Thursday, April 28, 2011

Conservatives (rethuglicans) say "that's not enough!"

It was only a matter of time:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/afterbirthers-demand-to-see-obamas-placenta,6866/
On a more serious note.... I've never met a rational, thinking person who decided at some point to become irrational and begin believing in say, purple unicorns or for that matter god.
On the other hand I've met plenty of former believers who after careful reflection of all the available evidence decided to become less delusional and more rational. ( I TAKE IT AS A PERSONAL POINT OF PRIDE that one such former believer even told me he fell away from faith after a careful examination of his beliefs caused in part by listening to my logical arguments against religion on the radio.)
Likewise I've never met a progressive who decided that the willingness to look critically at new ideas was vastly overrated and decided at some point to go back to following failed principals. While I'm sure that both of those types of people do exist, I've just never met one.  Not one.  Again I've heard of conservatives who after careful examination decided that racism, sexism, militarism, corporatism, ethnocentrism, and a whole host of other 'isms' just didn't work when it came to the betterment of the human race and were willing to make the leap to examining new ways of solving problems.
I've never heard of a democrat who decided to become a republican.  they say reagan started as a democrat but maybe by the time he made the change he had already lost his mind (ten years ago I talked at length to an eyewitness who says ronnie often didn't know who he was during his first term in office so i suppose anything is possible.) 
But I've heard of republicans deciding that 'enough is enough' and changing to the flawed but occasionally noble democratic party.
Today, April 27th, 2011...Republicans everywhere have an excuse to register their disgust for what their party has become (or perhaps has been all along), a haven for racists,  sexists, closet homophobes, theocrats, and otherwise reprehensible human beings. 
Watching donald trump gloat over the fact that he was able to force the president of the united states to answer his absurd allegations (for no other reason other than because he is a black man) made me ashamed for you. Don't insult my intelligence and say there is/was anything other than good old fashioned racism behind 'the birther conspiracy'.   
change parties, only the bigots will question your motives.

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