Irritating Conservatives: Facts and Common Sense Thoughts Republicans Really Won’t Like
November 30, 2013
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Every once in a while I like to write an article listing a few facts Republicans really won’t like hearing. For most, debating Republicans is a mind-numbing venture that should only be taken on by those who wish to punish themselves.
For me, I love presenting them with facts to see them try to ramble off whatever talking point they’ve been fed by Fox News and others within the right-wing media.
But it’s not just facts that Republicans seem immune to. Common sense and logic seem to be two other traits conservatives seem completely devoid of.
So, in no particular order, here’s a few facts and common sense thoughts you can share with Republicans to drive them crazy.
Our Constitution and Health Care
In the late-1700′s, we didn’t have an organized military and required armed citizens to defend our outlying borders on a moments notice until help could arrive from the government. The average life expectancy was also around 35 years old and a bad cut to the leg often meant amputation. Could it possibly be that’s why the right to own guns is our Second Amendment but health care is mentioned absolutely no where?
Isn’t it a little asinine to completely base a modern society in 2013 on ideas written hundreds of years ago? And don’t even give me “the Constitutional Amendment process.” We will probably never see another Constitutional Amendment passed in our lifetimes. The process for passing one, with a political environment saturated with big money and lobbyist influence, is simply not conducive to passing any kind of amendment to our Constitution.
Economic Improvement
Moving onto our economy. We’ve gone from a point where we were losing hundreds of thousands of jobs per month to gaining hundreds of thousands. In fact, there are some months where the headline, “Economy Only Adds 175k Jobs” is considered bad news because the numbers didn’t beat estimates.
For those who are mathematically challenged, gaining nearly 200,000 jobs as opposed to losing 200,000 jobs is actually a great way to define economic improvement.
If you really believe our economy hasn’t drastically improved under President Obama, you’re simply living in denial.
Oh, and we can still blame Bush for the areas of our economy that are slower to improve. Cleaning up a mess is always much harder than creating one. When we’re still having to fix problems caused prior to January 2009, those issues didn’t suddenly become President Obama’s fault simply because Bush’s time in office ran out.
And can you people be honest with yourselves for once? If a Republican president came into office in 2009 and created nearly 8 million jobs, presided over record stock levels, killed Osama bin Ladin and reduced our year to year deficits by their largest margins since World War II — you’d be calling him a Republican hero.
Religion
I’m a Christian and I love my faith. If you’re a Christian that’s great too. Faith and religion can be wonderful things in our lives. Well, our personal lives. Keyword being personal.
Religion is something that’s rarely a good topic to be discussed in public because it’s something that millions of people — many within the same faith, mind you — strongly disagree on.
Which is why a strict separation of church and state is vital for government. If you want more religion in your life, go to church more often. Don’t try to force it into our government where it has no place.
The Media
Conservatives are right about one thing: the media is often a joke. But it’s the conservative media that’s by far the worst. At least MSNBC openly admits they lean left. Fox News tries to portray itself as “Fair and Balanced” while being neither. Then some of your biggest “voices of conservative media” are some of the most reprehensible, paranoid and disgusting people in all of the media. People like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter. People with next to no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
I love how facts often suddenly become “liberally biased” simply because they might not support your ideology. Take climate change, for example. It’s amazing how not too long ago climate change was pretty much an accepted fact — until some within your party decided that something supported by the vast majority of the global scientific community wasn’t as credible as the “science” done by right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation.
And at least liberals get their news from a variety of sources. You people only trust Fox News. Why do you think their ratings are often higher than everyone else? It isn’t because they’re better, it’s just because conservatives have been brainwashed not to trust anyone else.
Taxes
Whenever I talk about trickle-down economics I rarely get the sense that conservatives actually believe in it. They do, however, seem to support the popular Republican economic theory because the “dirty America-hating liberals” oppose it.
I think it’s funny how basically every credible economic statistic since trickle-down economics was put into place in this country shows income inequality has never been greater or wider. The rich are richer than ever before while the poor and middle class continue to fall further and further behind.
The promise of trickle-down economics is that the more the rich have, the better it will be for the rest of us. Well, over 30 years since trickle-down economics was chosen as the
Honestly, how much richer do the top 2% need to get before we say, “You know what? This is a load of crap.”
Then again, Fox News will never say that, so conservative voters will never believe it.
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I’ll go ahead and cut if off there. I think I might just make this a
series because there are many more areas I would love to have covered,
but the article would end up being thousands of words long.So, maybe a “Part 2″ in the future? I guess you’ll just have to keep an eye out and see.
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