Understanding the Conservative Mindset

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Wednesday November 18, 2009 · 3:55 PM PST

2009/11/18 · 15:55

My general belief is that that which you do not understand, you tend to fear.

But when you truly do not understand something - from any angle, when it is so mind-bogglingly insane of an idea that you can not wrap your head around, I feel it is necessary to spend as much time as necessary to figure out what it is you fear. And for the past few months I've truly feared conservatives because they just seem to keep getting crazier and crazier. With the fringe part of the conservative party holding the microphone and spouting so much nonsense, its hard to attain exactly where it all comes from.

And so I began to try to understand the conservative mindset.

Sajun777

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Friday July 24, 2009 · 12:59 AM PDT

2009/07/24 · 00:59

Dear Mr. Sajun777:

This isn't my last name obviously.

Thank you for contacting me regarding health care reform and providing a public health care option. I appreciate the time you took to write and welcome the opportunity to respond.

Considering that most of what I wrote was laced with expletives and anger regarding the fact that I work part-time and don't have health insurance I'm a bit shocked that I even got a reply. Still, it took almost two or three weeks to even get a reply, so..

Sajun777

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 1:37 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 13:37

For those of you who are in the middle of this Prop 8 debate about what went wrong, and where the blame lies, and whatnot, I want to say this.

You can either say one view, or the other, but I don't believe you can have both.

Obama's victory was mindblowing. It was an amazing blow to conservative ideology. We kicked their asses. We controlled and owned this race in every conceivable way. Except our utter and complete failure in regards to prop 8 and numerous other equality issues, including gay adoption. And Obama did very little to help, considering his massive lead in the electoral-college and even in areas that he didn't win, his margin of victory was close, further proving that he should've helped out more.

Obama's victory was pure luck. Yeah, it was an amazing amount of work that took place for something that should've been a landslide easily. To have Obama win, we needed a complete economic collapse, 95% support of AA votes everywhere, huge latino turn-out, youth vote, AND on top of that we had to run an expert campaign, and the other side had to run a complete failure of a campaign, and THAT was why Obama had such a hard time finding any extra resources to help us with Prop 8.

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 7:27 PM PST

2008/11/04 · 19:27

NOT! lol.. No but seriously, the freepers had a post about Jeb Bush in 2012... I just wanted to share a few wonderful replies to that post that supported Jeb Bush.

Please put down the crackpipe... No more Bushes!

In the 90’s, I liked the sound of Jeb Bush. Two Bushes later, I would never trust another Bush. Both have done as much to destroy conservatism as any external force.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER

NO MORE BUSHES - NO MORE BUSHES - NO MORE BUSHES

Imagine that... Republicans CAN be taught. Only took 'em 8 years.

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Sarah McFailin

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The undead corpse of Reagan

29 votes

Some other wingnut

53 votes

Pie. Yes, pie, cause its the only item that I would consider voting for with an (R) behind it.

25 votes

It's not enough - looking to the future

Sajun777

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 2:38 AM PDT

2008/10/14 · 02:38

My first diary, well, here goes.

Whether prop 8 passes and discrimination is written into the California constitution, or it fails miserably and we secure two victories in California (Obama and NoOn8)... Well either way it is just not enough.

Propositions like this will continue to be close unless we come up with a winning way to frame this debate. Years ago, when I joined dKos I didn't know what to believe in regards to framing words. Frankly I believed that if we were honest and truthful with people, that would be enough to change their minds. I've come to realize the truth about the current political world.

Understanding what you're talking about and combining that with a winning way to say it - these are both equal important parts of political debating these days. Simple fact of it is, the republican party would've self-destructed anyway, but that doesn't necessarily mean that people would've started coming in droves to our bright blue banner.

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You can't have it both ways.

Jeb Bush is a true winner in 2012

It's not enough - looking to the future