Of Conservatives and dogs: combating stupid bumperstickers

22. March 2009 by admin.

Regardless of whether one believes that addressing bumper sticker slogans is a stupid venture or not, many of the token sayings expressed contain popular conceptions that many people actually believe. Earlier this week, this writer was fortunate enough to cross a run-down mess with many slogans, but chiefly one that read “Liberals treat dogs like people. Conservatives treat people like dogs.” This seems to be a trend in Seattle-ite thought, so it’s worth delving into.

Do conservatives really treat people like dogs?

If this statement were meant to be figurative, the owner of the car was trying to imply that conservatives treat people poorly, which is something that’s been generously and falsely implied by Leftist media outlets for generations. Because of negative portrayal, conservatives appear upon first thought to be greedy Wall-Street bankers, hoarding money for themselves while voting to lower their own taxes and reducing social services so that the poor can stay poor and suffer. Fortunately for the Right, this “rich, evil guy” portrayal couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Aside from the fact that liberals are noted by the non-partisan PEW Research Center as being wealthier in larger numbers than conservatives and generally having more college degrees (since they’ve been processed through an unabashedly biased educational system), it turns out that Christian conservatives give 30% more money to charity and are 23% more likely to volunteer than the average liberal according to major studies done on charitable donations (disregarding fluke accidents like Bill Gates, a rarity amongst the liberal masses)(1)(2)(3)(4). Whoops, bumper-sticker slogan people… looks like you forgot to read. Read the rest of this entry »

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