Toon- The hard truth slowly dawning on a conservative

[n2doc]

[tavalon]

1. Let's just pop that little doozy up to the top

[Champion Jack]

6. Done

[pgodbold]

31. K&R...n/t

[progressoid]

2. I wish

I haven't met any conservatives yet that have come to that conclusion. At least none that will say it outloud.

[lark]

14. My friend is a life long Repug

but is an anomaly because she's smart, owned her own business for 25 years and actually thinks for herself - unlike all the congress creeps. She's sick of the wars and knows they are only happening to make money for the big military-industrial companies and because Obama's scared to try to stop them. She also supported single payer, since it's so much more cost efficient - told you, she's smart.

I will sadly say that she is the exception. Tea Party types are totally clueless and think they will never change because they are too wedded to their illogical and even self hurting hate.

[NNN0LHI]

16. Did she vote for Bush/Cheney twice and McCain/Palin once?

[florida08]

45. she is an anomaly

a conservative that thinks for herself...but like you said she's smart..:-) they're out there..we just don't hear from them. Unfortunately they're not in Congress either

[NNN0LHI]

52. Not so sure about that smart business?

Poster still hasn't answered if her 'smart' Republican friend voted for Bush/Cheney twice and McCain/Palin once?

Being a Republican that kind of indicates that she did vote that way.

Doesn't sound too smart or much of an anomaly to me. Sounds more like a typical stupid Rethug.

Don

[happygoluckytoyou]

27. I FOR ONE....want people who PICK MY FOOD to be healthy....

[kag]

38. I know a guy...

He's the husband of a friend of mine. He was a life-long Republican, but when McCain picked Palin as his running mate, he rather disgustedly tossed his mail-in ballot to his wife--whom he knew would vote for Obama.

I know these stories are the exceptions, but at least they're uplifting.

Baby steps.

[lunatica]

3. kick'd and rec'd but I don't believe it

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. I agree. I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but...

my BIL, a cousin, and an uncle have all been unemployed for longer than 18 months, used up their unemployment benefits and are still spouting RW talking points and racist crap. There is a cognitive dissonance that sometimes just can't be overcome.

[Poboy]

8. Same here. Its as though they have walled off thier talking points

and protected them from real world experience. They will/do keep blaming who they are told to blame regardless of the lack of sense or logic.

[Roon]

25. My uncle has had three heart attacks and two by-pass operations

he's racked up huge hospital bills,all unpaid, he is too disabled to work and is applying for social security,and he uses food stamps and the food bank just like I do. Yet he is a foxnews viewing, hardcore teabagger.I can't figure him out.

[cartach]

43. He's in a form of denial .

He doesn't have to come to grips with the fact that he was led down the garden path and so he denies the obvious. Make him somehow feel better about things if he won't give in.

[JustWondrin]

26. Pacifist, your kin are applying

"Wilfull Ignorance"

[Atman]

4. K&R

.

[Greyhound]

5. K&R, but this does wrongly assume that a thought process exists. n/t

[JimWis]

9. K&R

[Blue_Tires]

10. ttt

[toddwv]

11. That would be great but could only be plausible

if, due to his long-term unemployment, he couldn't afford cable/satellite tv so that he couldn't watch Fox "News" and didn't listen to right-wing hate radio.

[Shining Jack]

12. K&R n/t

[Brewman_Jax]

13. Too true

that's the major reason there's barely any social safety net. Also, social spending is always the first thing the repubs attack when they want to "cut" government spending.

[racaulk]

15. Brilliant!

And sadly, too true.

K&R!

[juajen]

17. Great! I love it. NT

[alfredo]

18. k&r

[BrklynLiberal]

19. /Brilliant. Too bad so many of them are too ignorant to see that truth, even up close..

[ProudDad]

20. K&R (n/t)

[DemocraticPilgrim]

21. YOU BETCHA, the most harmful sins greed, envy and vanity. The humble inherit the Earth as it makes

us kinder and forgiving Planet utopia.

[XanaDUer]

22. K'd and R'd

nt.

[handmade34]

23. rec

[femrap]

24. Too funny! K and R nt

[matt819]

28. The problem is that they don't get it

Sure, the toon is a chuckle. But the RW doesn't get it. They keep electing RW extremists, i.e., republicans, and now tea baggers. Read the comments at HP or at NYT. Where you and I see the light when Krugman rings the alarm (okay, he rings the alarm a lot, but he's also right a lot), the RW has only contempt and puts the blame for our woes squarely on the shoulders of the Dems. They live in a fantasy world.

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

29. Love it!

Says it all......

[NNN0LHI]

30. I don't think it ever does dawn on most of them

And if it does they deny it to themselves and others.

Thats the way the ones I know are.

Don

[Drale]

32. What it doesn't show

is the Conservatives head exploding because his mind can't comprehend those new feels of love toward his fellow man he's feeling.

[usaf-vet]

33. A "captive audience" becomes a more and more relative phrase when you match ...

...it with Stockholm syndrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
In psychology, Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, essentially mistaking a lack of abuse from their captors as an act of kindness,

How about reading this way.
In psychology, Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages Fox News watchers express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors Fox News that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims Fox News watchers, essentially mistaking a lack of abuse from their captors Fox New as an act of kindness,

[kag]

39. Perfect.

Wish I could rec a reply. :applause:

[Swamp Rat]

34. k&r

[earcandle]

35. Somebody is using their noodle!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

36. Must Kick. Must Rec.

Mag-bloody-nificent.

[Hubert Flottz]

37. I knew it was cold, but I didn't know it was that cold.

[Mosaic]

40. Racism is wrong

Otherwise this moron is on to something.

[marzipanni]

41. Just happened to have this quote ready to paste!

"I have now reached the point where I may indicate briefly what to me constitutes the essence of the crisis of our time. It concerns the relationship of the individual to society. The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence."

Albert Einstein

[upi402]

42. I called a freep on his BS yesterday, remined him his Unemployment check is socialism

He said, "Nah, it's different. I'm not sitting on the sidewalk drinkin' a 40 (ounce bottle of Olde English)"

This guy is over 40 and lives at home.

[demwing]

48. He lives at home?

His mom's home?

[Major Hogwash]

44. It's a really dawning moment for a lot of them. When they found out we cared about them too.

Not just the poor, the hungry, the homeless, or the jobless.
When they had money, had food, had a home, and had a job.

They weren't asking anyone to take political litmus tests down at the shelter.

[Xipe Totec]

46. That's called a stupiphany

it is the sudden painful realization or comprehension of the larger essence or meaning of something,....





that was obvious to the rest of humanity a long time ago.

[liberal N proud]

47. K&R

[Doctor_J]

49. Panel 5 is missing

The one where Glenn Beck's chalk board appears in his head, and he goes back to believing that the president, like all other Muslins, wants to turn the world into one big Madrassa

[Mad_Dem_X]

50. K&R - Perfect.

[CTyankee]

51. I am more convinced than ever that "conservative" is basically a code word for "racism."

Racism is irrational, and perhaps the ultimate irrationality. It transcends all rational thinking. It has an almost irrestible power over some people. They can't get out from under its influence.

That is the only way I can understand what this is all about with conservatives...

[burning rain]

53. That's it for a lot of poor conservatives.

Makes me think of the recent West Virginia Senate race. Would have been too sad for words had enough dirt-poor white West Virginians been so tripped out on racism as to elect John Raesist, who was openly contemptuous of them, although, to be sure, Joe Manchin is no treat.