"Liberals are afraid of the concept of death...

[WilliamPitt]

...because it destroys the idea of a perfect utopian future."

Just heard that on Joe Scar's MSNBC morning suckfest.

I am now 22.4% dumber for having heard that.

:eyes:

[nc4bo]

1. Nauseating. That statement sounded so silly to me. nt

[moriah]

2. Then why is it conservatives who don't want to have a discussion about death? n/t

[Jennicut]

4. LOL. Exactly. They are the ones afraid of confronting their own deaths.

[KittyWampus]

3. As a liberal, I realize my utopian future would be much closer to reality if some people would drop

dead.

[Ninga]

5. Joey Scab, Joe the Scar, and Joey Boombots, are all the same person and the way you can

tell is that he talks out of both sides of his mouth which is an interesting trick when you think about it.

He has managed to paint the bewildered liberals, with the same brush as the big-mouth-anti-health-care-townies...."both sides need to elevate the discourse"....bullshit.

You, dear Will, can only recover your damaged gray matter, by turning off the bastard.

:hi:

[lunatica]

6. I'm even more convinced that Scarborough spews brain farts

All that gas building up in his brain has to be released somewhere. Where else but through his mouth?

[rucky]

7. I admit, we do fear mass suffering and death...

from a conservative dystopia.

[Vickers]

8. Does this perfect utopian future involve bewbies?

:shrug:

[treestar]

9. Conservatives aren't afraid of other people's deaths

Iraqis, Americans without adequate healthcare, Americans without homes or food. American troops in useless wars. No problem with those deaths.

[moggie]

10. And interns, in Joe's case n/t

[madokie]

11. If it done that to you

just think what effect it might have on us from reading this:-)

[blueworld]

12. His usual peckerable logic...& composted wisdom

I forget, was it liberal Christians or Conservative Fundamentalist Christians that invented "The Rapture" so they could get into eternal Paradise without even bothering to die first?

In any case, I find the concept of some folks' deaths quite comforting, not frightening. It actually enhances my idea of a perfect Utopian future. :rofl:

I simply can't watch Morning Blowhard & Mika; it negatively affects my metabolism.

[msongs]

13. democrats in congress are afraid of discussing liberal anything for the most part lol nt

[Davis_X_Machina]

14. Too ambitious. He blew it at 'because'.

He's capable of making statements that are well-formed,, and maybe even juxtaposing several of them, but put some kind of formal operator in between, and it all goes pear-shaped in a hurry.

[Blue_Tires]

15. ??

death may be the ONE thing in life i am totally comfortable with...even if you could, living forever would be a nightmare for a multitude of reasons....

funny how conservatives have such a single-minded view about death...i guess none of them believe in rebirth

[berni_mccoy]

16. "I am now 22.4% dumber for having heard that."

I'm now 100% laughing after hearing that. Thanks Will.

[dhpgetsit]

17. I wonder if he would like to take a boat ride with me.

In some brand new concrete boots.

[Lorien]

18. We're not the ones making up utopian "after lives"

to insulate us from the reality of death.

[Odin2005]

19. That's a whole 'lot of stupid.

:banghead:

[katsy]

20. conversely, conservatives would embrace death fully

and joyfully for all brown, gay, black, feminist, socialist, liberals.


meh.

[TayTay]

21. That a code word argument

and goes back to a decidely RW religious outreach to certain Evangelical groups. Liberals are perceived as a threat because they can see a world perfected by humans. Liberals and humanists can see progress as the force that overcomes death itself. For these groups, this is a function that only Christ Resplendent after the Last Days (or the Rapture or whatever apocalyptic event signifies and end of days) occurs.

Liberals are bad precisely because they blatantly seek to take the place of God. Death cannot be overcome, it comes from God and is a part of the plan. Truely righteous people don't fear death, because it is of God and the means of reuniting with that God. Clueless Joe or his guest is pretty on-message for this particular RW point of view.

Disclaimer: I don't believe this. Don't shoot the messenger here. But I know code words when I hear them and this is a RW religious code word thing. Clueless Joe is going back to his roots.

[Mari333]

22. Terri Schiavo..nuff said. nt

[guitar man]

23. I bet

I bet I could take whoever said that for a ride on my motorcycle and by the time the ride was over,it would be clearly established who was more afraid of dying :evilgrin: