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There’s A Reason Liberals Are Always So Angry
Townhall.com ^ | June 17, 2018 | Derek Hunter

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 there’s 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. It’s not news, of course, it’s a mass temper tantrum by political activists still unhappy their fellow Americans chose to reject Hillary Clinton in 2016. But there’s 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 you’ve ended up slamming it and making it worse? It’s likely you’ve done this or something similar because of one simple fact: emotion overrides logic.

When you’re angry or when you’re scared you aren’t thinking straight, you’re acting on emotion. That’s 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 people’s 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 they’ve 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. We’ve gone from just under 4 percent of the population membership in that vile organization to what amounts to a rounding error. The WNBA, America’s 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. It’s 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 person’s life to the whole of humanity. Surrender your liberty or everyone is dead! That’s a hell of a choice. Only it doesn’t add up.

Aside from the “pause” in warming these leftists can’t explain and try to deny, the planet’s 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 it’s 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 didn’t. And 10 years later we didn’t see the coastal cities flooded or the more frequent and powerful hurricanes. If you’re the leader of a doomsday cult and predict the world will end on Sunday, come Monday morning you’re 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, they’ve switched to 100 year predictions, like in 100 years climate change will make lightning strikes more frequent. (Yes, that’s real. It’s all real.) Their predictions now aren’t going to “come true” till long after everyone who could remember they’d made them will be dead, which makes them not only unprovable, but more importantly they’re un-disprovable. Yet, as always, we must act now! It’s the perfect racket.

But people do believe it, because people in respectable professions with impressive sounding titles tell them it’s 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 it’s 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.

I’ve spent a year researching and writing about it, and the result of that work comes out Tuesday. Yes, I wrote a book, it’s called “Outrage, INC: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood.” I would very much appreciate it if you’d buy a copy, I think you’ll like it. You’ll 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 won’t play along, and a lot more. And don’t worry, it’s not a boring political book where your eyes will glaze over after 2 pages and you’ll feel like you’re reading a text book. It’s written like I write, like people speak, and there’s at least a joke per page. You remember more when you laugh doing it.

Believe me, I never thought I’d be trying to sell you a book. I never thought I’d get to write one. Who the Hell am I anyway? I’m 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 didn’t think I could bring myself to, comes out. I’d be honored if you’d pick up a copy, it makes the perfect 4th of July gift (which really should be a thing), a great after-the-fact Father’s Day present, and don’t forget Christmas in July (which also isn’t a thing). But still…Thank you.



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To: Kaslin

They, however, are the gatekeepers of fixing it all.

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The “solutions” pushed by liberals always have the self-serving effect of directing more tax dollars, more political control, and more government jobs for THEM.


21 posted on 06/17/2018 5:53:13 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Kaslin
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22 posted on 06/17/2018 6:03:14 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

“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.”

This sums it up very nicely.


23 posted on 06/17/2018 6:07:34 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Kaslin

24 posted on 06/17/2018 6:14:43 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Kaslin

They have been sold a bill of goods from community organizers like you know who. (the guy from Kenya)

They can’t think long term such as what would happen if they got their way.

They have been deliberately dumbed down so that they are easily manipulated.


25 posted on 06/17/2018 6:14:52 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: Old Grumpy

This coming November voters by the millions will dutifully march to the polls and cast their ballot for Democrats. Democrat/Socialist/Liberalism is a nation wide mental disorder.


26 posted on 06/17/2018 6:17:26 AM PDT by Russ
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To: Kaslin

“climate change” is one of the generational university/research scams.

right up there with “nuclear fusion reactors’...


27 posted on 06/17/2018 6:20:23 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: Chicory

I know some places in AFG they can get the anti-Nazi thing going!!


28 posted on 06/17/2018 6:28:46 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Kaslin

I know many Libtards who are just jealous.

They despise people with money but have no idea that construction worker next door is worth 1 million dollars.

They want almighty gooberment to make it right. They don’t pay attention to much and live a very selfish life.

The concept of the Land of the Free is foreign to them.

IE; They are currently living in sin.


29 posted on 06/17/2018 6:30:00 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Kaslin
To one degree or another, modern liberals have always used fear and anger to motivate their voters.

-anti-effort mentality leads to choice not to think which leads to cluelessness.
-Fear of or hatred of reality leads to evasion of reality.
-cluelessness + evasion leads to emotionalism, which leads to more fear and hate and more anti-effort

30 posted on 06/17/2018 6:39:55 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: redangus
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31 posted on 06/17/2018 7:13:06 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: SkyPilot
Wow, look at Barack Obama's legacy: disrespect for the police. This picture is worth posting again so people can remember it November 6th.


32 posted on 06/17/2018 7:16:04 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: poconopundit

That started way before Obama.


33 posted on 06/17/2018 7:16:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

It was in the Garden of Eden
where it started...
Eve and THAT Serpent.
“ Hath God Truely said...”


34 posted on 06/17/2018 7:29:27 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Kaslin
As has been said many times before:

"Democrats haven't been so upset since we took their slaves away from them."

35 posted on 06/17/2018 8:27:09 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: Kaslin
It has long (like a couple of decades or more) been obvious to me that the leftists rely on easily manipulated emotion rather than logic.

Ever notice how so-called "gun control" proposals are not pushed during "normal" times? The only time you see the leftists push their big government control, surrender your liberties and rights gun control initiatives is after some kind of shooting incident.

The formula is disgustingly predictable: wait for some undisciplined, maladjusted, current or former psycho-active drug taking whack-job to wander into a "gun free" zone and kill wholesale. Then when the MSM has highlighted the incident in the most emotion evoking ways possible for a few days (collapsing to just a few hours recently) out come the anti-liberty leftists. "Oh, if only we had 'common sense' gun control..." and other so obviously predictable statements we could quite literally print them now in anticipation of the next cycle.

That's the leftists typical manipulation. They wait until (even help drive) emotions are running high, then make their pitch, making it sound so reasonable, how could anyone be against this? How dare you?! Do you hate kids!? etc. etc. But you don't see these kinds of things pushed, well, now when people are feeling pretty good about jobs, income, peace with North Korea, World Cup, etc. etc. Nope, been far too much good news lately. Can't have people considering surrendering their liberties rationally - because no-one would.

Effing leftists. We can't just line them up and shoot them, or even simply politically suppress them. This Country was founded upon freedom and liberty, and they have the freedom to be a**-hats and advocate for their terrible ideas. Therefore we must fight them at every turn with every tool available - exposing them and their agenda for what they really are.

36 posted on 06/17/2018 8:35:49 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: SkyPilot
They look for, even cause trouble any way they can. When the gays went after that Christian bakery in Colorado a couple of years ago - I seem to remember the bakery was miles from their place. They literally had to drive past a dozen or more other bakery options to go there and intentionally harass and persecute the Christians. That wasn't about a cake, or a wedding. It was intended to put them out of business. They might as well have been wearing white robes and burning crosses, burning a farm owned by blacks; or burning books or Jewish businesses in their jack-boots and brown shirts. Same ideas, different cover.
37 posted on 06/17/2018 8:41:25 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: Kaslin

It’s because they drink vinegar water. Summers Eve brand.


38 posted on 06/17/2018 8:47:47 AM PDT by inchworm
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To: Kaslin

No article about angry liberals is complete without the picture of “the triggered woman”.


39 posted on 06/17/2018 8:53:45 AM PDT by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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To: hoagy62

40 posted on 06/17/2018 9:06:10 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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