|
Edited on Thu Jan-19-06 09:11 PM by rudy23
I used to work in a library, and then a bookstore where I had to listen for the security gate to beep if someone tried to take a book with them. There were certain people who just expected to be waved through, because they didn't look like a criminal. They just expected me to know that they were Mommy's special boy, and they would never do anything wrong.
That's how these Repubs think about our civil liberties. They just blindly trust authority to KNOW that they aren't bad people. I don't know what kind of authority figures they've known throughout their lives that make them endow all authority figures with supreme trustworthiness, but they do.
Not too long ago, a conservative friend of mine was saying he wished there were a police man on every corner. This is an educated guy with a high playing job, who saw no flaw with wanting to live in a police state. Unbelievable.
One thing these people will never admit, is how scared they are of other people, and the randomness of life. They devote so much time and energy into trying to control other people, so they can't possibly be hurt. They want their Daddies to go whoop some ass for them, and that's why they don't mind when * and co. break the law to "protect" them. They play on the tough, protective father figure archetype so well, while the Democrats look like weenie Dads. You can talk policy till the cows come home, but THIS is what motivates voters.
|