I dont understand conservatives blame everything on liberals but they control the white house, congress,?

Question

supreme court, most states, and more.
What about taking responsibility?

Answer 1

Look, they need a scapgoat. That's how they get elected. Things go bad, blame the scapegoat. Keep blaming the scapegoat for things that don't even relate to anything the scapegoat does.

Read Orwell's "Animal Farm." That'll give you an idea of how scapegoating works.

The conservatives are not about taking responsibilty or creating an effective society, they're just about grabbing power and sucking up to it.

Republicans blame the Dems. The Nazis blamed the Jews. Everyone in power always blames someone else when something goes wrong.

Real leadership is about taking personal responsibility. Own up to your mistakes, and make amends for them.

Could you honestly see George Bush or Dick Cheney saying they've even made one mistake? Do you think Rush (or the Fox News cabal) would ever criticize Bush on any mistake? Ever?

Criticism is the heart of democracy. It's easy to criticize an opponent, it's much harder to criticize someone you agree with. Democracy needs debate and criticism.

What the right wingers do is not criticism, it's a constant 24 hour assault on the straw man they call liberalism. I really don't think they even know what liberalism is.

The phallacy of the right wingers is working, but I think Americans are starting to see through the veil of deceit. I think. We'll find out in November. If the GOP keeps the house, we are no longer a democracy. The US will become a police state.

It's what the right wingers want.

(One more thing, Bill Clinton is their Emmanuel Goldstein. Read 1984 if you don't know what I mean.)

Answer 2

Conservatives do NOT control anything. If they did we would not have a three trillion dollar budget. If they did we would not have a department of education, energy, HEW, etc.

George Bush is no more a conservative than Harry Truman was. He is a populist.

It really cracks me up the way the labels get twisted around from generation to generation. What is now called a conservative was called a liberal in the 19th century. What is now called a liberal was called a socialist up until around the 1930s. If you don't believe me look up the definition of classical liberalism on Wikipedia.

The real problem is that the federal government has gotten way to big, way to expensive and into every corner of our lives in ways that few of us like or agree with, but we keep supporting these invasions into our lives and liberties because we are told they are "good".

You can always get people to agree with something if you do it for "good" reasons. As my own father used to tell me, "Lord protect me from a good man. I can protect myself from a bad one!"

Answer 3

The conservatives don't blame every thing on Liberals. Some things we blame on the French. Also conservatives don't control the white house and congress - the republican party does.

Answer 4

Because liberals are open minded and heaven forbid anyone be open minded in politics. You need an enforcer in politics to MAKE everyone do whatever you want or expect. Liberals think, why in the world would you want people to think. Walk softly and carry a BIG STICK! It's worked for America so far, eh? Then, when everyone is all mad at America's big stick theory, throw in a liberal who will smooth things over and make America look good and then when we are being walked all over, throw back in the BIG STICK anti-liberal. That is the premise of our Country. God bless America.

Answer 5

Liberals are professional at blocking any agenda the conservatives put forward. They will do so in the media or on the floor of the senate via filibuster if necessary. They don't hold any punches and are evil, greedy, hypocritical egoists who have put progress of all kinds at a complete halt.

Answer 6

Ha! Thanks for the laugh. (and the 2 points)

Seriously, They want to get re-elected. Their message is "We have all these wonderful ideas, but those darned liberals keep blocking us. It's their fault. So you need to re-elect me and vote out all the other liberals so we can turn this country around."

Oh, and by the way. Liberals do the same thing. The true work in government is done by the moderates; people who can look past finger pointing, roll up their sleeves, and get the job done.

Answer 7

The republicans might control the house, senate, white house and court; but the conservatives do not. Lots of RHINO's in there....Republicans' In Name Only.

Answer 8

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Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.

Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.

Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.


Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.

Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.


Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.

Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.

People look at all this and think of Hitler — and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. We must act now; the future is in the balance.

Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet the enormity of the challenge, and people sense this.

There is not going to be some magical "pendulum swing." People who steal elections and believe they're on a "mission from God" will not go without a fight.

There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into "leaders" who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people.

But silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn — or be forced — to accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this Bush regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it.

And there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that can really make a huge change in this country and in the world. We need more than fighting Bush's outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and can, aim to create a political situation where the Bush regime's program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our millions, must and can take responsibility to change the course of history.

Acting in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.

This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will try to stop us. But we speak for the majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we are going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush and we are NOT going to stop.

The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.

The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!

Answer 9

One thing I think is funny along these lines:

lots of republicans are running for re-election trying to distance themselves from the president and the actions of their party, because Bush is currently so unpopular. So not only is it liberals screwing everything up, but it's all those other republicans, too, just not me!

Answer 10

how many people do you knwo actually take the blame when they screw things up? I know of very few. Well it extends all the way up to the most powerful people. "What? It's messed up? Well I sure didn't do it. I know I'm in the position of responsiblity and authority, but I DIDN"T DO IT. Someone else did."