You never learn!

All of those evil, ignorant countries can't compare to America's greatness!  It's un-American to say that they do things better than we do!  Besides, they're evil socialists!

1. Only individual initiative has made this country great.

2. Everyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

3. It is the unfettered, unregulated free market that is the great engine of our economy.

4. Government just gets in the way.  Government is the problem and it should be made very small and weak.  Government interferes with the moral people who are trying to pursue their self-interest to become prosperous. Because government interferes with them, it is un-American to promote government.

5. You know how to spend your money better than the government does.

SO WHAT if the result of all of our conservative ideas is that more people are impoverished, there is more violence and death, and the air and water start to stink?  That only happens because the rest of you are immoral!

NOTE: The author of this comment doesn't believe a single thing that he just wrote.  Arguments 1-5 are courtesy of George Lakoff.

by AnEngineer on 06/09/2009 12:40:51 AM EST

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