Posted on 07/01/2017 4:29:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
Everybody got a trophy ... and here we are ...
I discovered the same thing on about the same timeline.
People with genuine self-confidence find insults amusing.
People without it find insults offensive.
Properly responding to negative feedback is vital to all things and endeavors in this world and failing to respond correctly to negative feedback can be fatal.
Unfortunately for all of us, their perpetually evolving, progressive belief system functions as a workaround for the negative feedback that their bad ideas and actions naturally generate.
Also unfortunately, their belief system's malware lets, if not encourages, their egos' self protection feature to filter the normal negative feedback safely away from their self-esteem.
This mechanism is their belief system's poison, its fatal flaw, as well as being a clue to the identity of its designer, btw. (It's an oldie, but goodie from his bag of tricks.)
The resulting division becomes intoxicating, even addicting if pursued, and the ego loves to take it to the limit.
As near as I can tell, we feelings over thinking, emotionally-based decision makers are most vulnerable to this trap, especially those functioning at the "useful idiot" level that CNN and the rest speak to and seek identity with.
Hence the title of Michael Savage's book, Liberalism is a Mental Disorder. And that attitude is why an estimate of 200 million dead from the political actions of totalitarian regimes during the 20th Century could be close to the truth.
What you have said is absolutely on target, brilliant, and beautifully said!
It should be repeated with emphasis:
Liberals...have made politics their religion...What they really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy.
The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa...Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic.
It's also worth noting that safety in numbers is also at play. Collectivism (progressivism) depends on the anonymity of being a member of a crowd..If an individual comes up to you on the street and demands your wallet, that constitutes a robbery. If a group does it, it is a political movement. The greater the alleged size of "the resistance," the greater the number of left-leaning people at the margin of losing hope, willing to join The Movement.
in part, this is why Trump and his retinue keep using Twitter and rallies to remind we Deplorables that, indeed, there's more of us than them, and to not despair.
Our steadfast and visible defense of all that is good and right is a partial antidote to this social virus.
Everyone wants to win, and one can only hope that further winning will help turn these misguided souls to our side.
a tiny berg in the Big Empty (that is West Central Pennsylvania)
can you share the name of that burg...?
Yes. Leftists cannot learn from this. They cannot understand that theirs is the murderous totalitarian mentality that has cause so much evil and tragedy in the past--that they are merely the 21st century recrudescence of Naziism, Stalinism, Pol Pot, Mussolini, Mao Tse Tung, et al. We know it. They cannot believe it.
They are blinded by hubris and denial--the stuff of tragedy.
They are dangerous and dangerously deluded.
They are convinced that they are right, morally superior, and of superior intelligence.
What they do not understand is that they are wrong, morally inferior, and stupid.
They are determined to drag us all down the well paved, well traveled Road to Hell!
This sort of thinking comes from the fact that liberalism is shot through with narcissism. ... Liberals also believe they’re smarter, more compassionate and more caring just because they’re on the Left. Whether you’re talking about a liberal or a narcissist, this leads to high, but unstable self-esteem.
If you genuinely have high self-esteem, you can easily brush off challenges to your competence. When you have high, but unstable self-esteem, you become much more upset when your self-image is challenged. ...
This tendency is amplified by the circular reasoning of liberals. Are you a better, smarter, more caring person by virtue of being liberal? Yes. Will other liberals challenge them on this? No. Will they pay attention to non-liberals who tell them that they’re not better, smarter and more caring than other people? No. So, this leads to an ironclad feedback loop. OBVIOUSLY, liberals are sensitive, wonderful and know it all and no one who matters will even question this thinking while anyone who does isn’t worth listening to in the slightest.
Liberals project their own hatred onto conservatives regularly with their rhetoric. She doesn’t support gay marriage? She must hate gays. She doesn’t want to expand welfare? She must hate the poor. He doesn’t want to tear down a statue of a Founding Father who held slaves? He must hate black people. That’s their excuse for their own hatred. It’s actually YOU who hates everyone; so they have to HATE YOU right back. This accounts for what my girlfriend Sierra Marlee calls their “I care about everyone and if you don’t believe that then I hope your kids get cancer” attitude.
Totally tagable - thanks.
Communists always hate freedom loving people.
Wasn’t the inspiration for the Hunger Games the author’s fear that somehow Bush was a fascist who was going to overthrow the American Republic? How ironic that she created a model description of socialism’s ultimate state.
Liz, thanks for the image.
Yaelle, thanks for the less blurry image.
My fav area: the Common Sense Particle :)
I’m surprised some even HAVE a common sense particle! ;)
DoodleBob in response to your post #39.. you framed it perfectly.
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