Getting Old

Jesse says, " I know (from personal experience) that conservatives tend to take the elitist attitude that if you disagree with them, it's because you're either young or immature."

Jesse, you are obviously to young and immature to know what you are talking about.

Actually, you know exactly what you are talking about, but you will find that conservatives come up with something even more insulting as you get older. They simply say that you are ill informed and stupid. Everything becomes an epistomological knife fight because you can't possible know what you claim to know because you aren't reading, watching, mind-melding the right things. And if, perchance, you are a complete freak like me and actually read, watch and mind meld that right wing drivel, unless you completely eschew any other type of drivel you are being brainwashed and cannot be relied upon to know reality from never-never land.

This argument is the basis for the Right Wingnut mantras "youcontinuetoignoretheFACTS", "youcan'tstandtolookattheFACTS", "thesearetheFACTSprovemewrong."

And, what's worse is that when you get older they haul out the "if you're not a liberal when you're young you have no heart, but if you're not a conservative when you're old you have no head" chestnut. (To which I usually think, "no, if you're a conservative, young or old, you get no head," which I'm quite sure must be true judging from their hysterical reaction to Clinton's little hallway forays.)

In any case, conservatives remain condescending and rude throughout your life. Growing older won't cure it.