Posted on 05/27/2013 5:04:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Too many people who lean left would rather crack nasty jokes than actually be liberal and listen to other views.
Why is it that liberals feel no qualms about being rude? Far too many people who are perfectly polite and courteous, otherwise, think nothing of insulting you for not sharing their political opinions. They look at us with disdain, thinking we're unenlightened conservatives and never hesitating to say so.
As the lone conservative at the tennis courts, I cringe at the Sarah Palin jokes and the jabs at Mormons. When news came on 9/11 that planes had struck the World Trade Center, my partner commented that Bush would use it as an excuse to increase military spending. Bush, of course, is dumb – as are all Republicans, and we're epitomized by Dan Quayle, whose spelling of "potatoe" has entered historical canon. (Never mind Obama's telling us there are 57 states, or having a meltdown without a teleprompter) And now it's Marco Rubio, caught drinking water. "Next time he'll forget to zip his fly," joked one of the guys. Mitt Romney changes his mind more often than he changes his underwear. Reagan had Alzheimer's when he made B movies, and Bonzo had to feed him his lines. And would you believe, from a guy with a pathetic serve, this comment about the Clarence Thomas, justice of the supreme court: send him back to the plantation.
Liberals have no shame. A dinner guest in our home stood up at the table, clinked his wine glass and said, "It shows how stupid the American people are, they voted for Bush twice." He turned to me, smirking, and said, "I know you voted for him." A biochemist who had been too busy learning liberal doctrine instead of the basic manners of being a guest....
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Politics is war without bloodshed.
‘What, do they really believe that somewhere out in space is floating a gigantic marble tablet with “thou shalt not be a homophobe” carved into it in Esperanto???’
That was so funny I actually had a mild choking episode on some popcorn! I am stealing that line, and using it the first chance I get. HAHAHAHA Esperanto!
To answer your question: they don’t have an answer to that. All they can really do is 1) try to pervert Christianity to their world view (a 90 some odd year project of the Progressive Movement), 2) turn to a sort of three bong hit Eastern Mysticism, 3) co-opt some libertarian/objectivist thinking, leaving out the property rights parts, 4) go all dialectical-historical materialism/Cultural Marxist without even knowing it. None of those are very attractive positions to defend, so their rudeness is understandable, even if it’s not excused.
I know what you mean. I have a Sister who was raised right and by the same parents who raised 4 other very conservative children.
I do know when she got changed. It was when she went to Florida State University. Not even a particularly liberal school but with enough leftist professors to do the job.
Interestingly she married a guy whose family was even more conservative than ours and her Husband is the only liberal one in that family. They met in college.
I will say we get along fine but we so so by not ever discussing politics at all.
“Isn’t it like a perverted form of antinomianism where instead of the idea that mere belief in Christianity frees one from having to do the laws and rules of Christianity; it is mere belief in neo Marxism frees the Liberals from having to be personally charitable, generous, helping the poor themselves; etc. The Liberals don’t have to do good works or have good manners; they have their belief in Socialism and that is virtue enough for them.”
That is an outstanding analogy. I don’t know that I’ve seen that stated so clearly. Given the studies on who is more charitable between liberals and conservatives, that is some powerful stuff with which to smack a progressive Christian upside the head.
Well conservatives call liberals murderers with regards to abortion. I guess we can get a couple name calls too.
The difference is they are murderers and there is no logical way for it to be anything else. That has been as clear as crystal to me from the first time I understood what abortion was.
It can’t possibly anything else and anyone who says it isn’t is lying. Even if they say they are on our side.
if you identify a liberal / progresssive:
1. do not hire them
2. mess them up at work
3. do not employ their companies
4. never use their services
5. do not go to dinner with them
6. do not have drinks with them
7. if they sit at your table, get up and leave
you get the idea.
banish them and all their ilk
they believe they are more intelligent than those who don’t believe what they believe. condescension. arrogance. superiority.
“Liberal” is s misnomer, that’s all. It means “free” of course, as in free thinking, open to new ideas. The nomenclature goes back a few centuries, and these “new ideas” have hardened into dogma.
imho you most certainly met moderates. liberals can’t help themselves.
“I will say we get along fine but we so so by not ever discussing politics at all.”
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Same here. We stick to The Bruins,The Sox,and the grandchildren.
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Their religion is their own perceived intellectualism, the State and the cult politicians that serve both selfish pursuits. Conservatives are heretics in that world...
Well one guy was an admitted comunist but I guess he was moderate in a way. He and I shared a love of shooting and gun ownership and we both believed in concealed carry.
Another one I never knew but saw him regularly on Firing Line with William Buckley. I always thought Buckley took it easy on him as they were friends. His name was John Kenneth Galbraithe, the liberal Scottish economist. He once rode beside my sister all the way from England to Dulles. He took her baby and pretty much played with her the whole way. Evelyn said he was just as nice as could be.
Today’s liberals have far more in common with Hitlerite brownshirts than they ever did with Jeffersonian liberals.
Well it’s the Big Nannies vs. Everyone Responsible For Himself. With the first group considerably more juvenile in spirit than the second.
I’m practicing the delivery.
Great line!
Today’s conservatives are roughly equivalent to the old classic liberalism. This believed in freedom focused on finding truth and beauty within wide but sane bounds. The new liberalism focuses on making lies and on “cute” ugly distortion of the bounds because We Just Don’t Like It.
Inside Every Liberal Is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.
Why are liberals so rude to the right?
Because they are all little tyrants. They do not believe in freedom or democracy. If they ever manage to get rid of guns in private hands, they will institute a bloody Stalinist purge. Ayers, mentor to the president is unapologetic about his desire to kill millions of Americans.
They are rude because they are monsters. Believe it. Its the reality we must face today.
I find liberals not so much rude as fragile. They remind me of therapy addicts — you know the type, those who run from shrink to shrink but never resolve their issues. Instead, they need everyone around them to be a certain way, otherwise they’ll crack up. Which explains their need for control.
They are very confused philosophically, as well as egocentric. They tend to contradict themselves; in fact, they’re a walking paradox. Three cheers for diversity — unless you have an opinion or lifestyle different than theirs.
There is unquestionably mental illness, probably abuse, somewhere. Probably these were the kids everyone made fun of back in grade school. Parents were either overly strict or flaky/permissive. Poor boundaries, judgment, or impulse control. Terrible sense of entitlement.
Which makes them highly obnoxious. Being around them and hearing them talk is exquisite torture, which I endure every day on the ride to and from work.
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