The Secret to the Suicidal Liberal Mind

NewsMax ^ | Jan. 21, 2002 | Jack Wheeler

[ForGod'sSake]

What do Harvard president Larry Summers, Taliban John Walker, Delta Airlines officials and the editors of the New York Times have in common with Yanomamo tribeswomen in the Amazon jungle?

To answer this question is to understand the root cause of liberal "white guilt." Lakes of ink have been splashed on newspaper, magazine and journal pages ruminating and anguishing over the bottomless guilt that pervades the liberal soul.

[rlmorel]

What you outline is the reason I find Whittaker Chamber’s book “Witness” so compelling.

When I read it for the first time, it was a completely political book.

When I listened to it recently, it occurred to me that it was even more of a religious book than a political one.

It is a story for a man’s search for God, and what happened to him when he realized he was worshiping the wrong God. As a Soviet, he was worshiping Man.

Communism is where Man replaces God.

[wastedyears]

New tagline sort of unrelated to here.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

This ties in with your line of thought.

The Psychology of Atheism

The State as God is true of Communism as well.

[gargoyle]

...I would always retort with, Well, your the one that fixed my plate, let me do it next time!!!

...Bing! Bang! Boom!!!(-;)

[EBH]

Then we disagree. God was removed from communist Russia too.

By removing God, the government or culture creates a vacume. This vacume allows all sorts of things(some might say demons) to take up residence in society. A need is created for a new god. One who sanctions or doesn’t sanction the new behaviors.

Why 0bama, why the messiah effect? Because the culture is hungry for a god. I noted throughout his campaign the use of “christian doctrines” twisted to meet his needs. The doctrines were twisted. I neglect to recall what he said in one speech, but I recall my reaction. And the first phrase that came to mind at the time...Render unto Ceaser what belongs to Ceaser, render unto God what belongs to God. Perhaps it had to do with the service corp thing. Many Christians, churches, and good moral people were deceived by him in this manner. I blame the lack of God’s teaching in society.

They hate society, themselves, the country because they have no personal moral fortitude. They see the timbers in everyone elses eye and hate what they see. They scream for peace, yet cannot be at peace for their envy, greed, pride etc. cannot let them be at peace.

The role of Religion in our country was that it set the moral code of the people. Once religion was removed a new overseer was needed. That overseer is the government.

[arthurus]

No. Listen to them. That is how they describe it, the ones who actually write it and speak it. Humanity is God. It is just that most of Humanity is dumb body parts. The government is the construction and effective tool of the Brain which is the Academicians and theoriticians. Government is the hands of their god, operated by the Brain.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Liberals are liberals because they are too stupid to see the second order effects.

In an environment in which capital is allowed to seek it’s most rewarding use (without government mucking up the works) if I go out and buy a boat that means that somebody got a job building the boat, selling the boat, servicing the boat, mooring the boat etc. Liberals are too stupid to see that - they just see my boat.

Similarly, if government gives someone a handout that helps that person temporarily. Possibly. But you’ve now trained that person to come looking for a handout the next time, like a fed bear. Liberals are too stupid to see that, as well. They just see that someone got a bag of groceries.

All this is, of course, aided and abetted by the willing media who can fuel the idiocy with soundbites and knowing nods and raised eyebrows.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Which, I guess, is why we call them “libtards”.

[MrB]

This desire for relevance is God given.
That relevance is to be attained in your relationship with God.

Leftists reject this natural means of relevance and seek other, earthly, means of relevance - social activism & radical environmentalism are two of these outlets.

[MrB]

Is it mere coincidence that this tactic coincides with communist tactics and beliefs?

The communists really aren't "the enemy" - Satan is the enemy. He is using whatever means possible to undermine Christianity and destroy humans. Homosexuality, environmentalism & evolution (earth worship & materialism), and collectivism are but a few of his weapons.

[MrB]

Perhaps that's why they talk so much and do so little...

Perfect biblical reference to what you wrote:
2 Thess 3:6-15

11We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busybodies.

[MrB]

Have you read Sowell’s “Applied Economics: Thinking beyond stage one”?

It’s exactly what you’re talking about.

[andy58-in-nh]

This desire for relevance is God given. That relevance is to be attained in your relationship with God.

I think that is very true for most people, as it is that relationship that gives one's life context and meaning. The quality of all other personal relationships naturally flow from it. For that reason, I think we have today's sad spectacle of angry, lonely, isolated people searching for "meaning" and finding only more emptiness in the effort.

That said, even people who are not particularly religious may find significant meaning by understanding their fundamental nature as human beings, by using their powers of reason to accept the world as it exists and act upon it in ways that respect the same rights of others. This also implies the acceptance of personal responsibilities proper to the life of a rational being, among them: independence rather than dependency; honesty and fairness in dealing with others; and an insistence upon voluntary trade rather than coercion.

I believe personal relevance may also be achieved by a life lived in a such a manner, and yet, even the most libertarian sorts will in some unguarded moment turn their eyes heavenwards and wonder what organizing force made this world possible.

[101voodoo]

We were never told to eat all our food because “there were children starving”. We were told whatever went uneaten would be put in the refrigerator and the next time we were hungry we had to eat THAT first. Oh and there was no dessert unless everything was eaten off the plate.

[TigersEye]

The body of evidence is building up. We may not be able to shame them but when we get Universal Health Care we ought to be able to lock up a lot of them. For their own good of course. /s

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

No not yet, but have a lot of respect for Mr. Sowell and I’m sure I’d agree with what he has to say. I’ll put that one on my list.

[ForGod'sSake]

Liberals are liberals because they are too stupid to see the second order effects.

Succinctly put! ;^) I think what you're describing is their inability or unwillingness to apply linear thought processes. IOW, irrational behavior?

[ForGod'sSake]

The communists really aren't "the enemy" - Satan is the enemy.

Thanks for pointing that out. In the heat of "battle" I sometimes lose sight of just who and what we're fighting:

Ephesians 6:12

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

The obvious question is can we win this war against d'evil on our own; without calling upon Almighty God to intercede on our behalf? The nation as a whole has moved so far away from Him and His timeless principles I'm not so sure He will continue to favor us with His incomparable blessings.

[Tolik]

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