{"id":2503,"date":"2013-07-25T19:50:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T19:50:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-07-25T19:50:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T19:50:36","slug":"faith-based-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2013\/07\/25\/faith-based-conservatism\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Based Conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ConfederateI got a YouTube message from someone at an account named “Green Power.” From the video preview, he looks like a teenager. I don’t know, because I’m not going to give the guy even my one view. Let me explain. He sent what is doubtless a generic message, “I am a born again Republican. Please vote republican in 2014 . We need to take our country back . Here is a video about voting republican that you should watch.” So the issue isn’t so much that he is likely an idiotic conservative. It is that he is basically spamming me and I don’t want to encourage that. So in addition to not viewing the miscreant’s video, I’m not linking to it or him. But I will provide this screen capture:<\/p>\n

\"Green<\/div>\n

Of course, I could be wrong about this guy. Maybe this is just a clever bit of satire. Maybe even the spam message is part of it. Conservatives are so like that!<\/i> But in my experience, people can be taken at their word—especially when their word is offensive.<\/p>\n

I was going to write to the guy, but I thought better of it. Here is what I wrote before I decided to just create this brief post:<\/p>\n

Just a tip: don’t say “born again Republican.” It makes you sound like politics is a religion. Politics is about ideas, not faith. Also, the confederate flag makes you look like a bigot. If I were a Republican, I would be ashamed that you self-identified as I did.<\/p>\n

Who exactly do you intend to take “our” country back from? Really, I hear that phrase all the time, but I have no idea what it means. I think the US is screwed up in a whole lot of ways, but just because I don’t get the policies I want, doesn’t mean some foreign agent has taken over my country. I think what you really<\/i> mean is that those who disagree with you are not “real” Americans. Sorry, but that just isn’t the case.<\/p>\n

Finally, your message is distinctly spam like. It is clearly a message that you’ve just pasted in that has no particular relevance to me. As a result, I absolutely will not click on it.<\/p>\n

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.<\/i><\/div>\n

If this guy is who he appears to be, he is a walking-talking cliche: faith based policy combined with creepy implicit racism is pretty much the definition of the modern Republican Party. It really would be brilliant satire. But Billy Bob Neck, it ain’t.<\/p>\n