Posted on 09/02/2015 4:49:57 PM PDT by Starman417
Just what is it about leftists and their fellow liberal travellers that compels them to proselytize for Socialism? In their holier-than-thou condescending style, leftists and liberals love to dictate to people about what is and isn’t moral as if their ideology is the perfect truth which all should follow. Their default position is Socialist and liberal beliefs are more enlightened and therefore, they are automatically morally superior to everyone else. Socialists and Liberals will be shocked and offended should anyone dare to question their perfect truth and will become outraged, angry and even violent should dissenters refuse to be brow-beaten into believing Socialist dogma.
Filled with what can be described as a fantasy-driven misguided hubris at best, the left has no problem in demonizing anyone who dares to oppose them. Their nasty little tactic is to portray opponents as immoral. As haters. As intolerant bigots. As unbalanced individuals who are filled with prejudice and irrational fear: Homophobes, Xenophobes, and the quite frankly absurd Islamophobe. Socialists will also twist and distort reality by smearing opponents as "far right" Fascists or Nazis. And let’s not forget their favorite Orwellian hate crime of all, the modern day heresy of racism.
What's quite astonishing is how anyone from the left is regarded as moral and actually taken seriously. It's as if the minds of the masses have been wiped clean of the diabolical nature and the murderous history of Socialism in the same way Hilary Clinton's private email server has allegedly been wiped clean of incriminating emails.
I don’t think the left should be allowed to claim the moral high ground because there’s nothing moral about Socialism. To prove this, here’s just a small sample of what the morally bankrupt left actually stands for along with the abhorrent history of Socialism.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Never accept a Liberals premise as the basis for a discussion.
Never allow the justification of “Well he had good intentions”
That is the lie-beral magic bullet that absolves them of all.
It does not matter how horrific their policies turn out they avoid responsibility by saying “Well at least we have good intentions”
Just because socialism has failed miserably every time it has been tried doesn’t mean that it won’t work here!
Slavery in the USA was promoted by the Democrat Left and opposed by the Republican Right. Lincoln was a Republican and Jefferson Davis was a Democrat. The left will argue that the party names switched sides. My response is that Democrat KKK member Robert Byrd was reelected senate president the last time in 2008. Did the parties switch sides since then? That would mean that marxist Barak 0bama was elected as a Republican before the switch. The Left may believe that, but they are crazy.
The Socialists Wish to Play God
It is no wonder that the writers of the nineteenth century look upon society as an artificial creation of the legislator’s genius. This idea — the fruit of classical education — has taken possession of all the intellectuals and famous writers of our country. To these intellectuals and writers, the relationship between persons and the legislator appears to be the same as the relationship between the clay and the potter.
Moreover, even where they have consented to recognize a principle of action in the heart of man — and a principle of discernment in man’s intellect — they have considered these gifts from God to be fatal gifts. They have thought that persons, under the impulse of these two gifts, would fatally tend to ruin themselves. They assume that if the legislators left persons free to follow their own inclinations, they would arrive at atheism instead of religion, ignorance instead of knowledge, poverty instead of production and exchange.
The Socialists Despise Mankind
According to these writers, it is indeed fortunate that Heaven has bestowed upon certain men — governors and legislators — the exact opposite inclinations, not only for their own sake but also for the sake of the rest of the world! While mankind tends toward evil, the legislators yearn for good; while mankind advances toward darkness, the legislators aspire for enlightenment; while mankind is drawn toward vice, the legislators are attracted toward virtue. Since they have decided that this is the true state of affairs, they then demand the use of force in order to substitute their own inclinations for those of the human race.
Open at random any book on philosophy, politics, or history, and you will probably see how deeply rooted in our country is this idea — the child of classical studies, the mother of socialism. In all of them, you will probably find this idea that mankind is merely inert matter, receiving life, organization, morality, and prosperity from the power of the state. And even worse, it will be stated that mankind tends toward degeneration, and is stopped from this downward course only by the mysterious hand of the legislator. Conventional classical thought everywhere says that behind passive society there is a concealed power called law or legislator (or called by some other terminology that designates some unnamed person or persons of undisputed influence and authority) which moves, controls, benefits, and improves mankind.
Life Is a Gift from God
Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
/Bastiat
They’re the highway paving crew, and the destination should be apparent to anyone that cares to see.
Yeah, that’s the new excuse: “the Southern Democrat slave owners were in reality today’s Republican constituency.”
What was it “the road to Hell” was paved with?
The left wing has a nasty government of it’s own within the government. It has to be identified, dissolved and defunded. We have to end special rights for groups people the left has distorted. All Americans have equal rights as defined in the Bill of Rights.
They have big pockets of activism and money throughout the monster government. If we fail to defund and dissolve the Left in government, nothing we do will matter in “cutting the budget.” The Left wants social security and Medicaid zeroed out.
End the illusion of “free trade.” It’s a lie. China does not trade freely, for example. We are not “the globe.” We are a nation with people, an economy, a territory with a constitution. Anyone who is disloyal to the interests of the US should be shunned. We are not a “state” belonging to the UN or any foreign entity or people. Cut foreign entanglements beyond clear non-socialist allies. Get the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN. It is a corrupting force.
Stop with the idea we are the police men of the globe. Our military should be strong enough that no one dare ever mess with us. It should be defensive. We have allies who we aid and they should be prepared to aid us as well. They need a military to be on equal footing with us. Socialists and communists and muslim countries can not be our pals anymore except as it absolutely serves our wealth and power.
When the political class, who mistake themselves as rulers or citizens of the globe at the expense of the US and our constitution and law, and act accordingly, that is treason. Try them and hang them.
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