Posted on 06/17/2018 4:38:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
Have you ever wondered why rage seems to be all the rage with liberals these days? Every time you turn around theres another march for this or protest against that; recycled chants about how something has got to go, and a fawning media all too happy to report it as if it were news. Its not news, of course, its a mass temper tantrum by political activists still unhappy their fellow Americans chose to reject Hillary Clinton in 2016. But theres more to it than that, something strategic is at play.
Have you ever stubbed your toe and cursed in front of someone you otherwise would never consider using that kind of language in front of? Or gotten so mad while trying to fix something that youve ended up slamming it and making it worse? Its likely youve done this or something similar because of one simple fact: emotion overrides logic.
When youre angry or when youre scared you arent thinking straight, youre acting on emotion. Thats the state liberals have been keeping their base in since Donald Trump won the presidency.
To one degree or another, modern liberals have always used fear and anger to motivate their voters. After 9/11, Democrats ran on variations of Republican policies are making us less safe. With the terror attacks of that September morning still fresh in peoples minds, that was not designed to inspire.
To hear liberals tell it, this country is fundamentally racist and killing the planet. They, however, are the gatekeepers of fixing it all. (Never mind the fact that cities where theyve had complete control for generations Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, etc. are used for backdrops for movies about post-apocalyptic futures because they require so little set construction.)
But are we those things?
The Southern Poverty Law Center, the left-wing go-to for all things hate, estimates there are about 6,500 members of the KKK in a country of 330 million. In 1920, when we had a population of 106 million, there were 4 million KKK members. Weve gone from just under 4 percent of the population membership in that vile organization to what amounts to a rounding error. The WNBA, Americas least popular professional sport, averaged 7,644 in attendance in 2016. That means on any given night there are more than 1,100 more people at a WNBA game than in the Klan in the whole country. Racism, of course, still exists in a nation of 330 million there are going to be a few bad apples but to pretend it is rampant, the foundation of the country, is a blatant lie.
But it sure is an effective tool to keep people angry and afraid. You tell them there is this hidden hand working against them then every setback, which everyone has, can be ascribed to this hidden hand. Its a self-reinforcing lie that, sadly, can sap some of the desire to try. Why bother if they system is rigged and actively working to keep you down?
As for climate change, liberals raise the stakes from one persons life to the whole of humanity. Surrender your liberty or everyone is dead! Thats a hell of a choice. Only it doesnt add up.
Aside from the pause in warming these leftists cant explain and try to deny, the planets temperature has always fluctuated. So has their cause for panic. In the 1970s they were concerned with global cooling, in the 90s it was warming, in the 50s it was cooling too, now its just change. All the predictions were the same mass death and destruction and the solution was the same higher taxes, more regulation, more government control. But something went wrong on the way to Utopia, as it always does.
In the 90s and early 2000s the predictions were that in 10 years it would too late to do anything, so we must act now. We didnt. And 10 years later we didnt see the coastal cities flooded or the more frequent and powerful hurricanes. If youre the leader of a doomsday cult and predict the world will end on Sunday, come Monday morning youre going to have some explaining to do.
Liberals, however, were not called out for their Chicken Little routine, nor were they shamed by it. They simply learned to stop making disprovable predictions and extended the timeline. They no longer make 10 year predictions, theyve switched to 100 year predictions, like in 100 years climate change will make lightning strikes more frequent. (Yes, thats real. Its all real.) Their predictions now arent going to come true till long after everyone who could remember theyd made them will be dead, which makes them not only unprovable, but more importantly theyre un-disprovable. Yet, as always, we must act now! Its the perfect racket.
But people do believe it, because people in respectable professions with impressive sounding titles tell them its true. People like journalists and made for TV scientists like failed stand-up comedian Bill Nye the science guy and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Never asked is what an actor cast 3 decades ago for a local PBS show and a guy who studies space, which is the exact opposite of climate, actually know about climate. They are good on TV, and being good on TV is enough. And they toe the liberal line, which is what its really all about.
There is an entire infrastructure in place to spread and perpetuate lies and exaggerations to keep people angry and afraid, to prevent them from thinking logically, to advance the liberal agenda. From Los Angeles to the New York, this outrage machine used science, journalism, and Hollywood (and pretty much everything else) to manipulate the American people into acting how they want you to act.
