Is Conservatism a Degenerative Mental Illness?

[eek.]

I am convinced that conservatism is in fact a degenerative mental disease. I have arrived at this conclusion through an examination of the empirical evidence, along with a good old-fashioned dose of Yankee common sense. Why is it that Dr. Laura cruelly left her own mother to rot in isolation, while pretending to be the defender of traditional values? Why is it that Rush Limbaugh became a pill popping dope fiend, while advocating stiff prison terms for pill popping dope fiends? Why is it that Bill O'Reilly pretends to be a loving husband and father, while terrorizing female employees with pornographic phone calls? Why is it that the two figureheads of American conservatism - Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan - both died from a degenerative mental disease? Why is it that Charleton Heston is now in the same boat? To pretend that all this is simply an unhappy coincidence, is to remain in denial and bury our collective heads in the sand.

Recent study showed that conservatives are plagued with horrible nightmares and fears. Is that normal? There are ten times as many people who die each and every year from firearms related injuries as died in the World Trade Center, but that doesn't seem to bother them, and they still aren't concerned enough to pass reasonable gun laws. Is the fear that has engulfed our nation since 9-11 rational or pathological? Look at the behavior of Anonlymous 77/ottoman - they rant and rave and regularly make threats, and nobody seems to care. Buty is that normal?

Why does Fox "news" network claim to be objective rather than right wing? If it isn't a silly joke, then how could any sane people ever make such a ludicrous claim? There is a pathology to their endless stream of lies that is rooted in brain disfunction. Why is it that conservatives always seem to parrot whatever people like Limbaugh tells them, and can't really think for themselves? Isn't it because they in fact already have seriously impaired cognitive abilities?

Isn't that why almost all creative and artistic people are uniformly liberal and Democratic? Because their brains are still healthy and functioning. Isn't it about time that we stop pretending that a political point of view twisted by mental illness, is just as legitimate as one informed by a healthy brain? Does anybody still doubt, after watching Bush's lies and behavior, that the man is sick and mentally impaired? When do we finally admit the problem, or do we have to keep invading more countries for no rational reason? How many people have to die before we admit there is a real problem that requires medical treatment?

My purpose in exposing this disease is NOT to simply ridicule conservatives, but to suggest that there may indeed be some sort of treatment that could be found. Stem cell research is a very promising field that could ultimately save our nation from political lunacy. But before we can find that treatment, before we can return to sanity, as a society we need to acknowledge the problem and get help. This needs to become a national priority. People shouldn't be ashamed of being conservative, anymore than they should be ashamed if they had meningitis or water on the brain.

I've come to the conclusion that it's pointless for me to argue with conservatives, when what I'm really doing is arguing with a mental illness. I'm sorry if I've done that in the past.

http://isbushantichrist.blogspot.com/2005/04/is-conservatism-degenerative-mental.html

 

[eek.]

As if we needed any more empirical evidence for this, look at how many elderly people skew towards the conservative agenda.

The older you get, the more your brain rots and so your cognitive abilities fade, and so the more conservative you become.


Look at Adolf.
By the end of WW2 he had parkinsons, (his hands shook really badly.)

 

[eek.]

Why do Liberals totally dominate creative industries like Hollywood?

Because conservatives just can't compete.
It's not like they're even also-rans, they're a total no-show.
Conservatives simply have no imagination.

Creativity and imagination are higher brain functions that don't work properly in conservatives.

Whereas conservatives do well at "fuxxing people over" in the world of business, where the civilised creative and caring human part of the brain would be a hinderance to success.
Because this part of the brain does not function properly they do exceptionally well.

 

[DarrylParsons]

Good grief Eek, you're really bothered by this conservatism thing I see...

The root of it is that liberals see the world as "one world one people" while the conservatives see it as "us vs. them". If it were possible to objectively prove (without a good ole' Darwinian duke-out) that one view is better than the other then one of the ideologies would cease to exist.

Until then we'll just have to keep on

 

[JinnRikki]

Until then we'll just have to keep on

Thanks for illustrating eeks point Darryl.

