Fucking scary

[jwilkins]

Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren't Listening'To my left, I find a middle-aged Floridian with a neat beard. To my right are two elderly New Yorkers who look and sound like late-era Dorothy Parkers, minus the alcohol poisoning. They live on Park Avenue, they explain in precise Northern tones. "You must live near the

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[_yungfuktoi_]

I read that piece about a half hour ago and was pretty shocked (even though we are talking about the lowest form of humanity on the planet). The woman at the beach who championed the killing of dissenters was particularly alarming.

[jwilkins]

Yeah, I was pretty speechless when I initially read it.

I know you lived in the UK for some time, but were you born and raised there too? I can't figure out what it is that's making it so easy for people raised here to rationalize this type of shit.

[_yungfuktoi_]

Yeah, I was.
I think it's simple indocrination in tandem with the inherent principles of concervativism, which appeal to matters of the heart and not the head. It's a set of beliefs that stresses faith and loyalty, concepts which directly oppose logic and fairness. It's gang mentality, pure and simple.

[jwilkins]

It goes beyond that. There have been systemic changes that have allowed those forces to fester/grow. Have you heard of the Fairness Doctrine?
(www.commondreams.org/views05/0212-03.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine)

That and cutbacks in educational funding form my prime theory for why things are as broken here as they are.