Tartarin, I was referring to Craven
I'm not a hippy and do not share many true leftist viewpoints.
My mock conservative posts, though bloated cartoons of true conservative thought, are almost verbatum quotes from certain people who call themselves conservatives. I took them from posts on other forums, some dating back as much as three years.
It's telling that you chose the cartoonish ones.
Substantiation, Ersatzki? Look at the face in your avatar. If that isn't substantial proof I don't know what is.
You and I differ greatly in what we consider substantiation or proof.
I took the thread as a fun one.
Again, poking fun at people of different political persuasions might be fun to you but to them it might not be.
but then this is a forum for ideas that might not be fun for everyone
I can take it if a conservative kids me; why shouldn't they be able to do the same?
As long as you are stuck justifying your cartoonish creations I'm fine with it.
Jeez - I also put in a post saying that conservatives and liberals could work together in mutual respect, when I was being serious.
Insulting an ideology generally garners more attention.
which is why rabid conservatives are keen on insults
I really don't insult real conservatives - only certain wackos from way out in right field. As a matter of fact, my alltime favorite author, Philip Wylie, always described himself as a conservative.
This experiment has at least put some of the A2K conservatives' frustrations into better perspective for me.
i have found it very interesting
If a conservative were to pull the same stunt (become a temporary liberal) I predict the outcome would be the same, except now everyone has been alerted and may consciously work to see my words disproven.
I strongly doubt that the outcome would be the same. It's very hard to resist the temptation of using the act as a platform for your real opinion.
craven, if you were to spend six months in the place I live, you would see where I get my scarcely concealed rage at far right wing people (not conservatives, of whom I could name a number as friends). I live in an area next to Houston, where the communities bear names such as Tomball, Decker Prairie, Magnolia and Pinehurst. We are in the process of being swallowed by Houston from the one side, and being joined to The Woodlands from the other. Every printed or public statement related to politics or religion is stamped "conservative." To be disparaged is to be called a liberal. They all strive to paint their opponents as Clinton style liberals, no matter how thin the paint they use. Once, after lamenting the lack of liberal thought in the local papers, I wrote a long letter to the editor of one, in which I expressed the sentiments that Christians need to be tolerant of others' religious views, people ought to be paid a fair wage for working, welfare should be geared to a poor person's real needs (some need more education, some need a chance at a better job, some need child care before they can afford to work, etc.). I wish I still had a copy of my letter. It created a sensation at the newspaper. They had a staff meeting to discuss it. Some thought my call for fair pay the cry of a socialist. I was branded anti Christian. Definitely a socialist or communist for advocating any sort of welfare. A staff editorial writer called me for an interview. In his next column he skewered me for being raised in California (I'm not saying there is anything wrong with being from there," he wrote). He basically called me a socialist who wanted to take the hard working Texans' money away to redistribute among the leeches and dreggs of the land. He pointed out that I was tainted because I had recieved welfare as a boy (never mind I quit school at age 15 to work and have worked ever since). He crowed over the fact that my family of eleven children and one divorced mother had been disallowed welfare, despite the fact we were all living on my brother's pay of $1 per hour. On my present job, supervisors routinely try to force us to distribute Republican literature at election time (it goes into the trash), my last boss spent at least an hour per week lecturing us on conservative politics and keeping Rush Limbaugh on the radio. My immediate boss cut me off when I tried to explain why I did not think we ought to invade Iraq. She said, "My family is redneck - We're Texans." - implying I was some kind of foreigner - "I'm a Texan," I said. "You spent too much time in California," she retorted. This woman is a dear friend of mine, but she simply cannot comprehend why anyone could not love all the good white conservatives for what they are. One of our more respected people wrote: "There is nothing to stop every Muslim in the land from stepping out their door and begin shooting every white person they see." It goes on and on. The type of statements I made in joking about certain people are fairly commonplace around here. I don't think most of the state feels any different, seeing they hailed Bush as a state hero when he ran for governor and then president, and they re elect Tom Delay and his ilk endlessly.
