Posted on 04/18/2008 5:36:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Criticisms of liberals can be kept to a much simpler set of arguments:
Your philosophy tells you it is a good thing to hit your hand repeatedly and hard with a claw hammer. You see other people do it and severely injure their hands. But you insist that you have to do it, because you will do it differently, so that it somehow “works”. When you do it, you severely injure your hand, but you insist that it works, that it doesn’t hurt, and it achieves the goal your philosophy promised. It not only worked, but worked better than any alternative could work. Thus, you are a liberal.
When others point out that you have severely damaged your hand, you deny it, and curse at them as being evil for denying your philosophy. When even you cannot ignore the pain, you insist that it is only because you didn’t hit hard enough, or that a vast, right-wing conspiracy of doubters somehow sabotaged the hammer, or your swing, with their vicious and Nazi-like negative thoughts and dark conspiracies.
You demand more and more money, and that everyone’s hammer must be completely equal, as is their swing to hit their hands. Perhaps if everyone swings at the same time, it will finally achieve what your philosophy says it will.
The increasing derision of others to the entire hand banging philosophy you greet by insisting that you are an idealist and a dreamer, not burdened with the bourgeoisie and boring effort to work for a living or raise a healthy and happy family. For you know that all families will be happy, once hand banging with a claw hammer is perfected.
Most of the rest of mankind make you sick to your stomach, because they neither recognize the greater truth of banging their hand with a claw hammer, nor respect it. Fortunately you have many allies in other nations who know the truth as well, unlike the doubting and sinning non-hand bangers in your own country.
It would be a good thing if the vast majority of humanity was destroyed, so that hand banging would be the normal state of affairs. Because surely, those forces strong enough to wipe out the vast majority of humanity would respect the hand bangers as the superior survivors.
Because, in the final analysis, hand banging is what makes the sun rise in the East, what gives the world its seasons, what makes the oceans wet and the sky blue. And if we hand bangers want, we can change any of it.
Thus is the power of hand banging, saith the liberal.
“Religion inspires us to become better people, but I don’t think it is correct to say that without it, people will do anything.”
As a cynic I suspect most people are not really inspired, just working for the reward of heaven, or to avoid Hell.
“I saw a survey recently where people were asked what made them behave properly, and religion was far down on the list. The number one thing that made people behave was social pressure—the fear that their friends would find out what they did and look down on them for it.”
The survey makes my point. They behave because they are afraid of the consequences of getting caught. Not because they want to do the right thing. It would be interesting to compare the responses of believers with non believers. For believers I think religion would be much higher.
These people should be hung by the neck in a public place.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
EXCELLENT.
THX
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