It's just annoying. The USA faces the same issues as everyone else in the world; roads, healthcare, employment, education, senior issues, veteran issues, anticipating and bracing for natural disaster. And yet we seem obsessed with rhetoric from the 1950s and 1920s (which didn't do our country any favors then either), and we're xenophobic as hell.
I mean, part of it is the nature of right-wingers. I feel that beyond all the associations, conservatives are conservative - people who really don't want to hand the government any more responsibility or money, because they honestly don't see any reason to trust the government. Which, okay, I can see that; but the average conservative isn't the person who might have to pay more taxes, the governments that average conservatives have been voting in have totally overstepped their boundaries and sapped the trust that conservatives would need to have in the government, and meanwhile all these people are getting distracted by these big ticket social issues because they feel like they can't control any of the fiscal stuff.
And the thing about conservatism, sticking to scripts (socialism is bad, taxes will ding us, stay the course etc), is that it stems from a survival mentality - and why do they need to survive and not risk anything new? Because they got themselves royally dicked over, along with us nutjob liberal bleeding hearts, by a batch of rich right-wingers whom they voted into office. Nice self-sustaining cycle, that.
Even though the situation isn't as bad as it was a year ago, when I was honestly thinking of claiming right of return and enlisting in the IDF, this place seems so completely not my country. We can't make any progress without this bullshit weighing us down.
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Date: 2009-12-29 05:58 pm (UTC)I mean, part of it is the nature of right-wingers. I feel that beyond all the associations, conservatives are conservative - people who really don't want to hand the government any more responsibility or money, because they honestly don't see any reason to trust the government. Which, okay, I can see that; but the average conservative isn't the person who might have to pay more taxes, the governments that average conservatives have been voting in have totally overstepped their boundaries and sapped the trust that conservatives would need to have in the government, and meanwhile all these people are getting distracted by these big ticket social issues because they feel like they can't control any of the fiscal stuff.
And the thing about conservatism, sticking to scripts (socialism is bad, taxes will ding us, stay the course etc), is that it stems from a survival mentality - and why do they need to survive and not risk anything new? Because they got themselves royally dicked over, along with us nutjob liberal bleeding hearts, by a batch of rich right-wingers whom they voted into office. Nice self-sustaining cycle, that.
Even though the situation isn't as bad as it was a year ago, when I was honestly thinking of claiming right of return and enlisting in the IDF, this place seems so completely not my country. We can't make any progress without this bullshit weighing us down.