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| 63. Failure of Center-Right Conservative Values, Principles, Ideology, Philosophy & Polices | ||
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In the face of a great defeat, conservatives
have their new talking points. They are trying to make the case that America
is really a Center-Right country. See this video from ThinkProgress of how
conservatives are trying to make the case. What they are failing to
acknowledge is that Center-Right Values, Principles, Ideology,
Philosophy & Polices have failed and that the country is looking for a new
direction. In case they need some help in understanding this, they can
always listen to what people say about Center-Right Conservative values
below. View @: Opednews.com - Democracyforamerica.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 62. Failed Conservative Values: Bill Honigman on Restrictive Intolerance and Porcupines | ||
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I interviewed Bill Honigman,
who is the California State Coordinator of Progressive Democrats of
America (PDA). He said conservatives are restrictive and
intolerant like porcupines. While he doesn't think the values of individual
conservatives have failed, he feels the values of the conservative movement
have failed. I have to disagree with him there. I feel that individual
conservative values have manifest themselves in the conservative movement
and individual conservatives need to take 'individual responsibility' for
these failures. View @: Democracyforamerica.com - Opednews.com - |
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| 61. Failed Conservative Values: Markos (Kos) Moulitsas on Self-Delusion | ||
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I
interviewed Markos (Kos) Moulitsas, founder of the Dailykos.com and asked
him about the failure of conservative values. For him, the conservative
value of self-delusion was the greatest failure. He says conservatives
value their ideology over actual reality and he pointed out a series of
examples of how this ideology ignores reality. View @: Democracyforamerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 60. Progressives Blast Failed Conservative Values! | ||
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I've been asking people about the the failure of
conservative values. Here are links to the latest batch of interviews that I
just placed on Youtube. The failed values that come up are quite
varied, but those mentioned most often are fear, hypocrisy,
conservative family values, division, rigidity, hyper individualism,
self-delusion, etc. I also ask people to create a metaphor of what the
Failed Conservative Values are like. These metaphors are often quite
revealing. View @:DemocracyforAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 59. Lipsticked Hydra at Failed Conservative 'Value Voters Summit' | ||
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This weekend conservatives are holding their annual Conservative Value Voters Summit 2008 in Washington DC.
Last year I wrote an article about the Summit and called for counter rallies to
challenge this conference as part of a progressive effort to Take Back the
Values Debate. There didn't seem to be much interest or support of the
idea among progressives. Progressives still miss the point by
spending most of their energy attacking Bush, Cheney, McCain, Palin, etc,
instead of clearly connecting them to the underlying
Failed Conservative
Values of authoritarianism, fear,
greed, secrecy, deception, self-righteousness,
hypocrisy, indifference, dogmatism, violence, etc. and offering the progressive
alternative values. View @: Opednews.com - DemocracyForAmerica.com - |
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| 58. Failed Conservatives Values: Jim Hightower on Grasping Greed | ||
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Every
morning I can't get out of bed until I've heard Jim Hightower on my local
NPR radio station. It's my inspiration to face another day. So, it was a
real treat to meet him at the Netroots Nation Conference in his home town of
Austin, Texas. I asked Jim about the failure of conservative values. He
said the failure is the ethic of greed and the alternative
to this are the progressive values of
fairness, social justice and equal opportunity for all people. View @:DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com Poll - Dailykos.com |
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| 57. Daily Show Coverage: GOP RNC Conservatives Failed to Remember Small Town Values | ||
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Here's a funny clip from the Daily Show's coverage of the Republican National
Convention. In their various speeches, conservatives made a big point of
trying to connect their Failed Conservative Values to Small Town Values.
