It's Stupid Tuesday Part 3!

Well, after six long and excruciating weeks of watching Hilary and Obama play the most annoying game of political grabass that I've ever seen in my life, they finally have a primary today. The thing is, after watching them for the last 6 weeks, I don't care anymore. I still want Obama to win, but the excitement is gone. I'm more concerned with getting myself caught up on Battlestar Galactica. Sweet frackin' lords of Kobol, I love that show! I got into it really late, but I just started season 2 and last night I even had a dream that I was on the run from the Cylons. If this election had half the excitement, a third of the great writing and a quarter of the great acting of this show, I would be taking the day off from work today to watch the cable news channels all day long. I guess you could say that politics have made me bitter, so I cling to intriguing TV shows. But my conservative partner in primary coverage, JSF, is back from a blog break, and he's promising to have perspective from the dark side on this horse race later in the day. In the meantime, don't miss his partisan reasons for being against environmentalism. It's so wrong on so many levels that I need time to sort them all out before even attempting a comment. Of course, being on the wrong side of almost every issue is part and parcel to being a conservative, but it's the mind boggling logic that makes JSF so lovable.

The Right vs The Earth

I try to understand the thinking behind today's conservatives. I may not agree with them, but in many cases I try to at least understand where they're coming from. The one thing that I cannot quite understand is the level of vitriol they have toward environmentalism. I know that as adherents to complete and total free market capitalism (except when a little bit of government tweaking can benefit somebody who can help finance them but otherwise would not benefit a free market, think companies that rhyme with Schmenron or Falliburtin), they are against any kind of laws that might regulate business, and that of course includes environmental regulation. Sure, if people want clean air then the market will clean the air, and if it doesn't, then the market dictates that the air is supposed to be dirty. I know, it's ridiculous, but they actually believe this kind of shit. They take their position against environmentalism to new and exciting levels because to them, it's personal. They have better things to say about the child raping members of polygamist cults than people who drive hybrid cars. And with the majority of scientists in agreement that there's something wrong, these people go with a minority of scientists who are directly linked to the businesses who do not want to change anything that they are doing. What causes ordinary people to forgo reality and science with such levels of fear and loathing? All I can deduce is that it comes out of hate, and a very specific hate at that. They hate Al Gore. They REALLY HATE Al Gore. I can relate to that as I'm no fan of his after the way he blew it in '00, and after my teen aged punk rock self watched his wife's attempt to ruin rock and roll in the 80's. But the right isn't satisfied in just stealing the election from him. If they had it their way, elections would mean the winner actually kills the loser with their bare hands to demonstrate to the opposition and the world their massive manliness (but only if the winner is their guy, of course). No, here's the guy who dared to run against their imperial lord and messiah of neoconservative asshattery, who then won the Nobel prize and the Oscar for his Power Point presentation on climate change. And let's face it, the guy does come off a bit smug. And that pisses them off enough to forget about the majority of scientists (besides, everyone knows that science and truth and fact and all that has a liberal bias) and just be against anything he has to say. And that, in a nutshell, is modern conservative intellectualism. I would love to find out what my conservative readers have to say on this. Forget about my sarcasm, that's just my style. I really want to know why you are so against environmentalism.