Posted on 07/29/2015 3:04:27 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
From Progressives Today:
“Republicans and conservatives are the enemy. They are expendable. They will be targets in the Revolution when it comes” writes Roland Windsor Vincent, in a recent post on his blog, Army Of The Revolution.
The entry, entitled “Protect Animals And The Environment. Shoot Republicans“, centers around animal rights and how “active Republican and conservatives voters are enabling the Animal Holocaust” and “If we were to start shooting Republicans, we would likely not harm a single friend of animals or the environment.”
You hear about something like this and you want to think of it as an anomaly.
It isn’t.
There is a reason why the masthead of a popular conservative online publication has the tagline, “Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out.” It is because it is true.
I discuss the subject at some length in two pieces: The Top Three Reasons Why Liberals Hate Conservatives and The Top Three Motivations of Every Liberal. Simply put, the desire to feel good about oneself and one’s motivations leads a “liberal”, in a step-by-step process, to a final point where they can rationalize the notion that literally eliminating their opposition from the planet is a necessary step in accomplishing what they believe must be accomplished. Some don’t make it all the way to the final step, either because some measure of humanity prevents them from going there or because they simply lack the power to actualize such a goal. But the ideology itself, and both the assumptions and emotions that underlie it, make it possible for anyone to get there. Think of the ideology of the left as a railway line. Though some people might get off a few stations before the end, the train has a single destination, and the last stop is always the same: a total government murdering anyone who stands against it.
I do (somewhat immodestly) commend both pieces to you in their entirety; they really help explain a lot. However, here are a few excerpts from The Top Three Reasons Why Liberals Hate Conservatives to get you started:
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My attention was recently drawn to a typical such calumny from a Facebook exchange:
Republicans hate anything that isn’t white, wealthy, and christian at least in appearance. They hate the poor, women, and minorities. They hate science and don’t believe that the global warming we clearly are experiencing is man made. They hate any government programs that help the poor and minorities, and the (sic) particularly despise immigrants, particularly the illegal kind. They love programs that line the pockets of oil companies, mining companies, and are willing to export jobs with wild abandon.
They hate public education, and they despise public schools and the public school teachers and public university professors. And since the (sic) do not respect the market place of ideas, they hate tenure (that gives teachers academic freedom) because it prevents them from firing teachers who are Democrats and who might infect some student with their liberal ideas. They want insurance companies to make a maximum of profit, and are perfectly willing for the health insurance companies to kill people by refusing service to anyone that might cost them a buck more than the median expense. They don’t care about clean food because it might cost the food corporation a little money, and they don’t care about clean water because cleaning up the waste will cost their precious corporate persons a little money.
This is not a recitation of facts; it is a series of smears. It is the construction of a giant cartoonish super-villain, made of straw and woven together with calumny. The giant straw villain is then publicly burned, in a narcissistic orgy of self-adulation. Of course, the torches of the “best” people burn the brightest.
Another way of looking at it is this: It is the modern-day version of a witch trial. The charges are utterly farcical and cartoonish. “I saw her dancing with demons in the pale moonlight.” “She looked at me and I sneezed, and the next day, I had a terrible cold.” “She turned me into a newt.” But they are stated with great conviction and repeated incessantly, and they establish the unassailable collective will of which the accused has run afoul. The witch is made into the auslander, and the good people of the community show how “good” they are by shouting their accusations the loudest.
Either way, whether the wicker man or the witch, the effigy goes up in flames and the community is purged—for the moment—of its evil. Moral annulment now achieved, the villagers walk away feeling good about themselves. Feeling superior.
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Reason #1: Utopianism You’re in their way
Strip everything away, and the fundamental trait of all leftists is this: They believe that through the state, they can build paradise on earth. They believe that with enough tinkering, coercion, and rule by “experts,” they can eliminate all hard choices and competing goods, perfect human nature, and bring all good things to all people.
To someone of the political right—defined by our belief in human freedom, private solutions, and individual sovereignty—this is just the modern re-telling of the age-old story: that some men should rule over other men. Ancient despotism, monarchy, fascism, totalitarianism, modern progressivism—they’re all just different flavors, and different degrees of application, of the same basic philosophy. But the person on the left does not see it that way. He wants perfection. He believes it is possible. And by gum, he’s going to get it.
This utopian thinking quickly leads to an unavoidable conclusion, echoed from the French Revolution to Lenin and Stalin to Mao to the Progressives of the modern era: “On ne fait pas d’omelet sans casser des oeufs.” (You can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs.) To the utopian statist, “process costs” are entirely acceptable. They are building paradise, after all.
That’s why you see so much more toleration by the left’s rank and file of corruption and bad behavior by their leaders. What’s a little lying here, a little corruption there? They are building paradise. What’s a little cheating in the face of all they intend to accomplish?
