10 reasons why the future of the world belongs to conservatism, and the need to accept what we know in all our hearts to be true, without exception

I am not alone when I say we will fight for equality & justice for all. "Conservatism" as currently observed does not provide for freedom, justice or the right to pursue happiness for each citizen.

Political Science 101: All but 2 of the above are absolutely unconservative concepts and completely unconstitutional. If any of your "conservative" friends support these ideas, tell them they need to get an education.

#3: Offensive Realism has unfortunatel been referred to as "conservative" over the last few decades so #3 could be considered accurate. Not sure what they are conserving.
#5: Public Education: In my opinion, one of the few unconstitutional policies I fully support. If our education system didn't suck, people would stop calling the above ideas "conservative". Fascism and bigotry is not conservative. Though it is perfectly legal to be an idiot in a constitutionally conservative society.

The Constitution was built on liberal philosophies so a conservative approach to the Constitution would be a defense of philosphical libarlism. With Faux News consistently referring to every GOP policy as "conservative" I get the confusion.

I asked the GOP about this world and they said that it already belonged to them.

Women place is in the kitchen !

Super funny irony! Good job pretending to be a hardcore nut job- to make the exact opposite point.

great post, although it shows less what the 'conservs' want and more the lengths brainwashed people will go to to demonize the other side, whichever side it is, in order to make their side feel superior and justified. its the result that makes the 1% dance their happy dance at how well they keep us at each others throats and off of the backs of them, the true enemy

That's my most favorite spine-tingling song from films.
Soooooo scary..but, just as they say, true.
"Da future, belongs, da future belongs.. to meeeeeee!"
Yikes!
You know, this postulated dystopian future is a carbon-copy of Margaret Atwood's nightmare in "The Handmaid's Tale."
Some authors like Atwood (and Mary Shelley in "Frankenstein") are so prescient.

A perfect world for the GOP. They are only waiting for the day. Great post, we should extrapolate on this more. What would make a ''perfect world'' for the GOP?

I love it.....go Santorm!!!!

I would pledge my blood to this. No joke.
Ready or not, shit will hit the fan and those unprepared and/or optimistic about racial-harmony/human-unity will be getting a rude awakening.

It will all come crashing down on them one day, just like it did to the Romanovs, the Bourbons (France), Hitler and others.

The perfect summation of the typical Democrats hypocritical take on governing:

*1) Wealth and poverty are now more relative, than absolute, conditions. The ancient idea of the limited good once again rules. Someone who has more, by definition, took unfairly more from someone else with less, one who nobly chose not to do that in turn to others. Fairness, not poverty, is our national obsession. My 48-inch screen television gets wonderful reception and offers sharp quality, but only if I know that someone else does not (and should not) have a 52-inch screen. I liked my Accord until I found out “he” parked a BMW next to me. But at least I can console myself that I choose not to do the sort of things that the BMW owner succumbed to. As is true in every peasant-minded society, wealth is as collectively scorned as it is privately lusted after.

2) Regulators are never the problem; a dearth of regulations always must be. If a teacher is at fault, a train operator sleeps, or a Wall Streeter loots, it is never because an administrator was lax, a supervisor chose to overlook drug use, or an auditor was incompetent. Instead, the common culprit was that we did not have enough laws. If Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank did not preclude the career of a Jon Corzine, then we need far stronger statutes than both. If a gun is smuggled by ten idling TSA operators, then we need more and better full-body X-ray scanners. There are lots of odd mentalities at work here: the more poorly educated and inept are our regulators, the more we turn to regulations per se to make up the deficiencies — guaranteeing even more so that the regulators cannot wade through the accruing paperwork. While it is considered illiberal to fault employees as incompetent, it is considered very liberal to cite the shocking absence of yet another law.

3) Debt is a mirage. Borrowing right now has no connection with repaying eons later. At some future date, inflation, debt reduction, write-down, higher taxes on “them,” growing the economy, a computer meltdown, those not born, a few “fat cats,” or a German will somehow step in to erase what is owed — some $16 trillion in collective debt. Borrowing and spending win friends and foster admiration; cutting and repaying alienate and earn antipathy. Do we adore more the politician who enacts another entitlement with someone else’s money than we do hate the curmudgeon who wants to see how it is paid for? Close call. Just as a billion in 2009 instantly became a trillion, then why cannot a trillion in 2012 likewise become a zillion? What do a few zeros matter anyway?