Yes, they never give up on the values debate and always try to add a new wrinkle
to their rhetorical values debate arsenal. However, this time
the Daily Show's best darn news team on the planet went out to
investigate. As you'll see, the problem is that conservatives
just can't remember what those values are. View @:DemocracyForAmerica - Opednews (Poll) - Dailykos.com |
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| 56. Sarah Palin and the same old Failed Conservative Values | ||
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Like at past
Republican National Conventions, there has been a lot of talk about
conservative values. Nothing new there, but this time the RNC convention has the
feeling of a sinking ship. The conservatives are doing a lot of
talking about the exact same Failed Conservative Values that they have been
talking about for the past 30 years. It's the same Failed Conservative
Values of indifference, incompetence, compassionate conservativism and
corruption that brought us the disaster of Katrina. It's the same Failed
Conservative Values of authoritarianism, secrecy, deception and violence
that brought us the failed invasion and occupation of Iraq. It's the
same Failed Conservative Values of selfishness, greed and arrogance that
brought us Abramoff and a conservative congress mired in a culture of
corruption. View @: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com (Poll) - Dailykos.com |
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| 55. Rallies & Protests in SF as McCain and Obama Rake in the $$ | ||
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Barack
Obama came to the San Francisco Fairmont Hotel for a fundraiser yesterday on
Sunday, August 17. He raised 7.5 million dollars. Just 3 weeks earlier, John
McCain had braved being corrupted by the dreaded 'San Francisco Values' at a
fund raiser in the same hotel. His campaign declined to state how much
their haul was. See my videos of the
rallies and protests at each event and the San Francisco Progressive Values
McCain had to brave! View @: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Huffingtonpost.com |
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| 54. Progressive Values Stories: Gavin Newsom on Inclusivity and Noah’s Ark | ||
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I interviewed
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom about what he personally feels are the most
important progressive values. He mentioned several progressive values,
such as, Interdependence, Stewardship, Empathy
and Tolerance, but focused on Inclusivity as the most important.
He cautions
progressives not to 'eat their young' and implode internally from all their
differences. When asked to create a
metaphor for inclusivity, he came up with the image of Noah's Ark.
View @:DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com (Poll) - Dailykos.com |
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| 53. Failed Conservative Values: Gavin Newsom on Division & Schizophrenic Tasmanian Devils | ||
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The likes of Bill O'Reilly and Newt Gingrich have long railed
against 'San Francisco Values' as a cause of Americas ills. I sat down with San Francisco Mayor
Gavin Newsom at the Netroots Nation Conference in Austin, Texas to talk about conservative values.
Gavin articulated the case for how the conservative value of division leads to
weakness and failure. Finally he likened the values to schizophrenic and bipolar
Tasmanian Devils. View @: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 52. Melanie on Progressive Flying Monkey versus Conservative Snail Values | ||
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I attended an anti McCain rally at the Fairmont
Hotel in San Francisco. There I interviewed several people and asked them to
create a metaphor for Progressive and Conservative Values and to create a
dialogue between the two. In this story, Melanie sees conservative values
as snails and progressive values as monkeys with wings. See how the snails and
monkeys get along. View @: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 51. Presidential Candidate Bob Barr on the Failure of Conservative Values | ||
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At Netroots Nation in Austin, Texas, you can always tell when a VIP is in the
room. Just look for the person with a deferential crowed gathered around
them
and follow the direction the cameras are pointed. While I feel
uncomfortable standing so deferentially in anyone's presence, I have a job to
do, and that's to find out how exactly conservative values have failed. So, when
I saw a crowd gathered in the hallway, I moseyed on over with my video camera
in hand and worked myself into the front of the crowed. There was
Bob Barr, the Libertarian presidential candidate. After patiently waiting for
the other interviewers to finish asking their questions, I asked Bob,
"Have Conservative Values Failed?" View @: DemocracyForAmerica - Opednews (Poll) - Dailykos - Huffingtonpost.com |
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| 50. Progressive Values Stories: Zeus Yiamouyiannis on Innovation and Caring | ||
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In this interview
Zeus Yiamouyiannis talks about how innovation is a progressive value. He
also sees caring and nurture as progressive values and talks about having
learned these values growing up on an organic farm and tending to the
animals. On one hand, conservatives talk about traditional values of
self interest and selfishness, on the other hand, innovation, caring and
nurture are some of the traditional progressive values. View @:DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 49. Progressive Values Stories: Jeremy Rothe-Kushel on Caring | ||
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In this interview,
Jeremy Rothe-Kushel talks about the progressive value of caring. He
recounts learning to care more deeply by being with his family at his
great-grandmother's death bed.
It's a
learning process to expand your sense of care beyond just thinking of
yourself - to caring for your family, community, nation and the world.
