Journal damn_registrars's Journal: Conservative mindfuck 2
The situation in Ukraine should be causing conservatives to collectively blow their gaskets, except that most of them discarded logic long ago. Let's examine their beliefs on the matter. Many conservatives believe:
- That Obama is a communist (which is obviously wrong)
- That Marxist communism was the dominant philosophy for most of the existence of the USSR (also obviously wrong)
- That communism and fascism are in any meaningful way similar philosophically (also obviously wrong)
- That Vladimir Putin is attempting to reinstate communism in Russia (also completely and utterly wrong)
If we were to suspend reality long enough to pretend that those statement are not all pure crap, we then have a bigger situation in current events to address - Obama vs. Putin over Ukraine. If the two were philosophically aligned, why would they be so doggedly opposed to letting the other get an upper hand in the situation? Surely, two communists should be able to agree on how to take over a third country for Marxist happiness, should they not?
I had gotten the impression... (Score:2)
...that most of the right wing had secret hard-ons for Putin.
Speaking of whom...remember when Bush the younger talked about looking into Putin's eyes and seeing his soul?
Imagine my surprise to find myself in agreement with, of all people, Pat Buchanan, who said "Know what I see when I look into Putin's eyes? KGB!"