Tag: Conservatives

• Greetings From Sparky -The Dog That Chased The Car – And Caught It!

  Hi there! Sparky’s the name (I’m sparked by my faith that feelings are always better than facts!) and I am the dog that just caught the car! Yessirree, I am the wind beneath the wings of fifty years of hope that cynically pivoted from fighting desegregation (when that fight failed) to caring ardently about “saving […]

  A L Katz

  May 8, 2022

  Branding, Corruption, Culture, Feminism, Freedom, Healthcare, Mitch McConnell, Religion

  Bi-polar, Conservatives, Desegregation, Dog who caught the car, Feelings v Facts, Kibble, Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell, Right Wing Money, Roe v Wade, Rule of Law, Squyirrels

• The Anti-Abortion Crowd Just Got Their Wish And, Boy, Are They Gonna Regret It

  As my old pal the Crypt Keeper used to say – with a darkly delighted cackle – “Be careful what you wish for, kiddies, you might just get it!” The conservatives have used the “pro-life” movement as their stalking horse. Conservatives couldn’t give a fly eff about anyone else’s life. If they knock someone up […]

  A L Katz

  May 3, 2022

  Corruption, Culture, Magical Thinking, Mitch McConnell, Religion, Republicanism, SCOTUS, Trump

  Bussing, Conservatives, Crypt Keeper, Evangelicals, Jimmy Carter, Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell, Paul Weyrich, Roe v Wade, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Tales From The Crypt

• Literal Pages Ripped From “The Conservative Playbook”

  It’s not a coincidence that conservatives are far, far better at marching in lock step than liberals or progressives – or even independents. Across cultures, conservatism produces better goose-steppers than progressivism ever could even on progressivism’s very “best day”. It all comes down to the Playbook. Conservatives have one while progressives and independents don’t. That’s […]

  A L Katz

  April 17, 2022

  American News Media, Barack Obama, Branding, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, False Patriotism, Freedom, Magical Thinking, Mitch McConnell, Racism, Republicanism, Rule of Law, SCOTUS, The Nature of Evil, Treason, Trump

  All Men Are Created Equal, Antonin Scalia, Conservatism, Conservatives, Cynicism, E Pluribus Unum, Monotheism, Originalism, Permanent Minority Rule, Voice Of God, White Supremacy, Will Rogers

• Conservatism = The Death Of Innovation

  I take conservatives and conservatism at their word: they’re all about conserving things. My question is always: “what?”. What is it exactly that any conservative wants to conserve? It can’t be the future, of course, because the future – not existing yet – can’t be conserved. That leaves the present and past for conservatives. Okay… […]

  A L Katz

  March 24, 2022

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, False Patriotism, Magical Thinking, Mitch McConnell, New Ways of Thinking, Republicanism, Rule of Law, The Nature of Evil, Treason, Trump

  All Men Are Created Equal, Antonin Scalia, Authoritarianism, Conservatives, E Pluribus Unum, Founding Fathers, Innovation, Maya Angelou, Originalism, Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump, Winston Churchill

• I Hereby Declare War On Greed

  Of all the deadly sins, only one matters. In a sense, every sin – deadly or otherwise – flows from this one: greed. Greed is the triumph of “me” over everything else in the universe. One’s sense of self-worth is disconnected from reality in the worst way possible. “I alone can fix it”. No one […]

  A L Katz

  March 16, 2022

  Branding, Coronavirus, Corruption, Freedom, Magical Thinking, Racism, Republicanism, Rule of Law, Slavery, The Nature of Evil

  All Men Are Created Equal, Confederacy, Conservatives, Deadly Sins, Greater Russia, Greed, I alone can fix it, Kompromat, Poster Boy, PR Spin, Sense of self worth, Slavery, Stolen Labor

• “I’m Trying To Think But Nothing Happens”

  I’m a movie nerd. Movie quotes and moments pop into my head constantly, like a highlighter being applied to my life in real time. One of those quotes pops up with alarming regularity these days. You don’t have to be a Three Stooges fan to appreciate the genius of Curly Howard’s exquisitely delivered “I’m trying […]

  A L Katz

  March 5, 2022

  American News Media, Branding, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, Magical Thinking, Rule of Law, Slavery, The Nature of Evil, Treason, Trump

  Confederacy, Conservatism, Conservatives, Curly Howard, I'm trying to think, Maya Angelou, Oliver Twist, Problem-Solving, Skin in the game, Slavery, Three Stooges, Workhouse

• White Supremacy Is The Thing Conservatives Really Want To Conserve

  I take conservatives at their word. Well, at their name: conservatives want to conserve. Fair enough. The obvious question is “what”. WHAT do conservatives want to conserve? Just to narrow it down – we know it can’t be the future, it doesn’t exist yet. There’s nothing to conserve. That limits conservable things to the present […]

  A L Katz

  February 21, 2022

  Branding, Corruption, Cyber War, Election 2020, Music & Culture, Republicanism, Rule of Law, The Nature of Evil, Treason, Trump

  All Men Are Created Equal, Conservatism, Conservatives, Culture War, Cynicism, Diversity, Kabuki, Newt Gingrich, Originalism, Ronald Reagan, White Supremacy

• Everything The Republicans Are Doing Is Going To Blow Up In Their Faces

  In a way, The Republican Party is about to become like a car-chasing dog that finally catches up to a car only to realize it never prepared itself for this moment – and this moment sucks – because the car just ran over it. On two different fronts, Republicans – white, Christian conservatives – are […]

  A L Katz

  January 22, 2022

  Corruption, Culture, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Feminism, Freedom, Mitch McConnell, Racism, Republicanism, SCOTUS, Trump

  Abortion Rights, Conservatives, Crypt Keeper, Good Germans, Hail Mary, Insurrection, Racism, Right To Life, Roe v Wade, SCOTUS, Tales From The Crypt, Voting Rights

• Why Change Is Anathema To Conservatives

  I take conservatives at their word. They call themselves “conservatives” because their mission can best be summed up with that word: conservatives want to CONSERVE. Nothing is more important to a conservative than “what is” except for “what was“. What “was” really is the target — the past is what any conservative wants to conserve […]

  A L Katz

  July 12, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Election 2020, Racism, Republicanism, Slavery

  Conservative thinking, Conservatives, E Pluribus Unum, French Enlightenment, Moral Authority, Slavery

• The Problem With Conservatives Is WHAT They Want To “Conserve”

  I call myself a “progressive” instead of “liberal”. I’m extremely liberal in most ways but the word’s got too much damned baggage. It’s been abused and misused and neo-ed to the point where, to my mind, it’s become too imprecise to describe how my mind sees the world. I want the American commonweal to progress […]

  A L Katz

  May 30, 2021

  Election 2016, Election 2020, New Ways of Thinking, Racism, Slavery, Trump

  All Men Are Created Equal, Conservatives, E Pluribus Unum, Gerrymandering, It Was All A Lie, Progressives, Racism In America, Ronald Reagan, Stuart Stevens, Trumpism, Voter Suppression, Welfare Queens