Gimme Gimme: A Tour of the Entitlement Mentality

David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | March 18, 2011 | Walter Hudson

[Walter Scott Hudson]

Words have meaning. If they did not, communication would be impossible. Unfortunately, in our political discourse, words are often sapped of their meaning and reduced to empty rhetoric. This handicaps our capacity for thoughtful deliberation. After all, if you can't find common ground in the dictionary, what chance is there to find it elsewhere?

In the comment section of a recent NRB post regarding public employee unions and the related protests in Wisconsin, one of our readers demonstrated a curious inability to distinguish force from choice. The exchange was instructive of the entitlement mentality propagated by the Left. It is a worldview which includes relativism so extreme that it disputes the definition of words. Consider these excerpts.

pjz29: As a taxpayer with two non-union jobs, I am more than happy to pay good wages to public employees. Just because the "private sector" labor jobs are being reduced to match the 3rd World, it doesn't mean that we should be bitter against those who [are] still... living comfortably.

NRB: Good for you. Then here's what you can do. Take some of that hard-earned cash you have left over after the federal, state, and local governments have punished you for having the audacity to work hard in the private sector at multiple jobs to stay off the dole, then contribute as much as you can to parties, candidates, and political action committees which will work to insure other people (not you or your family) continue "living comfortably." That is your right. It doesn't have to make sense to me.

All I insist upon is a level playing field, that contributions to such causes be motivated by genuine desire such as yours, and not compelled(...)

[Soothesayer]

There is no point whatsoever in arguing with leftists. They are mindless nasty subhumans. They are dangerous parasites. Don’t even speak to them.

The best we can do is endure them and protect the people around us from their destructive tendencies. This is very difficult because the commie left has the power to tax and assault any business or community they wish.

[blueunicorn6]

Liberals - people who want to use your money for their stupid ideas.

[qam1]

There is no point whatsoever in arguing with leftists. They are mindless nasty subhumans. They are dangerous parasites. Don’t even speak to them.

Words to live by.

And it's only going to get worse, Obama was to be one, he was going to finally make their Liberal Utopia a reality.

But instead, we get the same failure, the same misery, the same corruption, and the same overall buffoonery that happens EVERY SINGLE TIME Liberals are in charge.

Instead of doing the smart adult thing and re-evaluating their policies (and lives), they instead blame everybody but themselves and when they can't blame that's when the threats and intimidation comes out.

Liberalism is a mental disease and the greatest evil this planet has ever known. They started as the party of slavery and they still are.

[chris_bdba]

EXACTLY! It is like they are stuck in adolence and it is the adults fault that their lives are not full of all of their fantasies.It just can’t be that they are just that....fantasies.

[Walter Scott Hudson]

There is no point whatsoever in arguing with leftists.

That depends upon your objective. If the goal is to change their minds, you're right. You can't reason with the unreasonable. However, it is important to demonstrate to the intellectually inquisitive that the Left's ideas are irrational, immoral, and destructive. To that end, arguing with them is essential.