Pop Quiz. Why do conservatives hate democracy?

[salinen]

1. Because Jesus wrote a constitution that is being ignored.

2. People with dark skin were meant to service light skined people.

3. They want control over your genitalia.

4. Cheap Chinese goods make them happy.

5. Security can only come from a gun under their pillows.

[Deep13]

1. They have to tolerate other people and ideas, ...

... and they don't like it. It reminds them that they might not always be right.

[salinen]

8. A+

[patrice]

2. All of the above, plus . . .

6. They are weak from intellectual, emotional, and economic inbreeding.

7. They are phony Conservatives.

[salinen]

9. A+

and you get extra credit.

[trotsky]

3. I've worked with some who definitely believe #5.

I dunno, I would find life very horrible if I was as paranoid as most Republicans appear to be. "Aahhh!! Gays are gonna destroy my marriage! Blacks are gonna break down my door, rape my daughter, and steal my TV! Mexicans are gonna take my job! Eeeeek!!!"

[hippiechick]

4. 6. Because they want to do whatever they want to do AND

be able to tell everyone else what to do, too ...


:hi:

[patrice]

7. Right, I forgot one of the most important reasons; they want to tell

everyone else how to be, what to do, what to think, what to feel. There is a very real organic impulse to be a dictator. Many people mistake the power of this inclination to be a sign from the "Holy Spirit" that they are the Holy Right, so they have a responsibility, nobles oblige, to dominate others for their own good. Others don't care about whether they are right or blessed with spiritual insight. They just want what they want at any cost to anyone but themselves.

[salinen]

11. You could teach this class

[patrice]

13. I used to teach advance placement Psychology for high school.

My orientation towards that is from the fundamental facts concerning the biological bases of behavior.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Too much risk that people they don't like may find themselves in power -nt

[kittenpants]

6. uuuh... they hate us for our freedoms? no wait, they're going to smoke us

out of our holes... give me a second.

[NewWaveChick1981]

10. All of the above, plus...

...they can't stand anyone who's different than they are. Xenophobia, anyone?

[patrice]

12. Indeed! Difference is SCARY to many people!

So is chaos, indeterminism and anything else that approaches something like 50:50, or a dialectic that yeilds a "third term". They fear the "third term". This is because some people are REALLY weak; some people lack their own organic identity, ergo they cannot co-exist with any "Other" strength, because their identity is not their own, and yet they claim to be strong. Everything is about "the message" and "the image" of strength around a 0.

[salinen]

14. Geez

I've had this same thought and had no idea it was a science. People without identity, who latch onto the latest image, and seem foreign in their own skin. I'd say they haven't come to understand themselves whatsoever and must find a "type" to be. Ususally that "type" is found from a T.V. show.

[OrlandoGator]

15. Because democracy is less profitable than totalitarianism.

Follow the money.

[converted_democrat]

16. Because they are control freaks, that want "their way" , or the

highway. They don't like freedom, because it gives people options for how to run their own lives.