Liberals: A Puzzlement

American Thinker ^ | 10/5/07 | By Burt Prelutsky

[april15Bendovr]

Liberals: A Puzzlement

By Burt Prelutsky

I'll come right out and admit that I understand Islamic terrorists far better than I do American liberals. After all, once you realize that young Muslims are taught by their religious leaders that our nation is militarily powerful and technologically advanced because we cut a deal with Satan, you can see where they'd be upset with us.

But what is the deal with liberals? How to explain their mushy heads? Was it something weird in their baby formula? Were they potty-trained when they were too young or, more likely, too old? Or is it simply something in their DNA? Are their chromosomes slightly out of whack?

I'm serious. Why else would Americans so resent the United States having more influence in the world than, say, Luxembourg or Lichtenstein? Why do they seem to have no rooting interest in capitalism prevailing over all the other isms? Do they think that the reason they live so much better than the typical Russian or Turk is because they, themselves, are intellectually superior? Fat chance!

Why is it that liberals seem to believe that recycling cans is an important issue, but defeating terrorism isn't? Why do they put so much stock in the blathering of Al Gore and Michael Moore? Why do they regard secondhand smoke as a bigger menace than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? What is wrong with these people?

Why will the same folks who'd call a cop if someone set foot in their front yard be so unconcerned about 20 million illegal aliens setting up camp in their country? And why will the same saps who work themselves into a tizzy if some small town sets up a Christmas tree in the public square defend a church's right to provide a sanctuary for foreign nationals who have no business being in our country?

Liberals would like to see us cut and run from Iraq. That's because they enjoy seeing the American military lose. For them, Vietnam was positively rapturous. Their holy trinity consists of Jane Fonda, John Kerry and Walter Cronkite.

They keep insisting that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. What they refuse to acknowledge is that we are at war with Islamic fundamentalism. Hussein may have had had nothing to do with the USS Cole or the first bombing of the Twin Towers or the attacks on our embassies and our Marine base. So what? Germany and Italy had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor. It's the mission that matters, not the venue. And our mission is to destroy Hamas and Al Qaeda and all the rest of the Islamic vermin. If they wish to fight us in Iraq, so be it. Better to fight them there than in Chicago or New York, Houston or Seattle.

I'm aware that liberals will tell you that the Islamics hate us because we're over there, violating their sacred turf. But if that's the case, why are they killing civilians in Holland and Bali, Indonesia and the Philippines, Russia and Spain?

If we're not at war with Muslim terrorism, why do I have to remove my shoes before I'm allowed to board a plane? And if we are at war, why can't airport security concentrate on Arabs of a certain age and quit behaving like a bunch of politically correct fatheads?

There's no getting around the fact that next to the liberals in the Senate, academia and the editorial offices at CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times, the biggest left-wing dunces are to be found in Hollywood. This village is filled with a bunch of idiots who, when they're not busy getting drunk, shooting up and behaving like spoiled brats, can be found yammering about global warming and poverty in America.

Oddly enough, those are two problems they could actually do something about. Assuming that carbon emissions actually have an effect on the earth's temperature, might it not be beneficial if these clucks stopped chugging around in Hummers and limos, stopped heating and cooling houses slightly larger than the palace at Versailles, and grounded their private jets for the foreseeable future?

As for poverty, the plain fact of the matter is that the only poor people these movie folks ever encounter are maids, gardeners, nannies and waiters. Well, if these overly pampered nincompoops were really serious about eliminating poverty in America, all they'd have to do is pay higher wages and leave bigger tips!

[Badeye]

Great column. Thanks for posting it.

[mjp]

But what is the deal with liberals? How to explain their mushy heads?

The result of basing judgments and decisions on emotionalism and irrationality rather than reason

[ccruse456]

their problem is fear of the evil eye, check out:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2005/10/why_liberals_ar.html

[jwalburg]

That, and the blatant monopoly of liberals on university faculties. Conservatives produce more children, but they keep sending them to liberal propaganda mills.

[ANGGAPO]

I have been told that it is a mental condition. It manifests itself in always wanting a free ride and lack of responsibility. It is primarily observed with people that want large government agencies running their lives.

