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.”
I think many young(er) conservatives have little idea how liberal the media was even back then. Barry Goldwater never got a decent chance in the media. Back then, the libs controlled virtually everything presented to the American people.
“Roland Windsor Vincent”. Never heard of him? Sounds more like an English fop, with his pinkie finger holding his tea cup.
Hey Roland. Your paint ball gun isn’t going to me much use against real conservatives’ toys.
“They hate public education, and they despise public schools and the public school teachers and public university professors...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”
+1
Or serial killers.
He’s less of a bigot than Jimmy Carter, since this guy is not singling out Jews for mass elimination.
Roland Windsor Vincent is a con artist and convicted felon.
People v. Vincent. Google him.
It is true. Every time I hear one of these liberal pukes who goes by the full three name moniker, my radar involuntarily goes off. Besides sounding completely pretentious, there is history there.
And then we have this dipstick declaring for physical violence against anyone to the right of him on the political spectrum.
I will suggest it again: Liberals should not be allowed to own weapons. I think the simple self identification as a Democrat should trigger immediate disqualification of 2nd Amendment rights due to admitted mental illness.
Yeah, I am kidding. I think.
My radar is becoming very tuned to all the trash shoveled from the progressive left with the help freepers of course.
Gad. I need a break from my radar. These are discouraging times.
I can’t even roll my eyes at anything any more. My mother’s voice echoes in my mind “YOU KEEP DOING THAT AND YOUR EYES ARE GOING TO STAY THAT WAY!”
The party of tolerance again.
Tolerance, yes, but only for those who agree with them.
When Progressives don’t have an enemy, the whole thing falls apart.
So, they will never, ever be happy; they will never succeed, because there’s always something to hate. If they can’t find it, they invent it (Global Warming, racism, class envy).
And then you can understand why they’re always angry– that sort of thinking eats at you from the inside.
Laugh it up. I’m sure lots of Germans, Russians and Cambodians thought the idea of leftists murdering them was pretty damn funny, until they came and did it.
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