"Conservatives" and Their "Reality"

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

Had to compress my comments, talking on a local site to a guy bloviating all the standard "conservative" talking points and attitudes.

Rather liked that the short-form comment seemed to get to the point (better than I usually do):
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Bob: did you notice I strongly recommended, above, a belief in "objective truth" ?

If so, you can see why you're wrong-footed from your first statement, that "there [are} facts and there are Liberal facts."  Objective truth is, by definition, the same for everyone: and not under the control of any faction.

No, Bob: there are facts, and there are lies (or as "conservatives" like to call them, "ALTERNATIVE facts").

Reality is what it is: not what ANY human being ("liberal" or "conservative," since those seem to be the poles of your worldview) wants to conjure it.

To live in objective reality, you have to admit it exists; and you have to acknowledge reality is sovereign to your personal interpretation of it.

Those who aren't God, but want to believe reality is their own creation, really REALLY need to repent.

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

Conservative attitude

Someone on facebook posted this.

It's a standard "conservative" whine that people who get unemployment, food-stamps, Medicare, etc., do so willingly. "They" do it, in fact, to game the system, and take advantage of decent hard-working people (i.e., "us").

Someone pointed out that if "conservatives" are right, they've missed an even more astonishing fact: American employment figures show that every month for the last year, a quarter-million lazy welfare-mooches change their evil attitudes, and decide to get a job.

But more than factually, the "conservative" position is attitudinally wrong: at least, for Christians.

The obvious sub-text of the "conservative" attitude is that people who need help are losers, and most of them are bad people who cheat the system.

Luke introduces one of Jesus' parables with words that exactly address that "conservative" attitude: "And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt..." (Luke 18:9)

May God give today's pharasaical "conservatives" a spirit of repentance !