Posted on 01/24/2015 7:47:49 PM PST by DeweyCA
this is the best article on liberalism I have ever read. it has every reason why I cant stand liberalism as an ideology.
“To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. — Charles Krauthammer”
Krauthammer ought to know. He was one of them long enough, writing speeches for Mondale and trying to defeat Reagan.
Has anyone asked a “Liberal”, “What do you fear about President Ted Cruz?”
After all the “Are you kidding?” “You can’t be serious!” garbage, and personal attacks, they usually can’t come up with anything serious.
Oh yeah, he’d take us back to Obama’s pre-2012 position on gay “marriage”.
Liberalism is a disease that infects the weak and removes all rational thought from the host.
See my tag line. Charles nails it.
True.
I have a dear friend who came to this country from Holland in her late teens to go to university. There she met and later married a rather wealthy man, had three children, and divorced about 15 years ago.
Post-divorce, she had ten years’ worth of a rather large alimony and child support package. She worked as a teacher in those years, and, knowing the money was going to soon stop, decided to become a lawyer. She graduated, passed the bar on the first test, and went to work as a child advocate. She is now around 50 years old.
She has, since I’ve known her, espoused the liberal political line, and argues it respectfully when we talk politics. We for years have agreed to disagree.
Her job as a child advocate however, thrust her into the underbelly of the American dependency culture.
This experience is changing her profoundly, in a way that none of my arguments for conservatism ever managed to accomplish.
She had to be hit over the head by the proverbial two-by-four, in order to change her views, but she’s definitely coming around.
Years of reasoned argument from me and other conservatives in her circle of friend never made any headway, but having now seen the sheer destruction of a whole class of people by liberal welfare and legal policies, she is correctly identifying the culprit as misguided compassion.
Perhaps those who say “you cannot argue with a liberal”, or that one cannot change their views with reason, are correct.
Is it possible the results of liberal governance are now providing the seed of a catharsis for many liberals like my friend? One can only hope.
Instead, they conjure up gods of their own making (themselves included) which they worship.
Therefore, they are co-opted by the delusions and wiles of Satan. They invent their own "truth" and self-elect themselves as judge and jury of all things "right" and "wrong". Along the way they have determined it is only they who can perfect mankind and man's institutions and it leads to the perfect convergence point of wickedness and tyranny.
Wickedness and Tyranny.
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