5) Conservatives opposed humane treatment of animals
Since Conservatives are too stupid to know how to make a buck unless they can leave filth, pain and destruction in their wake, they consistently oppose any regulation that not only keeps our food supply free of the filth they love to spread, but treats the creatures giving their lives for human sustenance with a level of dignity and humanity.
As a matter of fact, CONS are such insipid fascists that, rather than address and rectify the abuses at factory farms, they are currently working to make it illegal for whistleblowers to film the abuse. They have been successful in Iowa at this endeavor. After all, if a pigâs infected pustules are viciously sliced off sans painkillers, and no one is there to document the pigâs screams, did it ever really happen?
And, as for the filthy conditions in the farms feeding the good old U-S-A â U-S-A â U-S-A that the conservatives pretend to love, who cares if a few dozen Serfs eat chicken feces and die of E. coli when a Republican campaign contributor needs more profit?!
We all remember when John Boehnerâs district in Ohio was experiencing an E. coli outbreak at the same time he was trying to gut more food industry regulations. The bottom line is, Republicans donât care if their constituents get sick and die from the filth that Republican (and DINO) campaign contributors are feeding them. To Republicans, that means thereâs one less person they have to disenfranchise out of voting.
But if the survivors try to seek justice or recourse and TRY and sue the corporation who killed their child, their pappy, or spouseâ¦they wonât get too far since the John Robertâs Supreme Court had something to say about it.
6) Conservatives opposed the Social Security Act
The Social Security Act established a system that provided old-age pensions for workers, survivors benefits for victims of work-related accidents, aid for orphans and widows, benefits for the blind and physically disabled, and unemployment insurance. Conservatives were apoplectic about this. They warned freedom-lovers everywhere that Americaâs next stop would be a government concentration camp.
Never mind that âa necessitous man is not a free man,â as FDR famously quoted. Conservatives were inciting their ignorant followers to, once again, oppose their own best interests for the sake of enabling the rich to keep treating them like hosts from which to suck profit.
As author Nancy J. Altman wrote in the LA Times,
âopponents claimed that Social Security would result in massive government control. A Republican congressman from New York, for example, charged: âThe lash of the dictator will be felt, and 25 million free American citizens will for the first time submit themselves to a fingerprint test.â
Another New York congressman put it this way: âThe bill opens the door and invites the entrance into the political field of a power so vast, so powerful as to threaten the integrity of our institutions and to pull the pillars of the temple down upon the heads of our descendants.â A Republican senator from Delaware claimed that Social Security would âend the progress of a great country and bring its people to the level of the average European.â
As we expected, the concentration camps have yet to come to fruition, and conservatives, ironically, scramble to position themselves as defenders of Social Security â still with a mind to destroy it.
These same arguments were retread decades later to oppose the Affordable Care Act. Being generally devoid of ideas, conservatives just keep replaying the same old tired tunesâ¦confident their fear-based followers will continue to dance on cue.
Since Conservatives are too stupid to know how to make a buck unless they can leave filth, pain and destruction in their wake, they consistently oppose any regulation that not only keeps our food supply free of the filth they love to spread, but treats the creatures giving their lives for human sustenance with a level of dignity and humanity.
As a matter of fact, CONS are such insipid fascists that, rather than address and rectify the abuses at factory farms, they are currently working to make it illegal for whistleblowers to film the abuse. They have been successful in Iowa at this endeavor. After all, if a pigâs infected pustules are viciously sliced off sans painkillers, and no one is there to document the pigâs screams, did it ever really happen?
And, as for the filthy conditions in the farms feeding the good old U-S-A â U-S-A â U-S-A that the conservatives pretend to love, who cares if a few dozen Serfs eat chicken feces and die of E. coli when a Republican campaign contributor needs more profit?!
We all remember when John Boehnerâs district in Ohio was experiencing an E. coli outbreak at the same time he was trying to gut more food industry regulations. The bottom line is, Republicans donât care if their constituents get sick and die from the filth that Republican (and DINO) campaign contributors are feeding them. To Republicans, that means thereâs one less person they have to disenfranchise out of voting.
But if the survivors try to seek justice or recourse and TRY and sue the corporation who killed their child, their pappy, or spouseâ¦they wonât get too far since the John Robertâs Supreme Court had something to say about it.
6) Conservatives opposed the Social Security Act
The Social Security Act established a system that provided old-age pensions for workers, survivors benefits for victims of work-related accidents, aid for orphans and widows, benefits for the blind and physically disabled, and unemployment insurance. Conservatives were apoplectic about this. They warned freedom-lovers everywhere that Americaâs next stop would be a government concentration camp.
Never mind that âa necessitous man is not a free man,â as FDR famously quoted. Conservatives were inciting their ignorant followers to, once again, oppose their own best interests for the sake of enabling the rich to keep treating them like hosts from which to suck profit.
As author Nancy J. Altman wrote in the LA Times,
âopponents claimed that Social Security would result in massive government control. A Republican congressman from New York, for example, charged: âThe lash of the dictator will be felt, and 25 million free American citizens will for the first time submit themselves to a fingerprint test.â
Another New York congressman put it this way: âThe bill opens the door and invites the entrance into the political field of a power so vast, so powerful as to threaten the integrity of our institutions and to pull the pillars of the temple down upon the heads of our descendants.â A Republican senator from Delaware claimed that Social Security would âend the progress of a great country and bring its people to the level of the average European.â
As we expected, the concentration camps have yet to come to fruition, and conservatives, ironically, scramble to position themselves as defenders of Social Security â still with a mind to destroy it.
These same arguments were retread decades later to oppose the Affordable Care Act. Being generally devoid of ideas, conservatives just keep replaying the same old tired tunesâ¦confident their fear-based followers will continue to dance on cue.
