The Mind of a Liberal, help me understand

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[caww]

They use and re-use the part of their brain where emotions operate from.... they never swing around and use the rest of their brain.

[mdmathis6]

What was the original line...women?

[SaxxonWoods]

There is no try, there is only doodoo.

[mdmathis6]

I take it the other 4 are doing just fine? Then don’t beat up on yourself...many families have a prodigal child.If he is otherwise working and not a deadbeat you did something right. If not...throw his butt out of the house.

[rlmorel]

I live in the bluest of blue states, and my wife isn’t leaving, which means...I’m not leaving.

For better or worse, I have to stay with her. I hope it isn’t “worse”.

I could leave and have the means to do so, but...I have always viewed Leftism as a cancer that can’t be contained or stopped by a line on a map. And I have always felt that running away or retreating in the face of it isn’t the solution either.

I wish you all the luck in the world. Please Freepmail me if you are looking for donations, I would be happy to help.

[econjack]

It's never an easy thing taking a stand with a family member.....but sometimes it's necessary even if it brings estrangement for a time.

Very true, but I've seen what happens to kids who really don't have parental guidance...including butt-warming. I think they actually want to know where that line in the sand is and part of being a parent is making clear what is and is not acceptable behavior. Both of my kids bitched that I was too tough on them while they were growing up. Now both have kids of their own and have thanked me for it. Even better, they're doing the same thing with their kids and that means a lot to me.

[Disambiguator]

This guy may end up getting involved in criminal activity. That takes effort, and in effect, becomes your job. Hey, criminal, you’re still working!

[PapaBear3625]

He doesn’t want to work, but still wants to be supplied with stuff

[econjack]

My kids, while probably a little more liberal than I am, are still pretty conservative. When they were in college, I could tell during vacations from school that they were being educated in the ways that liberals do. I always tried to encourage them to discuss such things with me, but they were not allowed to be "emotional" about it. Their positions had to be grounded in fact and not someone's "I-feel-this-way-but-I-can't-explain-it" crap.

When you agree to discuss things with all the BS stripped away, Liberals really don't have a leg to stand on. Try to engage them in a factual, non-emotional, discussion and really do listen to them. Formulate a clear stance of what you see as the shortcomings in what they are saying. After listening to their position, clearly state yours and ask them where they disagree. If you can keep emotions out of the process, it does work.

[Ikeon]

Throw this guy into a 15’ hole and cover it. On second thought, You’re a parasite, and should be killed.

[T.B. Yoits]

Liberals don’t want to be grown ups. they want the government to be their Mommy and Daddy. Sorry, the real world doesn’t work like that.

Sadly, the "real world" has reinforced Never Neverland. Schools teach entitlement. Television teaches entitlement. Advertisers selling products promote children's sports played and coached by "adults" and those "adults" are selected to influence other "adults".

Ask yourself a very difficult question. "How many real adults do I know?"

There are far, far more overgrown children running around than adults because very few individuals have the will and ability to grow up if not forced to.

Hard times create strong men,
Strong men create good times,
Good times create weak men,
Weak men create hard times.
-G. Michael Hopf

[caww]

My sons were asked by their friends in high school if his parents were strict....he said yes but they give lots of freedom inside those restrictions.

[rlmorel]

By the way, I was working (just getting off now) so I didn't watch the video.

I am firing up the grill for dinner, and was listening to Dan Bongino who referenced this video. I assumed it was the one you referenced, and it was.

Boy, did the ignorance and stupidity just anger me beyond words. This dipstick's attitude is the result which decades of Leftism have been pushing people towards.

You don't have to work. Just have stuff given to you by..."someone". Nobody has to work. Everything just magically appears and can be distributed "equitably" to everyone.

• You want a beachfront house? In Magic No-Work world, you can have one!

• You want a Lamgorghini? In Magic No-Work world, you can have one!

• You want an iPhone 12 with 500 GB of memory? In Magic No-Work world, you can have one!

• You want a $10,000 custom made suit? In Magic No-Work world, you can have one!

• You want some Nike Air Max sneakers? In Magic No-Work world, you can have them! (Though you may have to forfeit your brain to want them)

• You want a 100 foot yacht with a helicopter and jetskis? In Magic No-Work world, you can have them!

• You want a Gulfstream G650ER for you and 19 of your friends to fly to the corners of the earth in? In Magic No-Work world, you can have one!

• You want a Kawasaki Ninja H2R which can do nearly 250 MPH? In Magic No-Work world, you can have one!

• You want to have a meal of freshly caught Yellowfin Tuna with a side of Beluga's Almas caviar? In Magic No-Work world, you can have one!

