DKos says: Bush Spreading Conservative Terror

Is Bush incompotent? Or is he evil? Or is he both? This writer tackles these tough questions and determines: Bush is compotent at being evil and bent on spreading a "Conservative Terror". What defines a "Conservative Terror" you ask? Here's a few:

[1-Consolidating power within the executive branch to an unprecedented degree

2-Two major wars, one started with questionable intelligence and in a manner with which the military disagreed

3-Placing on the Supreme Court two far-right justices, and stacking the lower federal courts with many more

4-Cutting taxes during wartime, an unprecedented event.

5-Passing a number of controversial bills such as the PATRIOT Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, the Medicare Drug bill, the Bankruptcy bill and a number of massive tax cuts

10-Winning re-election and solidifying his party's grip on Congress

11-Katrina a disaster for Republicans and President Bush? Not if you think about it as a Conservative victory because it enhanced the popular perception that the federal government is inept and unable to help ordinary citizens, though Bush's own popularity may have suffered.

The writer goes on to compare this "Conservative Terror" to Islamic terror because "in the end its aim, not unlike that of the islamic terrorists, is to victimize, tyrannize, torment, intimidate, threaten and scare americans, not to mention gradually destroy our standard of living, our rights, our laws and our way of life. "

So, the evil Conservative Terror has given us a "number of massive tax cuts". Those bastards!

DKos says: Liberals Can Usher In An Age Of Utopia

This is a diary that sums up the liberal ideology. The Krazy Kosmonaut tries to contrast a conservative Utpoia to a liberal Utopia. So, what happens in a liberal's Utopia you ask? Here's a few:

"The world has never seen what can happen when the Common Good is emphasized over the Power of Elites, while maintaining a capitalist system and freedom of innovation." "The world has never seen what can happen when military is only used to keep the peace and prevent brutality, instead of to prop up evil dictators and corporatist regimes." " The world has never seen what can happen when government is completely transparent."

Ok, so we can generally agree about the common good being emphasized over the "Power of Elites" while still maintaining a capitalist system and freedom of innovation. But, how do we know the "Common Good" is not already emphasized by the existing capitalist system? Capitalism has consistently improved the lives of both poor and rich. Our standard of living is improved every year. New and cheaper technologies benefit everyone eventually. Would you rather be poor 100 years ago or today?

Now let's see what this writer thinks the evil consverative dystopia is:

" where local control is prioritized over federal control;"

" where taxes are virtually nonexistent;" " where military spending is over 90% of the budget;"

"where the nation's leaders claim authority straight from God, and rely solely on religious doctrine for their legal authority;"

"where women's obligation is to bear children and be subservient to their husbands, with no access to abortion;"

"where public education does not exist, and is restricted solely to private and homeschool--usually religious;"

"where foreigners are viewed with deep suspicion;"

"where all other priorities are sacrificed at the altar of military victory;"

"where "indecent art" is not tolerated by the government;"

" Tell them, in other words, to go to hell. Because their hell already exists on earth. And these fuckers ALLOW it to continue to exist."

Imagine, that...a world with low taxes and more local rather than federal control.