Momentum for marijuana legalization builds
November 23, 2009 7 Comments
caricatures & demons
It’s interesting to watch how conservatives and liberals treat each other. How they categorize one another. I’ve tried to distinguish between the two – since it seems they each have different methods of dehumanizing the other side. I’ve boiled it down to the title of this post: caricatures and demons.
Conservatives demonize liberals, and liberals caricaturize conservatives. And perhaps I’m picking at nits with this, but there does seem to be a difference between the two.
In popular conservative myth, liberals “hate America” and long for some neo-Stalinist socialism. Liberals are painted as weak and yet entirely capable of running a massive state/media coup of the nation in order to redistribute wealth and impose draconian regulations and taxation on honest, hard-working Americans. And the motivation for this? Dread “multi-culturalism” and America hatred for hatred’s sake.
Liberals, on the other hand, act as though the loudest and most verbose of their critics in fact represent not only the conservative movement, but the very philosophy upon which conservatism draws. Certainly the phrase “conservatism is dead” is second only to its younger cousin “rock is dead” in frequency of use. And second, only because “rock is dead” makes for a far better t-shirt. This supposition is drawn, often as not, from a caricaturization of the movement or philosophy based mainly on its chest-thumping class of pundits. If Rush Limbaugh is a conservative, after all, then certainly this is how all conservatives must be – ergo, conservatism is dead. (Man cannot live on Rush alone, after all!) [Read more →]
October 19, 2009 54 Comments
In defense of the pundits ctd.
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