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My journey out of the extreme right-wing morass
by duskglow

Wed Jan 25, 2006 at 10:36:16 AM PDT

I want to leave with an observation on what makes the right-wingers tick. Having been one myself, I think I'm unusually qualified to speculate on that.

I believe that they are afraid. That is the overarching thing that drives everything they say and do. It pushes logic out the window, it causes them to temporarily lose track of their values. They are afraid of hell, they are afraid of people who do not believe as they do. They are terrified that the "atheists" will take over. Most things that they do are motivated out of fear, and they will do anything to try to remove or assuage that fear. We are not just battling ideologues - we are battling scared ideologues. And those are the most dangerous kind of all.





Or perhaps liberals are cowards, and simply wish to believe that conservatives are no better than themselves.
But of course, if I were to postulate that, it would be as unproveable as the liberal allegation that conservatives are "afraid".

I see the caricature of "Right-wingers" being "afraid" as a characteristic smear by the left of their opposition.

It has been my experience that liberals are very cynical, and have an intolerant contempt for anyone who doesn't share their beliefs. Which explains the liberal penchant for vicious stereotypes and caricatures of any group that doesn't believe what they do.
(Except, of course, for liberals' childlike faith and acceptance verbatim of any conspiracy theory that undermines the credibility of conservatives. No matter how far-fetched, specious and unprovable. Those conspiracies liberals have absolute and boundless faith in.)





Conservatives aren't "afraid". Conservatives simply have standards. Conservatives like their government, society and culture to be a certain way, and strive to maintain those standards.

Things such as rampant teenage pregnancy, a vast increase in single mothers, high divorce rates, sharp rises in drug use, drug-related violent crime, declining literacy, increasing vulgarity, and a general breakdown of trust in government, are a direct result of liberal reforms, and the corrosive effect of liberal media smear and cynicism directed at anyone who opposes liberal policies (the very same policies that brought us these problems in the first place).

I would further argue that the anti-American rhetoric over the last 40 years (manufactured by domestic U.S. liberals), that is eagerly scooped up by America's political enemies overseas, and the resultant half-measures imposed on U.S. military and diplomatic policy over that same 4 decades, baselessly undermining public trust for their own short-term political gain (by the likes of John Kerry, Al Gore, Hilary Clinton, Tom Daschle, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, Charles Rangel, Jesse Jackson, etc, etc.) is largely responsible for overseas U.S. failures and foreign Anti-American opinion. And domestic anti-American opinion as well.

So...

It is not "fear" that motivates conservatives.

It is instead persistence to do what is right and strive for something better, despite the obstruction of (arguably anti-American) liberals who are hell-bent on destroying us.

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    Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.

    EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.