Reply #68: I disagree

[speakclearly]

I know some Republicans like that. They are educated and sound rational, but they listen to Rush and Hannity, and even think Coulter is a great "comediene".

Its not that they aren't intelligent or uncaring, its just that they see things through a different lens. They are usually accomplished people who have risen to their position through their own efforts without help from parents or government. They think that everyone is equally capable, and can also be successful through applied effort. They don't see racism as quite as serious as we see it. They don't recognize "classism". They think women are capable, but that their parents and society raises them "different" which gives them different perspectives and goals that are not equally rewarded in the marketplace rather than there being conscious gender bias.

These people look at crime, and think it is the failings of the criminal, not the failings of society by not providing an adequate environment for proper development or recognize the predjudice or abuse that may have "warped" the individual. These seemingly intelligent people fail to see the dots that outline the conspiracies between those who have, to deny those who haven't. They don't see the intersections where the conservative politicos cross with the corporate leaders and the Opus Dei. They think the economy is "market driven" instead of dictated by the elite that skim off the cream and leave the waste for the Average Joe.

These "well meaning" conservatives think that the Katrina disaster was a "natural disaster" the scope of which was simply too great to deal with effectively, and that several layers of government failed to respond adequately. They don't recognize the connection between this "chocolate city", which was largely Democratic, and a vindictive Republican Party that wanted to punish blacks in New Orleans as an example for fother cities. Basically to keep them subjugated and "in their position". This was a failed attempt to help a city revoer in their view, instead of an orchestrated attempt to force out the Democratic Black vote so that conservative whites could benefit from the restoration and move in to change voting outcomes. And if you speculate that the Bush Administration may have used technology from Area 51 to "steer" and amplify the hurricane towards NOLA, they positively go crazy calling you a nutcase!

Basically, these "intelligent" conservatives lack imagination. They just can't seem to see what is all around them. They go through life thinking what they have and what everyone else has is simply a product of their own industriousnous. They can't imagine that there are sinister forces at work that "reward" their "friends" and "punhish" their "enemies". They don't even realize how they are benefitting personally from those forces by being a supportive pawn in the grand scheme. They think they "earned" what they have, instead of being "drawn in" to the cover story. Essentially, without even knowing it, they have been "bought off". Their imagination has been excised. And their daily dose of mind control has taken effect.

What else would you expect?