The old "tell a lie enough times and it becomes true" scheme in action.
http://www.georgetown.edu/admin/publicaffairs/protocol_events/events/clinton_glf110701.htmThe so called "conservative" wing of the Republican party has become the very thing they condemn....and
pretend to oppose.
They have become a gang of low brow thugs, liars and spin doctors whose lust and obsession for power has plunged them to new lows in their lack of moral integrity, dignity, or common decency.....for sale to the highest bidder.
Beginning with the criminal regimes of Reagan/Bush, the last two decades have consistently demonstrated "conservatives" are not concerned with the best interests of "we the people", the truth, or personal accountability.
During the last 8 years these *so called* conservatives did everything in their power to disgrace and remove a president elected
twice by voters, this demonstrates the depth of the contempt they feel for our country and it's citizens.
During this period while wrapping themselves in God and the American flag in an attempt to disguise their hypocrisy, they betrayed and trampled the concepts of "Duty, Honor, and Country" during their seditious crusade.
"Conservatives".....I think not, the *correct* terminology is "Utilitarians".
Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. This fundamentally hedonistic concept is further elaborated to equate happiness with pleasure and the absence of pain.
This sounds good in theory, until you consider the real necessity of pain in the process of growth, both as individuals and as societies.
Utilitarianism fails to address fundamental processes of human development, is excessively simplistic, myopic, and seeks to place the "Greatest Happiness Principle" of the "upper class" over that of the common citizen.
The ideal of individualism and individual liberties play a large role in our society. These individual liberties include liberty of conscience, thought, opinion, and pursuits.
After 9/11he "conservatives" have decreed that individual liberties may be violated as they feel neccesary, individually or collectively, interfering with the liberty of anyone in the name of their self-preservation or pursuit of their agenda.
Eventually this means that many types of rebellious behavior against the government or status quo will be regulated and restrained. Therefore, the population is not allowed to express their desire for individual freedoms if those freedoms pose a threat to the prevailing system. In the light of such restrictions, the idea of individual liberty becomes secondary at best.
But when these problematic ideals of individual liberty are applied to economic entities. Restrictions on trade, or on production for purposes of trade, they are indeed restraints, and all restraint...is an evil.
The "freedom" implied is one-sided. This is due to the fact that in those instances where the liberty of the individual clashes with the liberty of the economic entity, according to the doctrine of utilitarianism, the economic entity will predominate, in that it presumably provides the greater amount of happiness to society, and is, hence, more useful.
In short, the rights of the individual are put on the back burner, individual liberty is co-opted by economic interests which assume the ideological place initially reserved for the individual in the first place.
Add to this already murky philosophy the overt elitism present throughout the conservative ditto heads like Coulter, Limbaugh, et al, and what is revealed is an attitude of contempt towards the principles of democracy,
The "conservative" attitude toward democracy is that one of the main conditions essential to good government is that it be government by a select body, not by the public mandate, that political questions not be decided by established process, either direct or indirect, or influenced by the judgement or will of a (purposely) uninformed public, but by the deliberately formed opinions of a the few.
They clearly advocate an oligarchical system wholly suited to an imperialistic ruling class, yet not terribly concerned with liberty on an individual to individual basis.
In truth the "conservative party" is a cynical elitist group which combines utopian concepts of utilitarianism and free trade.
The hidden reality is their veiled contempt for the masses and general lack of confidence in the principles of democracy, privately they operate as an oligarchy ruled by an political aristocracy, the "public party line" is scripted towards the sentimental side, expressing confidence in a population whose own drive for happiness will lead it inevitably towards that perfect society in which, if not interupted by outside interference, the greatest good will come to the greatest number.
The overriding flaw in this "conservative" vision is the most superficial reading of history shows it for what it really is. It is interesting to note that modern "conservatives", while paying lip-service to established doctrines, (such as free trade) have just the opposite opinion of the average citizen, namely that law and order and strict obedience to the edicts of society are the way to go.
The endowment of individual liberties upon economic entities has become the cornerstone of modern capitalism. In the United States this concept has been adopted and sanctioned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Bellotti ruling of 1980 granted corporations first amendment free speech rights, thus equating, in the realm of expression, the corporation with the individual.
In effect,
this ruling makes it a foregone conclusion that the corporate speaker will be the loudest voice in town.With the enhancement of corporate power by such Supreme Court rulings, the inevitable consequence is the diminishment of the liberty of the individual.
Another consequence of this is the current state of affairs brought about by a decade of relatively unrestrained free trade. "Economic freedom' is a euphemism for private enterprise unfettered by social accountability."
This same social unaccountability has left us with the Enron and WorldCom scandals, corporate domination of the media, and a vast concentration of wealth at the top of the economic food chain the likes of which this country has never seen.
Trailer park trash like Ann Coulter are the "conservative" equivelant of the Jerry Springer show, shallow entertainment for other trailer park residents....watching her beat straw man Bill up makes for good entertainment while Chimpy and his gang of thugs operate.