Ive spent a year researching and writing about it, and the result of that work comes out Tuesday. Yes, I wrote a book, its called Outrage, INC: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood. I would very much appreciate it if youd buy a copy, I think youll like it. Youll certainly learn a lot from it, learn how this machine works, how liberals bastardize the language, weaponized science, how journalists use celebrities as cover to convey their own biases, ruin lives of anyone who wont play along, and a lot more. And dont worry, its not a boring political book where your eyes will glaze over after 2 pages and youll feel like youre reading a text book. Its written like I write, like people speak, and theres at least a joke per page. You remember more when you laugh doing it.
Believe me, I never thought Id be trying to sell you a book. I never thought Id get to write one. Who the Hell am I anyway? Im just a public school kid from Detroit. But, as it happens, the opportunity presented itself when HarperCollins asked if I had any ideas for one and I did. They were crazy enough to go for it. The last year and been both amazing and awful as my wife and I became parents for the first time (the second time is happening in October) and I lost my mother. And on Tuesday, what I worked on through it all, what helped me get through it all, what my parents prodded me to work on when I didnt think I could bring myself to, comes out. Id be honored if youd pick up a copy, it makes the perfect 4th of July gift (which really should be a thing), a great after-the-fact Fathers Day present, and dont forget Christmas in July (which also isnt a thing). But still Thank you.
They suffer from a chronic, no-cure mental disease known as liberalism. It rots out the brain to the point where an individual can no longer determine what’s real or what’s fantasy. Up is down, good is evil, white is black, hot is cold, etc. etc.
They are morally and ethically bankrupt.....not to mention dangerous.
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People want to be lauded the way the civil rights activists were, and to engage in important adventures like the anti-Nazi resistance did.
Too bad they live in times where these enemies have been reduced to 0.0000002% to 0.0000004% of the population
i know a few
How is it that they can think so much of themselves when they can’t afford to be honest?
Wasn’t the KKK a Democrat organization?
Isaiah 57:21
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If life keeps proving your beliefs foolish you’d be angry too.
Their feelings scorned
Democrats speech
And thoughts malformed
Mumbling incoherently
Conspiracies they bake
The boogeyman
Is eating their cake
Now deranged
They take the bait
For it is America
They truly hate
Deliberate agitation for political purposes has been the organized movement of the Left for almost two hundred years now.
It has never been tied to the truth - just using whatever is politically effective. Karl Marx was exiled from Germany for participating in a coup conspiracy, before he ever dreamed up his economic grievance narratives.
That the Left is all about using emotional (irrational) agitation to achieve political power, is the gist of Hillary Clinton’s thesis “There is Only the Fight”.
Yes, of course I'll buy the book!
If you think of the leftists as Democrats, then there is nothing new about this at all. They split the country and started a war, founded the KKK, attacked Civil Rights supporters and the Republicans who supported them, all in the name of getting or keeping what they thought they were entitled to.
Theres A Reason Liberals Are Always So Angry
Their pants are wet!
Actually, there is. And it works against every single hard working individual in America trying to get ahead on merit developed through self-improvement.
It's called the deep state and their enablers and hangers on in the diversity crowd. It is all about self-promotion and trampling over everyone else. It's the notion that clever folks, folks who practice a trade or craft of even a profession should report to, overseen by and work for these deep staters.
And these geniuses took the most powerful and productive country in the world and turned it into a country with north of a $49B trade deficit PER MONTH! Of course this is offset by a similarly sized current account deficit [which is econ jargon for borrowing).
Just listen to them. We are lazy, ignorant, POSs who voted for Trump, and we voted for him WHY? Because we deplorables want JOBS!. Imaging that. They [we] want JOBS. And we are a cancer on the GOP a malignant growth that has metastacized.
Yes there is a hidden hand working against every American.
A liberal is a broadminded person and these people are doctrinaire cultural marxists. . .whether they know it or not!
Why are they so angry? They do not follow the Apostle's prescriptive offered in Philippians chapter 4:
Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: rejoice!
Your kindness should be known to all. The Lord is near.
Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God.
Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
Eric Holder was in town yesterday to speak at the state Democrat convention. To make your point is ending remark was, ‘Remember we’re the majority party. Yes that’s true we are.’ My question to Eric would be where? The GOP controls(I think these numbers are correct. If not there close) 38 governor’s mansions, 32 state legislatures, the US Congress and Senate and the WH. Seems someone doesn’t understand the political meaning of majority.
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