Posted on 02/25/2022 4:07:28 AM PST by MtnClimber
Liberals are not emotional adults. That is established fact and obvious to any objective observer.
No one likes it when things don’t go their way. Whether it’s a being passed over for a promotion at work or the dissolution of a long-term personal relationship or a financial reversal, a setback is never welcome. What defines a person’s character is his reaction to adverse events. Mature adults will stop, take a breath, internalize the misfortune, evaluate their options and calmly pick a corrective course of action, with a minimum of hyperbolic arm-waving and verbal histrionics. Young children, of course, haven’t attained this level of personal composure and they react with gut-level emotion, stamping their feet, shouting out excuses and rationalizations and just generally blaming everyone and everything for their predicament, pointedly and unjustifiably.
Liberals have the emotional make-up of 8-year-old children. Almost to a person -- whether they’re elected politicians, pundits, journalists or simply rabidly partisan voters -- liberals are absolutely incapable of rationally accepting an undesired outcome and dealing with its consequences in a mature and measured manner.
There are countless examples. Here are two: liberals’ refusal to accept the 2016 election results and their dismissal of John Durham’s recent findings that implicate Hillary.
Stunned and horrified over Hillary’s unexpected, shockingly humiliating loss in 2016 -- perhaps the biggest upset in American presidential political history -- liberals at every level, in every position, went on a four-year temper tantrum of irrational, hysterical rejection of reality. Democratic politicians refused to work with President Trump, rebuffing his numerous efforts to forge compromise and move his Pro-American agenda forward. For elected Democrats, trying to deny President Trump any political success whatsoever was far more important to them than actually delivering benefits to the general population.
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Eight year olds dressing up GI Joe in Barbie clothes.
Was the first sentence a typo? “…are not rational adults…” makes more sense.
I think it meant that Liberals are not emotionally mature.
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
I agree w/ most of the column, but not all of it.
Liberals are malevolent. Why else do Jan 6th attendees sit in Jail for more than a year, not charged, in limbo, with a fascist partisan Warden in charge?
(liberals are absolutely incapable of rationally accepting an undesired outcome and dealing with its consequences in a mature and measured manner.)
I’ve seen it firsthand. Multiple times.
I’m very sorry to say. 😔
These people aren’t liberals. We will never win if we can’t identify what we are fighting against correctly. Today’s Democrats are so far from being liberals. The right is far more liberal than the left these days. I feel like the only one that understands this sometimes.
Today’s left is a violent totalitarian collectivist movement. Almost the polar opposite of liberals. They ostracize actual liberals.
Not all, but *MANY* liberals lack basic “coping” skills! Basic example, they can’t seem to have “simple” debate with others of different views or perspectives, without flying off the handle..
Petulant children.
I’m an alumnus of the 3rd grade and don’t appreciate their comparison.
And yet, they continue to win!
Liberals are mental bedwetters, who demand that YOUR sheets be changed, while they’re wallowing in their own pee.
In Ottawa the liberals were triggered by conservative values like, dancing, street hockey, food festivals, sharing,smiling and families having fun.Liberals like being miserable and if it takes war to cause misery set up the CHAZ and light the fire.
You are correct, but attempts to clarify have thus far proven fruitless. I tend to roll my eyes and continue reading while substituting the word “leftist” for “liberal.” It is a shame that language so often becomes a bone of contention. We can “thank” leftists for that, too.
More like two year olds.
Liberals view themselves as superior, and anyone or anything that suggests otherwise infuriates them.
They are not innocuous.
One of our sides great mistakes and weaknesses is our inability to understand how much the other side hates us. We may disagree with them on policy, but hate is hard because for most rational people hate is personal and you have to know the person you hate. For liberals hate is easy. We disagree with them therefore we are evil and stand in their way. Hate is the natural progression for them. It’s been said here many times and is sadly true. If given the chance liberals would kill us. Canada has given us a nice reminder of the hate the Left harbors for those they disagree with.
When Patton acknowledged the brilliance of Rommel, was he accused of colluding with the same? No. But when Trump acknowleges the brilliance of Putin, our resident third-graders accuse him of colluding with the same.
Should have said “emotionally adults”.
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