Posted on 05/14/2007 9:09:51 PM PDT by jazusamo
Just wanted to repeat it.
Reminds me of a Berkeley communist with whom I once had a little chat.
This was about 10 years ago.
When I told him that communism had failed everywhere, he said, "No, it hasn't. It's never been tried."
For sure. And, let’s not forget how much they hate the 2nd Amendment which empowers the Great Unwashed which the Left is scared to death of. If the Hildabeast is elected POTUS be assured she will make an attempt to have it rescinded or neutered in some fashion.
Absolutely correct. That statement is even more amazing considering that there never was any debate. The global warming doomists simply announced their verdict before any real discussion could begin. There is now a growing number of scientists and informed people who are quite skeptical. The debate is definitely NOT!!! over.
All of this Leftist anger is more understandable when you realize that the purpose of socialism is not equal prosperity, but equal suffering, pain, and death.
They won’t be happy until they’re supervising the killing fields.
Mash here folks...
http://samvak.tripod.com/journal10.html
“I feel entitled to more. I feel it is my right - due to my intellectual superiority - to lead a thrilling, rewarding, kaleidoscopic life. I feel entitled to force life itself, or, at least, people around me - to yield to my wishes and needs, supreme among them the need for stimulating variety.
This rejection of habit is part of a larger pattern of aggressive entitlement. I feel that the very existence of a sublime intellect (such as myself) warrants concessions and allowances. Standing in line is a waste of time best spent pursuing knowledge, inventing and creating. I should avail myself of the best medical treatment proffered by the most prominent medical authorities - lest the asset that is I be lost to Mankind. I should not be bothered with proofreading my articles (or even re-reading them) - these lowly jobs best be assigned to the less gifted. The devil is in paying precious attention to details.
Entitlement is sometimes justified in a Picasso or an Einstein. But I am neither. My achievements are grotesquely incommensurate with my overwhelming sense of entitlement. I am but a mediocre and forgettable scribbler who, at the age of 39, is a colossal under-achiever, if anything.
Of course, the feeling of supremacy often serves to mask a cancerous complex of inferiority. Moreover, I infect others with my projected grandiosity and their feedback constitutes the edifice upon which I construct my self-esteem. I regulate my sense of self-worth by rigidly insisting that I am above the madding crowd while deriving my Narcissistic Supply from this very thus despised source.
But there is a second angle to this abhorrence of the predictable. As a narcissist, I employ a host of Emotional Involvement Prevention Mechanisms (EIPM). Despising routine and avoiding it is one of these mechanisms. Their function is to prevent me from getting emotionally involved and, subsequently, hurt. Their application results in an “approach-avoidance repetition complex”. The narcissist, fearing and loathing intimacy, stability and security - yet craving them - approaches and then avoids significant others or important tasks in a rapid succession of apparently inconsistent and disconnected behaviours.”
Tax cuts enhance revenue only in the long term, and liberals stupidly believe that such long-term revenue enhancement would have been even greater absent tax cuts, that the American people essentially enjoy paying taxes and do not attempt to avoid confiscatory levels thereof.
When I told him that communism had failed everywhere, he said, "No, it hasn't. It's never been tried."
You should have told him, "Communism has succeeded everywhere it has been tried - what's worse, when people found out what the success of communism meant, it has taken them decades to get out from under it."Communism - all socialism - is nothing more than the use of power (in the case of milder forms of socialism such as is called "liberalism" in America, PR power) to arrogate credit from those who deserve it to those who have that power. All socialist schemes are perpetual-motion machines which "work" only in the sense that the perpetrators of the schemes are able to deflect blame for the ill effects of their schemes onto third parties.
For example, the minimum wage is actually always zero, which is what you get when you are not employed. When the socialist raises the "minimum wage," the socialist gets the credit for the raises that young workers get at that time which they would have gotten anyway a little later. If the employer never ever would have voluntarily paid that particular employee the new "minimum wage," the employer would have resorted to his only other recourse, which would have been to fire that employee. More generally, an increase in the "minimum wage" raises the bar for the productivity of the entry-level worker - who must then show greater credentials, or at least greater prospects, than before in order to justifiy being initially employed at the higher "minimum wage" rather than remaining unemployed at the true minimum wage of zero.Socialism exists to make socialists look good to people who don't ask the second question.
The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing . . .It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith
It’s also amazing how illiberal these leftists are. True liberals tolerate, even encourage debate. They would want the people of Afghanistan and Iraq to be free. They wouldn’t tolerate the government telling us what to eat or think. These aren’t really liberals, they’re leftists.
Bears repeating.
It always goes back to the age-old question, "Are they evil or are they just stupid?"
Thanks for posting Dr. Sowell’s brilliant observations! He gets it right, yet again!
The Left is perpetually angry because they view themselves as superior, and cannot understand how they keep losing to inferiors.
“What is surprising, however, is how often the opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred.”
While the Left has always hated Ronald Reagan, they didn’t exude hatred every time they opened their collective mouths as they do today with George Bush, or Dick Cheney, or Karl Rove.
Seven years ago, you could engage an avowed liberal in forums like this, and most of the time have a fairly civil ‘conversation’. Those days are long gone however.
Now, in forums that allow all sides of a political debate, the Leftwingers mount campaigns against specific posters, from the harmless ‘just don’t respond’ to more aggressive acts, such as finding a posters email address and spamming those they disagree with. Sometimes goes even farther than that, still relatively harmless, but initially annoying action.
Whats curious to me is the Left won the last election cycle, and they appear even more angry today than last September.
Its almost mass hysteria, in short.
The good news is this type of irrationality causes the Left to overstep, to misread, and to exhibit infantile behavior normally expected by spoiled sixth graders.
That should work in the GOP’s favor when the time comes in 2008.
Just look at how vicious the discourse in the leftwing forums has become in regards to their own candidates.
Why do liberals/leftists hate? Envy and resentment.
Hillary as President, Bill as Secretary General, the US taken over for the “common good” by the UN during some trumped up “emergency”- find my tinfoil hat, please.
Community of Goods:
"Hutterites live in community, that is they share all of their possessions; The idea of Community of Goods stems from many examples found in the bible, including the following:
"And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. And they, continuing daily, with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favor with all people."
This man is an icon, and clean too.
Pray for W and Our Troops
“it is hard to find a principal behind what angers the left....”
the left may be unprincipled but the factor which underlies leftist anger is pure, unadulterated, unvarnished, insanity; the insanity of the eternal adolescent, the insanity of an up-bringiing with no regard for reality except the internal reality of sick beings, distorted to the point of demanding continnual gratification and fulfillment based upon visceral need as is a rabid animal.
leave it to the so-called “american electorate” to contiinue to elect animals who will be the insane pigs at the trough of “social justice” who will open the gulags in order to find eternal social justice, ad nauseum.
Bumperoo!
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