i don't hate them. the opposite of love isn't hate... it's indifference. hate only gives them some validation in their own minds and takes up thought cycles in mine.
i simply couldn't care less if every one of them went toes up at once is all.
Posted on 04/04/2006 4:46:24 PM PDT by RWR8189
Here are three questions comparing liberals and conservatives:
1. During the 2004 elections, which car was more likely to be "keyed," i.e., deliberately scratched -- a car with a "John Kerry" bumper sticker in an overwhelmingly conservative area, or a car with a "George W. Bush" sticker in an overwhelmingly liberal area?
2. When speaking at colleges, do right-wing or left-wing speakers need and receive police protection?
3. In a debate between a right-wing and a left-wing speaker before an audience equally divided between left and right, which audience group is more likely to boo and hiss at the speaker with whom it disagrees -- the liberal or the conservative?
Here are the answers:
1. Where I live in liberal Los Angeles, drivers of most vehicles with Bush-Cheney bumper stickers have told me (and I have often seen) that their cars (and mine) were deliberately scratched. When I have asked about the fate of cars with Kerry-Edwards stickers in equally conservative areas in, for example, Orange County or even the Bible Belt, no Democrat has reported such intentional damage to his car. This does not mean it never happens, only that it is far more rare. I would bet a lot of money -- and I am not a gambler -- that cars displaying conservative messages in liberal areas are far more likely to be defaced than cars with liberal messages in conservative areas.
2. When Ann Coulter goes to college campuses, she is accompanied by a bodyguard. And colleges routinely bring in police to protect her and to guard against student violence. No bodyguard or police contingent is necessary for Al Franken. Another leftist, Noam Chomsky, a man who has devoted his life to attacking America, goes from campus to campus without worrying about having so much as a pie thrown at him, something regularly done to conservative David Horowitz.
3. Whenever I have debated representatives of the Left before politically mixed audiences, I have been hissed and booed far more than my opponent was. Others who debate leftists report identical experiences. Why? Because in general, conservative members of the audience are more civil and less angry.
There are a few reasons for this discrepancy. One is that the more left one goes, the more one is likely to encounter people who substitute "social justice" for personal morality. Another is that in the eyes of most leftists, people who oppose their "progressive" views on the environment, the war and taxes are such morally inferior people that they are not owed decent behavior.
But the biggest reason is the most obvious one: Liberals hate conservatives far more than conservatives hate liberals.
As Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party, said on national TV, "Our moral values, in contradiction to the Republicans', is we don't think kids ought to go to bed hungry at night." Republicans don't care about starving children. Liberals deem conservatives to be racist, homophobic, war mongering, money worshipping and sexist. It makes perfect sense to hate such people. I would, too.
The converse is not true. Conservatives tend to view liberals as immature and foolish. But childish adults and fools don't merit the hatred that racists do. And the liberal charge that conservatives generally label war critics "traitors" is pure fabrication.
Liberals may counter that conservatives hated President Bill Clinton. But that hatred has been more than matched by liberals' hatred for George W. Bush. And more to the point, Bill Clinton is one individual. Liberals hate virtually all conservatives with the same intensity that many conservatives hated one man named Bill Clinton.
There are conservative examples of such hatred. But they are much more rare. I am comparing the typical passionate liberal with the equally passionate conservative.
If you don't believe me, try my car test. And send the repair bill to the Democratic National Committee.
I don't hate liberals. I am often disgusted by liberals. Sometimes I pity them and sometimes they make me angry but I don't hate them.
Liberals are just plain wrong but I wouldn't use that strong emotion (hate) on them. hate destroys the hater not the hated.
I read a lot of food-cooking blogs. Without having any reason to bring up politics when talking about food I routinely read snipes and insults about Cheney, Bush, neo-cons, Condi and others.
I know I wouldn't inject politics into a blog about cooking and end up alienating many of my readers. But liberals find every reason and platform to insult.
Same with the Academy Awards and music concerts. Who needs it! Why!
In a similar vein,
There are people who are convinced of the wickedness both of armies and of police forces, but who are nevertheless much more intolerant and inquisitorial in outlook than the normal person who believes that it is necessary to use violence in certain circumstances. They will not say to somebody else, “Do this, that and the other or you will go to prison,” but they will, if they can, get inside his brain and dictate his thoughts for him in the minutest particulars. Creeds like pacifism and anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics — a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage — surely that proves that you are in the right? And the more you are in the right, the more natural that everyone else should be bullied into thinking likewise.— Orwell: Lear, Tolstoy, and the Fool.
Pity, disgust, laugh at but not hate.
Liberals are like special ed kids, you wouldn't want them driving your car, but you don't hate em.
(and dangerous when they're in power)
Definitely Liberals hate more.
I would not drop an old friend because she (or he) is a liberal.
But I've been dropped because I'm conservative.
What was shocking to me is that she said that she had learned that many of the charter schools have been started by blacks, something that surprised her because the whole idea of charter schools was a Republican idea, she said. (She knows I'm conservative so she put this as diplomatically as she could.) The point being that she couldn't imagine Republicans actually wanting to help black people.
I told her that it was my understanding that the idea behind charter schools was to help those most harmed by the public school system and that the people who fought for charter schools expected that blacks would be a chief beneficiary. She looked at me as if I had told her something that was to hear impossible to believe.
Oh, and here's another good insight from Horowitz, a one-liner that really nails it. "When you debate a liberal, be prepared to get kneed in the balls".
i don't hate them. the opposite of love isn't hate... it's indifference. hate only gives them some validation in their own minds and takes up thought cycles in mine.
i simply couldn't care less if every one of them went toes up at once is all.
The anointed and saintly Julia Childs once declared that she "could never break bread at the same table with any Republican". After reading that I said,
Go declare "Bon Appetit!" to your French friends, madame chef!
Mature people don't hate immature people.
Immature people hate others because that's what immature people are prone to do.
Remember when you were a kid? How mad you'd get if someone disagreed with you or upset you in any way? Your typical eight-year old will scream "I HATE YOU!!" at least once a week.
Liberals are not insignifcant to you. They can and will hurt you, big time. They can change your entire lifestyle, against your will. Oh yes they can.
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