In article 
,
 lizardgirl  wrote:

> On Dec 31 2007, 8:42 pm, Josh Hill  wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 10:42:36 -0600, "Lance Corporal
\"Hammer\" Schultz"
> >
> >  wrote:
> > >On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:06:04 -0400, Josh Hill wrote:
> > And my question is -- why? I can understand greed, the sort of
> > stinking rotten selfish greed that sits on mounds of cash or amuses
> > itself with frippery while children go without dental care. And I can
> > understand the middle class virtues -- hard work, self-reliance. But
> > there's a sort of conservatism that I just don't understand. It
> > occupies a fantasy world, one which hasn't even a minimal relationship
> > with reality. It's the world of your statement above. Class warfare?
> > That's so far out it hurts. And so my question is -- why? What purpose
> > can it possibly serve to so mischaracterize these things that they're
> > distorted beyond recognition, and then, as conservatives so often do,
> > refuse to acknowledge the facts or the truth?
> >
> 
> a collective suspension of disbelief?
> 
> conservatism may not be the right word.
> 
> frightening for folks to imagine that there are people out there just
> like them working hard, raising families, engaged in church and/or
> community that are 'not' making it.  this is the land of oppotunity.
> much easier/safer to blame them for some thing or other.
> 
> lg

   It is also easier that coming to grips with the fact that a certain 
percentage are actually losers who prey on others, abuse the systems and 
rip people off. Rose colored glasses are at least as dangerous as sludge 
colored ones....
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