Conservatism Is Evil

Whatever conservatism once may have been, it is no longer.  Modern American conservatism is evil.  There is no other word for it.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/30/1719926/-Conservatism-is-Evil

...Modern American conservatism is more than greed.  It is an inordinate, all-consuming greed.  It transcends indifference to the non-wealthy.  Instead, it is driven by a pervasive, fierce resentment of the non-wealthy.  And Modern American conservatism no longer is American.  The Republican tax crime sliming its way through Congress is an anti-American crime happening in the most anti-American way: with, effectively, no debate, no public hearings, no light of day.  Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and all the other Republicans are oligarchs in search of a way to get out from under this confining democracy.  Democracy is of the people and for the people.  Both are anathema to Modern American conservatism.  

And the above does not even address the resultant explosion of the deficit with the concomitant explosion of conservative hypocrisy.  It does not address the willingness of Republicans to achieve this evil by protecting a President who is boarder-line psychotic and an extraordinary danger to democracy, our nation, and the world.

This tax crime makes it clear: conservatism is a brutish philosophy of indifference and contempt rationalized by a veneer of moralism.  That is a secular evil.  

I don’t think we can stop this crime.  Can we counterattack in 2018.  Not given our track record.  If there is a way, though, it lies in a three-prong assault.  

First, explicitly attack Modern America conservatism for the evil it is.  Spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every week of every year making “conservative” a pejorative.  

Second, shine as much light as possible on the tax crime and its range of evil.  Our first chance may not come until the bill has passed, but once it is in the open, attack, attack, attack.  

Finally, don’t assume that attacking is enough.  Offer policies that will return us to the post Great Depression world, that will limit the power of the wealthy, that will reduce inequality, that will take money out of politics, that will end the pretense that corporations are people and money is speech, and that will better the lives of all citizens.