The Libertarian Snakebite Kit - Day

4:44PM - At least not all "conservatives" are morons

From The Ugly Mutation of American Conservatism by Steven LaTulippe (emphasis mine):

Lew Rockwell is correct. The seminal political event of the past several years in America has been the changing political ideology of Middle America from small-government conservatism to a virulent brand of fascism. There is barely any discernable [sic] connection between 1994 and 2004. Almost all the issues which were important to red state America then have since fallen off of their radar screen. They are advocating many policies that are in direct conflict with the fundamental tenets of traditional conservatism.

Some of my more strident libertarian friends claim that America is now descending politically into a Hitler-Stalin dynamic. I think that that is somewhat overstated. It is more analogous to say that the Republicans are degenerating into the tin-pot fascism of Anastasio Somoza circa 1975, while the Democrats have long since fallen to the tin-pot socialism of the Sandinistas circa 1985.

America is morphing into Nicaragua, with the public finances, the current account deficit, the civil liberties, and the electoral system of a typical Central American banana republic.

Many of us prayed for years that the liberals would one day fall from power and that the Republicans would rise to dominate the federal government.

When the Gods wish to punish us, they grant us our wishes.

I say amen to that. I just wonder when more "conservatives" wake up to the duplicitous nature of their "administration". Hey, I have no compunction to act just as the republicans do when they savage the democrats. Conservatives were traitors during the American Revolution and still are.