Posted on 10/11/2014 4:18:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks. Like a tick, liberalism latches onto a victim and sucks him dry. Of course, a single tick can’t gorge itself on so much blood that it does to a dog what liberalism did to Detroit. It doesn’t turn the different parts of the dog against each other. The tick doesn’t tell everyone he’s a victim and that the dog is greedy if he tries to scratch it off.
You can’t be both a good Christian and a good liberal because they’re incompatible and liberalism makes no exceptions for religious beliefs. It demands to be placed first in a person’s life, even above God; a liberal who stands up for his Christian beliefs or who merely asks that Christians not be demeaned will be ostracized for it by other liberals. Churches that adopt liberal beliefs inevitably become such pale imitations of the truth that missionaries should be sent in to convert them to Christianity.
Liberalism is an ideology of tribalism and hatred. It works incessantly to undermine anything that truly brings America together -- like Christianity, the culture and love of country -- so it can try to rebind people together as liberal drones. Relatively minor differences of opinion between liberals and those who disagree with them are habitually elevated to encourage hated.
For example, there’s no logical, rational reason that…
…If you oppose illegal immigration, you must hate Hispanics.
….If you oppose Affirmative Action, you must hate blacks.
….If you oppose free birth control, you must hate women.
….If you’re concerned about radical Islam, you must hate all Muslims.
….If you oppose gay marriage, you must hate gays.
Yet, liberalism promotes those lies incessantly to keep people at each other’s throats. Liberals have to convince their supporters that they’re hated for who they are to keep them from asking uncomfortable questions about why liberalism fails and conservatism works. As long as you’re brainwashed into believing that you’re universally hated by everyone except liberals for something you can’t control, you have nowhere else to turn.
Turning people against each other, lying about your opponents and adopting an ends justifies the means mentality are all interwoven into liberalism. Most liberals aren’t evil, but liberalism is a darkness of the soul and the more fully a person adopts it, the more of an awful human being he becomes.
Liberalism encourages a habitual hatred of people who aren’t liberal. It exaggerates grievances, elevates victimhood, excuses laziness and immoral behavior, undermines success and it pours acid on the pillars that hold up our entire society. To paraphrase Thomas Sowell,
Civilization has been aptly called a ‘thin crust over a volcano’. (Liberalism is) constantly picking at that crust.
Liberalism seems to begin with the assumption that there’s an infinite amount of money, goodness, cultural resiliency and goodwill -- and that nothing people do can have a negative impact on it. We’ll have plenty of money no matter how much liberals spend. People will be good no matter how much evil liberalism condones. Our culture will remain strong no matter how much liberals denigrate it and discourage people from embracing it. There will no long term consequences of pushing division and hatred, no matter how often liberals do it.
If only they were right about that or if their policies worked. Want to know the consummate liberal policy? It’s Obamacare. It was passed with all Democrat votes and sold to the public almost entirely with lies. Almost every problem with the law was predicted by the law’s opponents beforehand and was vigorously denied by liberals. The law hasn’t worked as intended, it has had disastrous consequences and is extremely unpopular. Yet, liberals STILL support it wholeheartedly and blame the people who begged them not to pass the law for the difficulties it has.
As Talleyrand would say, “They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.”
That would be tolerable if liberalism confined its hatred, wickedness, stupidity and incompetence to liberal enclaves, but on top of all its other faults, liberalism is an ideology for control freaks. It’s not enough for liberals to bankrupt California and destroy Detroit; they have to centralize their policies to force the people who know better to suffer for their sins. After all, if people are given a choice, they may not choose liberalism and worse yet, they may prove to be bad examples by prospering BECAUSE they didn’t choose liberalism and that can’t be allowed.
However, the most unforgivable thing about liberalism is the sickening way it deceives people to destroy human potential. Liberalism comes in the guise of a friend offering “help” to desperate people. It’s the same sort of “help” a fisherman gives his catch; it just comes with a different sort of hook through the mouth. Liberals get people hooked on welfare and food stamps instead of teaching them to take care of themselves. They encourage people to think of themselves as helpless victims who can’t deal with the world without liberal help. Instead of helping the weak to become strong, they encourage them to be ever more sensitive and to look for new reasons to be offended. There are whole communities of people who’ve been voting for liberal policies for decades with nothing to show for it except poverty, crime, and decay. There are people on welfare today who would have had happy, productive lives if they had been pushed to take care of themselves. There are people who’ve been so convinced by liberalism that the deck is stacked against them that they’ve never tried to get their piece of the American dream. It’s wrong to do that to people. It’s sickening. It’s immoral.
