@113 Rachel:- goy, I looked for your website but couldn’t find it.
Just click my ‘handle’ up above. Presto.
- Maybe if you’re still thinking about her… well, you know what I mean.
I do. I did. Funny thing: time, as it turns out, doesn’t heal all wounds. Who knew!? The problem, then, was that I was also 19. And not in a good way. But that’s a whole other thread. 
And BTW, I heartily invite you to take vivo’s advice.
My guess is that it would come as a genuine shock to the “vivos” here to learn how many of us who frequent this and other ostensibly conservative communities are ex-Democrats – including luminaries like Bill Whittle, Neo-Neocon and PJM’s Roger Simon. Many of us opposed Reagan and voted for Clinton (the first time). But like Reagan, the Democratic Party left us, not the other way around. Through life experience we have come to understand human nature – not the nature Marx fantasized in Das Kapital but, ironically, the nature cataloged and explained by Darwin. To boot, some of us (ahem) are conservative only in very specific areas.
Contrary to the common, willful misconception carefully nurtured and given straw man “life” by the vivos – i.e., that we get all our information and opinions from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or the Old Testament – we have in point of fact “[heard] and read anything on both sides, [used] Philosophy class principles to establish the truth [and made] up our own mind[s]“.
The fact is that we see a history littered with 150,000,000 souls murdered in the name of socialist “progress”. We see serial killers and thugs like Stalin, Mao and Che lionized as heroes because they had the “courage” to resort to violence and murder in pursuit of some nebulous “change” they neither understood nor achieved. We see every flavor of socialism either having failed catastrophically (USSR, DPRK), in the process of failing (EU, RdC, Africa – take your pick), or morphing into something entirely new (PRC) everywhere it’s ever been tried. And many of us feel a disgust that only comes with the realization that we used to root for this ideology and its proponents… until we grew up.
This aspect of conservatives escapes the grasp of the cedarford-Hurley/Troll-vivo crowd, who are still carefully nurturing the morally adolescent self-righteousness we were long ago forced by undeniable facts and inescapable reason to abandon. That’s why it’s necessary for them to ascribe – project, actually – fantastical motives (on)to our commentary and our political positions.
@9 vivo’s “The right-wingers complex of inferiority” is a perfect example of this. The notion that one could feel in any way inferior to a documented liar and a fraud – one whose only qualifications for office comprise half-African ancestry, socialist activism and the ability to read from a teleprompter with conviction – is a notion to which only a moral adolescent could possibly subscribe or expect others to. As such, what vivo slings as a would-be “insult” comes off as an insipid joke. Hurley/Troll’s commentary is similarly off-the-mark and, thus, just as revealing. In a nutshell, this is why many exchanges between our ideological tribes break down: the left literally has no idea who they’re talking to. And they’re not interested in knowing.
So do follow vivo’s advice. You’ll find your current convictions and sensibilities validated no matter which direction you look.
