My punishment would be extremely severe and painful, I would mandate that they get adequate education. I would force them to take history and economics classes, not "we've been spreading freedom and democracy and the free market solves all problems" kind of simplistic and pseudo-scientific nonsense but real and often controversial history of this country and the world, the history of capitalism with all its pros and cons, the history of socialism, unions, labor movement, class struggle with all their pros and cons. I would make them learn the real economics with all its complexity, tradeoffs, nuances, compromises and uncertainties.Quote from hapaboy:
Anyway, if it were up to you, how would you deal with these "enemies and traitors of America" if you had the authority?
I would pay special attention to logic and reasoning classes as conservaitives tend to be especially weak in those areas. I mean they hate goverment but enjoy FDIC protection of their bank accounts and clean water for their conservative children, they want to teach religion and evolution in schools but want their economic policies to be based on darwinism and survival of the fittest. How logical is that? All republican Karl Rove fans can benefit from ethics classes, all right wing religious fundamentalists should get a class on christianity explaining that Jesus wanted to help the poor and Haliburton is not poor enough to qualify...