If it walks like a duck...
Jan. 18th, 2009 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oselle...and quacks like a duck, would it be wrong to call it a duck?
Your average Main Street conservative here in America often complains that "elites" (i.e., educated city folk) unjustifiably ridicule them for being stupid. The Republicans and leaders of the conservative movement have gotten an awful lot of mileage out of this. I have genuinely made an effort not to see conservatives as stupid people but then I read a quote like the following, from an Arkansas woman named Audrey Loewer:
Obama did not get her vote, either. "I don't know what will happen to people around here if he puts restrictions on guns," Audrey says. "Me and Wayne, we're lucky, we have jobs. With the tight economy, there's gonna be more thefts.
"You see people come in here, you can watch how they buy. They fill up two or three baskets when the check comes in at the first of the month. Then they'll come in at the end of the month and you see Vienna sausages and Spam in their cart. They'll load up on bread."
Okay so...Republicans destroy the economy and people, by Loewer's own admission, can barely afford to eat because of it. Hunger (caused by Republican-destroyed economy) may drive people to theft. Therefore, Loewer votes Republican because her big concern is that she'll need a gun to protect herself from all the people driven into poverty by the Republican economy.
How can I not call anyone who thinks like this stupid? This woman is stupid. She is dangerously stupid. Audrey Loewer of Arkansas is a stupid, stupid, stupefyingly STUPID woman and it's stupid like this that has almost brought America to its knees.
And you know what? Not just stupid but callous and cruel, too. She sees that by the end of every month people in her community are reduced to subsisting on bread and Spam and her response is...get me my gun? Is that "compassionate conservatism" in action? I'll bet on top of seeing herself as quite smart, this stupid bitch also considers herself a real fine Christian, a great American and a genuinely good person.
Read more stupid here.
Your average Main Street conservative here in America often complains that "elites" (i.e., educated city folk) unjustifiably ridicule them for being stupid. The Republicans and leaders of the conservative movement have gotten an awful lot of mileage out of this. I have genuinely made an effort not to see conservatives as stupid people but then I read a quote like the following, from an Arkansas woman named Audrey Loewer:
Obama did not get her vote, either. "I don't know what will happen to people around here if he puts restrictions on guns," Audrey says. "Me and Wayne, we're lucky, we have jobs. With the tight economy, there's gonna be more thefts.
"You see people come in here, you can watch how they buy. They fill up two or three baskets when the check comes in at the first of the month. Then they'll come in at the end of the month and you see Vienna sausages and Spam in their cart. They'll load up on bread."
Okay so...Republicans destroy the economy and people, by Loewer's own admission, can barely afford to eat because of it. Hunger (caused by Republican-destroyed economy) may drive people to theft. Therefore, Loewer votes Republican because her big concern is that she'll need a gun to protect herself from all the people driven into poverty by the Republican economy.
How can I not call anyone who thinks like this stupid? This woman is stupid. She is dangerously stupid. Audrey Loewer of Arkansas is a stupid, stupid, stupefyingly STUPID woman and it's stupid like this that has almost brought America to its knees.
And you know what? Not just stupid but callous and cruel, too. She sees that by the end of every month people in her community are reduced to subsisting on bread and Spam and her response is...get me my gun? Is that "compassionate conservatism" in action? I'll bet on top of seeing herself as quite smart, this stupid bitch also considers herself a real fine Christian, a great American and a genuinely good person.
Read more stupid here.