- Fri Dec 30, 2016 2:41 am
#81929
Truth: the essential difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives will imprison and torture anyone who doesn't think like them. Conservatives would still be living in the stone age if not for liberals.
Conservatives imprisoned and tortured Galileo for trying to enlighten them. They are still trying to eliminate the knowledge and enlightenment brought to us by people like Darwin. Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and Plato were all liberal thinkers. Every step forward in human civilization was brought to you by liberals and then hijacked by conservatives.
Conservatives would still be grubbing in the forest for a subsistence living if liberals hadn't dragged them all kicking and screaming into the future with new ideas for change, and now the conservatives of the world are desperately trying to force liberals back into the bronze age with their conservative religious wars, their unprecedented greed, their ubiquitous weapons of mass destruction they desperately cling to, and their utter disregard for the biosphere we all depend on for life.
Liberal thinkers like Jefferson and Madison brought us into an open, free, and representative society, free of the oppression of religion and with public education for all. Conservatives are the ones demanding constant surveillance of everyone with things like the PATRIOT Act and the NSA; monitoring of all communications; incarceration of people (including citizens) without charge, legal representation, or trial; government controlled biometric identification systems; fenced compounds; oligarchy and plutocracy; a military industrial complex; and less support of the neediest in our society. And now they are even cheering Russian hacking and spying and ridiculing our President for retaliating.
As proof, I dare any conservative here to say they don't support even more money for our military, a border wall, the PATRIOT Act, Guantanamo prison, E-Verify, less money for public education, limitations on political speech (like flag burning), and less public money for Social Security and medicaid and more privatized versions of them instead which the needy couldn't afford.
Let's see if Loser Boy Insipid has the guts to admit to the painful truth of conservativism. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: