It depends on which kind of right-winger you're talking about.  There are those whose sole motivation is personal greed, selfishness, and self-centeredness.  Then there are those, like your friends, who are crippled by fear.

The greedy ones are easy:  just show them how they can make tons of money, even if what they make it doing turns out to be good for the country.

The people who live in fear are the most difficult to deal with.  Their positions are not based on logic, although they'll deny that forever.  Likewise, their ideas are not dependent upon facts, although they'll deny that, too.

These people live with a host of fears that do not respond to reason or facts.  Their fears cannot be eased.  Even when the actions they take make life more dangerous, you cannot sway them from their knee-jerk reactions.  For them, life is a constant choice between fight or flight even in trivial matters, and they always make the wrong choice, anyway.

We'll need several generations of an improved education system that reverses the policies it has today and instead teaches students not merely rote skills and prejudicial attitudes, but how to observe, how to learn, how to think.  And that will happen only after we remove religious influences from school boards and curriculums.

It's going to take a while, but we've got to keep this problem, like all others, in perspective:  Things are a lot better now than they were a hundred years ago.  A hundred years ago, things were a lot better than they were a century before that.

In a hundred years, things will be even better.  It's just that you and I won't be around to see it.

Let's just deal with the problem one step at a time.  The first thing we can do is to kick Obama's ass for following Hoover's policies of pouring money into the banks rather than Roosevelt's policies of investing in infrastructure and jobs.  Then maybe we can pay for a better educational system.

by EveningStarNM on 07/04/2009 11:01:00 PM EST

they are nationalistic. There is a BIG difference, Patriots love their counrty, but are not blind to its faults and failures. Cheerleading while we invaded a country that was zero threat to us, was not Patriotic, it was stupid. The true Patriots in the country knew it then and know it now.

Hitler gained power with the exact same ideas, WE are the master race, WE are better than (insert the race, religion, or nation you wish to villify/attack/propagandise against here). Hi tler had Jews, the right wing has Muslims.

And who said the left was anti-military, oh wait thats right, or "the right" I should say. I have nothing against the military, I just don't think we should use it as our primary foreign policy instrument. Obama has done a fantastic job of reversing that bush policy with pretty great results. I'm glad we have sent more troops to Afghanistan, bush never should have pulled them out for the illigitamate Iraq invasion, the country wouldn't be the mess it is now. 

None of this matters to the wing-nuts though, they will continue to live inside their paraniod fantasies regardless of reality.

by The IDGE on 07/06/2009 12:57:31 PM EST

I have a RWnut as a business partner, i stopped arguing with him about a year ago, total waste of time.
Here is how political chat goes with these type of people:

Me. How about Palin biting the head off that live baby?

RWnut. She didnt, The Dems bite heads off babies all the time.

Me. I never heard about that

RWnut. Your friend Clinton bit heads off hundreds of babies, Palin didnt.

Me. I didnt hear about Clinton doing it , but i saw Palin do it live on cnn

RWnut. CNN is owned and run by Arabs, so is BBC

its about then i just say, oh ok, and talk about work.
You see it just doesnt matter if you are right, facts dont come into it, their politcal views are more about a pep talk to themselves, winning is not possible becase you are arguing against an attitude. Facts that dont agree with them are ignored.

by Maverick on 07/07/2009 06:37:26 AM EST

Tell your friend not to blame Obama for being an illegal immigrant. It's Walmart's fault for hiring him illegally and paying him less than minimum wage.

by OneHitKill on 07/04/2009 09:10:28 PM EST

The conservatives havent been faced with total defeat like this in years.

There is on reasoning with them. Because they dont use reason . Obama is an illegal immigrant? PUH LEASE  and it goes on and on.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time

by C D on 07/04/2009 09:47:28 PM EST

hell right wing nuts i would take any day over left wing nuts, i.e bill ayers, rev. wright, world cant wait, code pink. I mean theyre all tottally insane!....at least with RW nuts youve got patriotism, and not  anti military, loathing from the hardcore leftist. Just saying here,  R W nuts have their dignity, and honor....its just arrogance they have a problem with.

semper fidelis

by doominator on 07/06/2009 04:15:11 AM EST