<http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/07/12/
its_the_conservatism_stupid.php>
( -or- http://tinyurl.com/qkzqv )
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Ask a conservative what the biggest problem in America is today, and
you’ll get answers like overtaxation, a sexualized culture, lack of
respect for authority, insufficient church-going or big government
running amok. But if you then asked the conservative what the real
source of the problem was—the beating heart pumping blood to each and
all of these socio-politico-cultural wounds—you’d get the same
answer: liberalism.
On the other hand, you could ask a liberal a hundred questions about
the problems facing our country before you’d get to an answer that
placed conservatism at the heart of the nation’s ills.
And conservatives learn these messages when still young. What does a
“campus liberal” do? Well, it depends what his or her issue is:
fighting sweatshop labor, or environmental degradation, or the Iraq
war, or any of a dozen other problems about which liberals are
concerned. What, on the other hand, does a “campus conservative” do?
Fight liberals and liberalism.
You can hear it in the media as well. As any fan of Limbaugh, Hannity
or O’Reilly hears every day, whatever the issue is, the problem is
liberals. Conservatives write books saying liberals are The Party of
Death , who are Trashing Democracy, Waging War Against
Christianity , ,Screwing Up America, Corrupting Our Future—and on
top of it all, our whole ideology is A Mental Disorder. Liberals, on
the other hand, write books about why George W. Bush is a terrible
president. (I plead guilty.)
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