Quote of the day

The QotD today is actually a comment left by a reader at another blog. I thought it was very amusing, and spot on.

Personally, I'm getting a little tired of all this making fun of conservatives. When you think about it, they deserve a lot of respect.

First, they have to believe whatever the Bush administration or lesser congressional-type republicans tells them to believe. Yea sure, I know, that sounds like something any idiot could do, but those beliefs often change from day to day and often end up diametrically opposed to what they were the day before. It takes an incredibly agile mind to constantly change core values and beliefs without ever acknowledging the contradictions.

Next, they have to disbelieve absolutely whatever a certain other class of people believe. This includes democrats, independents, moderates, the educated, the scientists, the French, and just about everyone else in the world.

Then to top it all off, every piece of art or entertainment must conform to the daily beliefs, whatever they are, or it must be boycotted, burned, or banished (not stashed under the mattress, no, no, no).

And finally, they have to disbelieve, and disbelieve passionately, easily observable reality. Those people being tortured, they're not feeling any pain. South Park? Karl Rove couldn't have written it any better.

It's not easy being that fucking stupid. It really takes a lot of work. Show some respect, people.

That instantly brought to mind John Ashcroft. Remember when he directed that the breasts of the "Spirit of Justice" in the Justice Department's Great Hall be covered up? Asscroft was concerned about a naked breast of a statue appearing in the same frame as himself during a press conference. The statue is 67 years old, and nobody had ever had a problem with it before.

How about a quote from Mr. Asshat?

"As a Republican, I don't have much patience for so-called "Art" unless it's someone singing Bridge Over Troubled Water,"
-- Mr. John Ashcroft.

You truly have to hand it to the hard core conservatives. It's really odd how they can turn off the rational thinking part of their brain and just believe what they are told to believe.

via Escaton

** update **

It makes me insane when this stupid blog interface eats parts of or entire posts. I wrote a bit more on the topic and it vanished.. I'm not going to re-write it, it's not that important. Suffice it to say it revolved around belief systems and how thinking criticaly on one topic could lead to an avalance of critical thinking, and the destruction of a belief system.