Conservatives: Always on the wrong side of history, everything they believe in is wrong

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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/11/conservatives-always-on-the-wrong-side-of-history/

My friends over at Americans Against the Tea Party put it best
when they said, ?What does it say about a movement whose brightest
?stars? are the dimmest bulbs?? It says, laugh at them, pity them,
but if you want to live in a modern nation of laws which evolves
with the rest of the globe, for Heaven?s sake, DON?T look to them
for ideas on how to operate a functioning society, since the only
thing conservatives have been successful at is proving that
everything they stand for is wrong.

Let?s imagine this scenario: You have an uncle?a loud, opinionated,
uncle who?s thinly veiled racism and misogyny is only superseded
by his not-so-thinly veiled hatred of gays. He says he?s a
Christian, but never misses the opportunity to cheer for war and
bloviate proudly about how merciless he is. He fights anything that
has a hint of challenging his perceived position in the
straight/white/male catbird seat, even if that seat came from the
fact that the Liberals he hates fought for the Social Security,
Medicare, etc. that allows him to live in dignity. He regales you
with factually incorrect tales of American history, despite having
never read a book in his life. He disdains ?intellectuals,? and
perceives science as a ?liberal plot.? For as far back as you
remember ? and as far back as the family tree goes ? he
has been wrong about everything.

You must tolerate him because, after all, he?s family. But you
certainly don?t follow his advice, and you certainly don?t look
to him to shape government policy.

But in the United States today, as normal people (non-conservatives)
try to undo the damage from conservative destruction and try to
create a society that works for all, we are continuously met with the
same old stories of the impending doom that awaits if we dare stop
following CONS to hell. This opposition at every turn weaves the
old, familiar tales of the American landscape being littered with
gulags and mass graves from government death panels if we?say?dare
offer health care as a right like the rest of the civilized world. We
hear Paul Ryan tickle the oversized-amygdala (fear center)

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/28/conservatives-fear-center-brain/

in the conservative brain, as he paints a picture of millions of
lazy
bums swinging in the cushy hammock of our social safety net which
isn?t so cushy. We?re warned that rich people will stop trickling
all those fabulous jobs on us if they are forced to contribute to
the society that gave them so much.

These are nothing but bald-faced lies from bald-faced liars who have
ALWAYS been on the wrong side of history.

Here?s a list to remind us that we shouldn?t be pandering to an
ideology that is defined by its opposition to progress.

CONSERVATIVES: ALWAYS ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY:

1) Conservatives opposed the American Revolution

Conservatives vehemently warned us that it was unnatural to rebel
against our Sovereign Lord, King George III, and that doing so would
plunge the colonies into disorder. They assured us, as the father of
conservatism, Edmund Burke echoed, that social stability would only
come from the small group of wealthy aristocrats ruling over the
poor
majority. Conservatives reiterated that it was the duty of the poor
to
obey their ?betters.? Their rewards, after all, will come in Heaven.

2) Conservatives opposed freeing the slaves

I know, I know. Here?s where the sophomoric CONS, lacking the
ability
for complex thought, will whine that Lincoln, a Republican, freed
the
slaves. But as Southern historian Al Benson, Jr. wrote in his
article,

?The Republican Party, There are NO conservative roots there,?

http://albensonjr.com/noconservative.shtml#target=%22_blank%22

?It is interesting to note that, in 1860, the Democrats were the
real conservatives, while the Republicans were the left-leaning
radicals.?

http://cprr.org/Museum/Ephemera/Republican_Platform_1860.html#target=%22_blank%22

The Republican Party of the 1860?s, as evidenced by their platform,
was a progressive party that rose in opposition to the entrenched
power structure. It called for protective tariffs, Besides
emancipating the slaves, Lincoln was in favor of progressive
taxation.
The Revenue Act of 1862 levied a 3% tax on people making between
$600
and $10,000 a year, and a 5% for those making over $10,000.

As Andrew Belonsky wrote for Death and Taxes,

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/112019/ask-the-party-of-lincoln-about-a-progressive-income-tax/#target=%22_blank%22

?Lincoln believed that rich Americans should pay more than their
less wealthy friends and neighbors.?

But, because they are CONS and want to rig the system in their
favor,
they only considered slaves ?people? for purposes of counting them
in
order to increase the slave-state representation in Congress.

