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For the most part, if you reverse each bullet item it sounds, as well, like the stereotypical religious fundamentalist conservative and sounds just as stupid.
That's the problem. There are reasonable assumptions underlying the apparent disconnects hinted at (but as GD says, terribly exaggerated and twisted) but the opposite sides aren't willing to discuss those differences. Better to just assume the other side is filled with unthinking morons.
Conservative stupidity
- It is a horrible sin to destroy a lump of cells but ok to murder a full grown human being.
- It's ok to hatefully target specific groups of people for hate speech, but simply burning the flag should be criminal.
- It is ok to decimate the environment and wipe out entire species just so Suburnite X can drive to work for $8.43 in gas rather than $9.12.
- Actively participating in the political debate is great, except when done by George Soros, Oprah Winfrey, and liberal Hollywood stars.
- Conservatives working to preserve bigoted hate mongers do so by claiming it is traditional American culture, but the "cultural heritage" of new immigrants must be destroyed at all costs.
- Not allowing Caucasian men to discriminate based on race or gender is racism against Caucasian men.
- Conservatives are too stupid to see a difference between one government invading another and the social problem causing spontaneous illegal immigration from Mexico. However, if we lobotomize ourselves to view them as equal and similar things, then conservatives think it is ok to invade another country for no reason at all but it is wrong to do so in search of a better life.
- Those who believe English should be the official American language are engaged in linguistic stpudity exposed by history throughout the world. However, simply because it was the language they were raised speaking they think everybody else should be forced to speak it.
- Conservatives don't believe there should be a minimum wage but use the wage suppressing black labor market as an argument against amnesty and work programs.
- Conservatives can't see the logical fallacy in this statement: Blocking the sale of port security to UAE was necessary to protect homeland security, but securing the border with Mexico would "scapegoat" Hispanics.
- It is worth having thousands of extra untested drivers on the road so that if caught driving poorly you can give them an extra ticket.
- Freedom of speech must never be repressed, except when the life of a flag hangs in the balance.
- Taxes are bad when collected from people with money but good when collected from people without money.
- The religion that controls all three branches of the government, is adhered to by 80% of the population, has two national Federal holidays (compared to zero for all other religions) and has a stranglehold on religious representation in popular culture is under attack and at risk of being stifled into non-existence.
- Government can offer no effiiciencies in any task, so it is best to leave it all to raw capitalism even if that means large swaths of the population would not be served by basic elements of infrastructure.
- Military force must never be used when a Democrat president is in the Oval Office. But once a Republican is in place daddy-revenge is sufficient motive.
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