4) In our new age of diplomacy, being liked trumps being respected. The former proves we are magnanimous, the latter that we may be unfairly feared and thus by implication unkind. Giving aid to an unappreciative country is a sign of sophisticated largess; cutting it is proof of small-minded vindictiveness. Being despised by recipient Egypt is part of sophisticated diplomacy; withdrawing our bitten feeding hand is abject yokelism. Trying to undermine Putin while assuring him we pose no threat to his dictatorship is now called clever reset; ignoring him while making it clear that he will regret bullying our allies was the primitivism that reset was supposed to address. We would prefer that Iran agree to make only three nukes due to our brilliant outreach diplomacy rather than to make none at all due to its fear of what we Neanderthals might do. In short, being considered right about human nature is a worse charge than being naïve; the one is proof of unthinking traditionalism, the other sophisticated idealism.

5) Collective national wealth is natural; private wealth is unnatural. Barack Obama flies on sophisticated jets because as an American president he deserves that birthright; Boeing, which makes such wonderful planes for profit, does so only by the exploitation of non-union workers. Shut down a Boeing plant, and the planes will still materialize out of the upper air. iPhones, gas, and brain surgery spontaneously appear for all our benefit; engineers, oil company CEOs, and doctors deliberately profit at all our expense. Good things appear on trees; bad people claimed they made them. The gas in your L.A. Mercedes never should come from the oil off your coast. The driver is a refined sort; the refiner is not. Those who use things are to be given more credit for their existence than those who provide them. The consumer, never the supplier, is king: dive into the steps of a swimming pool, and we will curse the negligent or conniving builder who out of greed or ignorance put steps there in the first place.

6) Medieval exemption is not medieval. Saying one thing, while doing another, is no longer hypocrisy, but rather logical, given that sinning is finessed by prior qualification. Deploring racial profiling ensures that you do not have to visit Detroit too often — and never feel guilt in avoiding it. Warren Buffett circumventing inheritance taxes, or fighting the IRS, requires him duly to whine about the soft tax treatment accorded billionaires like himself. Barack Obama can shake down Wall Street donors, but only if he has first branded them fat cats and corporate jet owners. Deriding super-PACsis requisite to creating them. You can keep Guantanamo open only if you damn those who opened it.

7) Victimhood is always sought, never questioned. If affirmative action seems biased and unfair, then we all will claim 1/16th Native American heritage due to our little known great-great grandmothers. We discriminate against Asian students on the basis of their too perfect grades and test scores, but would not so much if they just cited a grandparent unfairly interned or a great-great grandparent indentured to the railroad. What our ancestors apparently did not get to do can be more important now than what we have actually done.

8) Neanderthals need nerds. The cool gang banger who is knifed on Saturday night suddenly in extremis worships the surgeon who stiches up his liver and kidneys — a target whom he would otherwise have robbed earlier that Saturday afternoon. The thug who strips the copper wire from our streetlights nonetheless assumes a nerdish engineer will keep designing the wiring scheme that runs his car’s CD. For the good life to go on, each illiterate punk demands one corresponding graduate student at MIT to take care of him. When the former outnumber the latter, then civilization usually winds down.

9) Ideology, for all the protestations of the zealot, is now not to be taken too seriously — not in this age of global leisure and affluence. The pro-Palestinian European activist expects to stay at a comfortable Israeli hotel. The zealous supporter of affirmative action in row 22 on a transcontinental flight expects that tribal considerations will not adjudicate who is piloting his 747. The opponent of vouchers prefers his kids in Sidwell Friends to the D.C. public schools. The La Raza activist at the university does not really wish his tony suburb to resemble Oaxaca. Guantanamo is a horrific gulag in December — and a reasonable solution to an intractable problem by January 21. These hypocrisies are driven by both age-old and more recent fuels: power is always preferable to principle, at least for those who are attracted to office-seeking. And in this affluent age, it is nearly impossible for the populist to live the life of deprivation. Politics has become too lucrative a business; and the populace is no longer so poor.
~ * Victor Davis Hanson

... It's so obvious... hypocrites think fantasy to be fact... because they believe it, it is then so!

Perfect summation of every Republican candidates platform.

Sound's like a world I want to live in. I'll die fighting against this sort of tyranny. Religious conservatives are not the only citizens in this country who will fight for what's right and that isn't this regressive agenda.

Exact why I'm leaving in about 5 years!!! Living aboard gets better every single day!

The woman that I'm looking for is the one that knows how to cook,clean the house, do the dishes, fix the roof, cut the lawn, do the laundry, and when I'm watching nascar I will scream at her WOMAN BRING ME A BEER !

I wouldn't be frightened if it wasn't true.

