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Very true....... and the past forty or so years of liberalism will soon be the cause of many of our deaths in a number of ways.
There are multiple ways that we are weaker now and are susceptible to dangers. And it did not have to happen.
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By the way, why is "forty" spelled forty when "four" is spelled four??? Bugs me....
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The hypocrisy of the Liberal Left finds common ground with the Islamofascist.
Unable to export anything more than crude oil pumped by Westerners, and figs, the two-faced culture uses satellite phones, guns, bombs, electronics, communications, all created by the Western modern world, to fight for a primitive and backward society.
great article.........
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the press, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. -Mark Twain
[Caring about the catastrophic failure of mankind in large parts of the planet means going to rock concerts.]
Let's not forget "Save the Whales" bumper stickers.
ping for later
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This is God's truth. We have been held hostage since the New Deal and Great Society to this culture of victimization. It must stop. A start has been made through Talk Radio and the internet.
Anybody notice the first thing the new Democrat congress is going after? They want to restore the Fairness Doctrine.
They can't win the argument so they want to shut us up.
Why shouldn't these liberals hate themselves? I'd hate myself if I were one of them.
Hmph.
The left is made up of narcissistic high chair kings/queens who want to make people do what they want them to(for their own good)
They believe that their motives are the highest and those who disagree have the basest.
They are not given to rational discussion, examination of facts or understanding unintended consequences of their beliefs put into action.
They want to be story book radicals in a free country where they can say what they want without consequence. They are fantasists who imagine(whatta theme song) the world, at its worst so they can imagine a world at its best delivered by them.
They are authoritarian, rely on judges to fast track anything they want, and secretly hate their countrymen because they actually can be persuaded to vote for republicans, or conservatives. They are not oppressed so they make criminals victims and victims criminals.
They have the bully pulpit, (the arts, the entertainment the media, the academy) and they use it to bully.
They believe that it is conservatives who are fearful and they give us global warming. (Where ya gonna be when the ice caps melt, bro?)
They have a deep screeching howling(nods to Alan Ginsburg)
hole in their soul, that can't be sublimated, because they fear the sublime. Therefore life at either end becomes valuless since their own lacks any higher purpose. This is not so much self loathing as deep primal fear, that always looks outward for the evil that they have within.
Which is why they cannot see their own country as a continuously self correcting hopeful place, but rather the ultimate expression of all the sins of mankind.
They believe that the epithet, " go eff yerself" is not an anatomical impossibility but rather an impossibility imposed by American consumerism, selfishness, imperialism, rightwing theocratic laws, bigoil, halliburton, cheyny, bush and Christians, which can be performed successfully when they get a judge to declare that it can.
So I wish them well with that. Prolly the only part of the liberal canon I can get on board with.
Sigh.....the preceeding is a meta conclusion derived from years of observation and interface with liberals.
The psychology of middle class self-hate of is complex and multi-layered. It is, in part a mindset of frozen adolescence whereby people never entirely move beyond the inchoate parent-anger of their youth. Even sophisticated professionals can still carry their adolescent baggage, now displaced into a vague resentment against their own middle class roots or against America as the parent figure of the Western world. In part it is Rousseau and D. H. Lawrence: the cerebral intellectual's Romantic infatuation with the primitive. And in part it is perhaps a stray fragment of the shattered star of Christianity - the first shall be last etc. This fragment, detached now from its overall religious context, floats meaninglessly in the post-Christian philosophical ether.
The consequences of this confused and self-indulgent philosophy are full of paradox.
First: when do you ever hear any credit given to the wicked American enterprise culture for the microchip, the personal computer, the Internet, Google, and all the rest of the apparatus that every lefty-liberal anti-globalisation warrior or anti-Western terrorist now blithely uses in pursuit of her agenda? In a staggering act of biting the hand that feeds, the liberal intelligentsia sneers at the kind of souls without whom there would have been no Western civilisation in the first place. Meanwhile South East Asia is turning out science graduates in the millions.
Second: the spread of attention-seeking, wilful victimhood in our culture - the whingeing, blaming and litigating -has tragically been assisted by the very scruples of self reliant, non-drama-queen type people preferring to just keep their own counsel and say nothing.
Third: Whilst we may not exactly have 1984, we do have plenty of Orwellian Doublethink. Being a ‘radical' means thinking just like everyone else in your peer group. Caring about the catastrophic failure of mankind in large parts of the planet means going to rock concerts.
In challenging this malaise, it is not enough to attack the crazy social policies and the political correctness it has spawned. It is also necessary to challenge the century long myth that a left-wing type of ‘social conscience' is good-hearted even if it is naïve. This is one huge fallacy. The truth is that it is more usually self-centred, self-deceiving and ultimately self-serving.
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Well said.
The Dims suffer from death camp envy.
The author lost much of his credibility with this opening stateement. From my persective, liberalism is getting stronger not weaker. If you doubt it, just look no futher than the election results from last Nov. Or the fact that 5 years after 9/11, a significant percentage of Americans think we are the greatest threat to world peace. And if you think this is bad, just wait till Bush grants amnesty to those 20M illegal immigrants and their families.
As for the Internet, it gives us the illusion that we can change things just by blogging from our homes. In truth, politicians only really react to changes at the voting booths or trouble in the streets.
Is it "creepy" because liberals go against their own best interests in the long run or because they loathe themselves?
I can't tell.
The author might try to directly question liberals about their dearest assumptions.
And why not? That would only be yet another manifestation of the deification of youth and the weird desire on the part of so many in popular culture never to leave their late adolescence, when romance trumps responsibility and passion makes up for ignorance. There's absolutely nothing new there.
It may be that a fear of mortality creeps into the determinedly secular and that may explain the desperate desire to cling to youth. But there is also an element of stupidity in the assumption that one may only transcend one's own culture in the despising of it. Between those two factors the achievements of the past and the standards of the present get mighty short shrift. But that is what is rewarded. Unfortunately it is much easier in this day of sensation to be thought an intellectual than actually to be one.
Plutocrats of the People - Why are America's superrich suddenly fretting about income inequality? not that long
Lefty Retailer Insults Troops quite short & boycott justified
Introduction: utopia vs. nationhood not that long
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"Of all institutions the most powerful in this respect is the mass media, on account of its insidious ability to drip-drip its influence on every aspect of the way you perceive the world beyond your own direct experience. Everything you know - or think you know - about, Iraq or ‘global warming' or ‘the latest social research' on this or that subject, you probably got via the media. The great media conjuring trick is the illusion that it is merely a transparent window whereas in reality it is a window, richly decorated with mythology."
Maybe this is why the true newshounds among us choose overseas news sources to find out what is happening in the world, and in the U.S.
The "caring" PC liberal is actually a narcissist of the worst sort. This article begins to expose that glaring psychological and sociological fault line.