Leftism Makes You Meaner

Dennis Prager Show ^ | Tuesday, January 10, 2012 | Dennis Prager

[Olog-hai]

Only a fool believes that all those with whom he differs are bad people. Moreover, just about all of us live the reality—often within our own family—of knowing good and loving people with whom we strongly differ on political, religious, social and economic issues.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

Two examples in just the past week offer compelling evidence.

Prominent left-wing commentators used the way in which Rick Santorum and his wife handled the death of one of their children to attack—make that mock—the former Pennsylvania senator. …

(L)eftism fills many of its adherents with contempt and hatred. It takes a person of great character and self-control to continually imbibe and mouth the mantras of the left—that everyone on the right is sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, islamophobic, racist and bigoted—and not become a meaner human being. If I believed just about everyone with left-wing views was despicable, I would be meaner, too.

In a previous column, I wrote about Thomas Friedman making one of the classic anti-Semitic libels when he wrote that the reason the Senate and the House gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing ovations was because "that ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby." How does a Jew write an anti-Semitic libel? Because he's on the left. …

[I see my hands]

Held my tongue for a few days..

What crap! All you're doing is rationalizing your continued succor and support of liberal friends and family.

[CitizenUSA]

I disagree of course. I know a lot of liberals, and most of them mean well in a general sort of way. What I mean by that is they don’t wish ill on others, but they also don’t spend much time thinking about their ideology and its ramifications. Of course there are some leftists who really do think these things through and know exactly what they are after.

[I see my hands]

Like you said you "were" a lib. Guess that's like herpes.. never goes away. To tolerate is to encourage, to encourage is to do. You're the problem.

[CitizenUSA]

I see my hands: “To tolerate is to encourage, to encourage is to do. You’re the problem.”

So you don’t tolerate liberalism at all? Anytime you hear anyone speaking something you disagree with, you just jump right in and accuse them of being evil? And, if you meet anyone who doesn’t do the same, you accuse them of being part of the problem, essentially being complicit in evil?

You don’t know anything about me other than what little you’ve read, and because I’m not willing to say all liberals are the scum of the earth who deserve to be confronted, i.e. not tolerated, I’m scum, too?

FReegards.

[CitizenUSA]

BTW, you really should look up the definitions of “tolerate” and “encourage,” because I don’t think those words mean what you think they do.

[I see my hands]

"Anytime you hear anyone speaking something you disagree with, you just jump right in and accuse them of being evil?"

Liar. Get thee hence, lib symp.

[CitizenUSA]

Do you understand the difference between a question and a statement? I was asking you if you confront every liberal or liberal sympathizer you meet, because otherwise you tolerate, endorse, and do evil per your argument against me. It seems you just want to be contentious. I don’t know what’s wrong with you, but you have my sympathy.

FReegards.