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Edited on Sun Oct-10-04 04:10 PM by Dark Jedi
I was about to start it myself. I would say it is the unquestioning, too-lazy-to-do-a-little-research base (fundies, many of which are freepers). They prefer to hide in their little suburbs and countrysides and ignore problems. Whenever you present them with alternative/differing views and fact, the first reaction out of them is to label you. They cannot seem to debate without casting the opponent(s) as lesser than they are. (In fact, the uneducated ones will call you schoolyard names right off the bat!) Our current domestic problems is a good example of how the GOP base has the ostrich head-in-the-sand syndrome. They want you to have it too! If you so much as express a concern about outsourcing, unemployment, etc., if you do not see the rosey pictures that Bush & Co. paints you must be some kind of a socialist who wants government intervention! It is very frustrating if not impossible to have any kind of a meaningful discussion with people whose first instinct is to pigeonhole. "Who the hell are you to tell me what to do with my bidness?" is a typical knee-jerk, angry response from them. Here is where their SELECTIVITY rears its ugly head, unintended by the screamers of the above canned line. They never ever apply this "government hands-off" view when women's bodies or people's sexual orientations are concerned. In other words, the social arena. To these cherry pickers, the gov't should not even make so much as a comment on the business front, but should have every right to peek into your bedrooms, and even kitchens! (For any of you creepy Constimatushin Party types lurking, you KNOW what I'm talking about :) ) And the Pregnancy Police should be everywhere to ensure that women don't step into shoes and out of the kitchen onto the arenas of men (such as having careers)!
If any of you can recall more hypocrisies and double-standards from the rightwing, feel free to share. I'd love to hear them.
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