It is quite complicated to draw the protrait of an ideology. This article tackles this question with an ironical and cynical approach (wich obviously led to a quite sterile debate, but was it the original purpose?) but it sometimes underlines facts that, to me, can not be denied.

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You must believe that profitable pollution is perfectly ok, and that all science is bunk when it cuts into profits.

Sarcastic but somewhere true. Why has the Bush governement refused to ratify the Kyoto protocol that president Clinton had promissed to approve (with some negociatings)?
Life is a question of priority. Nowadays, U.S.A still stands out as the most polluting country in term of gaz emissions.

This is just one example that stresses the differences between the two different views and ways of acting. Please let me know your reaction about this, it may be interesting to share our point of view, me as a French, and you as Americans (I suppose).

I allow myself to add that saying that either democrats or replublicans have never been into logic, is totally illogic.

If people would stop slinging mud, blaming others, and complaining about things without doing anything about them, the world just might change. Until then, things will always be the same. Humans will always be money-grubbing, will always utilize resources to create and destroy, and they will always blindly confess that they are infinitely superior to everyone else.

I don’t agree with you in 100%, but you covered some good points regarding this topic…

The biggest failing of the US conservative population is that it is blind to its own double standards, and ignorant of the reality of other world views.

There are great conservatives/republicans in history who would stand way to the left of current standard. These people had brains too and weren’t afraid to use them.

Exhibit one: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” – Lincoln.

Exhibit two: “A bill of rights [should provide] clearly and without the aid of sophisms for… the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.” –Thomas Jefferson.

Exhibit three: “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” – Jefferson, again.

As a Christian, I am appalled to see my faith sullied by some of the words and actions of US conservatives. While I live and breathe, my God compels me to speak up for the oppressed and those who have no real voice of their own.

Yes, this article is a rant but it rings very true and not just with the left.

JustABrit.