I reached a conclusion. Right-wingers hate functional, prosperous social democracies...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

...more than they hate Communist dictatorships.

Because their existence fucks up their worldview, chews it, and shits its remains on their copy of Atlas Shrugged.

[gateley]

1. But not as much as they hate a Black guy in the WH. nt

[Dappleganger]

2. All of the repuke governors are hastily trying to shut down voter registration in largely democratic

areas, so YES. They are busy trying to shut down the voices of those who typically vote for the democratic party.

[LongTomH]

3. And you're just figuring this out?

nft

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. I know, right?

[deutsey]

5. They're part of a long, even ancient history of conservative reaction

against expanding democracy in the political and financial arenas.

Greece, Rome, England...they each had conservative and progressive factions in the ruling elites struggling to expand or diminish democracy.

I read recently this interesting passage in the New York Review of Books regarding a new book on England's role in the American Civil War. For me, it expressed traditional rightwing sentiments toward democracy:

"On the whole, those most likely to express pro-Confederate or anti-American sentiments tended to be conservatives and members of the aristocracy or gentry. The Earl of Shrewsbury looked upon 'the trial of Democracy and its failure' in America with pleasure. 'I believe that the dissolution of the Union is inevitable, and that men before me will live to see an aristocracy established in America.'...Charles Francis Adams believed 'the great body of the aristocracy and the wealthy commercial classes are anxious to see the United States go to pieces. On the other hand the middle and lower class sympathize with us.'"

In general, conservativism has always hated democracy...conservatives are trying to "conserve," after all, a political/economic/social structure that benefits a very small minority at the expense of the majority.

[LeftinOH]

6. To them, social democracies ARE communist dictatorships; Sweden=USSR..

Seriously.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. This video never gets old.

Part 1: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-april-21-2009/the-stockholm-syndrome-pt--1

Part 2: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-22-2009/the-stockholm-syndrome-pt--2