Now OS Understands What Conservatives Really Want...

OS has a friend, to whom he owes a lifetime debt of gratitude, who is a hopeless, Kool-Aid guzzling, academic-on-tenure, political leftist. Let's call him Kevin-Bob, who lives with his special friend Peter-Bob.

Kevin-Bob loves to mount his Facebook account and rant about how evil those Wepubwikans are, how they are just out to destroy us all.

OS, since Kevin-Bob is a friend, seeks to understand. What are the assumptions from which KBob begins his rants? So, OS actually clicks on a few of the links that KBob shares to prove his point.

This one is one of the most revealing ever, because it reveals what KBob thinks that people like me are thinking, what our motivations are in reality, what drives us, what gets us up in the morning. It's quite a read!

...and to think, for all these years, OS couldn't articulate his own thoughts for hisself.


From George Lakoff, writing at Huffington Post:

February 19, 2011.

The central issue in our political life is not being discussed. At stake is the moral basis of American democracy.

The individual issues are all too real: assaults on unions, public employees, women's rights, immigrants, the environment, health care, voting rights, food safety, pensions, prenatal care, science, public broadcasting, and on and on.

Budget deficits are a ruse, as we've seen in Wisconsin, where the governor turned a surplus into a deficit by providing corporate tax breaks, and then used the deficit as a ploy to break the unions, not just in Wisconsin, but seeking to be the first domino in a nationwide conservative movement.

Dang!! Those deficits aren't real! (Sound of head slapping forehead--of course!--now it all makes sense.)

OS hopes his readers take time to read the article. It is an insightful, well-written, flight into fantasy.

OS is becoming concerned that some numskull will decide it's time to spill blood at a State Capitol over the budget issues. At that point, conversation may cease altogether.

One again, OS urges: We don't want to go there. There is no telling how completely and tragically out of control the culture could spin.