Liberalism empties treasuries, blackens souls, and decimates everything it touches over the long haul. One day, unless the American people wise up to the damage liberalism is causing, it will eventually ruin this nation beyond repair.
Bingo. Let's get on with an Article V state convention to propose structural changes to our government. Start with repeal of the 17th amendment and press on!
I agree,
an odd thing happen once, a guy was interviewing for a job and was in the next to last round of interviews when he found out he was turned down. The board gave him a chance to say what he really thought and he took the view of what difference he could make in a hundred years. His answer was that if he could work for economic freedom for all, then that would be good achievement.
Of course the guy was named Ron and a few years later he got the job of POTUS. IMHO, it was in his defeat that he found his mission.
Excellent summary.
Isn’t it a shame that we allowed these clowns to steal the word “liberal?”
The traditional meaning of the word was honest tolerance for different ideas. They aren’t about that at all.
I prefer the phrase “progressive,” having to admit that they have successfully undermined our language.
LOL - totally nailed it....
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It magnifies our understanding of how things went so wrong by reading CS Lewis’ monumental “The Screwtape Letters.”
How does it go; if you want to piss off a conservative, tell him a lie. If you want to piss off a liberal, tell him the truth.
I have a theory about liberalism. First off, Savage has it correct. Liberalism is a mental disorder. But it isn’t being the liberal that is the disorder. It is the part of the brain, that is open to influence that is. Something in there is damaged, just like how some people can be hypnotized and some cannot. Let’s call it groupthink.
When liberals take power, what is the first thing they do? Anyone? THEY LOOT THE TREASURY. Call it taxes, fees, whatever. But one thing is clear. The money never gets to those who are supposed to receive it. Words like “Redistribution” are code words for steal.
So here is my theory. Liberalism is nothing more than a tool used to keep the populace in the dark while those in power steal everything not nailed down. Those in power are nothing more than common criminals and if you are not in the mob(Soros is the Don) you are prey.
The other thing you can say about liberalism is those in power are vampires, their useful idiots are familiars and the middle class their primary food source. You see, there MUST be a middle class or this doesn’t work. Maybe in the short term, but in the long term it falls apart.
Interesting point about the middle class, I hadn't thought of that.
A large group of complacent people with "expendable income" is an excellent "resource."
The wealthy (at least those who earned it) are probably aware of the shenanigans.
The poor have nothing to steal, except their vote.
I my teens I was a Democrat. This was in the early seventies. Of course I was more of a Henry Jackson type than a McGovernite. I had noticed the change taking place, especially the “heavy head trip”, and started asking the question:
Has a liberal become someone who stabs you in the back, cuts you off at the knees, then says with that annoying condescending tone “We’re doing this for your own good”?
Stolen tag line
The problem we have is that Pubbie candidates cannot articulate the antithesis of the article. They talk about correcting the economy and lowering taxes etc. The pubbies seem to be unable to articulate that a vibrant economy is the result of freedom not the cause. Taxes are bad because they are direct thefts of your life, that is your time and property. And this is just a few of the ideas we need to promulgate. Remember the Morning in America commercial? What did that ad speak to?
Good article.
But the worst part of liberalism is it is winning. (it doesn’t win every battle but when it comes to the war, on most issues, it is consistently gaining ground)
I hate using the word “liberalism” to describe leftism. Because “liberals” (leftists) are anything but liberal in the original sense of the word.
Aside from that quibble, good piece. Leftism is godlessness. Even when the leftists claim to be religious, their leftist faith comes first and is the lens through which everything else is refracted.
Our biggest problem is that the GOP careerists are largely Godless too. For them its all just marketing. Positioning yourself for market share. For them having fixed principles just makes their job of electing people that much harder and means people like us, the GOP base, are a problem to be circumvented whenever possible.
Succinctly encapsulating liberalism. Too bad all of that won't fit in a tag line.
Bravo, John Hawkins! Talk about nailing it.
I hate liberalism because it makes people suffer.
I should have read all the comments before I changed my tag line at #34, now I’ll have to change it again.
Found another good tag line within the article:
“Liberalism empties treasuries, blackens souls, and decimates everything it touches”
A lot of good lines in the article.
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It sure does
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