What do you think of this display of ignorance by conservatives on Yahoo Answers ?

[Progressivism]

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090706195046AA9MaFw&r=w&pa=AptqD2bwHTHc6.mBZqc0u3RdrlZGxDBrWmiBZaDn20c7jQ--&paid=voted

[Deep13]

1. Liars and idiots living in denial.

Lincoln, T. Roosevelt and King were conservatives??? Not on this planet they weren't.

And the reason no one remembers conservatives is because conservatives stand in the way of progress while liberals promote it.

Like a blow hard like Reagan or Bush Jr. could ever cast a shadow on FDR's monumental achievements.

[BeFree]

2. Welcome to DU

It's ok to paste some text from the subject link. Actually, kinda mandatory.

[JuniperLea]

3. It's not my father's Republican party anymore...

Thankfully, he's not a Republican anymore either. That was my defining moment... when the GOP ceased to be... when they embraced the religious right. Running from religion started this country; embracing it probably ended it.

I think the fact we still exist is a miracle. It's like we're a giant ocean liner, and BushCo set our course to go over the Niagara Falls. That we aren't now in pieces on the rocks below is a miracle. That we've turned and faced the opposite direction is yet another miracle. If we manage to make progress, it would be another amazing miracle.

[tsuki]

4. ML King was a Conservative? How do the delusional justify that? eoq

[dalaigh lllama]

5. They are conflating Conservative = Republican to advance their argument

The same way they see "socialist" in the German National Socialist Party and conflate socialism with nazism, whereas they are at opposite ends of the political spectrum in reality.

The definition of a conservative is "Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change." How they can say our Revolutionary founders were conservative and keep a straight face is truly amazing.

Because Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, and MLK belonged to the Republican party at some point does not mean their political philosophies were conservative.
Lincoln -- preserving the union may have been conservative, but freeing African Americans from slavery was a radically progressive act.
T. Roosevelt -- busted corporate monopolies and started our National Parks
MLK -- fought and died for civil rights, definitely not in favor of the status quo.

[Wapsie B]

6. So sad that the party I once belonged to has to resort to swarm tactics on the web

to advance their beliefs.

[Prometheuspan]

7. human ignorance knows no bounds

Trying to find a place where you can actually have a sane and civil conversation on the net is problematic for it.

I'm not surprised, but saddened. Its all over the place. The real question is to what degree it actually lives here, or in side each of us.

To be un-ignorant requires real self education. How many of us bother with that? How many of us just run on our team side and repeat
what our team leaders say without fact checking?

The difference between the repubs and the dems on this is that the repubs are chronic habitual liars, and their pawns are thus completely unclued.

But a reality test which I am sure I will very soon be trying is to determine how big that problem is HERE.?

If I start providing depth science information, how long until democratic underground kicks me off?

It happens everywhere else, and for the same reasons. The left and the right are very different, but they are both controlled by
keeping basic facts from the public. The right lies to do this, the left just practices message control by removing actual science and scientists from internet boards or the room they are talking in.

I just got done one round with newsvine. They deleted my account without cause for providing depth science fact information inconvenient to having the argument- IE, bad for BOTH "sides".
Their inability to send me a notice or answer my querries proves it, they know it full well. They are maintaining ignorance on purpose because thats what makes for good drama, and for people expressing their ignorant opinions.

Having an expert actually explain why theres nothing to argue about isn't something they are interested in. In reverse of their claims, they are all about intentional stupid.

Questions is an orwellian ochliocracy. Fact checking is not done, people end up being voted best answer when they have answers that are just plain wrong.

Yahoo didn't solve the problems going in for managing mass intelligence, so they ended up managing mass stupid.

We live in an anti intellectual society, thats how the usa goes to hell in the handbasket.