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Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals "Think"
The Heritage Foundation ^ | May 10 2007 | Evan Sayet

Posted on 02/09/2008 10:52:51 PM PST by Rurudyne

EVAN SAYET

I call myself a 9/13 Republican. I grew up a liberal New York Jew; you don't get much more liberal than that--although it was lower-case "l," not what's considered Liberal today. I graduated from high school knowing only one thing about politics: that Democrats are good and Republicans are evil.

I tell a story. It's not a true story, but it helps crys­tallize my thinking that brought me to become a conservative. I say: Imagine being in a restaurant with an old friend, and you're catching up, and suddenly he blurts out, "I hate my wife." You chuckle to yourself because he says it every time you're together, and you know he doesn't hate his wife; they've been together for 35 years. He loves his daughters, and they're just like her. No, he doesn't hate his wife.

So you're having dinner, and you look out the window and spot his wife, and she's being beaten up right outside the restaurant. You grab your friend and say, "Come on, let's help her. Let's help your wife," and he says, "Nah, I'm sure she deserves it." At that moment, it dawns on you: He really does hate his wife.

That's what 9/11 was to me. For years and years I'd hear my friends from the Left say how evil and horrible and racist and imperialistic and oppressive America is, and I'd chuckle to myself and think, "Oh, they always say that; they love America." Then on 9/11, we were beaten up, and when I grabbed them by the collar, and I said, "Come on, let's help her. Let's help America," and they said, "Nah, she deserves it."

At that moment, I realized: They really do hate America.

(Excerpt) Read more at heritage.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 911; antiamericanism; dementalillness; democrat; democratparty; epiphany; heritagefoundation; imagine; liberal; liberalism; liberals; ostriches; september12era; youtube
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To: wintertime
Thankfully, the wall that separated the Hudson River from the subway did not fail. If that had happen the river would have flooded the subways tunnels.

Which was the objective of the July 07, 2006 plot to bomb the PATH train tunnel:

The men believed that by bombing the train tunnels, they could unleash a severe flood in lower Manhattan, including Wall Street, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. The official also said investigators believe that an attack on a train tunnel, unlike the Holland Tunnel, could have achieved that goal.
If they had cracked the PATH tunnel walls under the river, and flooded the tunnel, the whole lower-Manhatten subway system sits below the water line
61 posted on 02/10/2008 9:07:02 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: Rurudyne

Wow! This is an excellent piece. It offers a perspective on WHY do they think the way they do that I’d dimly realized- but he makes it clear and coherent. God bless this fine and funny man.

Thank you so much for posting!


62 posted on 02/10/2008 9:14:02 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: STARWISE; Bahbah

Ping for you to read this illuminating article:)


63 posted on 02/10/2008 9:16:01 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: BIGLOOK; Carry_Okie

Let’s help America,” and they said, “Nah, she deserves it.”

At that moment, I realized: They really do hate America.


64 posted on 02/10/2008 9:31:03 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: GOPJ; Rurudyne
Thanks for the thread and the ping, a worthwhile read.

If they're not evil, then the next place your mind goes is that they must just be incredibly stupid. They don't mean to always side with evil, the failed and wrong; they just don't know what they're doing.

Excusing evil as stupid, something I've often done.

65 posted on 02/10/2008 9:50:12 AM PST by SJackson (If 45 million children had lived, they'd be defending America, filling jobs, paying SS-Z. Miller)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

High Volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel. or WOT [War on Terror]

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The entire article at the link is a worthwhile read

66 posted on 02/10/2008 10:05:23 AM PST by SJackson (If 45 million children had lived, they'd be defending America, filling jobs, paying SS-Z. Miller)
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To: Swordmaker

Thanks for the ping!


67 posted on 02/10/2008 10:06:38 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: george76
See 47.
68 posted on 02/10/2008 10:13:21 AM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power with desire for evil.)
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To: Swordmaker
It's not a true story, but it helps crystallize my thinking that brought me to become a conservative.
Hey, I was born this way. :')
69 posted on 02/10/2008 10:44:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, February 10, 2008)
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To: Swordmaker

Thank you so much for pinging the Shroud list. This is an outstanding read, and one I would otherwise have missed.


70 posted on 02/10/2008 10:46:29 AM PST by lonevoice (John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
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To: Rurudyne

Been posted here before, but that’s alright with me- I enjoy more each time.

BTW, Evan is a Freeper - cob201


71 posted on 02/10/2008 10:51:05 AM PST by WackySam
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Flight 800. Lets not forget that. And the BS they tried to feed us afterwards.

If the target of 9/11 was more limited and not so “obvious” it would have been covered up as well.


