"Conservatives" are traitors.

[quaker bill]

31. Traitors?

They are chickenhawks that feel empowered to lecture everyone about patriotism.

While lecturing about patriotism, they are anti-social warriors, doing damage to members of the community they are "patriotic" about.

It is a funny thing, patriotism, they seem to hold it as allegiance to an abstract concept, not allegiance to the actual people who embody the country. Unfortunately for them, the country actually is the people who live here now, and nothing else. It is not an idea, it is a reality.

For economics they pledge allegiance to an idea, a long discredited idea from the "age of reason", based in an intellectual construct that presupposes people as "rational" actors, when everything in the world around them tells them this is not true. Instead of adapting or adopting an idea that actually takes reality as it is found, they attempt to change reality to conform to their idea. This always fails because reality is what it is, and it changes if at all, very slowly.

These people walk the earth believing that they can shove the genie back into the bottle. ....If they get rid of birth control, then unwed people will stop having sex.... What they miss is that unwed people were having sex before birth control was invented, and orphanages were filled with the offspring.

They are desperate and certainly acting traitorous of late, but I think they intend well, they just don't know what they are doing, and have no grasp of the subtle and complex world we actually live in. Of course as my ex M-I-L was overly fond of saying, "The road to hell is paved with the best intentions". They are hellbent to take us down this road regardless of who gets hurt in the process.