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The Left Has Lost Its' Moral Compass
Townhall.com
| 10/28/2002
| John Leo
Posted on 10/28/2002 5:57:20 AM PST by JimRed
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To: JimRed
They need to remove the magnet placed South of the compass by teachers, lawyers and unions.
To: lizma
Good quote. Sir Alex went on to say this:
"The world's greatest civilizations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complaacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back to bondage."
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posted on
10/28/2002 7:18:58 AM PST
by
mc5cents
To: Dick Bachert
Here's just ONE indication of how much things have changed: "The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which has historically proved to be always possible." Senator Hubert Humphery (D- Minnesota)
The difference is that 30-40 years ago the left saw tyranny and arbitrary government as a remote possibility. Now they see that it is in their grasp.
To: JimRed
We're witnessing a total meltdown of the Left. But while they don't presently have the House of Representatives or the White House, they still wield plenty of power. And like a cornered bear, they can still do plenty of damage to what's left of our Republic.
Limbaugh says the the left "does funny things" when they are out of power (i.e. when they don't have the White House). Well Rush you'll have to excuse me if I don't laugh along with you.
I don't find people who's goal is a society modelled after Cuba to be in the least bit funny.
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posted on
10/28/2002 7:38:44 AM PST
by
KeyBored
To: KarlInOhio
Yes. And to have their statist/elitist way with the great unwashed (that's US!), we must be disarmed lest the mortality rate of our would-be masters increase alarmingly.
The road to their idiotic socialist utopian paradise is far too dangerous with an ARMED POPULACE!
To: JimRed
Left and Right are terms that go back to the French Parliament in the years after Napoleon. At that time, The Left meant Laissez-Faire Liberals, ie libertarians. The Right were the reactionaries, who wanted to re-install the Monarchy and the old feudal regime. They opposed business, they opposed the free market and they opposed free speech.
In the 1840's the socialists insisted on being seated on the left, indeed the far left. They appropriated the moral stature of the pro-freedom folks.
The Left actually smashed any moral compass they had at exactly the time they adopted socialism. Socialism had to enslave people in order for it to work. They always maintained their claim to moral superiority and the Right ceded that claim out of stupidity and cowardice. Gee, that sounds just like Trent Lott. Nothing much as changed.
Ayn Rand was for me the first anti-leftist, who challenged their claim to morality and sought to reclaim morality for the pro-freedom folks. She insisted on the importance of arguing for the morality and not only pragmatically.
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To: JimRed
"The Left has lost it's moral compass"
..um, you gotta have it to lose it.
Since Lefties don't obey the Lord Jesus, and there is no morality outside of God's Word, they're living in their own delusions, deceiving and being deceived.
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posted on
10/28/2002 8:33:17 AM PST
by
Lilly
To: Cultural Jihad
"-- bitter, stymied, alienated, politically impotent, full of loathing for America and the West, and totally unable to address the crisis wrought by 9/11, except to imply (or say) that the U.S. deserved to be attacked." Several of those on FR, sad to say.
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posted on
10/28/2002 9:31:09 AM PST
by
Roscoe
To: JimRed
You are as full of it as the rest of the democraps.
To: Jabba the Nutt
The Left actually smashed any moral compass they had at exactly the time they adopted socialism. Socialism had to enslave people in order for it to work. They always maintained their claim to moral superiority and the Right ceded that claim out of stupidity and cowardice. Precisely.
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posted on
10/28/2002 9:44:19 AM PST
by
Noumenon
To: JimRed
internal aliens = fifth column
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posted on
10/28/2002 9:47:53 AM PST
by
paul51
To: JimRed
There are any number of persons on the left that have maintained their moral compass, notably those, such as Hitchens and Rosenbaum, who have discovered that it won't do to define your politics by reflexive opposition to what you have defined as the "other side." The tendency here is to reduce politics to an easy-to-comprehend shorthand: "there is evil in the status quo, I'm against evil, so I'm for changing the status quo. Those not for changing the status quo are so because they support evil." It is a child's argument, and its currency is due to a profoundly anti-intellectual tendency on the left and a propensity for mass appeal by dumbing-down. Change "evil" in the above credo to "class self-interest" and you have the totality of the postmodern roots of current leftist doctrine - something so oversimplified it would gag even Marx. Theorists love it.
To: KeyBored
You are correct that the political left in this country is having something akin to a nervous breakdown ,and you are also correct that since they are "wounded" they in fact are even more dangerous . Give it a couple of years & a few more terrorist incidents say a suicide bomber at a mall a week or so before Christmas the peoples reaction will be one thing the political leftist reaction wll be just the oppisite & the use of violence against political opponents will not be beyond the left.
To: theDentist
How can you lose something that you deliberately threw away 30 years ago? Exactly. This bit of "news" reminds me of those letters that occasionally are delivered by the USPS - decades after being postmarked.
To: JimRed
Gee, can you tell me when the last time the left even had a moral compass ?
To: JimRed
Lost their moral compass? How do you lose what you've never had?
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posted on
10/28/2002 3:30:26 PM PST
by
lonestar
To: JimRed
Humphrey and McGovern, the wild-eyed radicals of their day, now they seem like such well-mannered guardians of the constitution by comparison with today's nutcases of the Demoncrap party.
To: Dick Bachert
If old Hubert were still around he would probably switch to the Republican party.
To: lizma
"...with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship."Which is why the 1st and 2nd amendments are the 1st and 2nd amendments, and why protecting them from the onslaught of the Democrat Party and their scumbag allies on the left and in the press is the most critical element of this nation's ongoing culture war.
Regards,
LH
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