Good one Mr. V. :) We must also remember calling the current Republican Party conservative, is really a mistake. They are anything but conservative, their Right Wingers!

2: Unemployment INS in some states is out of control. Ask the heads up at Catapillar why they told the shithole state of ILL to get screwed. They told ILL that if they didnt get th fiscal issues and unemployment INS under control they wouldnt be giving ILL any more jobs. I am sure the good people of N.C. are more than happy to take the 1400 jobs that ILL would have gotten

3: I hope you arent putting that one on the republicans alone. obama doesnt seem to have much trouble bombing other countries.

4: Union worker at work even as I type this now. I get paid more than a living wage to sit here and answer the phone and play on the net. YUP unions are great if you want high pay and low work. Course they really dont get much done.

5: Public Schools? are you even trying to tell us they are doing a good job at educatiing our youth? They are a waste of tax payers dollars and the Dept. of ED should be abolished.

6: Dont think gays should be allowed to marry.

7: Again with the bombing, talk to bama he doesnt seem to mind to use the force of this country when HE sees fit

8:The purging of liberal ideas and values.... GREAT IDEA

9:The establishment of English, as our official language.....That part is a great idea

10: Thats a little over the top.

Yes I know I didnt comment on number 1 but I am married.....happily married and would like to keep it that way.

Change all women to working in the rice paddies and you have the story of what happened in many communist dictatorships, but with corporations benefiting from a huge pool of lower casts to work for well under the minimum wage and no workplace safety requirements plus The Little Red Book replaced with a Bible containing images of Ronald Reagan.

Don't overestimate how many people are put off by how prejudiced and ignorant a player like Rick Santorum is. People often grow tired of the negative style of politics, but it all depends how many bother to show up and vote to ensure that an upper echelon doesn't seize hold of power using their campaign puppets and their media outlets.

wtf

anyone pissed about this possible future should be out in the streets this year...being counted...great cautionary tale,V

The negative comments about this post make me want to laugh. Why do you think you are uninvited to post your own articles? Where have you been the last year and a half, while our culture has been taken over by politics? We've been waiting for your post in all these various groups, but now you come back one day surprised to find your old group is... liberal !

Ha! You should be so lucky. You could have been returning to find the conservatives have taken control and now require mandatory prayer, along with your consent to abandon all your rights!

Why did you leave anyhow? I wonder, do you think all the wonderful posts under science, music and art are all spam?

"Thems that dies will be the lucky ones!" ......Long John Silver

You hit on the head V, You may get some negative feedback on this but IF you compare the imagery of the Hitler Youth, and the republican party, there is very little difference. Clean cut "WHITE" men, Properly dressed "DECIENT" women, Conservative ideology based on "Right" and "Moral",, ect.

Just because the Republicans changed the Swastica with the Cross, the Uniform with the properly ironed buisness suit, the buisness woman with the stay at home housewife with the same look of adoration for their godly husband that was once given to the leader of the fatherland, there is the same air of superiority that exists as in 1930's Germany.

Set both side by side, compare the ideologys and you will notice that there is very difference between Hitler's vision and the conservative vision of the world.

So don't believe the BS when the Republicans accuse us of the what they are trying to shove down Americas piehole.

This sounds like a Rick Santorum campaign pledge...and I can almost see the folks at his rallies jumping to their feet looking at one another nodding their heads in complete agreement and a thunderous cacophony of cheers and shouts of " HELL YEAH!!!! HELL YEAH, go get 'em Rick!"
People on this site such as Paratus and John A. will be weeping tears of joy and thinking to themselves " Finally! Someone gets it! Thank God for this man thank God our prayers have been answered!!"

When stories like this make the top news category on Current I think to myself, "When did this site become the liberal Fox News?"
I understand this is meant to be comedy, but we DO have a section just for that...
I've been coming to this site since 2007 and it never used to be a constant source of propaganda and opinions
Not saying don't have your fun, not trying to be a buzzkill, but who among us really wants to go down that road?

It's funny to see conservatism portrayed thus. An obvious effort at comedy as I don't consider any of this "conservatism".

Ugh, I get the humor/irony of this but still ugh.

That pretty much covers it V.
I hope people read every word, and takes it very seriously because that is exactly what the right wing wants.
It's all out propaganda, and culture war building up right now.

+^d

Well... :-) number nine (9) alone will be enough to finish with every mayor corporation is America.

Semper idem
in saecula saeculorum
Santorum.
Amen.

Sounds like the 5th Reich.

Song can be very powerful. It is better to learn a good song today than to be taught a bad song tomorrow.

Sounds like "Jobs' Army" is on the move?

The future is now.