder if they're actually employed somewhere or if they have loved ones that miss them. Libertarian blogs even more snide than conservative blogs, if that's possible. Socially slow -- will assume other people actually want to talk about legalizing hemp and the benefits of a polyamorous ethos when all these other folks really want is to drink beer and play Grand Theft Auto 3. Libertarianism the official political system of science fiction authors, which explains why science fiction is in such a rut these days. Libertarians often polyamorous (and hope you are too) but also somewhat out of shape, which takes a lot of the fun out of it.

Easily offended; Libertarians most likely to respond to this column. The author will attempt to engage subtle wit but will actually come across as a geeky whiner (Conservatives, more schooled in the art of poisonous replies, may actually achieve wit; liberals will reply that they don't find any of this humorous at all). Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to "Get Off My Property." News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.

I'm guessing you thought I was way off on your political philosophy but right on the button about the other two. Just think about that for a while.

-- JS


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Talk about equal opportunity!
1 posted on 03/23/2002 9:52:06 AM PST by jesterhazy
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To: jesterhazy
"Get off my property" you know I'd have a hard time not voting for a politician who used that as their campaign slogan.
2 posted on 03/23/2002 9:58:01 AM PST by weikel
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To: jesterhazy
Hilarious! Thanks for posting it.
3 posted on 03/23/2002 10:00:51 AM PST by Rick_Hunter
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To: jesterhazy
Well that about covers it all...
5 posted on 03/23/2002 10:03:08 AM PST by LowOiL
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To: jesterhazy
I'm guessing you thought I was way off on your political philosophy but right on the button about the other two.

sorry, i think you're up in the night on all three...

except for maybe the libertarians and liberals.

6 posted on 03/23/2002 10:03:47 AM PST by glock rocks
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To: Canavan
WOnder how the author defines himself.

As a hazy jester, of course.

7 posted on 03/23/2002 10:05:58 AM PST by LantzALot
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To: Canavan
WOnder how the author defines himself.

Considering his 'skewering' of liberalism is that they are just so dog-gone good and nice that everyone screws them I'd say it was self-evident.

9 posted on 03/23/2002 10:07:57 AM PST by eddie willers
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To: nocomad
What a hoot. Bet this guy doesn't have too many friends.. kinda like me :(

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My sentiments exactly.

10 posted on 03/23/2002 10:08:18 AM PST by Rick_Hunter
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To: jesterhazy
Mr Scalzi has a real penchant for hyperbole...
11 posted on 03/23/2002 10:13:42 AM PST by zchip
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To: jesterhazy
I'm so sorry the writer of this screed has apparently suffered from a lifetime of erectile dysfunction and digestive complaint. I am equally sorry that his blatant misunderstanding of all things political has somehow empowered him to discourse on his errors ad nauseum

If I could speak directly to him I would say "Take heart my impotent friend, you might aspire to literacy and one day be able to write something nearly intelligible that could be read by grown-ups and not laughed at for its precious silliness. You're not there yet".

12 posted on 03/23/2002 10:13:59 AM PST by muir_redwoods
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To: jesterhazy
The author conveniently forgot to mention that liberals are scumbags.
13 posted on 03/23/2002 10:16:03 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: jesterhazy
Found this from his web site... You tell me what he is..BTW he does some science fiction writting.

Who Have You Written For? The Washington Post, The Dayton Daily News, The Chicago Sun-Times, The San Fransisco Examiner, The San Diego Tribune (now Union-Tribune), The Sacramento Bee, The Fresno Bee, America Online, MediaOne, Road Runner, LifeMinders.com, FinancialPassport.com, WatchIT.com, GameDad.com, Sullivan & Co, Green magazine, New City magazine, MBA Jungle magazine, the alumni magazines of Dartmouth and the University of Chicago, and others. 

14 posted on 03/23/2002 10:20:15 AM PST by LowOiL
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To: jesterhazy
I score him zero for three ... a big give-away is his thinking the liberals got screwed in the 2000 election because they play too fair and too nice, rofl.
15 posted on 03/23/2002 10:22:59 AM PST by fnord
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To: Lancey Howard
We should feel flattered that he left his diggings in a hillside cave and came out to share this with us!
16 posted on 03/23/2002 10:23:57 AM PST by dvan
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To: jesterhazy
Conservatives:......an intellectual class that publicly praises family values but privately engages in sodomy, coke and trophy wives......

I've lived out here on the Left Coast for so long that I no longer know any Conservatives in person.

I hate to pry but, ummm....errr....do you guys really do all that?

If I can get my first and only wife to look like a trophy wife, can I pass on the other two and still belong to the Consevative Club?

17 posted on 03/23/2002 10:25:53 AM PST by Polybius
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To: jesterhazy
JS is not only ignorant, but intillectually dishonest. It is quite obvious he is a liberal. He half-heartedly derides the liberal cause for a lack of success more than anything else. Read the criticism of the conservative ideology. Looks like snivelling from DUh. Read the criticism of liberalism. Does is have the air of a Freeper description of the left? Not hardly. It wreaks of a frustrated socialist who isn't getting his way often enough.

This drivel is dishonest and lazy.

18 posted on 03/23/2002 10:26:26 AM PST by screed
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To: jesterhazy
Liberal: "I believe what I believe because I'm smarter than you."

Conservative: "I believe what I believe because I'm more patriotic than you."

Libertarian: "I believe what I believe because I'm BOTH smarter AND more patriotic than you."

Communist: "I believe what I believe because I'm NOT as smart or as patriotic as you."

<|:)~

19 posted on 03/23/2002 10:31:28 AM PST by martin_fierro
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To: jesterhazy
...and the rest of you just want your guns, drugs and brothels (here in the US, we call them folks "libertarians").

Here in Illbay-land we call them folks "Libertines," so as not to besmirch the high and honorable concepts of true liberty as they were originally established in our nation's founding documents.

Although the Libertines are quick to claim the unequivocal support of the shades of Jefferson, Madison and all the rest, the fact is I doubt they EVER seriously sat down to hash out an explicit address of the right to par-tay.

20 posted on 03/23/2002 10:32:46 AM PST by Illbay
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