 

[PatPatriot]

eek...you godless heathen.....without looking i'd like to compare the rate of suicides and death from AIDS to conservatives compared to the Peter Pans...or prozac use and the like...or homosexuality...or divorce or even average age of death.

 

[Marco]

"eek...you godless heathen.."

Yes eek, how dare you live your own life and choose your own God and sexual partners or even how long you want to live......blaspemy for even thinking.

You should be living the narrow life of the dudes with tunnel vision instead.

 

[PatPatriot]

"eek...you godless heathen.."

Yes eek, how dare you live your own life and choose your own God and sexual partners or even how long you want to live......blaspemy for even thinking.

You should be living the narrow life of the dudes with tunnel vision instead

Marco I always call him that as kind of a running joke...jesus,lighten up francis.

 

[919]

Good grief Eek, you're really bothered by this conservatism thing I see...

The root of it is that liberals see the world as "one world one people" while the conservatives see it as "us vs. them". If it were possible to objectively prove (without a good ole' Darwinian duke-out) that one view is better than the other then one of the ideologies would cease to exist.

Until then we'll just have to keep on

without evil there is no good....

 

[PatPatriot]

Yes eek, how dare you live your own life and choose your own God and sexual partners or even how long you want to live......blaspemy for even thinking.

You should be living the narrow life of the dudes with tunnel vision instead

Its a proven fact marco that people of faith live longer.It is a fact that the homosexual community has the highest rate of AIDS and STD's than the rest of the population....How long you want to live is altogether different...You are inherentley fucked up if you would like to end your life prematurley or participate in behaivior that would end it prematurley.

I don't care if another man fucks another man in the ass while having needles of sewer water in his arms while worshiping the devil,with a gun in his mouth.

But I,or the rest of society should not have to fund this behavior.

 

[DarrylParsons]

Thanks for illustrating eeks point Darryl.

The two guys bashing each other is supposed to be a metaphor for the forum debates and other conflicts between conservatives and liberals. I'm not sure what point of his I illustrated. Care to enlighten me?

 

[Marco]

Patriot....I used the "eek, you godless heathen".....part as a way to more or less not have to quote your whole post....it was merely to assign my response to what you had written.....I know you're not serious and spitting fire and brimstone as you write it.....

You talk of the lifestyles of the non-conservatives making you pay more as in the "But I, or the rest of society should not have to fund this behavior."

I don't know exactly what you mean by "funding"....or exactly what types of extra payment you guys are making.....perhaps you could clarify.....if it's about insurance and our lives driving up your insurance.....I think there are only a handful of people on this planet who are in the shape of Lance Armstrong that have a legitimate beef against paying inflated insurance rates. The rest of us b1tch about gays and smokers while we are two greasy cheeseburgers away from having major arteries completely clogged.

 

[Woody0]

Creativity and imagination are higher brain functions that don't work properly in conservatives.

Close but not quite.

Creativity and imagination involves that set of neural pathways that results in "thinking outside the box". Every consider how many artists and other creators have mental illness, which is part of being "outside the box"

Conservatives on the other hand aren't even aware there is a box.

 

[JinnRikki]

The two guys bashing each other is supposed to be a metaphor for the forum debates and other conflicts between conservatives and liberals. I'm not sure what point of his I illustrated. Care to enlighten me?

Certainly, instead of using the discuss Smiley :discuss: you chose one representing a violent method of settling differences. I think I know what a psychiatrist would say about that, but what do you think?

 

[mjaytee]

Personally, I believe that conservatism is the way to go however the current neo-fascist, satanic-right brand of conservatism has put the idiots in the forefront thus making conservatism look like a bunch of retards.

Just look at the posters on this site that consider themselves die-hard conservatives. Their avatars, screen names, and postings indicate that they may be mentally challenged in some aspect.

I respectfully have to disagree with the original poster about gun laws. Now is the time more than ever that there should be no restrictions on firearms. The 2nd Amendment was more for giving the populace a fighting chance to take back their country from a rogue government moreso than protection from a common street criminal. With a rogue government now in place, now is the time to add to your gun collection.

