[BillyCrockett]

This guy Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. acts as though Socialism is something new.

[Redcoat LI]

"Why are liberals such as Paul Krugman, Michael Moore, and Howard Dean so angry"

They need to talk to this guy

[van_erwin]

What does "responsibility and desert" mean? He mentions this phrase several times in the article.

[Cicero]

I'm not convinced that social justice is really the primary goal of most liberals. The primary goal is power. They don't really "visualize a world" where everybody is equal. The visualize a world in which they get to tell everybody what to do. And they get extremely angry if they are not allowed to tell everybody what to do.

[uncitizen]

It really is odd how people who are supposedly so caring & loving are actually so hateful & agressive.

[HenryLeeII]

Most liberals are not liberals. We at Free Republic are true liberals, in the sense that we believe in free market economies, the rule of law, and the respect of the rights of individuals. The political left of today referred to as 'liberals' is composed of varying combinations of anti-Americans, fascists, traitors, and people who are simply too ignorant or too dishonest for civil and meaningful political discourse.

[Sender]

I had a friendly run-in with a liberal today, one of my black co-workers. He was passing my desk and noticed my picture of George and Laura Bush hanging on my cubicle wall.

He just kind of looked at it and then looked at me and smiled an uncertain smile, I could see his thought processes were honestly trying to decide if I had hung it there in sarcasm or if I might actually admire them. It was an awkward moment for him.

I broke the silence by saying "Yes, I like Bush and I'm voting for him." He continued to smile an uneasy smile but began a faint shaking of the head from side to side. He began "I mean, he's OK I guess, but you know, as President, you know..." I refused to complete the thought for him and awaited the certain conclusion. "...as President, no." He kept hoping that I really hated Bush and had been pulling his leg.

"Why do you say that?" I replied. "I think he's doing pretty good." Very uneasy smile now, as he carefully considered how to nicely say what he felt.

"You know, like with the economy and all." But wasn't the economy improving and unemployment about the same as Clinton at reelection time? "Well yeah, I guess it's getting better, you know, but it's not like, you know, as good as it was. Before." Tell me more, I implored.

"Well you know Bush, he looks out for the rich folks, the ones got all the money. You know, the ones that have all the money. He don't care about the have nots." He realized that he was sort of placing me into the 'rich folks' category. I reminded him that I am not rich, I have the same job he does and drive a 10-year-old truck.

"No, I know you're not rich," he went on, "I'm talking about folks like Bill Gates and CEOs and stuff. You know they didn't make a penny of that money. They got their money off the sweat of other peoples' backs. Working folks like us." I asked him if he had a problem with a few 'rich folks' having that much money.

"Well yeah, you know, someone got to even out the playing field. You know it's not fair they got so much and others got so little. We just need to even out the playing field." How should we do that, I asked?

"Well first you don't give all these tax breaks to Bill Gates and stuff. They can afford to pay LOTS more than they're paying now. Lots more." He really didn't have a specific plan, just basically that 'rich folks' should 'even out the playing field' and give most of their money to poor folks who 'don't have a chance'. I asked him wasn't that socialism?

"NO, man, not socialism, we just got to even out the playing field, it's not fair. Now Bush, he'd let Bill Gates just keep all that money. You know he didn't earn a penny of it."

I just had to quit.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Howard Dean's Baby Picture

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Liberals are like children. They argue about who's the most mature instead of just being. They are self centered but want to appear otherwise. Most people grow up and out or their narcissism but the people we call liberals have never felt the pain that precedes growth or they deny it (with enablers perhaps) and never grow up.

To a Malignant Narcissist, self-esteem is more important than reality. They actually think they are warping reality or creating a new reality by believing a lie with such conviction in order to save themselves the pain of growth. They live in your benefit of a doubt. They assume that by sheer force of will they are molding the universe to their designs and when they hit an obstruction, they get very angry that, in their arrogance, the world does not conform to their will. They are like children throwing a tantrum when they don't get their way. They are hateful because they have their self-esteem so invested in being right that they cannot -in their minds- possibly be wrong. They are frustrated because we won't go away. We won't conform. We won't shut up. We challenge their very core beliefs. When they truly are wrong but refuse to face it even when all signs point to their failure, they lose the oppertunity to grow.

During your life you create a map of how the universe works. When you are wrong, you redraw the map to conform to the new information of your experience of reality. On the other hand the Malognant Narcissist refuses to redraw the map and demands that everybody around them who could expose their error accept their version.

As more and more people feel the pain of error and grow as a person, the numbers will reduce and their violence will increase as they hold tighter and tighter to their failed map that has their self-esteem tied to it in a death spiral.

I'm afraid it's going to get worse before it gets better. Some of these people would rather die than admit failure and face truth.

[Smartass]