Don't forget the Military...Private Schools
Posted on 01/25/2007 10:23:41 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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We need to call the Beast what it is: slavering LEFTISM.
Productive people/organizations don't even have to be private in order to attract the hostile attention of liberals. To hear liberals tell it, the police and the military are both excessively brutal and inadequately effective. Both should, according to liberals, be downplayed in favor of therapeutic/diplomatic initiatives.
Ping.
Don't forget the Military...Private Schools
I think it stems from a god complex. They picture a utopian society (with them on the top) where there are no problems, government gives all to all (by taking all).
They've been indoctrinated for decades with self-loathing. Liberal guilt isn't about how something happening to someone down on his luck isn't his fault, it is about it being "your fault".
Witness the "Little Eichmanns" comment. Witness "Why do they hate us so?"
We've had socialists and anarchists railing against this country for the better part of a century now. Despots in Germany and or Russia would rule the world today if it wasn't for us.
Jane Fonda explained it openly that we would all love Communism and hope to live under it if we truly understood what it was.
Much of the world denies the wisdom and example of our Constitutional form of government. Yes there will be inequities. It is not the job of the government to seek to eradicate difference. Opportunity is what you make of it.
While listening to Rush discuss the topic, his caller actually asked Rush to explain how liberals came to be dedicated to our losing in war.
My current line of thinking is that liberals continue to use the same "playbook".
In order to obtain and maintain political power, they are stuck (actually developmentally arrested) in what has been called "60-ism", "flower-power" or "aquarianism".
To wit, scandalize the sitting President and destroy patriotic support of the armed forces. Nixon and Vietnam put the ultra-liberals in charge.
Today, these "free-love-children" haven't matured past satisfying their genitiles. They don't think as adults but as self-absorbed teenagers.
Liberal Baby-boomers suffer from arrested development - in the true clinical sense.
Liberals want to BE god.
I think that you ascribe far too much intelectual processes as to why liberal would do anything. Liberalism is based upon emotion masking as thought. There are no logical underpinings to liberal positions, and when a liberal faces that stark reality, it leads to yet more emotions - bitterness and hatred.
It was the same Communists who led the movement against this war that railed against US involvement in Vietnam and US involvement against Nazi Germany before that (America forgets that American Communists had no problem with Fascism until Hitler betrayed Stalin).
Wanted to send this to you, too.
Thought fodder...
Conservatives today are yesterday's classical liberals.
Today's liberals are 60's radicals - Marcusian `Marxists.
Hayek refused to allow people to call him a "conservative".
The Road To Serfdom http://jim.com/hayek.htm
by F.A. Hayek
Progressives are too Conservative to Like Capitalism
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2004/12/progressives_di.html
Liberals are the same animal who want hate crime/speech laws, smoking bans (in public and private while keeping tobacco legal), and child safety seats for anyone under 5 feet tall (while not pushing for seat belts on school buses).
The devil makes 'em do it.
Am I being facetious? I'm not sure.
Agreed. I've come to understand that Socialism and Communism are attractive to the Amreican left because it plays to their incomplete thought processes.
Liberals essentially stop their logical thought-process when they come to a pre-supposed conclusion or at the point at which they find personal benefit.
Because they feel inadequate. Infantile rage.
Thanks.
BTTT
Liberalism is a collection of efforts to relieve one's self of responsibility for one's own choices, yet take upon one's self the authority to make choices for others. It manifests itself in many ways, but it always boils down to those two things: Less accountability, and more dominion over others.
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