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Overcoming Liberalism: A 12-step Program
http://www.850koa.com/shows/shows_rosen_32.html#List ^ | Mike Rosen

Posted on 08/11/2005 9:01:41 AM PDT by curtisgardner

Step 1: Admitting that you're a liberal

This is the first step for every liberal on the way to recovery. It is important to understand that you're not "progressive", "moderate", or "enlightened". You're a liberal, and you need to be honest with yourself about that fact.

Step 2: Pledge to support your beliefs with facts

Realize that truth is more important than moral superiority and is the only way to come over to reality. You must research beyond propaganda from the Sierra Club, Hilllary Clinton, and CNN to understand things as they really exist in the world. You can no longer argue based on "feelings" or emotion. You will actually need to back up your arguments with real information. This is a difficult step, because it means you can't be lazy any more.

Step 3: Love America

This may be the most difficult step for those of you who are hippies and peaceniks. Admitting that the country you hate actually stands as a beacon to defend freedom throughout the world can make some of you physically ill. You might want to make a visit to a military cemetery to better understand that these men and women gave their lives so that you could spew hatred. Otherwise, you would currently be living in a police state that would never let you wear that nasty patchouli oil, let alone speak out against your government.

Step 4: Take a college level economics class

A Socialist is defined as someone who's never taken an economics class. Most Socialists have a hard time balancing their checkbooks, let alone explaining the simple concept of supply-and-demand. It's time to flush your complete ignorance of basic economics down the toilet and understand how the world actually functions. This concept will be very important for the next steps that involve communism, facts about corporations, and the inefficiencies of government.

Step 5: Say "no" to Communism and Socialism

While this concept is obvious to most of the free world, it is an important step in your recovery process. If you have difficulty with this step, spend a week living and working in Cuba.

Step 6: Corporations are not evil

If you're reading this article on-line or in an email, it's thanks to corporations. If you get some kind of paycheck, you can thank corporations. If you work for a nonprofit or the government, you still have to thank corporations. The nonprofit sector and the government wouldn't have any money to pay you without corporations. It is also important that you understand that making a profit doesn't equate to "greed" or exploitation. Capitalism has created the greatest society in our world's history. Even communist countries need corporations to survive, so enjoy a nice, hot cup of reality.

Step 7: The government is inefficient

If you are one of those liberals who believe the government should tax us more in order to take care of society, you need to pay special attention to this step. You need to realize that government bureaucracy will waste most of your tax dollars, while the private sector will put your money to much better use. Even most Democrat politicians understand this to some degree, which is why Hillary's socialist healthcare proposal was voted down by a majority of both Democrats and Republicans. Go to your local post office or call the IRS to ask a tax question if you need a reminder about government inefficiency.

Step 8: The earth is not your "mother", and she's not dying

The time has now come to stop your donations to Greenpeace, The Sierra Club, and every other EnviroNazi organization to which you belong. Face the reality that the earth, society and our environment are better off today than ever in recorded history and that they are continuing to improve. I realize that many of you tree huggers will have a very difficult time letting go of the Douglas Fir on this one. I would suggest reading The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg. Mr. Lomborg is a former member of Greenpeace and is currently a statistics professor at a university in Denmark. He set out to prove the world was in bad shape and ended up surprising himself by proving the exact opposite.

Step 9: Stop smoking the wacky tobacco

Okay, some of you might need to enter another 12-step program to complete this step. Marijuana is distorting your sense of reality, and you need to stop using it. Besides, you'll save a fortune on snacks.

Step 10: Eat a hamburger

If God didn't intend for us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat. You can put your sprouts and tofu on the hamburger, but get some meat into you. You'll look and feel better than you ever imagined. You can always remind yourself that Nazi propaganda hailed Adolf Hitler as a vegetarian to get you through this step.

Step 11: Stop re-writing political history

It's now time to admit that Bill Clinton is a lying-cheating-sexist-racist-rapist jackass, Hillary Clinton is one of the worst role models for women in this country, Al Gore really did lose the 2000 election by every vote tabulation you attempt, Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War and didn't create the homeless problem, John McCain is not a typical Republican, and Jimmy Carter is a nice man but has one of the worst presidential records of anyone in history.

Step 12: Be a missionary

Once you have completed the previous steps to overcoming liberalism, it's time for you to share this awakening with others who are not as fortunate. Go out amongst the liberal sheep and spread the good word of your freedom from the chains of ignorance that once bound you. Congratulations, and welcome to reality.


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To: curtisgardner

That's a keeper bump.


21 posted on 08/11/2005 10:13:28 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (NRA)
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To: hardworking

You're welcome! LOL, the emotion is because they 'care' so much, lolol. That is a great observation you make, that most of them simply can't explain what they believe or why and (ideally) when confronted with that, the mature ones should easily see why conservatism works. And so many, like toddlers, can't express in words their position (because of the inconsistencies of the dummie system), so they erupt in tantrum.


23 posted on 08/11/2005 10:17:40 AM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: fortunecookie

I think those with one class are dangerous...you know what they say about a little knowledge. I think none, or three.


25 posted on 08/11/2005 10:36:25 AM PDT by gogeo (Often wrong but seldom in doubt.)
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To: gogeo
Oh, lol. True. And libs with just one class taught by a commie, well...

They could make a 2 year econ class structure part of HS curriculum, but then the educators would have to rush out and hire a bunch of leftie econ teachers...

Luckily I had more than two! ;-o

26 posted on 08/11/2005 10:56:48 AM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: shekkian

"Law abiding"

On the one hand without the rule of law we have chaos. A thought that just scares the hell out of me like nothing else. But in this case I’ll be a full blown 100% hypocrite. Screw the law. CCW permits are a control issue. Bad guys pay no attention to any of the nations laws and if all the good guys do just as they are told they will be nothing more then sheep led off to slaughter.

Besides, every time I hear the words "Law abiding" I keep thinking of that scene in the Blues Brothers with the Illinois Nazi’s. Somebody has to be the one to break the law and run ‘em over.


27 posted on 08/11/2005 11:37:40 AM PDT by grayforkbeard (If it’s not controversial, how can we learn from it?)
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To: hardworking

excellent list.

"3. Immediately purchase a ticket to any of the following countries and pledge to stay there at least six months - Russia, Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, or Iran"

My version of this was: I had a job in Silicon Valley in the mid-1980s, and a coworker was a Jew who had emigrated from the Soviet Union. Being Jewish myself, we ended up becoming friends. Along with happening upon the book How Democracies Perish, by Revel, this was the inflection point in my lifelong journey from liberalism to conservativism.


28 posted on 08/11/2005 12:40:47 PM PDT by strategofr (What did happen to those 293 boxes of secret FBI files (esp on Senators) Hillary stole?)
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