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CONSERVATIVES VS. LIBERALS: THE NATURE OF THE BEAST

It all began a hundred thousand years ago on a ledge in front of a cave. A 
female homo sapiens walked by, attracting the attention of a male. The male 
stepped forward and smacked her over the head with his club. WHACK! He then 
dragged the unconscious female into his cave for sex.

One day there were two males standing in front of a cave when a female 
walked by. The first raised his arm to club the female, but the second male 
communicated to him that clubbing females over the head to have sex was not 
nice. WHACK! WHACK! The first male stepped over the unconscious second male 
and proceeded to rape the female. On that day the first liberal paid the 
price for expressing a new idea.

Things didn't change much for thousands of years until the advent of 
projectile weapons. This was first symbolized by the David and Goliath story 
in the Bible, where the big strong brute was laid flat by the small but 
smarter boy. Once brute strength was no longer the controlling factor in 
social interaction, liberal ideas slowly gained a foothold in human culture, 
and civilization began.

Throughout human history, the price for advocating tolerance and progressive 
change has been paid in threats, beatings, excommunication, incarceration, 
torture, murder, assassination, and execution. Countless liberals have paid 
the ultimate price for their humanity. Though Jesus Christ is the most 
famous, names in recent history that come to mind are Gandhi, Martin Luther 
King Jr., John Lennon, and Robert Kennedy.

Today there are many conservatives - individuals, groups, and nations - who 
use threats and violence to silence the voices of reason, tolerance, and 
progress. Here in America it is seen in racists and homophobes beating 
blacks and gays, sometimes to death, not for money or out of anger generated 
by interactive cause, but because of religious or racial intolerance and 
secular bigotry.

Alan Berg on talk radio was a strong voice against a conservative 
organization called the Aryan Nation. For thus exercising his freedom of 
speech, he was shot dead while walking his dog in front of his house.

David Rice is a man on death row in Washington State who has no remorse 
whatsoever for entering the home of a family of four and carving out their 
living hearts only because he heard they were "liberals." He got their names 
from a Democratic Party membership list.

Right-wingers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols killed 168 men, women, and 
children as an act of protest. What liberals have ever committed such an 
abominable atrocity?

The most abominable atrocity in several decades is the 9/11 terrorist 
attacks upon America. Thousands of innocent civilians were murdered. The 
perpetrator, Osama Bin Laden and the al Qaeda-Taliban terrorists, epitomize 
the right-wing religious fundamentalist mentality.

Arguing that such horrendous crimes are not political in nature or that they 
are not done primarily by conservatives is utter nonsense. Look back:

Who nailed who to a cross?

Who were the Loyalists to the totalitarian monarchy of King George?

Who started our Civil War to defend slavery?

Who fought to keep women as property, and now fights their sovereignty over 
their own bodies in the freedom to choose abortion?

Who fought against child labor statutes?

Who fought against the concept of free public education?

Who fought against the right of women to vote?

Who fought against anti-trust and anti-monopoly legislation?

Who fought against workers organizing?

Who fought against government controls on manufacturers of cars "unsafe at 
any speed?"

Who killed several thousand innocent civilians in the 9/11 terrorist 
attacks?

Who started WW2, murdered 13 million and caused the death of 40 million 
more?

Who defended Jim Crow for a hundred years?

Who fought against voting rights, civil rights, social security, health care 
for the elderly, and minimum wages?

Who fights against environmental protection statutes?

Who opposes equal rights for gays and other free-lifestyle minorities?

Who cruelly opposes physician-assisted dying for suffering, terminally ill 
patients soon to die anyway?

Who is sabotaging the separation of Church and State, and all our other 
Constitutional rights, freedoms, and protections?

Who are the moralizing hypocrites forcing their puritanical inhibitions and 
prohibitions on ALL Americans via legislation and draconian, police-state 
enforcement practices?

Who always puts personal gain and corporate wealth and power above the 
common good?

CONSERVATIVES OR LIBERALS?

The historic, undeniable truth is that these evils are THE NATURE OF THE 
CONSERVATIVE BEAST!

Conservatives have distorted and demonized the word "liberal," whose true 
political meaning is favoring progressive change, humanistic values, and 
opposition to authoritarianism. They identify it with governmental waste and 
tolerance of criminality, when in fact they themselves are guilty of abuses 
such as corporate welfare bail-outs and tax evasion, fraud against 
investors, and other white-collar crime. Conservatives fear and oppose all 
change and progress beyond "what's in it for me?"

At the core of conservatism is the Machiavellian bully - the despotic 
practitioner of "might makes right," craving wealth and power, and willing 
to use any and all means to get them. Conservatism is the philosophy of the 
caveman wearing a business suit.

AND THE CAVEMENS' CLUBS CAN NOW DESTROY OUR EARTH!

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There is a PUBLISHED study that concluded that Conservatives are by and 
large mentally inferior. It was published in the prestigious American 
Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin - it's in every college 
library. Look it up.

A press release from UC Berkeley announced that researchers, culling 50 
years of data and interviews of over 20,000 people by four universities had 
identified psychological patterns common to the minds of right-wingers. 
Their findings, published in the American Psychological Association's 
Psychological Bulletin, listed these predictors of conservatism:

Fear
Aggression
Dogmatism
Authoritarianism
Tolerance of inequality
Intolerance of ambiguity
Resistance to change
Lack of "integrative complexity" in thought and speech - this means an 
inability to connect related ideas.

Pretty amazing study - 50 years of data and 20,000 interviews. Kinda seals 
the coffin and nails it shut!