loosenoose24
12-30-2007, 11:47 PM
I don't like revitionist history, why? Because it only serves a neocons point of view. Here are is a list of things they tend to gloss over.
If it's one thing that irks me, it's when conservatives seem to suffer from amnesia when it comes to their stances in history. Here are some examples.
1. If you're conservative, don't bother to ever wear a "never again" button or involve your self in any sort of protest for remembering the holocaust. It's your conservative grandparents who were against letting the jews immigrate here during the war. Hell, you can't really even be against camps because it was also your grandparents who supported japanese internment camp that kept about 120,000 innocent japanese people under lock and key surrounded by barbwire fences from 1944 to 1948 without any compensation until 1990 for when the ordeal was over and done with. No wonder the japanese are xenophobic, huh?
2. Don't say Lincoln freed the slaves, because he didn't.
3. Ronald Reagan's war on drugs was ostensibly the last vestige of institutionalized racism in the U.S. But that's what you expect when you have a president whose background was Hollywood, not Peoria. Let's also not forget that Reganomics nearly phased out the middle class all together and gave us the biggest deficit since the depression by giving the rich tax breaks they used to invest rather than revitalize the economy. Something Bush is implementing even today. Warren Buffet has even spoken out against it when he realized one blue collar worker in Berkshire Hathaway pays more taxes than he does.
4. The electoral college that conservatives cling to was implemented originally because most americans were illiterate and the government didn't want to grant the public too much power. Now that the majority of americans are well read we still have this barely functioning dinosaur. If we have to keep it we should at least make it so the popular vote overrides it. Let's remember the popular vote was in favor for Gore in 2001. More americans voted for him than Bush, but we still some how ended up with him.
5. We were not attacked by Iraq. We were attacked by a rogue group of Saudi arabians without governmental ties. But somehow this administration duped the public into thinking that Iraq attacked us. Our congressmen don't even know whether Al-Qaeda is made up of sunni islamics or shiites (it's sunnis for the record). But we sure had no qualms about bombing civilian territory and immolating innocent bystanders in shock and awe. We went there to liberate them you say? We sure liberated the hell out of them by cutting off their food and water supply and fueling tensions that WILL lead to civil war. Let's face it, this administration doesn't know anything about the middle east and it doesn't really care either, as long as the can keep us distracted and Cheney's oil company Haliburton is there to make a buck, just like it did off of hurricane Katrina.Speaking of Cheney, talk about being like being a prodigy of Machiavelli, or at least Darth Vader. He is the only politician I know of in history who has ever claimed to be in two government branches at once. In order to keep information he wants classified to stay classified he claims that instead of being in the executive branch he is in fact part of the legislative branch because the vice president has a small amount of legislative duties. Didn't he take freshman civics?
If it's one thing that irks me, it's when conservatives seem to suffer from amnesia when it comes to their stances in history. Here are some examples.
1. If you're conservative, don't bother to ever wear a "never again" button or involve your self in any sort of protest for remembering the holocaust. It's your conservative grandparents who were against letting the jews immigrate here during the war. Hell, you can't really even be against camps because it was also your grandparents who supported japanese internment camp that kept about 120,000 innocent japanese people under lock and key surrounded by barbwire fences from 1944 to 1948 without any compensation until 1990 for when the ordeal was over and done with. No wonder the japanese are xenophobic, huh?
2. Don't say Lincoln freed the slaves, because he didn't.
3. Ronald Reagan's war on drugs was ostensibly the last vestige of institutionalized racism in the U.S. But that's what you expect when you have a president whose background was Hollywood, not Peoria. Let's also not forget that Reganomics nearly phased out the middle class all together and gave us the biggest deficit since the depression by giving the rich tax breaks they used to invest rather than revitalize the economy. Something Bush is implementing even today. Warren Buffet has even spoken out against it when he realized one blue collar worker in Berkshire Hathaway pays more taxes than he does.
4. The electoral college that conservatives cling to was implemented originally because most americans were illiterate and the government didn't want to grant the public too much power. Now that the majority of americans are well read we still have this barely functioning dinosaur. If we have to keep it we should at least make it so the popular vote overrides it. Let's remember the popular vote was in favor for Gore in 2001. More americans voted for him than Bush, but we still some how ended up with him.
5. We were not attacked by Iraq. We were attacked by a rogue group of Saudi arabians without governmental ties. But somehow this administration duped the public into thinking that Iraq attacked us. Our congressmen don't even know whether Al-Qaeda is made up of sunni islamics or shiites (it's sunnis for the record). But we sure had no qualms about bombing civilian territory and immolating innocent bystanders in shock and awe. We went there to liberate them you say? We sure liberated the hell out of them by cutting off their food and water supply and fueling tensions that WILL lead to civil war. Let's face it, this administration doesn't know anything about the middle east and it doesn't really care either, as long as the can keep us distracted and Cheney's oil company Haliburton is there to make a buck, just like it did off of hurricane Katrina.Speaking of Cheney, talk about being like being a prodigy of Machiavelli, or at least Darth Vader. He is the only politician I know of in history who has ever claimed to be in two government branches at once. In order to keep information he wants classified to stay classified he claims that instead of being in the executive branch he is in fact part of the legislative branch because the vice president has a small amount of legislative duties. Didn't he take freshman civics?