The Bitter Mote of the Conservatarian Soul

John Dean of Watergate fame captures the Bushcon essence in the following graf from his Boston Globe editorial:

Triumph of the authoritarians - The Boston Globe

What I found provided a personal epiphany. Authoritarian conservatives are, as a researcher told me, "enemies of freedom, antidemocratic, antiequality, highly prejudiced, mean-spirited, power hungry, Machiavellian and amoral." And that's not just his view. To the contrary, this is how these people have consistently described themselves when being anonymously tested, by the tens of thousands over the past several decades.

Images of Bush, Cheney and Rove [particularly Rove] all danced in my head when I read that. So here's a question for sane, decent Republicans (I know you're out there--somewhere): do you enjoy being associated with a group former faith-based czar John DiLulio dubbed "the Mayberry Machiavellis"? And to the evangelicals who voted for Dubya because of his professed faith: do the terms highly prejudiced, mean-spirited, power-hungry and amoral sound even remotely like the elements of sound Christian character? Or are you among "these people" as described by John Dean?

Conservatarians, now revealed to be conservative authoritarians, not "libertarians," exhibit some of the very worst aspects of human nature. Can you finally understand why the "angry left" gets so exasperated when the likes of these are trotted out by the brain-dead media as "values politicians" and "values voters"?

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