What's a whining liberal to do?
Posted on 11/13/2001 4:33:42 PM PST by BigWaveBetty
TrogL (502 posts)
Nov-13-01, 04:01 PM (ET)
"I'm tired of being a liberal (rant)"
Maybe you're like me - you're tired of being a liberal. It ain't easy being a liberal. It seems to take ten times the energy to support a liberal position than the conservatives expend supporting theirs. It's just so much easier being a conservative. I've watched my mother over the years. She's the epitomy of conservatism (but wierdly, votes Liberal). Everything she believes in is "right" and totally defensible within her little "box". The other day she came out with "I'd hate to be a liberal and have to live in a messy house." She blew a 10 minute tantrum because my water glass was one inch to the left of its proper position. Any refutation of her position is "nonsense" and "lies". If she says something is black and I point out some grey characteristics, she will claim I'm saying it's white. A few minutes later she will unbashedly reverse herself, citing a different set of "facts".
I envy her.
Maybe I'm just too smart for my own good. She certainly says that often enough. Maybe sometime soon the scales will fall from my eyes and I will see that I'm deluding myself, that the world really is black and white and "proper" people get all the goodies because they're "right". The local businessman who's been ripping people off for years and gets away with it because of his political connections is OK because he's a "nice" person and wears good suits. Maybe I can see that people who aren't like me aren't as good as me and deserve what they get. Maybe I don't need to pay my taxes because they go toward causes I don't agree with. Maybe I shouldn't support Universal health care because some of it might go towards getting crack whores off drugs. Maybe I shouldn't support the Girl Guides because they won't condemn homosexuality.
I'm having trouble remembering why I need to deal with issues that aren't in my back yard. It's enough to vote for the politicians and hope for the best. I'm sure I can think of some way of justifying that it all turned out for the best in the end.
It's difficult for me to remember how other cultures could possibly have a meaningful influence on mine. If their ideas were really all that valuable, they'd be running things, not us. Let them do things our way - it's worked up until now.
I've worked long and hard and had some rough times, but now I've got a good job. I'm starting to forget why such a huge chunk disappears out of my paycheck every month and the government seems to rarely do something for me anymore.
When I've been reading the Bible, I've concentrated in the past on the New Testament, but it's difficult when the Apostles contradict each other and themselves. It's so much easier to skip over most of it or stick to the passages that are easy to understand, like the stuff in Leviticus. I'm finding it so confusing to listen to my priest dissect the intricacies of the Trinity - maybe I'll switch to Southern Baptist. I can shout "praise Jaysus" with the best of them.
I'm having trouble understanding how the courts can make the law so difficult to enforce. If somebody caught the police's attention, they must have done something wrong. Best to keep them in jail until enough evidence turns up to convict them. There's too many "guilty" people walking the streets. Readers' Digest is full of articles about judges allowing guilty people to go free on technicalities.
Foreign affairs used to be so easy. There were good guys and bad guys and God was on our side. We went to war with the bad guys and won. It's slipped my mind why we had to pay to rebuild other people's countries afterward. I can't understand whether the Northern Alliance is the good guys or the bad guys. It used to be so simple.
I feel so very old.
I am so very tired.
O Brave New World that has such people in it.
I think someone has issues. LOL!
Can't decide if it's really Micheal Kinsey, Chris LaHane or Jame Carville.
They generally think that, and are generally mistaken.
"The problem with our liberal friends is not that they no so much, it's that they know so much that isn't so.
--
Ronald Regan
No, that's not it....
Guess again....
They generally think that, and are generally mistaken.
Case in point, dighton:
I'm finding it so confusing to listen to my priest dissect the intricacies of the Trinity - maybe I'll switch to Southern Baptist. I can shout "praise Jaysus" with the best of them.
Apparently he's under the impression that Southern Baptists don't believe in the Trinity. He's never heard of Spurgeon, I gather.
I am laughing so hard.
She blew a 10 minute tantrum because my water glass was one inch to the left of its proper position.
Still living at home. Whatta ya think? Fifth grade? Or maybe even a Freshman?
WHat is so wrong with thinking things through and deciding what's right on a set of principles that don't shift? Being a liberal really is tiring...it's futility, everything they believe has been proven to be fundamentally wrong.
What's a whining liberal to do?
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