Posted on 12/16/2014 3:37:34 PM PST by lifeofgrace
Winston Churchill apocryphally said if you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain. Of course, he didnt say it. But if you choose to believe that anyway, youd have a lot of support from young liberals.
Theres something wrong with liberalsan immaturity of thought and a wonton ignorance of sometimes-hard truths. The reason that quote is so popular is simple: youth is full of exuberance and impulsiveness, but lacking in wisdom. World peace, Kumbaya, and Star Trek are banging around in young peoples otherwise idle minds, and totally they buy it.
Then they are supposed to grow up and realize the truth. Its not cynicism to know the truth.
Theres never been world peace between humans. It hasnt ever happened since Cain and Abel, and wont ever happen until after Christs return. If you dont believe in Christ, then it wont happen until humans evolve into some other advanced race, or we blow ourselves to smithereens. Take your pick.
There you have the truth. Ring it up please.
Liberals not only refuse to buy the truth, but they also never throw the lie away. They are really good at picking selective facts, building arguments, and even constructing elaborate systems, models, and research to support their grandiose ideas. But its all built on a lie. The lie that youth lasts forever, that mankind can live in permanent, cooperative peace without a strong God (or aliens, take your pick) to enforce it. Liberals are Peter Pan in search of Neverland. They never grow up.
Its why causes like global warming gain so much traction with liberals. Anything to bring the world together for a Coke is deemed good, and anything else is hopelessly cynical. Fighting against cynicism is their main pastime, and to the liberal, the awakened, reasoning mind of the conservative is their chief target. To liberals, were cynical because we buy the truth of mankinds basic imperfection and the impossibility of utopia. Conservatives see the cliff miles away and turn away from it, fight to stop the lemmings from their plunge, and stand in the road shouting cliff!
They hate us for it.
We who have been happy warriors in the culture war for a while know this. But Omar Mahmoud found out the hard way. Omar is a student at the University of Michigan. His majors are literature and anthropology, and hes in his junior year. I doubt hell graduate.
Omar worked for the student paper at his school, The Michigan Daily. Then he wrote a piece for a conservative blog The College Fix, which he titled Do The Left Thing. It was a parody dealing with liberal hypersensitivity and micro-aggression, and it brought the entire hurt locker down on him.
Its ironic (to conservatives, not to liberals) that Omar is a Muslim being attacked not for his religion, but for his politics. Liberals cannot stand an enlightened conservative mind exposing their foundational lie. If Omar had lampooned the Prophet Muhammed, hed suffer less venom than being the man shouting cliff! to the lemmings.
The lie at the heart of liberalismNeverlandis protected by narratives, myths, shibboleths, and slogans. From hands up to micro-aggression to racial justice, penetrating the liberal religious veil requires immediate retribution. With many American conservatives, its easy to just dismiss us as white. For black conservatives, they are still white but in black skin (as racist a concept as I could ever possibly imagine, worse than the blackface comedies of the 1920s).
But for a Muslim, who isnt a misunderstood, ISIS-flag-waving, or soldier-killing terrorist shouting Allahu Akbar while firing into a crowded dining room, they have no category. Without a way to dismiss this young man, they attack him.
On Friday night, according to Mahmood, people attacked his dorm room door, egging it and leaving copies of his satirical article with notes on the backs including Shut the f--- up! and You scum embarrass us and DO YOU EVEN GO HERE?! LEAVE!! along with various others, including an image of a creature with horns and another one of him with his eyes crossed out.This young student has won the medal of truth with his stand. He said,
There are times when I say to myself, Hell yes, I should have written that!' And there are times when its like, never in my dreams would I write it again, given the reaction I have had to deal with.Omar, be encouraged. You bought the truth, and shouted cliff! to the lemmings. Be thankful they actually heard you. Keep shouting because you might just save a few lives and minds.
Because were living on the edge.
The liberal is the child. All things are new, all things are possible. All is kindness and lovable little puppies. The Conservative is the father who whispers in the childs ear that most things have been tried, possibilities have problems, kindness is expensive and lovable little puppies may turn into mean ugly dogs. FReeper Captain Compassion
I guess I am just a heartless amply brained beauty!
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“wonton ignorance”
How is their knowledge of potstickers?
OMG! Read Omar’s actual article! It’s outrageously funny and true! He skewers the Left.
Anyone that would be threatened by that is an idiot, and the editor supporting them is a moron.
blame spellcheckers and my lack of a paid copy editor.
I thought it was funny :-) I type poorly on my phone too.
“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”
P.J. O’Rourke
This is why they’re after Cosby, too.
There is no possible way to legitimately minimize the threat to the Leftist agenda of Cosby’s teachings to Black people to get off the Democrat plantation.
None.
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