View @: DemocracyForAmerica - Opednews - Dailykos - Groups.Yahoo |
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| 48. Fatally Flawed Conservative Value of Hypocrisy | ||
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Several people I asked about the failure of conservative
values mentioned hypocrisy. Michelle, Owen and Steve brought
up examples of conservative hypocrisy in; family values, education,
finance, the economy, the occupation of Iraq and in human rights. While we
all may exhibit varying degrees of hypocrisy in our lives, it seems that the
conservative movement has embraced and institutionalized this value. View @: DemocracyForAmerica - Opednews.com Poll - Dailykos - Groups.Yahoo |
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| 47. Failed Conservative Values: Congresswoman Maxine Waters on Blame, Hate & Lying | ||
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I interviewed Congresswoman Maxine Waters and asked her about progressive and
conservative values. In this section, Maxine mentions that conservatives have
tricked people with the failed conservative values of blame, hate and
lying. These values are also failing because more people are not
following them anymore and in fact, people are starting to turn toward
progressives values. She goes on to talk about how the occupation of Iraq is a
metaphor for the failure of conservative values.
View @: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com (Poll) - Dailykos.com |
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| 46. Failed Conservative Values: Gordon Wright on Psychopaths and Fear | ||
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Gordon Wright
values freedom but was raised by a conservative autocratic, dictatorial and
bully of a father. He feels conservatives fear life's changes
and it's spontaneity. An example is how all of George Bush's public events
are totally choreographed and controlled events. He also thinks
that the corporate conservatives value of heartlessness and unfettered
self-interest, are the same values as a psychopaths. View @:DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com (Poll) - Dailykos.com |
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| 45. The Failed Conservative Values of James Dobson | ||
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James Dobson is a
major leader of the social conservatives. He is considered one of the more
moderate of the 'Value Voters' leaders because he doesn't support spanking
any child under the age of 18 months, while other conservative leaders do. Dobson is now attacking Barrack Obama for "deliberately
distorting the Bible" and "dragging biblical understanding through the gutter."
Isn't it time for progressives to start unmasking how the values of the
conservative movement have failed? Isn't it time to ask them some questions
about their values? How about asking your family, friends, neighbors, colleges,
etc, "Have Conservative Values Failed?" View @: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com (Poll) - Dailykos.com |
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| 44. Failed Conservative Values: Elaine Charkowski on Patriarchy Family Values | ||
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Elaine Charkowski
talked with me about how conservative values have failed. She says,
Conservative Family Values is about patriarchy and fear of authority. It’s
about not using your own mind and woman are to be subservient to the man.
The type of power used is random punishment and reward, which studies show
is the best way to drive animals crazy. View @:DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews (Poll) - Dailykos.com |
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| 43. Failed Conservative Values: Louise Specht on Hierarchy Authoritarian Narcissism | ||
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I asked Louise Specht about the the
failure of conservative values. She addressed the hierarchal and
authoritarian nature of conservativism and how this can lead to
narcissism for the people at the top. Steven Colbert does a great job of
imitating a conservative on the Colbert Report. I just saw him begin his
show lately by saying, "Did I tell you I love me lately?" He hit's the
nail on the head, as does Louise. (Poll) View @:DemocracyForAmerica - Opednews (Poll) - Dailykos.com - Groups.yahoo |
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| 42. Failed Conservative Values: Dona Ridgeway on Authoritarianism | ||
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Donna Ridgeway is
a blogger living in the Santa Cruz, California area. She was raised republican
and was in the military, but then started questioning.
She says the Failed
Conservative Value is authoritarianism, it's a lose lose situation because
if the
authoritarian
fails, everything fails. However she sees a lot of problems with
progressives as well. There's a lot of egos with progressives and herding
cats is hard. View @: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews - Dailykos - Groups.yahoo |
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| 41. Failed Conservative Values: Arianna Huffington on Family Values Hypocrisy | ||
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Arianna Huffington is a well know progressive speaker and
activist. She started the popular Huffington Post website and it seems you
can't turn on a progressive TV show without her popping up on it and taking a
swipe at the conservatives. I saw Arianna at our local bookstore where she was
promoting her new book, The Right is Wrong. During the Q and A, I asked her how
conservative values have failed. She had plenty to say. View @:DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 40. Failed Conservative Values: They're Not Working - George Lakoff | ||
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George Lakoff is a
linguistics professor at UC Berkeley and author of numerous books on
metaphors, framing and politics. Howard Dean has called him, "one of the
most influential political thinkers of the progressive movement." George was
at our local bookstore talking about his latest book, The Political Mind.