[roballen]

“Were they potty-trained when they were too young or, more likely, too old?”

The best line I’ve heard today.

Very good article.

[weegee]

We know that the Islamic supremacists are willing to lie to the kufir but for some reason after 100 years of Socialism, we still expect the Left to be honest about their goals.

[tophat9000]

Explaining a modern American Liberal

They read a lot,(mostly junk) = Reading food for the mind

They think very little on their own, better to read what the NY Times or Norm Chomsky thinks = Thinking is exercise for the mind

So lot's of junk food, little exercise = Fatheads

[HKMk23]

Better to fight them there than in Chicago or New York, Houston or Seattle.

After an initial, "Oh, absolutely," I pulled back.

Let's consider this carefully. While it WOULD be dire to have suicide bombers on our urban streets, on the OTHER hand, it would ALSO create a situation where shooting liberals could be plausibly regarded as "collateral damage". Also, the ones that didn't get 'sploded by jihadis, or popped by a stray military rifle round, would have WAY too much hard evidence of how dreadfully WRONG they are glaring them right in their faces for them to be able to just ignore the cognitive dissonance between what they've been saying, and what the war on terrorism really is.

Yeah, sure, there'd be those die-hards who'd continue to shun reality in favor of their warped ideology, but, in the mian, I'd wager we'd see a wave of wholesale conversions to Conservatism that'd make even Billy Graham envious.

Jihadis on the streets of San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Detr -- well, scratch Detroit, they've already got 'em. Jihadis in all these major urban areas would certainly have us in the crucible for awhile, but we'd emerge a substantively purified culture.

Food for thought, anyway.

[fish hawk]

For anyone who don’t understand liberals, read Ann Coulter’s books and listen to Rush Limbaugh. That will cure you.

[Tolik]

Nailed It!

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[april15Bendovr]

“Here the country had finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism and they don’t want to fight it. They would have, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.” Ann Coulter-

[Jacquerie]

Also read David Horowitz's Unholy Alliance - Radical Islam and the American Left

The short of it is that the left believes the US obstructs inevitable world socialism. Therefore, the US must be taken out. Islam wants to take out the US, so the left supports Islam. Utopian and demented? Yes, but that is the American left.

For ANGGAPO, it is Leyte. Not Layte.

[ripley]

“but what is the deal with liberals?”

insanity.

[ThePythonicCow]

The problem is a lack of faith in a higher moral order.

If there is no better measure of what's good than just one's earthly power and wealth, then fear and greed and envy prevail.

See my signature, below.

And I say this as a god damned atheist. I may not believe in the God of Christians, but you guys got one thing right. There is good and evil, right and wrong, and it is the moral duty of each of us to seek to understand the difference and to aspire to act rightly. The lowest chimney sweep can be greater than the most powerful king.

[jonrick46]

Great insight in your link. It expands what I have suspected for years.

[Congressman Billybob]

Your answer is among the best.

For most of human history, the universities have been at the cutting edge of knowledge. Their faculties haven't always been right about things like the Flat Earth, but by golly they were trying to figure things out.

Now, universities are a dead weight, holding back the progress of the human race in the humanities and the soft sciences. (In the hard sciences, the universities are still at the forefront.)

Why the deterioration in certain areas? Unlike the hard sciences, there is not a single provable correct answer to each question. That, plus tenure which means a professor's ideas can be 40 years out of date and he's still teaching the same old stuff, may explain the result.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "A Toe-Tapping Good Time"

Heads up -- my announcement of running for Congress in 2008 will appear here, Monday afternoon.

[GOPJ]

... the biggest left-wing dunces are to be found in Hollywood... Assuming that carbon emissions actually have an effect on the earth's temperature, might it not be beneficial if these clucks stopped chugging around in Hummers and limos, >B>stopped heating and cooling houses slightly larger than the palace at Versailles, and grounded their private jets for the foreseeable future?

...if these overly pampered nincompoops were really serious about eliminating poverty in America, all they'd have to do is pay higher wages and leave bigger tips!

Great post. Thanks.