America is a pretty weird place sometimes. We have a tendency to see popularity and call it virtue. eg: In the early 70s, no car was more popular than the Ford Pinto, and we assumed it was a high quality product because it was so popular - ignoring the poorly-kept secret that the Pinto was experiencing a high rate of failure which included the propensity to explode on a fairly regular basis whenever any other car crashed into it from behind.
I get the feeling a lot of people "got conservative" and started voting Republican just because they believed it to be the popular thing to do - and must therefore be the right thing. All that hippie shit was cool for a while when we were younger, but eventually, you gotta "grow up and think like an adult" - "ya gotta live in the real world". So that's what we did in the 80s and 90s.
But now (like always I think), things are shifting back in the other direction. It's not nearly as cool to live in that libertarian cocoon - we're getting back to an understanding that I can't just be myself; having no regard for anybody else; demanding the whole world adjust to my needs and accommodate me. That's the false premise that forms the basis of what passes for being "conservative" now.
So, at some point it becomes obvious enough that the zeitgeist has shifted enough to make ridiculing the "conservative" point of view a very effective agent for change.
Thank you, Todd Akin (R-Pluto) for kinda putting it over the edge for us.
The Satirical Political Report
The Freepers are having fits too.
The denial is so thick and sticky you could spread it on ice.
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