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Any more conservativism and we’ll all be Dead .

These people really need to start thinking about how their strategies can backfire before they jump in with both feet.

Heh. It tells me that the video stream is no longer available.

The “right wing” in right-wing authoritarianism does not necessarily refer to someone’s politics, but to psychological preferences and personality. It means that the person tends to follow the established conventions and authorities in society. In theory, the authorities could have either right-wing or left-wing political views.

Although authoritarians in North America generally support conservative political parties, this finding must be considered in a historical and cultural context. For example, during the Cold War, authoritarians in the United States were usually anti-communist, whereas in the Soviet Union, authoritarians generally supported the Communist Party and were opposed to capitalism.[9] Thus, authoritarians generally favor the established ways and oppose social and political change.

I think it’s the other way around: The Maverick couldn’t appeal to independents, because he had to remain in lockstep with the ideology, to secure the base. If the base had been less committed to conservative ideological purity, he might have had a chance with independents. A lot of republican candidates now see McCain as a likely scapegoat, who they can use to explain away the fact that voters would have thrown them out of office, regardless, because the republican brand has cratered after eight years of Bush.

A hint: It is Palin, it is Bush, it is McCain (Black, Schmidt and Davis et. al.), it is the foreclosure crisis, it is the credit markets and the stock markets plummeting, it is McConnell, it is Coleman, it is Bachmann and King, it is a tax code full of corporate loopholes, it is ginormous tax breaks for the wealthy, it is the continuation of a war of choice, it is the reputation you’ve all brought us.

I don’t want you to acknowledge these problems, even though that would be just the First step to recovery.

(yeah, I know, it’s OT but, come on, it’s Saturday – no Think Fast thread.)

Now that the full effect of their policies is being felt, the public is balking, and conservatives are looking for a scapegoat to blame; whether ACORN, Obama, Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae, or Democrats in general.

But one thing is sure: They will never accept responsibility for their own failures. And their loyal followers (basically the right-wing bigots at the McCain rallies) will never believe it was the “small government” Republicans who got us all into this mess to begin with.

The very essence of conservatism as an ideology is resistance to change.This resistant ethos is utterly incompatible with reality, not just present reality but historical reality.

Conservatism simply picks a convenient state of being, arbitrarily declares that chosen state perfect and then strives to maintain it regardless.

If conservatives had been able to impose their ideology on the New World of the 1600’s America would either have stayed a colony of Great Britain or would have become a Puritan theocracy which in glorious isolation would be in the present day much like a Christian, western, Saudi Arabia.

– - Well, if you have to ask….

Are Conservatives a Liability For the Country?

As McCain is the de facto Conservative candidate, as he is losing magnificently in the polls thanks to him running on the traditional conservative platform that has informed the disastrous policies of the past 8 years ( and which were given their head in the 12 years of Reagan and Bush41) and his avowed intention to continue those failed policies Mc Cain isn’t just a liability to social and political conservatives, but to the entire nation and its future.

Furthermore, having accepted McCain as their primary political leader and having promoted Palin as their social-issues leader, Conservatives are in fact their own greatest liability.