It's a scary Halloween, isn't it? After recent decades - and the past ten years in particular - conservative ideology should be safely buried. After all, is there anything conservatives got right in recent history?
They claimed that cutting taxes on the rich would cause our economy to boom and the deficit to decrease. They were wrong - horribly wrong - on both accounts. They claimed that regulation was unnecessary, that corporations would just naturally do what was right. They claimed that we'd be greeted as liberators in Iraq, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, that the war would "pay for itself."
Nothing should be as thoroughly dead as conservative ideology, yet it's climbing out of its grave before the earth has even settled. And if we can believe the polls, we Americans seem to be greeting it with open arms. Even that graveyard stench of fear, religious bigotry, and racism doesn't seem to matter. Well, zombies are popular these days, I guess.
I hope you're enjoying your Halloween. You're not getting too many Tea Partiers, are you?
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