Every election cycle, we get to have a lingering look up the skirts of conservative dancers who tease the audience with alternating glimpses of their puritan knickers and their pasty white backsides. It is at once revolting yet fascinating in a sick kind of way. Where are those dollar bills I brought …
Conservative Americans have made a virtue of fear, greed, and anger. This is one of the pure, crystalline forces of history. The Three Pillars of Conservatism.
Liberals fail in politics because they inherently misunderstand power and how it works. Conservatives have an innate grasp of power and suffer little from its wanton and extravagant use. One never hears conservatives praising the ideals of the Greek thinkers. Conservatives are much more like Romans. The Romans made a show of conquest and of alignment to the doctrine and virtue of empire. Romans understood the value of bread and circuses. And that is what we get today every election cycle. A circus.
Lamentations on Chemistry 
Man, not you two. I wish you wouldn’t paint the entire political philosophy with the same brush that you would /should use on the 24/7 blowhards in the infotainment business. You’re better than that.
Sorry, “too”. I’m still sleepy.
Hi Morris,
It’s been a while.
Admittedly, I cast my aspersions wide sometimes. I get frustrated by the news machine and feel the need to push back. I take the broadcast conservative propaganda as a personal affront. Most of my relatives and those with whom I have contact on a daily basis are flaming or closet conservatives. It’s stunning to me how many folks buy into the narcotic and self-centered ideals of the teaparty. It is well beyond a demand for good accounting principles. Much of todays deep conservatism is merely the secular arm of a religious reconstruction movement. Ultimately, that is what I’m opposed to- Theocracy.
Be well my friend. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Hi, yes I still visit, just quitely latey. I’ve been enjoying your Geology posts, got to me check out some Geo stuff with a co-worker (his father is a Geo proff).
I got bit by the Astronomy bug a little over a year ago, got a decent sized Dob and am enjoying my own journey into another kind of science. Neat stuff and a decent Wow factor from the family.
Don’t forget ignorance. I read or heard so many idiotic statements, it was almost comical.
alternating glimpses of their puritan knickers and their pasty white backsides Bravo! Send this link to Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman. It will either reform him or kill him. Win-win.
This past week my idiot government created $600 billion from vacuum and gave it to bankers at 0% interest to remedy the Greatest Depression. Quantitative Easing, II! If said $600 billion had been divvied up into debit cards – spent only on goods and services before 31 December 2010 – evey living Social Security number would have tax-free $2400 dollars to purchase Christmas. It would ruin the ruins.
Said $600 billion is 70 years of 100% NSF budget. We could have bought apotheosis. If a four-year BS in hard science, engineering, mathematics, or computer costs $50K/year at a quality school, $600 billion buys 3 million heavily taxed large salaries. Obamanation pissed it all away buying nothing.
Given the most monstrous meaningless debasement of civilization in the history of the world, given national uproar over parent’s retirements stolen and their children’s futures financially flensed… Harry Reid was re-elected in Nevada, Nancy Pelosi was re-elected in California, and Moonbeam Brown is Governor-elect of California again.
Light at the end of the tunnel
I do believe those are the three pillars of politics, wherever on the ideological spectrum. All sides have a vested interest in keeping conflict alive so as to justify their existence. Liberals tend to focus more on victimization and offer more government as a solution. Conservatives tend to focus on self actualization, and offer less government as a means of freedom. Both lie. And the media distorts each view to its absurd extreme. I’ve met many perfectly reasonable, well read, philosophical tea partiers, and just as many ignorant, racist NPR devotees. Ultimately, the whole thing is controlled by about 545 people who need to *NOT* solve problems. Otherwise, they would have done so by now. And we all tend to pick and choose which freedoms we are willing to exchange for which purported government benefits. Broad brush indeed.