[wagglebee]

From the taking of our money that we work hard to earn and use to provide for our loved ones - to the direct communication, sympathy, and willingness to give the benefit of the doubt to those who wish to kill us - liberals are attempting to construct a society that few of us should wish to live in. Should they be left to their own devices they will rig the system to their own benefit and only the voices of "We the People" are able to stop them.

Very true!

[xcamel]

"E" over "I" equals disaster in most cases.

[sanjacjake]

You gotta put Jessie and Al in there somewhere...two
of the most Revered con-men on the planet, as that other
New York intellectual wizard, Imus, would say?? JK

[RacerX1128]

This should be a weekly thing.

[HitmanLV]

Anybody interested in a very fascinating lecture on how liberals think should view comedian/comedy writer Evan Sayet's words to The Heritage Foundation a while back.

"How Liberals Think" by Evan Sayet 

Also check out Evan's blog.  GREAT STUFF!! 

[yldstrk]

Form over substance?

[SALChamps03]

John Travolta, not to be outdone, felt free to lecture movie goers at the British premiere of his new movie, about the perils of global warming as well. Shortly thereafter it was discovered that as he was busy adding up some 30,000 flight miles in the past year, on his personal fleet of five airplanes, his personal carbon emissions rate stood at 800 tons; more than 100 times the average person.

In all fairness to Travolta, he admitted that perhaps he wasn't the best person to be talking about the issue because of the amount of fuel he consumes.

[I see my hands]

The problem with the Left isn't that they are wrong, it's that they are bad. They know better.

[rockrr]

Liberals are almost always wrong, on nearly everything, and to not recognize it accelerates our own, painful, and dramatic destruction.

Hmmm. Try as I might, I can't find fault with this man's conclusions! ;'}

[cody32127]

How liberals fight

[supercat]

They do so because they adopt a worldview that is based on "what feels good." They follow impulses instead of moral standards. And they seem to cheer for our enemies instead of our allies. Which when you think of it seems to be a defining characteristic of someone who has lost their mind.

It's simpler than that. Liberalism requires that its useful idiots not listen to conservatives, since if they listened to conservatives they wouldn't remain liberal. Therefore, the useful idiots must be taught to regard everything conservatives say as wrong. Since conservatives are, in fact, right more than 50% of the time, it logically follows that the messages the useful idiots follow will be wrong more than 50% of the time.

[Cacique]

btt

[guitfiddlist]

I just emailed this warning to all my clear-thinking friends and relatives:
......................

I'd been thinking recently about how profoundly wrong liberals have been in recent history and how they've now descended into tightening spirals of irrationality.

Not to say that conservatives have been right about everything. I'd be the first to admit that conservatives, if there're any left in DC, have made some major mistakes in both policies and strategies, yet conservatism still retains a sane basis for deciding on its positions.

It's also not to say that the original Liberalism that guided the Founding Fathers is what's being discussed here. The liberalism I'm talking about arose from the 60's semi-revolution, and is a movement which I've been able to observe from within and from up close.

A fair observer would have to say that today's liberals cannot be uniformly categorized as evil nor eminently stupid. Too many of us have close friends and relatives that subscribe to liberalism, yet who are often quite nice and intelligent people. I will say, however, that they consistently demonstrate a major disconnect between the liberal policies they advocate for distant realms, and the way they live their personal lives and run their business affairs. Some would call this blatant hypocrisy, but I'm trying to be charitable here, and will attribute this to the need to survive, since if they actually followed what they advocate for the nation at large, they would not be around for too long.

In trying to capture what it is that makes them so reliably wrong, I'd started with their foundational assumptions and biases, but settled on the more accurate - "sentimentalisms", to coin a word. Sentimentalisms are utopian beliefs about what the world SHOULD be, and not what it is. Sentimentalisms guide liberals in their political beliefs, philosophies and movements, whereas real-world assumptions and biases are used to navigate their far more rational personal lives and business activities. As an example, here in Shanghai, where ALL my expat friends and colleagues profess to be liberals, most of them live and act like the hard-edged conservatives they so like to caricature Republicans as being. If they don't, they'll be absolutely steamrolled by the fast-moving and advantage-seeking Shanghainese, who don't even pretend to share their utopian fantasies.

By a stroke of luck...or synchronicity, I happened to find this link to an online YouTube speech about the same subject. It's a speech by a Hollywood comedian, who was a liberal New York Democrat, but who abandoned his liberalism after 9/11 and a lot of reflection. In the skewed credentialism that dominates the left when it comes to who they think should have the right to comment on particular subjects, he has absolutely sterling qualifications to speak out about liberalism. Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c

This hard-hitting speech says pretty much everything I'd wanted to put down on paper, but goes further in that it nails down the evolution of modern liberal thinking, and then details some of its more bizarre ramifications - such as leftist excusism for jihadists, who are not only against everything that liberals ostensibly stand for, but would happily lop off their heads for holding such infidel beliefs. This guy makes sense, and none too soon. You won't see this on mainstream media, of course, but the power of the internet is such that the leftist media can now be bypassed in getting messages of sanity out to the sentient beings out there that still care.

Normally, I couldn't be bothered to send these kinds of things out between elections, but world events are rapidly coalescing to challenge our wholly complacent existences, and the luxury of tolerating political insanity from our fellow citizens will be fast disappearing. The gathering clouds of war with a jihad-bound Iran (entailing mass terrorist attacks in the US), a financial implosion on the domestic scene, and a looming trade/currency war with China are collectively fixin' to hit the fan, and all at about the same time. It'd be a great plotline for a film about the fall of some great empire in long-ago history, but unfortunately, we're all going to be "extras" in this movie as it plays out.

Liberalism has done more than its part to engineer these showdowns in its typically obtuse fashion, but conservatives have also done their part in going along with what seemed so sentimentally and faaaaaashionably "progressive". That time needs to be over now, as the consequences of all the sentimentally irrational policies we've implemented at liberalism's behest are coming straight to our doorsteps.

Stay tuned to world events, as they will soon be local...