Reply #57: let's not allow them to continue with the "conservative" masquerade [View All]

[NJCher]

I generally like what E.J. Dionne has to say but in this case he got it wrong by equating bushco's philosophy with conservatism. We at DU know that real conservatives eschew bush. Only a week ago, Wm. F. Buckley disowned him and Buckley is not the only one. Over the past year or two, many others have dismissed him as being representative of their values. Bush is not a conservative. Cheney is not a conservative. As poster Malidictus Maximus points out above, a more accurate name for their behavior is "corporate socialism" or "corporate oligarchy."

The Republican party was hijacked by corporate business interests because it has, in recent history, been the most sympathetic to their interests. They used the marketing tools and techniques of corporate America to stage a coup. Then, under the guise of a formerly legitimate political party, they pretended to be "governors" when in fact all they were doing is funneling our tax dollars to those who financed their coup.

Now we as a country are worse than broke. They have burdened our future generations with billions and billions in taxes that will go to pay interest on the debt for a war that has earned us nothing but the enmity of the world.

We cannot allow the old names to continue. What really happens needs to be framed and communicated to the American public. While I like Dionne's sentiment, it isn't doing us any favors to continue with the mislabeling of the forces that have so damaged our country.




Cher