The 2012 CPAC Awards for Insanity in Politics
The 2012 CPAC Awards for Insanity in Politics
February 12, 2012
By Hrafnkell Haraldsson
What do you say or do with a group that insists nobody but them have any rights? That for others to have the same rights they do is a violation of their belief system? Its the height of absurdity and perhaps the most ridiculous argument ever made in the entire history of the world, but there they are, making it, and wanting us to buy into it.
To make matters worse, if we resist their attacks on the rights of others (including our own), that is, if we refuse to be harassed, disenfranchised or bullied, we are accused to waging war on their beliefs, of trying to deprive them of the right to believe. In other words, we have no right to not believe the crap theyre peddling because refusing to believe is a violation of their rights.
Its a discussion or rather a series of discussions we should not even be having. It takes on the sheen of arguing with cartoon characters, which most people would admit is just plain silly. I mean, who argues with Popeye or Mickey Mouse? But these people are actual flesh and blood. Its just that like cartoon characters they dont come across as very bright.
Certainly, these conservatives possess a certain low animal cunning, but so do rodents (Mickey Mouse is at least nice). If they were genuinely intelligent (or their minds not clouded by religious zealotry), they would know better than to think their narrative is going to be widely accepted. The average person is just not that gullible. Its not the Dark Ages anymore and were not a bunch of uneducated and unwashed peasants who are going to blindly accept the argument that its for our own good and they, the people who say they talk to God (and that God talks to them), know better. They dont. Demonstrably, they know less. Far less.
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RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)Welcome to Idiocracy...
ThoughtCriminal
(14,056 posts)It's more like arguing with Daffy Duck.