During the question and answer period, I asked him if he personally feels
that Conservative Values have Failed and if so, how have they failed? View @: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com |
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| 39. Failed Conservative Values: David Sirota on Economic Darwinism | ||
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David Sirota came and talked about his new book,
'The Uprising' at the Oakland Democracy for America meet-up on June 11,
2008. During the Q and A, I asked David how conservative values have failed
and he talked about the failure of Conservative Economic Darwinism. The full
video of his 70 minute talk and slideshow is now online. View @: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 38. Attack of the Anaconda - Failed Conservative Values Metaphors | ||
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Sometimes it helps to use a bit of
imagination and creativity to look at things in a different way to shake up
the status quo and change mindsets. I've been asking people to create
a metaphor for the Failed Conservative Values. For example, if
conservative values were a type of machine, or land, or animal, etc.,
what would they be like? Here are some of the images
people came up with; anaconda, meat grinder, quicksand and mud stuck
elephant. View @: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 37. Failed Conservative Values: Nancy Kops on Selfishness | ||
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I interviewed Nancy
Kops and asked her about Failed Conservative Values and what are Progressive
Values. She feels caring is the most important liberal-progressive
value. She knows many conservatives and finds them to have
good hearts and can be very caring
about the people around them. However, she
can’t figure out why they can be attracted to the Republican Party. She
thinks they just don't see the big picture. View @: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 36. Failed Conservative Values: Arun Akkineni on Self-Righteousness | ||
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I interviewed Arun
Akkineni about Failed Conservative Values. He felt that self-righteousness
is a Failed Conservative Value and it's scary and dangerous. With
self-righteousness, you see the world as black and white and don't see the
nuances. You also don't incorporate other peoples ideas, which makes for
poor decision making. He points to the current conservative administrations
creation of the war and occupation of Iraq, as an example. View @:DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 35. Failed Conservative Values: Aris Harmon on Fear and Power | ||
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I interviewed Aris Harmon about the failure of conservative values. He
said conservatives can be very nice people but they try to maintain the status
quo and are afraid of change. For
this reason, their fear of change is easily manipulated by other conservatives
such as,
Grover Norquist and Abramoff,
whose
sole value is power at any cost. He also sees the failure of
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| 34. Failed Conservative Values: All about Greed | ||
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I interviewed people around the Democracy for America booth at the California
Democratic Party Convention in San Jose. I asked people how have
conservative values failed? It surprised me how many responded
that the conservative value of greed was the biggest failure. Here
are some of the comments. View @:DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - |
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| 33. Progressive Values Stories: Jim Dean on Responsibility and Participation | ||
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In
this second part of my interview with Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy for
America, Jim talks about the Progressive Values of responsibility and
participation. Progressives are now standing up to participate in and take
responsibility over the political process. Democracy for America
helps in supporting these Progressive Values of Responsibility and
Participation. View @:DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 32. Failed Conservative Values: Jim Dean on Corruption | ||
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I interviewed Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy
for America (DFA) at the Democratic Party Convention in San Jose,
California. I asked Jim how conservative values have failed. He says
current conservativism is like a
despotic dictator and is about
corruption, power and the rewarding of friends. View @:DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 31. Progressive Values Stories: Norman Solomon on We're All in it Together | ||
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I interviewed
Norman Solomon at the 2008 Democratic Party Convention in San Jose,
California. Norman is a columnist and his book "War Made Easy" was
recently made into a movie with Sean Penn narrating it. In this second part
of the interview, he talks about the progressive value of responsibility
for each other. This responsibility is the basis of the popular progressive
phrase, 'We're All in it Together' which stands in contrast to the Failed
Conservative Value view of 'Every Man for Himself'. View @: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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| 30. Failed Conservative Values: Norman Solomon on Dog Eat Dog Greed | ||
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I interviewed Norman Solomon at the 2008 Democratic Party Convention in San
Jose, California. Norman is a columnist and his book "War Made Easy"
was recently made into a movie. He talked about how he sees 'dog eat
dog greed' as a Failed Conservative Value. View @: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Opednews.com - Dailykos.com |
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