Here’s a selection from an email going around that I thought was on point.

1. You have to truly believe that people who are privileged from birth, achieve success all on their own.
2. You have to believe that government should stay out of people’s lives but it needs to punish anyone caught having private sex with the “wrong” gender.
3. You have to believe that pollution is ok, so long as it makes a profit.
4. You have to believe in prayer in schools, as long as you don’t pray to Allah or Kali.
5. You have to believe that the best way to encourage military morale is to raise the troops overseas while cutting their VA benefits.
6. You have to believe it is wise to keep condoms out of schools, because we all know if teenagers don’t have condoms they won’t have sex.
7. You have to believe that federally funded universal health insurance is Socialist and wrong, and that HMO’s and insurance companies only have your best interests at heart.
8. You believe that “tobacco’s link to cancer” and “global warming” are “junk science”, but Creationism should be taught in schools.
9. You have to believe that waging war with no exit strategy was wrong in Vietnam but right in Iraq.
10. You have to believe that Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush’s daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney was doing business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a “we can’t find Bin Laden” diversion.
11. You have to believe that what Clinton did in the 1960’s is of vital national interest but what Bush did decades later is “stale news” and “irrelevant”.
12. You have to believe that trade with Cuba is wrong because it is Communist and oppressive, but trading with China and Vietnam is just dandy.

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