A conversation with a fellow godless, baby-killing sodomite today and the failed efforts of another political blogger to find something funny against liberals helped me realize the undeniable truth of it all: conservatives aren’t funny. We have the thought-provoking wit of Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, and countless others, while the other side has. . . well, that’s the problem.
The core of this quandry lies with the audience. Ellis Weiner, some Jewy liberal, said it best in his article “Why Conservatives Aren’t Funny “:
These are the people who parrot, on cue, the latest talking point that “liberals” are “full of rage” because they “hate America.” But all you have to do is tap a Dittohead on the shoulder and you’ll hear that something, or everything, has gone “wrong.” Things aren’t “the way they’re supposed to be.” Grievance, injustice, the feeling that somewhere (probably “Hollywood”) some pampered poof is living high on the hog while we — the real people, the decent people, God’s people — have to take it on the chin, is the emotional background music to every Red State day.
There’s been plenty of studies suggesting correlations between humor and intelligence , humor and creativity , and humor and social competence . I’ve been trying to think of something funny to say on this topic, but I can’t. Shit, maybe I’m becoming one of them! Ha! Okay, that was funny.
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This is true of conservative communists, Nazis, fundamentalists, and Muslims. No matter what one is conservative about, even traditional liberalism as "practiced" by Franklin Roosevelt, the conservative is afraid of change. This means that one doesn't have to be upper class to be conservative, one can be a conservative and be poor and a member of a minority and so forth. But, other than wanting things like they were (in the imagination) in the old days, the conservative wants no change.
Fearing change isn't something to put one in the mood to laugh.