"Liberals think conservatives are bad, conservatives just think liberals are wrong."

I saw this when I was in college. Liberals have been demonizing conservatives since the 60's. I remember the 1964 election pretty well, and saw how Johnson demonized Goldwater. The entire campaign, from my position as an eleven year old, was based on rather foolish accusations. Goldwater was a racist, Goldwater was going to get us into World War III, if you like a-bombs (or maybe it was h-bombs by then, I do forget that part) you'll love Goldwater. Quietly behind their hands they whispered to one another that Goldwater was a Joo and the Joos were taking over the world, but they didn't say this very loudly, just loudly enough for the whispers to get round to the rest of us. Oh, and let's not forget, Goldwater was stupid. All Republicans are stupid.

Dennis has said this kind of trashing is to avoid an argument. I say it's to win the argument. When you trash your opponent and continue to trash them for the next fifty or sixty years, sooner or later you're going to have a majority of your audience supporting and agreeing with you (and voting for your candidates and putting your party in power). The work is done. All you have to do is invoke the nasty appellation "Conservative" and it's no different than if you had called him a Nazi. And who the hell wants to agree with a Nazi?

On the other hand, the left have been calling themselves "the good" since the 'Twenties. Same shortcut: who needs reasons when we're JUST PLAIN GOOD ?

Oh, well, nuff said.