I don’t know why conservatives have to be dour. The conservative point of view is fundamentally far more open than the liberal point of view. Conservatives have faith in the ability of people to look after themselves. They believe that a free market is merely the reflection of a free society - that you can’t have one without the other. My vision of a wonderful world is billions of people being free to follow their goals, trade with people who want to trade with them, keep the things they earn, and be as free from force and coercion as possible. That’s a fun world to live in.
Liberals, on the other hand, are more controlling. They see the world as being one of exploiters and the exploited, winners and losers, the powerful and the weak. They don’t trust the market, and want to control it. They want to meddle in our affairs to ‘protect’ us, tax us to pay for things they think are good for us, want to tell us who we can trade with and what we can keep, which products are safe enough for us to use, which jobs are good enough for us to accept, and how much money is enough for us to earn.
I’d rather live in conservative land. And the funniest friends I have are conservatives. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are conservative/libertarians. I think they know how to have a good time.
And the things they don’t earn too, right? Like unearned income. Don’t want anyone getting their hands on that old money; keep it in the pockets of the billionaires.
Six words: “I pledge allegiance to the flag…”
It’s not the liberals wanting to hang on to that bit of facism.
Yes, by all means let’s go back to the days of workplace injuries, sweatshops, cocaine in your Coca Cola, and lithium in your 7-Up. Oh, and those colored people in their place. One nation under God.
Sure it is. :rolleyes: What does this post say about the sense of humor of the guy who made it?
I used to really like Dennis Miller. He’s really lost it in the last few years, and it’s a shame if he’s on the shortlist of conservative comedians. Bob Dole is funnier.
That would work if I wasn’t obviously talking about someone else… I guess this means Dennis Miller isn’t the least funny conservative out there either.
Since we’re making sweeping generalizations, I might agree that liberals are funnier when commenting on others, but they still take themselves too seriously.
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[li]Decide yourself who to marry[/li][li]Do whatever you want to in the privacy of your own bedroom[/li][li]Decide for yourself what to do with YOUR body[/li][/ul]
Of course, I’m being a bit of a :wally. The problem is that we don’t have a convervative party – we have the Republicans. When we can get back to being Republican Party Reptiles (to quote P.J.), then I’ll come back to the Republican party.
Add to the list:
Jim Downey, writer/director for SNL
Christopher Buckley, my favorite writer
Al Capp, cartoonist of Li’l Abner; he flamed out in the last 15 years or so of his life, but at his peak, he was friggin’ brilliant.
Scott Adams
Subtract from the list Scott Adams. I do not get any right-wing messages from Dilbert. If anything, it’s “Workers unite against our brainless pointy-haired exploiters!”
Keep him on the list, he’s as pure a Free Market conservative as we get these days. Norman Soloman wrote a book about how Scott Adams is no friend of Labor. (I wrote a review of it for The Comics Journal.)
The point of The Dilbert Principle wasn’t that workers are being exploited by greedy managers, it was that companies are being dragged down by stupid, incompetent managers. All of his proposed solutions would have made Adam Smith proud.
Don’t want anyone getting their hands on that old money; keep it in the pockets of the billionaires.