Persuading By Distortion

THE CONSERVATIVE FACEBOOK POST said, approximately, that when conservatives are down on their luck and need to get back on their feet, they look for work opportunities, while liberals look for handouts and help from others. A bit of a stereotype, maybe? Exaggeration? Distortion of reality? Actually, its a lie, sheer idiocy. Leave it to the right wing. Once I overheard a young minister speakign to his father, also a minister, saying, about Al Gore, that "Gore is a good name for an 'abortionist'". Notice how quickly and eagerlyl christian conservatives accuse the secular progressive commumity of waging war on christianity, when in fact progressives generally only want to prevent America's evangelical christian community from tearing down the sacred wall between church and state in America, and from turning our sacred secular democracy into a Christian theocracy. These far right wing religious fanatics who intentionally disseminate these lies, distortaions, and exxagerations are idiots, and when someone supports reporductive choice for women, women'stonomy over their own bodies, the far right religious lunatic deliberately distorts and misrepresents the pro choice position to mean one whcih favors blood and death to life. Obviously, nobody supports abortion as a first and only choice. Nobody. And with regard to liberals and their work ethic, our conservative colleagues always point out that America's education system, upper and lower, has been, as they say, "taken over and held hostage" by the far left. Actually, education is what smart people do, its where smart people are, and liberals are smart people, generally smarter, research indicates, than conservatives. People who are smart enough and hard working enough to get PhDs, when in need of a better life, generally get up, go out, and look for work and opportunity, not handouts and government assistance. But now for some facts, about conservatvie. Not distortions and biased opinions, but....facts. Seventy percent of Republicans and conservatives, all the surveys say, still believe that the election was stolen from Trump, and seventy percent still think that the January 6th insurrection was a good idea, a noble attempt to restore justice, according opinion polls. That is the level of morality of these people. That is the intellectual level of these self deluded mentally ill folks. The tragic fact is that modern Amrican conservatism has been reduced to promulgating lies and distortions in order to make its arguments.