Posted on 01/01/2012 11:49:29 PM PST by Crucial
I've often pondered what makes a liberal, a liberal. They tend to do so much damage throughout history and are incredibly difficult to defeat. Figuring out what makes them tick would seem to be priority number one. As I thought about it recently I came to a revelation that others have discovered but never fleshed out to my satisfaction. That revelation is that liberals fear and loathe their own humanity. Liberals loathe their own humanity because well, being human means being naturally flawed or seemingly so. I personally think that if we weren't flawed there wouldn't be any real challenges in life in exceling beyond our limitations.
Liberals apparently can't handle these innate flaws that come with being human and deep down that hurts their pride. They are mortified when they look inward, when they feel racially insecure, or think a sexist thought or feel a need to be greedy. They loathe themselves because of these all too human feelings and because of their shame they feel they must stamp them out and control them in others. They have to feel like they are above their human emotions so they can feel worthy of praise. Liberals fear being judged on their natural feelings.
Liberals don't understand that regardless of the past, that they are no better than their ancestors deep down, that controlling ones negative tendencies gives one character and strength. Ignoring that we are flawed and taking away others' choice to control their own bad behavior leads to a society that lacks self-control and builds resentment and actually encourages bad behavior.
This bad behavior originates because of this lack of self-control and because the aura of "holy purpose" liberals give to their crusades. One need only accuse someone of not being a convert the the liberals' "religion" of political correctness and you risk ostricism in various spheres of life. And so the free-thinking man or woman, where all innovation springs is handcuffed and gagged. Scientific and economic advancement stagnate as a result.
This need to control and regulate, however, leads to a type of totalitarianism that more cynical people would harness to enrich themselves in both wealth and power just for that purpose. Totalitarianism is begun by the well-meaning liberal and then they, being unsophisticated in human nature because they won't look inward, are then manipulated by the more cynical and ambitious among us. This is how freedom ends. I think it's happening now.
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I agree with and would only add that liberals both cannot rule themselves AND will not rule themselves. The first is born of willful ignarance and the second is simple laziness. They need a ruler to dictate their behaviour so that they can remain comfortable in their own mess.
Absolutely right. Just look at socialism. It has failed - everywhere. For you lib lurkers, that means it has never, ever, anywhere, any-time it has been tried been successful at creating a happy prosperous society. So why do they keep pushing it?
Either they hate their fellow man and wish to impose misery and suffering on them... Or they are willfully, wantonly ignoring the past because they seem to think things will be different this time around.
Liberals need to learn that they are no smarter nor better (in any respects) than the people that have tried it before. This time won't be different because "the right people" are in charge. There are no right people. Not only are they no better than their predecessors, everyone else hasn't much changed either. Human nature is still human nature. Socialism is going to fail every single time. In cannot and will not ever succeed.
You know, watching liberals do stupid things, espouse failed ideas and ideals, would be funny (in a kind of mean, pitying way) if they weren't so serious about it and trying it here.
Liberals tend to interact with reality as they wish it were.
Conservatives tend to interact with reality as it is.
The first situation results in a world that might be found on the other side of the looking glass. I, for one, reject their effort to cram me into their warped vision.
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Cats are also capable of envy. As with humans, their envy is a byproduct of pride. Although very different emotions, pride leads to envy which left unchecked develops into hate and malice.
Human evolution is mostly driven by envy. Without it our intelligence would not have developed much beyond the amount needed to find food and shelter. Envy is what causes murder and more importantly tribal warfare. When war breaks out the more genetically or culturally advanced tribe has the advantage. Unlike natural selection which is slow and produces many variations on a theme, tribal warfare is quick and decisive, the losers completely killed off. Envy driven tribal warfare is the reason there is only one species of human alive today.
Leftists have always been with us. Even though they tend to lose in war and be killed off disproportionately they spontaneously reform from the left side of the bell curve.
There are two main ways to fight envy: 1) Mock the envious. Like Satan their vanity makes them thin skinned and unable to sustain mockery. They find it so devastating they consider it a powerful weapon and therefore use it frequently against the targets of their envy, though to less effect. 2) Cultivate humility, a virtue, not pride, a vice. The self-esteem movement infects young people with the mind virus of leftism which leads to evil.
Great observation. How else can one explain the lack of uproarious laughter at the claim that Clinton, the ex-Governor of a former slave-holding state, was "the first black President".
I'm in absolute agreement with that. I've thought the same thing myself.
Of course, well-meaning liberal, denying his own nature and not recognizing it in others, eventually becomes bitter and resentful of others enough to become totalitarian or at least allow it in hopes of enforcing utopia.
Of course, well-meaning liberal, denying his own nature and not recognizing it in others, eventually becomes bitter and resentful of others enough to become totalitarian.
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