Dear Republicans: This Is Why We Don’t Respect You
I stumbled across a headline today that quoted some random conservative complaining that “maybe if we canceled sports, then they’d respect us.”
I hear this all the time: The reason Republicans pursue the culture wars with such fervor is that liberals treat them with disrespect. And we do. And this formulation pretends that the supposed victims of our scorn are treated that way unfairly.
They’re not. Republicans, or conservatives as they like to pretend they are, are selfish, greedy assholes, and they prove it every day in ways large, medium and small because this is who they are. It’s selfish, greedy tribalism all the way down. Why don’t we respect you? Because you don’t respect anybody else.
The country is made up, politically, of two kinds of people: Those who believe we are all equal, at least before the law, and those who think they are special and therefore deserving of more. More to the point, they think others are less important and deserve less, which is why the assholes who run Missouri would turn down the 10% they would have to pay to unlock the other 90% in federal funds. White racists and conservatives — but I repeat myself — have shown time and again that they will bring suffering on themselves rather than lend a hand to Black people, or even treat them as human beings.
Are you a rugged individualist? This is an American term for “asshole” that polls better. Are you worried about your taxes? Then you’re a greedy asshole without the common sense to see that those residents of Europe’s “socialist” countries pay a tax rate not much higher than ours, but they get bill-free health care and higher education for those dollars. Do you think guns are needed to protect against tyrannical government? Really? So you’re stupid enough to think the men who wrote the Constitution included an amendment that gives the people the right to overthrow the government it created?
There’s a simple reason we don’t respect you: You don’t respect anybody else. You talk constantly about “personal responsibility,” which in conservo-speak means “No Money for *****rs,” and never take any yourself. Intellectually you are children, which you demonstrate with every troll comment that’s ever been posted here — you can’t find one that rises above the level of middle-school insults. And you’re incredibly gullible, falling for the worst, most obvious con men American society can produce and electing them to represent you.
Anyone who’s taken Psych 101 understands that your behavior is the result of deep-seated, and quite accurate, feelings of inferiority. You lost the culture wars because you are, in fact, losers — bitter people clinging to a God that doesn’t exist, guns that don’t protect you from the capitalism that has left you for roadkill, and wanting to kill something to prove that you are a man and not an easily manipulated lump of protoplasm whose base instincts are exploited every day by the people you think, against all evidence, are on your side. Yeah, sucks to be you, but have you noticed that after four years of owning the libs you have nothing to show for it?
You want respect? Give some. It’s that simple, and I’d bet a large sum of folding money you’ll never be able to do it, for the simple reason that you have never demonstrated the minimum levels of character, intelligence and skills necessary to function as a decent human being.
Pretty sure Chris Coons proves every day that respect and simpering deference to repukes gets you nothing.
I honestly wonder how “conservatives” get through day to day life when their idiotic zero sum thinking seems to infect every.
Alby nails it on many levels. As noted stupidity is epidemic in America and sadly it’s not just the slack jaws of the south.
I’m so old I can remember when Republicans had whaddayacallem, oh, yeah, “principles.”
any conservative reading this is laughing at you morons
They’re undoubtedly also misspelling “you’re.”
omg. They have all been conscripted into one huge performance art piece.
This is the most uninformed, pointless, contradictory, senseless, down right asinine, blowing off steam of pent up anger and self-disappointment that I have ever read. It’s also the reason why we don’t have a direct democracy. I don’t think any reasonable person would even want respect from someone who writes this garbage. Aside from a few popular politicians, Republicans don’t give a crap about making people like them, if they did, then it wouldn’t make sense for them to rely on objective data, sound economic policies, and to be, as you put it, unapologetic “a**holes.” They wouldn’t lose their elections all the time either. The only one of those here is the person wasting their time profanely ranting about other people with no facts or any experience or relevant knowledge. The reality is, prior to 2016, economic principles were the same, but Republicans just disagree on what policies work when following those principles, but with the added Newly growing opposition to aspects of the global economy outweighing principles here at home. Right or wrong, we have seen these past 4 years and w/COVID19, that we are far more reliant and intertwined in the global economy than we previously knew (and prior to the naivety and historically ignorant socialists of our day), the main difference w/ Republicans was whether the good from the global economy outweighed the harm on individual nations.
Mirrors must be in short supply in your household. Why don’t you stimulate the economy and buy one, you ignorant jackhole?
Huh… Liberals (former Communist Party Members) can’t face the facts.
You got nothin’, bro. Thanks for proving it.
It is all economics. But now we have to realize, whether you disagree or not, we are driven by response to the global economy. However, Right or wrong, Economics at home caused most of the disagreement up until recently. As much as the New Deal gave much needed relief and reform, FDR spent an obscene amount of money and used some clearly questionable if not down right unconstitutional and abusive tactics to do so. In modern times, the nearly $6 Billion, and incomprehensible nearly $10 Billion that Bush and Obama created doesn’t help. You complain yet we choose horrible candidates. At least FDR spent $209 of the $236 Billion on a WORLD War, Obama was the first president in US history to exponentially increase the debt during a recession and during a recovery AFTER major war involvement. Literally every other notable example has a president that made the debt upon starting and during a war, and the presidents post wars always experienced a natural economic climb to some degree coupled with drastically lower debt than their predecessor.
And before you say Obama was involved in wars too, only $1.3 Trillion of the nearly $10 Trillion was on defense/military spending, much of which was directly caused by the admin. and avoidable/unnecessary. At least with Bush there was a clearly understood cause and response for the spending in the very beginning, that was by terrorists he didn’t directly create, and who existed BEFORE his term.
Thats a lot of word salad to costume in one sitting. It left me wondering where debt used to finance direct payments to millionaires and billionaires fits into your view of economics.
The only way the political left would “respect” Republicans is if they became leftist Democrats.
The left wants its opposition to cease to exist.
I would settle for the opposition to make cogent arguments to support its positions. Give it a try. I’ll bet jingoism is all that comes out.