NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE
Sunday evening the family was required do dance attendance around an adorable little guy – first generation American, who had just turned terribly two – and I do mean Terribly Two. According to his doting uncle, Neil underwent a complete personality transformation about two or three weeks ago. Gone was the adorable toddler, replaced by the ultimate Narcissism machine – The Great I Am. If you’ve ever been around little kids and have seen this absolutely remarkable transformation, you know exactly what I am talking about. There are times when it hits directly at two. My niece Laura was three before she became The Great I Am. Kids this age are wonderful. They are full of self-discovery. The know exactly who and what they are – or think they do. They are the ultimate representation of pure, absolute SELF. Life is a game and they are the Masters of Their Own Little Universe. And, first time parents are completely at a loss to deal with them. Their once perfect child is now a seething mass of wants, desires, and demands. They have a temper and know how to throw a tantrum, and have perfected the art of the tantrum to the point where their parents are clueless, totally, completely, and absolutely clueless.
Eventually the parents will discover that their little doll isn’t cute when having the tantrum. They will come up with a way to handle it and deal with the child. If not, that child will turn into something of a little Nero or Caligula, until they are taken down many, many pegs at school by peer pressure.
The problem exists when said kid is allowed to remain an emotional and tyrannical two year old his or her entire life. They become bullies. They become absolute Narcissists. They are the ultimate look at me, worship me, do what I say, I want I want I want machines.
Well, boys and girls, that’s exactly where the conservative movement stands today. The more rational of us have grown up to realize that the Great Ronald Reagan the Terribly Two Conservatives have worshipped for so long was not as conservative as his worshipers claim him to be. He was a man of rational vision who personified “the art of the deal” so to speak. It’s too bad his more unreasonable conservative followers do not comprehend just that one little aspect of his highly successful Presidency. He knew how to work well with people, share his toys, and how to get things done. He used please and thank you. He rarely insulted anyone. And, boys and girls, he knew how to COMPROMISE.
Unfortunately today we are dealing with a bunch of over the top, spoiled, obnoxious conservatives who are more like a bunch of two year olds than adults. If they don’t have their total and complete way they have a temper tantrum, ergo we lost the House and the Senate in 2006. If they can’t have their way and nominate an ideologically “Pure” candidate for 2008, they’ve threatened to stay home. There they will lay down on the floor and pound their little hands and feet as they listen to Rush Limbaugh lead them in a national chorus of conservative suicidal Group Think. Heaven forbid they think for themselves, use reason, objectivity, and logic to help elect Republicans.
Two Year Old Conservative Group Think requires just that – thinking as a group and not as individuals. The only individual thing they are now capable of doing is having their own unique and lovely little temper tantrums on daily basis when someone points out information that is contrary to their increasingly narrow world view. If they don’t behave they are going to end up like the nasty little two year old without discipline. No one is going to want them around, they are going to become increasingly irrelevant.
Today, nothing illustrates the “irrelevant” issue like the comments that have gone on between one of Blog Critic’s editors, Dave Nalle I’m also dealing with an un-named entity who is as associated with Vdare, American Renaissance, and has warranted his very own SPLC blogette. Funny, he’s now denying any of it. That’s a “good” conservative for you. We’re dealing with a number of these people. They think they can roll around in the pig-swill of Vdare, American Renaissance, and any number of despicable anti-immigration organizations then dare to be “enraged” when they are outed for the bigots they are. (Read Smart Politics 101 tonight)
And so the narcissistic conservative has his tantrum. Until we learn to separate the conservatives from the Republicans, I wonder if things will ever change? Is there really any difference between the spoiled little two year old having a temper tantrum or a far right conservative having one? They're all the same.
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