• You want a ConceptD 900 Desktop - CT900-91A-ED11 for your gaming system with EIZO ColorEdge CG3146 monitors? Three of them? In Magic No-Work world, you can have one!

Okay. I probably went overboard on this. This is more reasonable:

• You want an affordable apartment? In Magic No-Work world, you can have one! Wait, no you can't...someone has to get paid to build it, and build enough of them.

• You want a new bottom-of-the-line Subaru Impreza? In Magic No-Work world, you can have one! Oh, wait, no you can't. Someone has to be paid to make the parts for it, paid to put it together, and paid to transport it to a dealer where someone is paid to sell it to you.

• Do you want an entry level trackphone, not even a smartphone? In Magic No-Work world, you can have one! Oh wait, no you can't, someone, somewhere has to dig the materials out of the ground, put it together, transport it to where you can buy it, never mind the network you will have to use with infrastructure to make your call.

• You want a toilet to take a piss in? In Magic No-Work world, you can have one! Well, no you can't. You have to have a room to put it in, built by someone, installed by someone you pay who knows what they are doing.

• You want some bottom of the line cheap Keds sneakers? In Magic No-Work world, you can have them! You won't. Unless you make them yourself, though you can put off having to forfeit your brain to want them)

• You want a ballpoint pen to write on paper? In Magic No-Work world, you can have one! Well, no you can't. Someone has to make that pen from raw materials to transport to you. And don't forget the papermill with people running stinky mills to make your paper you can write on, unless you are going to cut down the trees and make your own paper.

[ClarityGuy]

This is why "Enlightenment" republics cannot work in the long run. This guy's vote counts as much as anyone else's, as if all opinions were equal in merit and were sacrosanct on account of their being opinions. Hardly anybody attempts to penetrate deeper. In a world like that, the operative principles of a functioning legal system cannot be established, because everything is in flux and the need to "respect" opinions qua opinions creates a relativistic stalemate between opposing interests, preventing any progress from being made. Thankfully the world we live in used to know of something better. Our legal system derived much of its form and structure from the old Christian monarchs, to whom we owe a greater debt than we commonly acknowledge.

[beethovenfan]

I trhink it started with FDR, and really accelerated under LBJ.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[wardaddy]

Leftists in general

Are unhappy

Lack life prospects

Hate parents or parents are lefties ...think red diaper babies like Horowitz when young

Unwilling to change themselves so they want to change the world ....a big one

Think govt is the answer

Obsessed with racism and Nazis.....this forum has no shortage of this type

Virtue signaling is a huge draw for them

Leftism today appeals to minorities and women....

White males and even last election black and Latino males moved away from leftism

Women see govt as the daddy or husband and they are attracted to emotive arguments ....most women...not all

I was a left leaning libertarian kid 70s

Today is different issues wise but the motivations are similar

[Coffee_drinker]

yep the others are hard working. I think now that he’s out of the house, paying his own rent and paying most of his needs it’s getting clear that work is a thing we have to do in this world.

Gotta cut the strings folks and I”m talking about the Government handouts too.

[rlmorel]

One of the problems of an entitlement-rich Republic is that people who are on entitlements are almost always going to vote for politicians who give them more entitlements. It may not be true 100% of the time, but...it is true the majority of the time. That is why Democrats and RINO Republicans like it. It is a built in mechanism to purchase votes.

It also enables what is called a “Tipping Point” where the people getting benefits outstrip the people who work to provide them. Many say we are past that point. We many be.

But I just don’t think is is sustainable any more, if it ever was.

As conservatives, many of us believe in helping those who are really in need of support, elderly and infirm people, people on hard times, etc. but we don’t believe in paying money to people who are fully capable of work but choose not to.

Sometimes there may be a gray area between those who cannot work and those who will not work. But I don’t think it is impossible in a preponderance of the cases who is and who isn’t. There is so much graft and corruption baked into the process, Worker’s Comp is just one of them. There are millions of people on Worker’s Comp who deserve the benefits, but I know from personal experience, that there are people who should not be getting it and are capable of working. And that’s just one example.

If you went to each person getting welfare, food assistance and such, if an impartial person were allowed to review the facts, normal people would be able to tell in many cases who could and could not work. That obviously won’t happen.

And there is no way the country would allow a pro-rated vote value based on how much public money one gets. People paying their taxes in full count as a full vote, and a pro-rated system grading the amount of taxpayer money a given voter gets reduces the value of a vote to less than one vote.

That will never happen, and I don’t think that is how it should be addressed, but we as a country have put people who cast full votes into a situation where a tax-paying citizen’s vote is negated by the votes of several people who don’t pay taxes and take taxpayer money.

I don’t think that is sustainable any more.