Skewed negativity

[BobcatJH]

Debi, my blog's latest right-wing moral scold, is back. She's fond, among other things, of asking me questions like this: "And once again, I ask you Joseph, what good does all of this negativism you spread around do anyone? Tell me even one person it has helped?"

Negativity, to Debi means the following:

• Questioning the motives behind and the prosecution of a war that has cost America the lives of nearly 3,000 men and women (to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis) and has made the world a far more dangerous place.
• Pointing out the actual statements of those so-called faith-based Americans whose words more accurately match those coming from our "enemies".
• Questioning the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, a response universally regarded - in the reality-based community - as, at best, horribly bungled and, at worst, criminally negligent.
• Questioning the notion that we, as a nation, have a government that condones the use of torture, interrogation techniques that are proven to have no actual value other than to help create the next generation of anti-American forces.

Here, for comparison, is some of Debi's trademark positivity:

• Calling herself a Christian Republican conservative, then referring to people as "homos" and accusing me of believing - gasp - that gay people are decent people.
• Claiming to care for the less fortunate, yet also claiming that the vast majority of those down on their luck possess a sense of entitlement and saying that they "chose this lifestyle", also speaking in a patronizing manner about the "ghetto" and those who "were never taught any different".
• Blaming the victims of Hurricane Katrina while baselessly accusing her critics of doing nothing to help those affected.
• Supporting administration-sanctioned torture.

Don't you just hate it when those compassionate conservatives must remind us how negative we are?

[Felix Mala]

1. When the Neo-cons and Jesus-cons get complete control and suspend elections...

she'll have a first class ticket for you to the "work" camps.