Our 24/7 media likes to simplify America. Therefore, you're either Liberal or Conservative. The terms have degenerated from their rich, original meanings (see John Locke & Edmund Burke for details) into little more than quickie captions to stick under a photo-op..!
Reluctantly bowing to our disingenuous caption-culture, here are three recent stories that have been attributed to the Conservative school of thought:
* The Conservative Bible Project has launched a Wikipedia-style search to exorcise all Liberal taints from the holy text. Their team believes current translations have "emasculated" Christianity by inserting Liberal terms like "comrade" and "laborer" which project "the pervasive and hurtful myth that Jesus would be a political Liberal today"
* A Conservative Christian group called the Liberty Counsel has a nationwide prayer-chain underway for Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi so that they may be "restored to right thinking"
* 80-year-old Republican Ralph Needs was pistol-whipped by burglars, but when his son tried to teach him how to use a handgun for future defense, he accidentally blew his hand off
This cannot be substantiated, but it is understood Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are now in negotiations as to which of them will lead a cross-country crusade that include these folks in Sarah Palin's forthcoming book-selling tour. When asked why they criticize Obama for not deserving to win the Nobel Prize but not Palin for not deserving to write anything, neither Rush nor Glenn were available for comment.
On the opposite side of the ideological ledger, Liberals today suffer their own embarrassments. For example, David Letterman has joined the ranks of other liberal-thinking celebrities to offend our country's moral sensibilities. He, along with even more free-wheeling toughs and tarts from the opposite coast, seems to prove that being open-minded often means just being empty-headed. Carrie Fisher -- no stranger to the celebrity cult -- says "celebrity is just obscurity biding its time." Right now, Dave and other life-loving Liberals might wish for a tad more obscurity.
When trying to put our bizarre Liberal vs Conservative feud into wiser perspective, one always has the famous psychiatrist Carl Jung. He famously wrote: "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves."
Hmmm...?Jung -- Liberal or Conservative -- makes a lot of sense. And he never even appeared on Oprah,
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Jung makes it clear -- our Conservative friends are so busy being right and self righteous, they simply can't see past their fat pocketbooks.
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