- WHAT A RARE THING A “GREAT” CONSERVATIVE WOULD BE -

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A conservative might be “great”:

But most are just bullies	Just plain mean
Penny wise for others	And bullion snatchers
Psychopaths	Or sociopaths
Malignant narcissists	Allergic to empathy
Self-entitled Self-pitying	Self-important Full of self.
More or less closeted Racist, sexist, ageist, homophobe	Libertarians for themselves, Totalitarians for others.
Small-town, small-minded	Provincial chauvinists
Zero-sum dead-enders	Starvers of other people’s children
Bible-thumping (Christians) Torah-thumping (Jews) Qran-thumping (Muslims) Gita-thumping (Hindus) Ego-thumping (Atheists)	With the brain of a reptile, not a mammal; All limbic system, no frontal lobe; All threat, no ethics; All hat and no cattle; All take and no give back.
Saber-rattling chicken-hawks draft-deferred	Recruiting others to: Invade first, occupy forever, reflect never.
Oath violators with a hand on the heart	Two-faced hypocrites.
Admirers of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco	Promoters of Putin, Assad, Trump
National-Capitalists, National-Communists, National-Socialists National-Fundamentalists Sum total, National-Corporatists	Wreckers of democracy, Of the Constitution and Human rights
Deaf to the popular will	Deathly afraid of it
Long live greed	Fuck human rights except for their own
Delinquent judges	Organized-crime legislators
Pro-gun advocates under all circumstances	Who forbid guns in their own gatherings
Embezzlers posing as free speech advocates	On the take to the highest bidder
Dunces Or criminals	Indifferent to the errors of history, Eager to repeat them
Daring where angels would fear to tread	Scared of what an infant would smile at.
Family-values sex offenders	Serial orphan/widow makers
Counter-factual	Counter-rational
Anti-science	Deadly earnest fantasists
Millenarian fruitcakes	End-times planet wreckers
Anti-nature	Anti-nurture
Never wrong, typical sociopaths	Eager to blame someone else
A crook plays President A senile actor plays President A village idiot plays President Trump	That crook played the role twice That senile actor played his role twice The village idiot played twice Half-time impeached or war-time twice?
Assholes serially elect them and seek newcomers even worse.
Against our government of any size, For their big government	Unwilling to learn, Unwilling to do better
Office seekers Incompetent at governance	More than willing to do it wrong, Careful crafters of bad government.
Foremost beneficiaries of government Who despise it for all to see	“Good governance is the Democratic Republic of the Congo―no taxes, no roads, no rule of law except ours.”
Who couldn’t find the DRC on a labeled map.
Third world Banana Republicans	Their children, conscientious and clear-sighted, Flee their home state for less infernal places
War-loving and grudging of peace	Traitorous “patriots.”
Elitists of no personal merit	Self-promoted beyond their competence.
Certified mediocrities Their tyranny statistically mediocre	Who crow their own “exceptionalism” And that of the country they’ve crippled
Anesthetized against lethal menaces (Climate change)	Hypervigilant of those nonexistent ones (Humanism)
Cultural, scientific and international illiterates	Raising ignorance to the level of genius.
Philosophical black holes	Skeptical of the truth and lapping up lies.
Like the bad boys stupid women love	Leaving those who vote for them broke and jobless
Intolerant of the good, ambitious to do harm,	Open to evils useful or otherwise.
Pro-death penalty, pro-life:	Mass-producing poor victims to be sacrificed.
Promoters of waste & fraud	Entitled to profiteer from mass misery.
Corporate militarists now	Nazis when it’s more convenient
etc.
But awfully few "great" ones
There might be a sterling exception or two among countless conservatives
But never in majority and never in control.

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