Posted on 09/19/2023 6:26:23 AM PDT by SJackson
The greatest reason for the existential threat to America posed by the woke/the progressive/the Left is that liberals vote for them.
If liberals voted for their values, the Left-wing destruction of every American institution — the American Medical Association and medical profession generally; the universities, high school and elementary schools; and the military, among many others — could not happen.
This is the American tragedy in a nutshell: The Left votes its values. The Right votes its values. Liberals do not vote their values. Liberalism has almost nothing in common with leftism, yet virtually every liberal votes for the Left.
Liberals believe in racial integration. The Left believes in racial segregation (all-black dorms on college campuses, for example).
Liberals believe in the ideal of color-blindness. The Left rejects the ideal of color-blindness. In fact, the Left claims the very term “color-blind” is racist.
The Left maintains that all whites are racist. No liberals do.
Liberals have always believed in America (without ignoring its flaws). The Left believes America is and has always been a fundamentally immoral country.
Liberals have always believed in free speech, which, by definition, includes “hate speech.” The Left, on the other hand, does not believe in freedom of speech. There is no example in history — from the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution to the contemporary American campus — of the Left not suppressing dissent.
Liberals have always been in the forefront of those supporting Israel. The Left is anti-Israel and supports Israel’s enemies.
Liberals have always supported capitalism, knowing that there is no other economic system that maintains liberty or lifts vast numbers of people from poverty. The Left believes capitalism is evil.
Liberals regard the flag as a symbol of freedom. The Left regards the national flag as a symbol of racism and colonialism.
The Left supports giving hormone-blocking drugs to pre-pubescent children who say they are the opposite sex; removing the healthy breasts of teenage girls and young women who say they are boys; and castrating boys who say they are girls.
The Left fights for the “right” of men who say they are women to compete in women’s sports. No liberal does.
The list of liberal-leftist differences is almost as long as left-wing positions. So, the question is why? Why do liberals vote left, given that the average liberal has so much more in common with most conservative positions than with most left-wing positions?
There are three primary reasons.
One is that the average liberal has no idea what the Left is doing to the country. Whenever I relate a left-wing action or position to liberal friends or relatives, they almost all say, “That’s crazy,” and thereby dismiss the action or position as that of a handful of weirdos. Most liberals have no idea what leftists are doing to deprive children of their sexual innocence: Ask any liberal in your life if they know what “Drag Queen Story Hour” is, or that professors have to take oaths committing themselves to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in order to obtain or retain employment. In fact, I suspect few liberals even know what “DEI” stands for. Liberals read only The New York Times or The Washington Post or some other major urban newspaper and they only watch CNN and listen to NPR. Therefore, liberals know almost nothing about the Left.
The second reason is most liberals have chosen to believe that the Democratic Party is still the party of John F. Kennedy. They are fooling themselves. It is the party of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, George Soros and teachers unions.
The third reason is liberals have been brainwashed from their youth to believe that Republicans represent “the rich” and that “Right” is synonymous with “fascist.” The opposite is true: it is the Democratic Party they reflexively vote for that represents the interests of the wealthy and that is stealthily and steadily imposing fascism — the merger of state and corporate power.
For these reasons, it is the nice liberal who is enabling the vile Left to destroy the country many liberals still love.
Liberals. Values? I don’t get it. You mean like diamond rings and 80” flat screens, porsches etc. Those kinds of values?
What?
The joke is on the jackasses walking up here from South America, Central America and Mehico. The America they think they are coming to no longer exists. It’s almost the same kind of Socialist, third world crap hole they claim to be escaping from. LOL! Enjoy the walk Jose’, Ole’.
“You can always tell a Liberal. You just can’t tell them much.” - President Ronald Wilson Reagan
Dennis, what are you talking about?!
Liberals believe in racial integration. The Left believes in racial segregation (all-black dorms on college campuses, for example).
Liberals believe in the ideal of color-blindness. The Left rejects the ideal of color-blindness. In fact, the Left claims the very term “color-blind” is racist.
The Left maintains that all whites are racist. No liberals do.
Liberals have always believed in America (without ignoring its flaws). The Left believes America is and has always been a fundamentally immoral country.
Liberals have always believed in free speech, which, by definition, includes “hate speech.” The Left, on the other hand, does not believe in freedom of speech. There is no example in history — from the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution to the contemporary American campus — of the Left not suppressing dissent.
Liberals have always been in the forefront of those supporting Israel. The Left is anti-Israel and supports Israel’s enemies. Liberals have always supported capitalism, knowing that there is no other economic system that maintains liberty or lifts vast numbers of people from poverty. The Left believes capitalism is evil.
Chicago/Hollywood.New York commies hijacked the democrat party years ago... Old style 'liberals' exist, but they're powerless citizens today - NOT the power elite of the party. The progressives/commies gave free reign to greedy lowlifes like Biden and half of Washington in exchange for their compliance. TV's, diamonds, cash, power... all to be taken away from their useful idiots when the commie takeover happens.
I agree. This is not the best commentary from Dennis Prager.
Very confusing.
Yeah, I don’t really believe most of the people who say they are “liberal” are actually liberal. They vote like leftists because they are leftists. “Liberal” is just a skinsuit they put on to try and fit in with humans.
Most people in the United States do not have 25% of the political knowledge of the average reader of freerepublic.
They are not Liberals anymore.
They call themselves progressive .
What they actually are is regressives.
Taking our country backwards 100 years.
It’s time we start calling them what they are.
Change their words along with their meaning.
I know several people that seem to deplore everything in the Democrat Party platform, but vote “D” every time, across the board. They have been inculcated with the idea that “Republican” is synonymous with “evil”, and vote accordingly.
Liberals own guns, but apparently cannot add 1 plus 1 when it comes to gun rights.
He’s talking about what you didn’t read about.
This requires a history lesson. Progressives hate liberalism, and they always have. But, in the 1930s after progressives got so overwhelmingly trounced in the election of 1920 nobody would ever trust the name "progressive" for a very long time.
So progressives went sneaky. They strong-arm took over the word "liberal" as a place to camouflage what they really believe, and they have been squatting on that word ever since. They don't deserve that word. They certainly did not earn that word.
Herbert Hoover wrote about it a little bit after the '32 election. FDR himself was the originator of this idea. "We progressives should from now on call ourselves "liberal"", was essentially FDR's message early on in the campaign '32 campaign. Hoover thought it quite outrageous that statists would ever call themselves "liberal" since liberalism is an affront to progressivism.
But even in 1932, the progressives controlled the media. So who was going to stop them?
Even today, there is not a big movement among conservatives to wrest back the good name of liberalism against the state-worshipping progressive movement.
They stole it, and the word will remain stolen for years to come.
Overall this is a very good article from Mr. Prager, but it does require a history lesson about the terrible theft of such a noble word.
I THINK what he i trying to say is that (the less insane) liberals think they are ‘the good guys’ and republicans are evil.
They know stealing is wrong.
But somehow they have no problem with Biden stealing an election. They refuse to even look at actual evidence.
But they want to take us back far more than a century. Some want to take us back to the feudal era where we are the serfs and they are the dukes, earls and kings.
Others pine for the post caveman era when the earth supported only a half billion people. Of course, they do like modern conveniences, but just for them and maybe their servants.
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