Exposed: the true, destructive goals of conservatives

Conservatives have deceived and led America down a path of destruction, greed and pain since Nixon first took office in 1968. They have used underhanded techniques to undermine democracy and aggregate power in the hands of a very few ever since.

Conservatives have even used the FBI, under the sick leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, to protect the power of the few at the expense of the many--and the economy. These trends continue today.

Led by corporate, Christian, conservative economic terrorists, the government, under Republicans George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, has spent more than any Democratic administration in history--even as they hyocritically criticize Democrats for taxing and spending.

How do you battle this tide of fear, pain and greed? Here are three helpful suggestions:

1. Elect a Democrat
2. Blog and contact friends and family to spread the progressive politics of compassion, humanity and ecology
3. Understand the conservative agenda and argue to win against conservatives

After all, most conservatives don't even know that they support a regime that works toward them getting a lower and lower wage. They support a bankrupt system--the free market--that virtually guarantees that the rich get richer and that often the economy, ecology and human rights get trampled. Many who don't benefit from conservative ideology are hoodwinked by distraction toward social issues, like stem cells and abortion.

Toward understanding and winning arguments with conservatives, Phillip Agre clearly exposes the destructive goals of the conservative (aristrocratic, power-amassing) agenda in his essay, What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?:

Liberals in the United States have been losing political debates to conservatives for a quarter century. In order to start winning again, liberals must answer two simple questions: what is conservatism, and what is wrong with it? As it happens, the answers to these questions are also simple:

Q: What is conservatism?

A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.

Q: What is wrong with conservatism?

A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world.

These ideas are not new. Indeed they were common sense until recently. Nowadays, though, most of the people who call themselves "conservatives" have little notion of what conservatism even is. They have been deceived by one of the great public relations campaigns of human history. Only by analyzing this deception will it become possible to revive democracy in the United States...

Agre offers much more on the site. It's a virtual blueprint for winning back the government to serve the people, not just Wall Street and Big Oil.

It's clear that the conswervative agenda has made the lives of most Americans worse. Incomes have fallen for workers, many jobs have moved overseas and corporate executives have increased their bonuses from an average of 42 times a worker's salary in the 1970s to over 411 times a worker's salary today. They rob our economy to serve themselves --possibly fueling the current financial meltdown--while paying workers everywhere lower and lower wages.

And it's not just the US economy. It's worldwide.

This means you're losing while they rake in millions, even billions of dollars. If you elect a Republican, you're feeding the sharks that feed on you to survive.

Elect a Democrat today. Elect Obama/Biden and all other Democrats running in your state and locality. Tell your Congressional representative that you won't stand for losing your home and job while corporate executives gain huge bonuses. Get email updates on Congressional votes and more here.