A MarketPlace of Ideas                        

Let’s play spot the Liberal fantasy-Er well let’s not because that game is just not very challenging

How many years have conservative or weakly conservative( AKA Republicans) had the media deck stacked against them? Like 50 years or more.  But we conservatives keep on coming with our ideas.  We haven’t cancelled out of debates in spite of CBS making up stories out of whole cloth about George Bush.

Its always been obvious to me that liberalism is a sort of refuge of serial fantasizers.  When I was in high school I was friends with several brothers.  My best friend was descendant of mobsters of the Sicilian variety and given to some signs of mental imbalance. ( It may sound pejorative but this blog is about reality, not making friends )  When any one of these brothers mentioned some sort of off beat fantasy I would debunk why it was not realistic.  ( I acknowledge there ARE some dreams that are realizable)   These thorough treatments on the reasons why something was not feasible were met with violent emotional reaction.  Ever since that time I’ve realized that in personal life it rarely pays to debunk personal non-realities.

When I see the lib / dem party / socialists / communists react so vigorously to Fox news I am reminded of my friends the Italian brothers.   What the lib bloggers want are media outlets that reinforce their fantasies.  One of the telling features is that to call Fox News conservative is textbook hyperbole.  Fox only appears a tiny bit conservative because its not wildly liberal like EVERY other outlet.  ( MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN ).  But as I described in the second paragraph nothing incites so much fury as that which goes against a person’s fantasies. Thus the description CANDIDATE FANTASTIC applies to John-TheBreckGirl-Edwards.  Most times fantastic is a word used as a compliment.  However in this case its about denial.  For to live in unrealistic fantasies requires one have a substantial dose of denial working in ones favor.  So if John Edwards wants to be the king of denial maybe he should run for president of Egypt. 

Most of the dem/lib/socialist/communist ideas seem like a pyramid power scam with both equal effectivity and usefulness.  Bad ideas reveal themselves in how effectively they work when you try to actually use them.  Like a campy movie they are quite entertaining but not relevant to everyday life.

On one point he must not be in denial. Obviously he realizes that his ideas are not strong enough to stand up under cross examination by a “conservative” news organization. 

I suppose its just the nature of man that he is weak.   Its hard to be honest, straightforward and intelligent.  All these things require great amounts of labor to develop and maintain.  That’s what it takes to be conservative.  Lacking these you are likely to be liberal for liberalism allows for suboptimum values in these categories.  In fact it seeks to make the aforesaid pay.  I’ll leave as an exercise for the student to figure out WHO pays.  I’ll give you a hint, there is only one market for bad ideas and that consists of the suckers who believe in them.