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Posted on 06/26/2005 10:52:04 AM PDT by NewMediaFan
Lately, I’ve been receiving quite a few messages from liberals who accuse me of over generalizing them as socialists, traitors, and any number of other things. This isn’t precisely what I believe, so I’ve been motivated to an attempt at clarifying the issue.
When I write about liberal Democrats, it’s usually safe to assume I’m not referring to all of them. Generally, the proletariat class of the Democratic Party genuinely believes in socialism and harbors no malicious intent. What I am referring to, rather, is the elitist class that powers the Democrats’ movement in America.
To gain the respect of modern “progressive intellectuals,” it seems one must be a terrorist and an enemy to America. Such “intellectuals” will frequently liken the president to Adolf Hitler, call him evil, claim he is an unelected despot, wages war for financial gain, and is essentially the enemy of man. However, they praise unelected dictators in other nations as “selfless, moral,” and among the world's “wisest men,” to quote what Oliver Stone once said of Fidel Castro. They love dictators--particularly Muslim and communist dictators--while hating America, individualism, capitalism, and anyone who seeks to preserve these American conceptions of freedom. Those at the top of the modern liberal hierarchy look essentially more like a group of foreign nationals than representatives of America.
Michael Moore, to use a cliché example, has said innumerable things that could be taken as anti-American, but we need only reference one. Back in 2003, he said of Americans, “They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet?. Our stupidity is embarrassing.” What did his party do in response? Perhaps some Democrats didn’t agree with him, but the official response was favorable. At the 2004 Democratic Convention, he was seated next to Jimmy Carter in the presidential box.
Then there are those who don’t seem to have an opinion on the value of America or Americans in general; they simply see the utility of Americans as subjects in furthering their own ideological causes. For example, Hillary Clinton. Hillary spoke at a fundraiser a year ago this month, and, in explaining the virtue of higher taxation, said, “We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." The “common good” being, of course, whatever Hillary deems it to be.
Then there’s billionaire George Soros, who’s contributed millions of dollars to the Democratic Party in recent years. Like Hillary Clinton, he views himself as the common good. “If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble,” Soros once wrote. When a reporter from “The Independent” asked him to explain, Soros said, “It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of God, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.”
Al Gore joins Soros in his feelings of a divinely-endowed superiority. In the biography “Gore: A Political Life,” ABC reporter Bob Zelnick wrote that on a visit to San Francisco in the early 1980s, “[Al Gore] told Diane Kefauver Rubin that God sometimes talked to him.”
My initial reaction to this was doubt that God really spoke to Al Gore. My second reaction was cognizance of the fact that different people have different gods; maybe Gore was talking about Soros.
On the occasions that Democrats don’t believe themselves to personally be god, they ridicule the religious. In the most recent speech made by Democratic Chair Howard Dean, he related a conversation he once had with an Evangelical Christian. “How is it that you managed to support me as an Evangelical Christian?” he asked. “There are some things you can't possibly agree with me on, such as civil rights for all Americans and a woman's right to make up her own mind about what kind of health care she has.” Evidently in the eyes of Dean, all Christians are opposed to God-given civil rights. I imagine that makes us more or less equal to Nazis and 19th century slave owners.
Both parties do elect members who aren’t representative of their constituencies. The difference is that while the deviations of elected Republicans are slight, the deviations of elected Democrats are extreme [or so we’d hope is the case]. Republicans elected Jim Jeffords and got an “Independent.” They elected Lincoln Chafee and got a Democrat. They elected John McCain and got a psychotic with an interminable identity crisis.
The Democrats, by contrast, are being led by a group of people who seem to think they’re competing for the title of “divine ruler.” One thinks he’s the messiah. Another one talks to god. Another views herself as specially able to rule unconstrained by the petty needs of individuals; having transcended the trivial concept of individual rights, she sees only what must be done for the good of humanity as a whole.
When I speak of liberals, these are the people to whom I am referring. Those I listed are the elected leaders or primary donors of the Democratic Party. They can be rightly considered the party’s spokesmen. Of course I could have added many more liberal elitists to the list, such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, John Kerry, Ted Turner, Sean Penn, etc. Perhaps I’ll get around to more lists in the future.
I don’t believe all liberals are evil. But the movement is currently characterized by aristocrats who hate America with a passion. If you’re a Democrat, feel free to fix your leadership problem. Until then, stop blaming me for talking about the conceited friends of liberalism.
"Smart sixteen" bump!
I see a speechwriting potential here. That "...maybe Gore was talking about Soros" fragment is good. If she's only 16, she ought to be given a good apprenticeship with, say, somebody like Peggy Noonan.
I refer to these type of liberals as left wingers
Bill Gates? I thought he was on our side.
Mighty fine writing for a 16 year old kid. This one has a future.
Gates was probably one of those tortured kids who ran to the teacher for help.
Now he runs to the government to tattle.
"They elected John McCain and got a psychotic with an interminable identity crisis."
Well written article. "Psychotic" may be a little strong, but "interminable identity crisis" is a lovely phrase and RIGHT ON.
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I am very impressed.
Indonesia was one country Soros ruined, had a Indonesian roommate at college at the time. In less than a month's time his countries currency lost something like 70% of it's value thanks to Soros and he was worried he could no longer afford to go to school in the States. We are talking millions of lives affected like that or worse.
What Soros does isn't capitalism. He doesn't make money, he only redistributes it, mostly to himself.
Read this: http://www.working-minds.com/money.htm
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Anyone who can write on the topic, "The Difference Between Liberals and Democrats" as well as this is quite good. To be able to do so at 15 marks one as extremely promising.Substantively, the issue is to accurately and without arrogance describe liberals. Liberals don't lead, they do not take risks, and they try to take credit for anything good and evade responsibility for anything bad. Liberals second-guess the people who do take risks in order to get things done. That's why liberals are such natural journalists and such poor presidents.
Liberals lord it over the little guy and kowtow to the rich, the powerful, and the violent. They will trample the symbol which the Christian considers sacred, and they will recoil in horror - actually, cower in fear - at the idea of applying the same standards to Muslims or Communists that they apply to Christians.
Thomas Sowell nails it: all liberal angst over antebellum slavery in the American South notwithstanding, nothing has ever limited slavery - or genocide - quite like modern Christians with breech loading rifles. Liberals are against Christians having rifles.
Got his head screwed on right and locked down..
Much smarter than most any republican pundit I know of..
On the level of Mark Steyn I think..
That is one smart 16 year old. The point is true, Rats today all wish themselves to be the potter and us the clay that they can mold into their image.
I bet he is "HOME-SCHOOLED?"
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