How long will it take for conservatives to be de-programed after the election?

[JohnnyCougar]

There are seriously still a lot of conservatives running around believing all the BS that has gotten pumped into their heads via the AM talk radio circuit and Fox News. After their coming crushing loss this November, they're either going to have to ween themselves off this stupid propaganda that fills their heads -- or keep losing elections. Their views are unpopular, and their leaders are already widely discredited. Their party has no platform except for hate and anger. All the angst and hate they have in them has been directed at "weak" liberals that "can't do anything" and that are "out of the mainstream". But when liberals take control of the government and start to turn things around, are we going to see their heads explode? How will they react to liberalism being the mainstream? How long will they go on bleating about the success of conservative principles, even though they have been smacked down in defeat? One month? One year? Five years?

Honestly, these people are so divorced from reality that I think de-programing may take a lifetime.

[Ian David]

1. That's why we need hearings. n/t

[ingac70]

2. They'll get worse.

Anyone still supporting repukes is a deadender.

[BlooInBloo]

3. They don't get de-programmed. We (a) stop making new ones, and (b)....

wait for the current crop to die.

[JohnnyCougar]

5. Let's hear it for today's youth!

[BlooInBloo]

9. (stifles singing a cheesey Whitney Houston song)

[Meeker Morgan]

4. Please! Who "deprogrammed" them when Bill Clinton was president? n/t

[JohnnyCougar]

13. As bad as Reagan was, there is no way he fucked this nation up as much as Bush.

Plus, there was a Democratic congress then to "blame".

Bush has royally screwed us. Reagan attracted people to the Republican party, but Bush has already driven many of them away. I think a lot of them are going to have to face the fact that Republican policy and Republican politicians are complete failures.

Furthermore, with the changing ideas and demographics in this country, their issues will get less and less traction with time. The Republican party is going to have to change their platform or face endless minority status.

[Tim4319]

6. They will just lie dormant until the next election.

They are not going anywhere, they will just lay low until it is time to elect another president.

[DJ13]

7. Cattle Prods

.....makes deprogramming much faster.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Two generations of continuous exposure to logic and reason. n/t

[Iggo]

10. Two generATIONS. (N/T)

[readmoreoften]

11. They'll be nothing but louder and I expect the situation to get more critical.

Obama will win. There will be a honeymoon for about a year as Obama will give great unifying speeches and make only minor policy changes that don't rankle anyone. DU will thin out. FOX will exist to keep Obama in line. When he mentions actually going forth with reviewing the executive orders, FOX will whip up a fever of hatred and MSNBC and CNN will jump on the bandwagon to keep their ratings up. Obama will kill the issue either by saying that "he is only making inquiries into reviewing executive orders" or he will review the executive orders and proclaim them to be, in his estimation "against what he understands to be American values in some cases" but "on the whole within the bounds of law." He will publically promote the rebuilding of infrastructure but will take us further into Afghanistan, and possibly ratchet up rhetoric against Pakistan, which will be a disaster, and I believe that is where the public will lose faith in him. Or he may be the one told to pull the trigger on Iran. Nothing will change but the dominant rhetoric. Obama will be supported by CFR until they like someone better. When they do they will give the FOX NEWS crew what they want. Obama will be considered a great progressive even though he will have expanded the war, hobbled public services through an increase in faith-based funding, continued with union busting free-trade agreements and will have appointed an abortion moderate to the SCOTUS. Extraordinary renditions will continue, although Obama will speak out against them. Torture will continue, although he will talk tough against it with some beautiful words. That's my prediction anyhow.

My question isn't what will become of conservatives. My question is what will become of us 15 years into "the war on terror".

[treestar]

12. I'm going to enjoy the hissy fits they will be having

After their 6 years of arrogance from 2000-2006.

their statements will become more and more irrational as they shift the blame to Obama for all the things they currently blame Clinton for.


:rofl:

[mmonk]

14. How can liberalism be mainstream?

The press is the same, we have no Constitution, and economically we'll still probably be dominately Friedman, and in foreign policy, there still will be deceit and a drive for hegemony under false premises. Do you know something I don't?

[JohnnyCougar]

21. The Republican brand hasn't been in this much trouble since before the Great Depression

The party is hemorrhaging voters at breakneck speed, and Democrats haven't even begun to turn the country around.

An entire generation of age 18-35, along with the fastest growing demographic in this country (Hispanics) has been alienated by their racist, war-mongering policies. Demographic shifts spell doom for their party. It will be even better for liberals in 4 years for the 2012 elections.

As long as the Democratic party actually does implement policies that help people, such as universal healthcare, the Republican party is doomed unless they make major changes to their platform.

[IDemo]

15. They'll be screeching for impeachment three weeks after Obama takes office

if not sooner.

[flvegan]

16. We haven't won yet.

[bonito]

17. Like the kid in the white shirt

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9b2_1217366899

Not funny at all, but a jolt of reality imo.

[opihimoimoi]

18. They will change by themselves.....after being surprised of the Goodness that is Obamas policies and

and direction...

He exudes Positiveness...sometimes ya gatta lead the Conserves to the Realm of COMMON INTEREST rather than the Pubs SELF INTEREST

[Aristus]

19. After the election? Are you kidding??? That's when they'll start suiting up in camouflage

and running around in the woods, pretending they're some kind of f*****g "militia". They'll claim they're being vigilant against the "takeover of our country", completely oblivious to the fact that it already happened, and they cheered when it did.

[timtom]

20. I'm sorry, but conservatism IS a personality disorder

It's been said time and again, but, like many truisms, it's true.

[MiniMe]

22. Millenia

I was going to say decades, but I think it will take longer.