Conservatives have lessened our security, freedom and prosperity, divided us and violated our moral values.
Conservatives have gravely harmed our security and freedom. Incompetent protection against terrorism. Misdirection and weakening of our military. Unnecessary death and injury to our fighting forces. Incompetent homeland security. Alienation of our allies. Massive debt. Erosion of our environmental, technological and economic base. Massive pollution. Increased exposure to climatic catastrophe. More dependence upon foreign oil. Increased foreign debt. Reduced access to health care. Reduced access to education, from preschool to higher education. Insecure jobs. Increased bankruptcies. Loss of pensions and attacks on our social security. Destruction of our safety net. Degradation of our civil liberties. And much more.
Conservatives have gravely harmed our prosperity. They have exported our jobs without providing better ones. Rewarded less productive people at the expense of more. productive people. Given tax breaks, subsidies and favorable regulations or deregulation to industries which exploit their consumers. Refused to enforce regulations and collect unpaid taxes. Allowed corrupt business leaders to ruin their companies, investors and employees. Rewarded companies who register in foreign islands to avoid American taxes. Created massive federal debt, while reducing public investment. Wasted and privatized our natural resources. Produced a weak economic recovery with stagnant incomes. Threaten a return to stagflation, featuring both inflation and recession. Wrecked havoc with our retirement and safety net. Soaring prices of petroleum, transportation, housing, health care, and education. And much more.
As always, Conservatives have killed the golden goose. They give tax breaks mainly to the rich instead of investing to make our economy more productive. This harms all of us. In the long run, even the rich prosper less as the return on their wealth declines.
Conservatives Have Divided Us. They have separated us from the rest of our world's people, each other and our government. Conservatives have alienated our allies. Diverted resources from our poor and middle-income people to the rich. Tried to impose their extreme religious doctrines upon us. Filled our air waves and book shelves with hate for our thinkers and scientists, our government and social service workers, members of our press, our union members, our poor, our women, our gays and lesbians, our immigrants, and our ethnic groups. They have accused liberals of treason. Proposed divisive legislation. Denied legitimately elected liberals participation in government decision-making. Greatly increased privacy for government while reducing privacy for people. Refused to allow investigations of their failures.
Conservatives Have Violated Our Moral Values. Our basic religious belief is that we should love God, all of God's creation, including our fellow man and ourselves. We should be one people of God, working together to preserve and enhance God's creation. We should use our God-given freedom to love rather than hate. To create harmony rather than disharmony. To unite rather than divide. To create rather than destroy. To care for others rather than denigrate them. To especially help the less fortunate, making sure that no one is left behind. To help those who oppose us to see the light. To protect and promote justice.
Many of us do not express these beliefs in religious language. But our dedication to competently enhancing freedoms and opportunities for all, especially those with fewer freedoms is simply another way of expressing the same values. So is our talk of justice and peace. Our liberal religious and liberal secular political values are the same. There are no differences. We should not be divided by our different forms of expression.
Conservatives have massively violated our moral standards. Their religious don't believe in a loving God, but a pride-filled vengeful God. Conservatives don't believe in preserving and protecting this world. Conservatives view this world only as testing place for entering into another fantasy world. Conservatives even believe their fantasy world will come about through the destruction of this world. They create doctrinal ideologies which deny carefully scientifically produced knowledge.
Religious conservatives don't worry about the greedy exploitation and ruination of our God-created world. No problem, since the ruination of our world will hasten the coming of their fantasy world.
Religious conservatives don't believe in loving all of God's people, but only those who avoid the sins they define. The sins they define are strange elaborations of minor bible passages, which don't include the many passages in which God, his prophets and Jesus tell us to love our world and our people. They are obsessed with the supposed evils of sex, while ignoring the evils of corruption, injustice and war. In spite of their tortured denials, religious conservatives hate the people they define as sinners and seek to punish them, including with torture and death.
Religious conservatives define people as sinners, even when their supposed sins are behaviors over which they have no control. Conservatives don't trust that people want to behave well. They don't trust that many people with education (about consequences and ways to change their behaviors) will improve their behaviors. They want to deny access to knowledge of contraceptives, on the false premise that such knowledge promotes promiscuity. They want to invade everyone's privacy to identify and punish those who don't behave in accordance with their strange beliefs. Many are hypocrites who practice the same behaviors they would punish in others.
Religious conservatives relegate women to subservience to men. They want power over all who don't hold their weird beliefs. They are masters of intolerance, prejudice, discrimination and division. They lack compassion for anyone other than their true believers. They foster a Culture of Discontent, in which they whine that they are victims of liberal attacks on religion, in spite of the fact that most liberals are religious.
Many traditional conservatives and libertarians are not religious. Such conservatives are not obsessed with sex. They are obsessed with greed. They do not worry about the greedy destruction of our world. They would grant more freedoms and opportunities to corporations than to people. They oppose regulations which require corporations to quit imposing their costs on their workers, consumers and others. They seldom criticize our massive corruption of public officials paid off by powerful corporations and the rich. They accept our government secrecy which protects our corruption.
Secular conservatives are also intolerant. Living in homogeneous rural areas, small towns and suburbs, they are prejudiced and discriminate against our diverse ethnic groups, immigrants, people with fewer freedoms and opportunities and many others not visibly prevalent in their communities. They are uncompassionate toward these groups and denigrate those who are compassionate. They want fewer taxes on themselves and more taxes on others. They oppose rich kid's taxes (estate taxes) on unearned and untaxed income. They want fewer government programs to assist the less fortunate, but support farm, military, retirement and other programs from which they benefit.
Due to liberal failures, new conservatives have obtained control of our government. They can win elections; but they can't govern. Our new conservatives stand for Deception, Incompetence and Corruption. Also for obsession with sex, greed, intolerance and divisiveness. New Conservatives have grown out of traditional conservatives. But they are radically different. They are enemies of our American Dream.