I got one of those stupid right wing emails that go around from an acquaintance in Billings – a hyper-religious right winger who imagines that he is Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders. This one viewed the history of the world through the lens of the history of beer, and of course concluded that “liberals” (the rest of the world, as he sees it), are stupid, lazy, and feed off “conservatives” (the smart minority of humans). I sat on it for a week, and then came up with a nuanced response, thoughtful and self-reflective, and sure to yield a positive response from his critically informed brain:
The last “conservative” was Barry Goldwater, deceased. Here’s a true story, as told by his daughter:
It seems every time some goofball or low IQ jackass says (s)he’s a conservative, Barry does a half-turn in his grave. It was bad enough with the Sarah and Pat Robertson and Dobson, but with the rise of the Teabaggers, his spinning got so bad that he ended up drilling his way over to the neighbors. They went and got him and re-buried him, but as a precaution put him on a spit so that he wouldn’t leave the yard again. Then they had a bright idea – they hooked him up to a generator. Now every time some dimwit right winger says something stupid, it generates electricity for their house.
You just lit up their yard lights.
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