72 posted on 02/10/2008 10:53:41 AM PST by Vermont Lt (I am not from Vermont. I lived there for four years and that was enough.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Everyone seems to forget about Clinton's poorly planned cruise missile attack on Osama's compound right at the moment Monica was spilling the beans on Clinton to a grand jury. The purpose was to suddenly grab the headlines and scare Monica and the grand jury about Clinton's power. The cruise missiles cost about a billion dollars and did little military damage. It stirred up a hornets nest without killing any of the hornets.

9/11 was a revenge "cruise missile" attack by Osama. The only reason it didn't take place while Clinton was in office is it took long to plan an organize.

73 posted on 02/10/2008 11:16:53 AM PST by Reeses (Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
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To: Reeses
9/11 was a revenge "cruise missile" attack by Osama. The only reason it didn't take place while Clinton was in office is it took long to plan an organize. 9/11 was a revenge "cruise missile" attack by Osama. The only reason it didn't take place while Clinton was in office is it took long to plan an organize.

the first part is reasonable; the second, conjecture.

In any event, have you read my "stockbroker" theory?

74 posted on 02/10/2008 11:19:28 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (anyone can be a soldier in peacetime.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Osama’s still alive so I suppose he’s told someone what really motivated him. If Osama’s cave is found just before the election I wonder if that will help or hurt the war on terrorism.


75 posted on 02/10/2008 11:30:03 AM PST by Reeses (Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Perhaps you already know this, but there are online programs from schools such as MIT.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm

No credit, but auditors are welcome.

Of course online degree programs also exist. My son went through the Univ of Phoenix program for an MBA and I can say that the program is authentic and up to date.


76 posted on 02/10/2008 11:47:19 AM PST by KC_for_Freedom (Settled in California to nurse our son back to health)
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To: KC_for_Freedom
No credit, but auditors are welcome.

And therein lies the problem.

Of course online degree programs also exist. My son went through the Univ of Phoenix program for an MBA and I can say that the program is authentic and up to date.

I know, but that's hardly what we need to break the academy out of the iron fist of the left.

77 posted on 02/10/2008 11:54:05 AM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power with desire for evil.)
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To: Rurudyne; BraveMan; FBD
"In all fairness, the whining of various Clintonistas about how the timing of the attack prevented THEIR guy from having a chance to prove his greatness seems to make it unlikely they knowingly helped it to happen."

I respectfully disagree with you on [that] point, above.
Anyone claiming to know the Clintons in the least, what one or both did and were/are capable would believe a single solitary word coming out of their lying mouths, whining notwithstanding. In fact a damned solid argument could be mounted one w/could always know when a Clinton was lying because their mouth would be moving.
Fact.

The very fact the Clinton & Clintonistas whined makes a[ny] theory they were in some way, somehow complicit quite plausible, indeed.

Moreover using hindsight looking back at the course of events following 911, it makes more & more sense they were involved. Because 911 --incredibly-- provided Liberal-Socialists everywhere multiple platforms from which to launch attacks against the United States of America, American citizens, the American military and on and on so long as it was "American".

I do not believe in *coincidence* SO the leftist's treasonous shticks struck me as all-too-prepared, too well organized with one attack following the other before the first was even finished.

Were the Clintons involved, at any level insofar as 911 was concerned?
I've no way of knowing for sure except to say knowing them as I do *&* having lived through 8 (long) years of their regime? The most corrupt regime in the republic's history? I cannot in all honesty say learning they were involved wouldn't surprise me one iota and that is as "fair" as I can and will be on the subject of everything Clinton.

The Clintons, both of them, were and ARE nothing if not irrationally spiteful; while, no one could claim either Clinton ever cared about anything except themselves, their own enrichment and the furtherance of their own power using --solely-- their own *deed(s)*.

...as a barometer.

78 posted on 02/10/2008 12:28:38 PM PST by Landru (~& when the band you're in starts playing *different * tunes...)
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To: SJackson
FYI just in case you've missed/not read this man's thesis.

...& returning a favor.

79 posted on 02/10/2008 12:31:06 PM PST by Landru (~& when the band you're in starts playing *different * tunes...)
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To: AnAmericanMother
As for moments of epiphany . . . if 9/11 wasn't an epiphany, what the heck is it going to take?

Unfortunately, look how many of them did accept 9/11 as an epiphany and instead of realizing that we're under attack from without, decided it proved that "conservatives' our own government were behind it and solidified their hatred of George W. Bush and started them claiming "it was an inside job!"

Notice how this inversion validates the thrust of this article.

80 posted on 02/10/2008 12:33:25 PM PST by Swordmaker (We can fix this, but you're gonna need a butter knife, a roll of duct tape, and a car battery.)
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