Conservatives warned that freeing the slaves, believe it or not, was
an affront to liberty ? as well as an evil government plot to force
hardworking business owners to release their property. After all, as
the Bible tells us, and as Rush Limbaugh later reminded us, ?some
people are just born to be slaves.?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/09/limbaugh-some-people-born-slaves/#target=%22_blank%22

3) Conservatives opposed women?s suffrage

Conservatives warned us that women just didn?t have the mind,
much less the disposition, for politics. They would, of course,
get all hysterical ? and if they?re having their periods! Well,
look out, men! As Limbaugh cautioned again, uppity women might
put testicles in a lock box and upset the ?natural? hierarchy.

Even today, in 2012, CONS (such as, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson,
tea party activist, Fox News contributor, and founder of an
organization where Sean Hannity serves as an advisory board member)
lament that the worst thing that ever happened to America was that
women were given the right to vote.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/07/hannity-friend-thinks-it-was-a-mistake-to-let-women-vote/

4) Conservatives opposed minimum wage and child labor laws,
the 8-hour work day, weekends, sick leave? etc.

Conservatives warned us that the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,
which established a national minimum wage, guaranteed ?time-
and-a-half? for overtime in certain jobs and banned child labor,
was going to collapse the economy. But President Franklin Roosevelt
countered at the time, ?Do not let any calamity-howling executive
with an income of $1,000 a day, ?tell you?that a wage of $11 a week
is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.? What
a surprise! He was right and conservatives were wrong.

70 years later, CONS are still trying to undo the minimum wage and
get those kids out of the classroom and back into the factories of
Republican campaign contributors.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/04/26/sarah-palin-claims-child-labor-laws-are-causing-america-to-fail/

5) Conservatives opposed humane treatment of animals

Since Conservatives are too stupid to know how to make a buck unless
they can leave filth, pain and destruction in their wake, they
consistently oppose any regulation that not only keeps our food
supply free of the filth they love to spread, but treats the
creatures
giving their lives for human sustenance with a level of dignity and
humanity.

As a matter of fact, CONS are such insipid fascists that, rather
than
address and rectify the abuses at factory farms, they are currently
working to make it illegal for whistleblowers to film the abuse.
They
have been successful in Iowa at this endeavor. After all, if a pig?s
infected pustules are viciously sliced off sans painkillers, and no
one is there to document the pig?s screams, did it ever really
happen?

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/01/iowa-legislature-passes-bill-that-makes-it-easier-for-meat-industry-to-hide-animal-abuse/

And, as for the filthy conditions in the farms feeding the good
old U-S-A ? U-S-A ? U-S-A that the conservatives pretend to love,
who cares if a few dozen Serfs eat chicken feces and die of E. coli
when a Republican campaign contributor needs more profit?!

We all remember when John Boehner?s district in Ohio was
experiencing
an E. coli outbreak at the same time he was trying to gut more food
industry regulations.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/09/30/e-coli-outbreak-strikes-john-boehners-district-as-republicans-try-to-gut-food-safety-regulations/#target=%22_blank%22

The bottom line is, Republicans don?t care if their constituents
get sick and die from the filth that Republican (and DINO) campaign
contributors are feeding them. To Republicans, that means there?s
one
less person they have to disenfranchise out of voting.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-state-by-state-crusade-to-disenfranchise-voters/2011/07/25/gIQAsMmpaI_story.html#target=%22_blank%22

But if the survivors try to seek justice or recourse and TRY and sue
the corporation who killed their child, their pappy, or spouse?they
won?t get too far since the John Robert?s Supreme Court had
something
to say about it.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/04/us_supreme_court_imposes_limit.html#target=%22_blank%22

6) Conservatives opposed the Social Security Act

The Social Security Act established a system that provided old-age
pensions for workers, survivors benefits for victims of work-related
accidents, aid for orphans and widows, benefits for the blind and
physically disabled, and unemployment insurance. Conservatives were
apoplectic about this. They warned freedom-lovers everywhere that
America?s next stop would be a government concentration camp.

Never mind that ?a necessitous man is not a free man,? as FDR
famously
quoted. Conservatives were inciting their ignorant followers to,
once
again, oppose their own best interests for the sake of enabling the
rich to keep treating them like hosts from which to suck profit.

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