An ox wearing blinders is the image that comes to mind when I think of an American conservative. Because they are so stolid, they want to simply the world so that only one principle applies to any given situation. For example, they think that “Punish people who do things I don’t like” is all you need to know about drug addiction and law enforcement. To them, whether the addict recovers, whether the addicts commits more or fewer crimes to support his habit, what causes people to take drugs in the first place, whether you drive the addict to suicide or how many people fall into the addictive life style, is all completely immaterial. All that matters is making him suffer even more than he is now.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)