That is also why you see such a prevalence of cult-of-personality adulation for strong leaders. Strong leaders resolve contradictions and sweep away the opposition. Strong leaders have the will to get the job done. Strong leaders get the trains running on time. Next stop, paradise.
But most importantly . . . these utopians—both the leaders and the rank and file—are so convinced of the nobility of their intentions that they believe that anyone who stands in their way must, by definition, have evil intentions. After all, who but a monster would stand in the way of paradise? And what consideration do monsters deserve? Why none at all, of course—they’re monsters.
That is why they do not simply disagree with you. That is why they calumniate you and attribute the worst motives to you. That is why they hate you.
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If this is true, then for many, utopianism isn’t about what they think they can achieve, it’s about their own self-image.
So is it true?
The persistence of this vision in the face of centuries of evidence would seem to indicate that it may be. We know that maximizing human freedom is more moral and produces better results—the last two centuries have made that clear. And on the flip side, we know that maximizing government at the expense of the individual produces a parade of horribles. And yet, again and again, we are told that it simply wasn’t done correctly before, or by the right people.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? Why you are, my dear—you are so compassionate and fair and noble in every way.
The leftist looks at herself in the mirror and sees that she is one of those “right people,” because that is how she wants to see herself.
And if she is so beautiful and noble and fair . . . then how ugly you must be for standing in her way.
The leftist—the utopian, the statist—sees himself as on noble quest. He is the embodiment of everything good, simply because that is how he sees himself. How he wants to see himself. In order to maintain this self-image, he must make you the embodiment of everything horrible. He must make you ugly.
To statists, you are just another process cost. Their willingness to accept process costs on the road to their utopia is limited only by national context. In the United States, an exceptional nation where we still have some rule of law, they will certainly calumniate you, and they may decide to harm your finances, career, or reputation. In less exceptional countries where there is less rule of law, the harm is often to people’s freedom or even their very lives, as more than 100 million poor souls discovered in the 20th century.
The typical leftist in America, ignorant of his own philosophical pedigree, will protest this characterization. Do not let their protestations sway you. The degree to which they will treat you—the monster standing in the way of their utopia—as a disposable process cost is limited only by the degree of power they have. For your own safety, do not let them get more.
You are in the way of the utopia they are trying to create. You are in the way of the power they need to do it.
You. Are. In. Their. Way.
As if this were not disturbing enough, many of the people who believe such eliminationist impulses are justified not only feel no remorse for experiencing such thoughts—it actually enhances their sense of self-satisfaction:
“Look how far I am willing to go in pursuit of my noble intentions. Look how loyal I am to the dictatorship of the proletariat. Look how brightly my torch burns; how my pitchfork gleams in the moonlight.”
These are the people you are up against. These are the people who “mean well.”
Better comment than any I could have written. As an aside though, anybody know and wish to share Mr. Vincent’s home address?
Killers too, Lee Harvey Oswald, etc.,etc,.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army.....?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2312894/posts
In 1972 a white, WWII war hero, George McGovern, could not get elected in the wake of a very unpopular war. He was too far left. McGovern loved America, but his love had been twisted by leftism distorting his view of his own country. Even many mainstream Democrats could not stomach McGovern's leftist program. He was soundly whipped by Richard Nixon who was nobody's idea of a hardcore, ideological conservative.
Today, McGovern would stand firmly in the middle of Democrat politics. He would not seem the radical leftist he did in 1972. That's how far left the Democrat Party has gone. Hardcore leftists now run the Donkey Party.
It’s the same blood flowing through Obama. If we didn’t have our guns I have zero doubt Obama would lead the purges. None.
Lee Harvey Oswald. The communist whom the liberal media convinced many Americans was a right-wing fanatic. Only the American media could do something dishonest like that.
Hence all the JFK Conspiracy Theories. They just cannot handle the fact that a Commie did it.
Bring it, Roland.
Keep poking the caged berserkers with a stick, till someone slips the lock. Yeah, awaken the beast, the horror.
Is there a chance that this brazilnut might show up at a recruiting center, movie theater or school to further his party’s agenda?
Better yet neuter all liberals.
What did I miss Norm? I had someone attack me yesterday about a remark I made.
Holy crap.
Thomas Sowell covered this in several of his books. Utopia has infinite value. To someone who thinks Utopia can be stably achieved, the value justifies ANY cost. The French Revolutionists were prepared to murder as many people as it took to secure the Revolution.
LOLLLLLLLL
I’d just as soon feed libtards to hungry animals. That would be a twofer.
Waddya bet this little weasel was picked on a LOT when he was in school.
What a chicken sh!t.
Oh just Larkshark saying every person that stuck to principle, that refused to elect the arch liberal Mitt Romney should be shot.
“Every.One”
He had a list of offenses he credited to Barry but were empowered by the GOP congress. Because liberals aren’t very smart.
Ok that wasn’t who attacked me.
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