On the one hand, conservatives feel they have to emphasize that they are for free enterprise, as if liberals weren’t; on the other hand, they resent trial lawyers for being entrepreneurial. Conservatives believe that to strike against big business is somehow illegitimate. This alien mind-set loves an argument that relies on straw men illustrations and thinks it has a corner on wisdom. When a sleazy lawyer tries to ram rod a frivolous case in behalf of his obese client against a junk food chain, conservatives truly think they have won the argument for tort reform while they ignore heart-wrenching cases causing a horrific accidents due to negligence, wilful or otherwise, by a company. How do they measure pain and suffering of one confined to a wheel chair all his life? The victim should thank the Almighty that he is still alive; besides, those who fight for their country are not compensated for their injuries — that’s the way life is, cruel and learn to accept it. So what if an anesthetist was up half the night partying with his favorite nurses and happened to administer a deadly mix, is he not entitled to a mistake? They say, after all, doctors are only human and patients do die, you know, as long as it is not their loved ones victimized.
On the one hand, conservatives chastise the trial lawyer for winning any case; on the other hand, they never criticize the incompetence of the defending lawyers who lose, nor do they ever openly dwell in triumph when the corporate or insurance lawyers actually win. When one exhibits “stupidity” and ventures through a “wet floor” sign, falls and injures his hip, a conservative immediately assumes the injured is going to sue for millions, when in fact the normal victim response is to cover the medical expenses his own insurance doesn’t cover, nor exercise responsibility to its premium holder by recovering losses from the store’s insurance. The stupidity factor is an escape clause tailor made for the alien mind-set as though somehow a shopper should never be so preoccupied that he or she forgets to be on guard at all times. Never mind the stupidity of the store for mopping floors during store hours. When these self-righteous aliens view a film like Class Action do they really root for the bean-counters? Are they so enthralled by the high and mighty that they cannot be for the underdog? Who are these people?
They are so wrapped up in the supreme confidence of never doing wrong that they despise the little people doomed to shortcomings and ill-luck; always accompanied by the presumption that Lilliputians are shiftless and make poor choices. They are always pro-war because, like them, the country and the likes of Bush are never wrong. They are confident too that American troops going through hell mirror their staunch righteousness because most of the sacrificing youth are from red states and presumed to possess the same exclusive “values” — and God forbid there be a draft that would bring in the rowdy with diverse values. They are pro-business because that’s “where the bread is at.” Small business in particular is the aegis of job-making as though motivated by inspired benevolence, rather than the obvious that without workers small business could not exist unless it remains in the garage or basement. They are toadies to large corporations because they are stockholders and dream of deserved riches that their hard earned money exponentially grows into unearned income so they become incestuously related to the powerful.
They are from another planet vastly advanced and settled here for the purpose of dominating brutish earthlings.
Copyright © 2004 Richard R. Kennedy All rights reserved. Revised: October 16, 2004.
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