An Open Letter To Conservatives

[fotd]

This is getting spread all over the interwebs:
Go to the actual page for all the proof!

http://filterednews.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/an-open-letter-to-conservatives/



An open letter to conservatives


Dear Conservative Americans,

The years have not been kind to you.  I grew up in a profoundly Republican home so I can remember when you wore a very different face than the one we see now.  You've lost me and you've lost most of America.  Because I believe having responsible choices is important to democracy, I'd like to give you some advice and an invitation.

First, the invitation:  Come back to us.

Now the advice.  You're going to have to come up with a platform that isn't built on a foundation of cowardice: fear of people with colors, religions, cultures and sex lives that differ from yours; fear of reform in banking, health care, energy; fantasy fears of America being transformed into an Islamic nation, into social/commun/fasc-ism, into a disarmed populace put in internment camps; and more.  But you have work to do even before you take on that task.

Your party — the GOP — and the conservative end of the American political spectrum has become irresponsible and irrational.  Worse, it's tolerating, promoting and celebrating prejudice and hatred.  Let me provide some expamples — by no means an exhaustive list — of where the Right as gotten itself stuck in a swamp of hypocrisy, hyperbole, historical inaccuracy and hatred.

If you're going to regain your stature as a party of rational, responsible people, you'll have to start by draining this swamp:

Hypocrisy

You can't flip out —

Please don't flip out, this had to be edited for brevity and you have been advised multiple times in the past that entire citations are not appreciated by other readers when they make it too difficult to read or have to scroll until eternity to read other replies.  If someone wants to read the entire thing, they can click on the link and read the rest.  The content is not the problem here, it's how much space it was taking.  No, your account was not hacked, but we are still in control.  Bwah hah hah hah hah!- Moderator & Little Green Men

[waterboy]

Pretty amazing stuff and only 11 other viewers. Either there aren't many conservatives on this forum or they are unable or unwilling to read.

[Conan71]

...And here comes Waterboy with the reach-around!!!

You guys lost me at "Dear". Okay I actually read to about the third paragraph. I'm a disaffected Republican and that is one of the sorriest wheel barrows full of smile I've ever read. That letter writer is not allowed in my new "Disenfranchised, philosophically obsolete Republican party cast-offs who happen to look at Tea Partiers with a wary eye party".

[heironymouspasparagus]

Truth is the truth hurts.  That explains the Conan Trite Train.


The Tea Baggers really are puzzling to someone with rational thought.  Their claim is they are against taxes and want more tax cuts (regardless of adverse consequences) and yet, cannot even become educated enough to understand they got the biggest tax cut in the history of the world just last year.  Huh,... go figure.

Here are some questions - how much is enough on tax cuts??
Where should the tax level be??
How many more tax cuts should we have here??
Let's here a concrete, real live suggestion with a real number from the Tea Baggers.

But that would require something other than "no".

[HazMatCFO]

When I read "Tea Bagger", that discounts anything you write for it's the same activity you condemn by the right of being hateful.

[Hoss]

When I read "Tea Bagger", that discounts anything you write for it's the same activity you condemn by the right of being hateful.

But see, the funny thing is, 'tea bagger' was a phrase coined by a conservative.

[Gaspar]

Shadows forgot to sign that letter.

[sgrizzle]

If I was bored I'd change a couple of nouns and post it as an open letter to liberals.

[Gaspar]

I can't read it.  It's got big words in there.

[Townsend]

Please don't flip out, this had to be edited for brevity and you have been advised multiple times in the past that entire citations are not appreciated by other readers when they make it too difficult to read or have to scroll until eternity to read other replies.  If someone wants to read the entire thing, they can click on the link and read the rest.  The content is not the problem here, it's how much space it was taking.  No, your account was not hacked, but we are still in control.  Bwah hah hah hah hah!- Moderator & Little Green Men

This was not me.  PM somebody else.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Tea Bagger is/was a neo-con term.  I hope HazMat pays more attention in the job (CFO??) than does to casual reading here.

Just kind of a cute euphemism for people who scream and clamber for something, when they already have it.  And apparently don't even know they have it.  Still amazing.

[nathanm]

But see, the funny thing is, 'tea bagger' was a phrase coined by a conservative.

And one the tea baggers seem to wear proudly. Most of them are likely unaware of the "alternative" meaning of that phrase...

[Gaspar]

And one the tea baggers seem to wear proudly. Most of them are likely unaware of the "alternative" meaning of that phrase...

I think most of them really don't care what you call them. 

Name calling and ridicule are a liberal tool.  There are those on both sides that use this tactic, however it is weighted and valued more by liberals than conservatives.  It's a diversionary tactic that only proves effective when the victim choose to be a victim by reacting.

Alinsky taught RULE # 5 "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."

The problem is that when the opposition fails to react, those leveraging the ridicule are weakened by it.

[nathanm]

I think most of them really don't care what you call them. 

Name calling and ridicule are a liberal tool.  There are those on both sides that use this tactic, however it is weighted and valued more by liberals than conservatives.  It's a diversionary tactic that only proves effective when the victim choose to be a victim by reacting.

I seem to hear O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, Coulter, Palin, and others use name calling pretty much constantly. It is by no means a "liberal tool." It's called frustration. I'm sure you're familiar with it.

[sgrizzle]

Who's a liberal tool?