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“..if a conservative doesn’t like something they leave it alone, if RATS don’t like something, they don’t want YOU to have it/do it either...” ~ Chode

This is what I sent out to my email lists the other day:

It’s easy to know which political party a person will choose just by seeing how emotionally intelligent - (mature or immature) - they are. Here are just a few of the clues that give them away:

If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn`t buy one.
If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn`t eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion
silenced. (Unless it’s a foreign religion, of course!)

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about
shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.

If a conservative reads this, he’ll forward it so his friends can have a
good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he’s “offended”.

” [..] Now, could we make a gratuitous comment about how this is analogous to what the leftist — I mean the true believer, not merely the clueless Democrat — does with the terror of his God-given political freedom?

For what is the Nanny State but a gargantuan two-dimensional plane that we should all cling to in order to protect us from the infinite Sphere of Life?

And what are all of the thousands of useless laws and agencies they put in place, but a kind of collective OCD, in which we always end up back where we started? In other words, trillions of wasted dollars later, we have the same poverty, the same violence, the same stupidity.

The same Mankind, frankly, only worse for the systematic neglect of man’s true nature.

And the leftist does not wish to be cured, any more than the above patient did. For to be cured is to realize that one’s life has been wasted in meaningless rituals.

And that’s a depressing thought.” ~ Robert W. Godwin, Ph.D, Clinical Psychologist (aka “Gagdad Bob”) bttt

Complete commentary here: http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2010/04/obsessive-compulsive-temporo-political.html