Freedom was more popular than it is today

[Omaha]

Oladub: Thanks for joining the growing throng of Colbert Conservatives. We have a lot to teach others about the true meaning of conservatism as practiced by Steven Colbert.

Your writing and insights imply both political parties are basically identical in their world view and were since the beginning. If true, that would mean that they are running a game on the electorate...and have been for a very long time! It may be true, it may not.

All I know as a Colbert Conservative and a Social Darwinist there IS a significant difference between the rich and poor.

The rich are rich because they are MORE deserving. They are smarter, work harder and choose their parents better...ergo, they are more DESERVING.

The poor are poor because they don’t CONTINUALLY pick themselves up by their bootstraps and work tirelessly to improve themselves. Moreover, they don’t choose their parents very well either.

[oladub]

Oladub: Thanks for joining the growing throng of Colbert Conservatives. We have a lot to teach others about the true meaning of conservatism as practiced by Steven Colbert.

Your writing and insights imply both political parties are basically identical in their world view and were since the beginning. If true, that would mean that they are running a game on the electorate...and have been for a very long time! It may be true, it may not.

All I know as a Colbert Conservative and a Social Darwinist there IS a significant difference between the rich and poor.

The rich are rich because they are MORE deserving. They are smarter, work harder and choose their parents better...ergo, they are more DESERVING.

The poor are poor because they don’t CONTINUALLY pick themselves up by their bootstraps and work tirelessly to improve themselves. Moreover, they don’t choose their parents very well either.

Omaha, While I don't quite consider myself a Colbert Conservative, I stand in awe at Machiavellian machinations so caringly construed to protect the interests of the elite.

More homage should be paid to the contributions of Woodrow Wilson by Colbert Conservatives. Woodrow Wilson not only created the Federal Reserve to circumvent Congress, he fought the war to end all wars, imprisoned dissenters, impressed working people into the army, and amended the Constitution to allow the income tax. This last effort was a stroke of genius. The federal income tax removed so much of the burden of taxation from the owners of import corporations and transferred them to the middle class. Not only that but it allowed the owners of corporations to replace US workers with more cost efficient foreign labor. This Wilsonian gift keeps giving. Corporate owners will now be able to shift more jobs abroad to avoid new and onerous Obamacare costs. The preselection of candidates I previously mentioned guarantees that NAFTA will be defended and even expanded under TPP that our current Goldman-Sachs Designee was caught working on.

Game? What game? The electorate is still being offered clear choices between Obama phones and free birth control for single middle aged ladies on the one hand and the restoration of school prayers and teaching creationism on the other. There are still so many choices for the electorate to choose from besides choosing between preselected candidates paid for by that class of Soros, Buffet, Adelson, and Kochs who don't seem to be at each others throats thus providing the masses with an example of how to get along. They bring to mind the royal families of England and Germany who, during WWI, as cousins, all prospered while their nations' poor made war profiteering possible. Holding the bottom 99% in debt, the top 1% only need to persuade voters to pursue immigration, trade, war, and other policies that benefit the financial sector at the expense of labor, industry, and democratic government as we know it.

“Only the little people pay taxes.” -Leona Helmsley

"Freedom" has only been redefined to better accommodate the needs of the deserving rich.