Liberals have plenty of flaws as well, so I would not say that they are superior.

 

[DarrylParsons]

Certainly, instead of using the discuss Smiley :discuss: you chose one representing a violent method of settling differences. I think I know what a psychiatrist would say about that, but what do you think?

A psychiatrist would say I have pent-up aggression, probably from an unfulfilling and traumatic childhood, or whatever he can find on me to make himself feel better about his own shortcomings and get paid all the while.

As for why I chose the violent one, I really don't know...partly for effect, partly because it was higher up on the list than the other one, and partly because political differences can and do lead to violence sometimes, regardless of what psychiatrists think of it.

Besides, prescribing someone a pill that changes the essence of who he is is far more cruel than bonking him over the head IMO.

 

[PatPatriot]

You talk of the lifestyles of the non-conservatives making you pay more as in the "But I, or the rest of society should not have to fund this behavior."

I don't know exactly what you mean by "funding"....or exactly what types of extra payment you guys are making.....perhaps you could clarify.....if it's about insurance and our lives driving up your insurance.....I think there are only a handful of people on this planet who are in the shape of Lance Armstrong that have a legitimate beef against paying inflated insurance rates. The rest of us b1tch about gays and smokers while we are two greasy cheeseburgers away from having major arteries completely clogged

marco I'm saying if you indulge in irresponsible behavior,you should be the one paying the piper.
If the above fictional ass fucker with dirty needles in his arms ends up taking a hospital bed for the next 5 years then he should pay for it.
If you want to smoke...pay...if you want cheesburgers ..pay if you want dirty needles and that life style pay...if you another guys dick in your ass...pay.
Its not just in hospitals and insurance its the jail space its the cops responding to breakins, its the general burden on society.
I mean in public school they teach "Johhny has two dads" What they don't tell you is one of Johhnys dad has hepetitis and the other is in therapy...its about getting real.

I have nothing against gays thats the way they are,and everybody needs somebody,but facts are facts.
By the way you won't hear me sing "Everybody loves somebody somtime" in my Dean Martin voice to someone that has a hairier ass than mine.

I just stated a fact...that people with a normal more conservative lifestyle live longer above average.

 

[Marco]

Patriot.....I generally agree with your statement about personal responsibility and making the individual pay for his or her own behavior instead of having the rest of society pick it up.....

Finding fair ways to employ this system, and some changes in the system itself would have to occur....

Perhaps regular physicals and a corresponding change in the cost of health care for the less than healthy citizens.....

Caps on the amount plaintiffs can sue for.......a doctor removes the wrong toe and somehow the plaintiff tries to justify a $42 million dollar lawsuit?

How about all the medical scams that prey on patients and insurance companies......Hell, my old man is receiving bills for hospital work done on mom before she was even admitted.....double billing.....bills showing up waaaay late.....seems to me that any doctor out there could tag along for a piece of the gravy train, just send a bill along with the other 11 doctors that worked in that same hour.....

As far as the crime aspect, most consenting adult behavior that has been criminalized has just led to underground industries that are untaxed and unregulated, and create crime due to the simple fact that such behaviors are deemed illegal, driving it to that same underground, driving the prices up to where the participant engages in other criminal activity to pay for the lifestyle. Gambling, drugs, and prostitution are the big three.....they can all be legalized, taxed and regulated, creating above ground industries that are safe and taxable.

It was done with alcohol......yes there are alcoholics but there are going to be drunks whether it's illegal or not....moonshiners made good money during prohibition....Al Capone made millions....now there isn't all the sneaking around to shady bars to get an expensive drink and the alcohol is affordable, the average guy has a paycheck that leaves him with some "beer money"....but most guys don't have the cash to support a drug habit that costs hundreds a week, that needs burglary and other thievery to maintain because the price is too high because the industry is underground.

So then the drug user/dealer goes to prison, they don't have enough room in prison, so a child molester gets let out and pretty soon he's living in your neighborhood and little Johnny turns up missing one day, all because the government was trying to protect somebody from himself.