Vonnegut's latest rambling
"What are conservatives? They are people who will move heaven and earth, if they have to, who will ruin a company or a country or a planet, to prove to us and to themselves that they are superior to everybody else, except for their pals. They take good care of their pals, keep them out of jail—and so on.
Conservatives are crazy as bedbugs. They are bullies." I also favor this section, in which he admires Congressman Lincoln's criticism of President Polk's war on Mexico: "The person congressman Lincoln had in mind when he said what he said was James Polk, our president at the time. Abraham Lincoln said of Polk, his president, our armed forces’ commander-in-chief: “Trusting to escape scrutiny by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military glory, that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood —that serpent’s eye, that charms to destroy, he plunged into war.”"
Oh my goodness. Doesn't that sound like the Cancer-in-Chief distracting the public from his own criminal activities and domestic incompetence by beating up on Afghanistan and Iraq? Of course, today's conservatives (some of whom contribute to this website) would argue that Lincoln hated the country, wasn't patriotic, and was a coward.
Subtlety is not one of my strengths