crazy. the noun form of the word means a mentally deranged person. for some reason, over the past half decade or so, i've noticed a whole lot of crazy in a place one would least expect - congress. i'll expand that to state congresses all over the country. we expect our politicians to be greedy, lying, cheating, stealing, pandering...well, you get the picture. but we suspect that most if not all of them are both reasonably intelligent and mentally sound.
no longer.
there is a mental disorder occurring in our country, and it's growing like a weed. let's call it modern conservatism.
surely i must be hyperbolic, you say. actually, not so much. sure, there are those that label themselves republicans who are completely mentally healthy, although how they see their party behave in such ways and continue to support them is a mystery to me. but true conservatives are a "special" group. in a less tolerant/democratic society they would likely be rounded up and tossed into asylum. in America, we elect them to office.
this blog will be dedicated to exposing the bizarre, the insane, the fake crazy, the real crazy, the stupid, the ignorant, and the insanity which is modern conservatism. i will be posting a "crazy of the day" (if i can keep it to just one), as well as thoughts on the conservative movement in general.
as for me, i've been a politically neutral observer for most of my life. i'm 39 years old, and didn't really start paying attention to politics until about 4 years ago. i'm a registered Independent, have voted for republican candidates in the past, am willing to do so in the future, and am completely flabergasted by what's happening with both republican lawmakers and their constituents. i need an outlet. this will be that.
there's already plenty of blogs and websites dedicated to exposing right wing insanity. what i hope to achieve, besides typing a blog with almost no capital letters (a personal preference of mine), is to expose just how batshit nutso conservatives today are. i will use sources a plenty - from liberal watchdog sites to conservative sites where normal people really should not venture to email conversations with my very very very conservative step-father. i will provide commentary to accompany the "news" as it is.
there will be not attempt to be fair and balanced. quite frankly, i don't think there is anything remotely equivalent on the left, at least as far as elected officials is concerned. maybe that will change, but as of today i feel that debating how both sides are nuts is a false equivalency. i will not be championing liberal causes, at least not primarily. it may happen over the course of time, but the primary goal here is to expose the fact that today, in 2013, with so much information available at our fingertips, many Americans CHOOSE to elect people who don't understand 4th grade concepts such as fact vs. opinion, who believe in conspiracy theories, who don't believe in science, who ignore or don't understand basic economic principles, who pretend that teenagers can shut down their libidos, who rewrite the history of our founders, and who simply cannot understand nuance.
i don't know what's caused this epidemic. all i know is that it's spreading. what used to be fringe is now mainstream. reasonable analysis has been replaced by incoherent flamethrowing. basic tenants of human decency are no longer valid. conservatism has become a virus of the mind -where reality goes to die - and it spreads not through human contact, but by radical ideology that has been allowed to be mainstreamed.
i've had it.
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