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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: Swordmaker
Exactly.

My point is, will ANYthing rescue them from their endless loop of non-factual-based thinking?

81 posted on 02/10/2008 12:40:00 PM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Landru

I wouldn’t put anything past the Klintons


82 posted on 02/10/2008 12:40:37 PM PST by FBD ("I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good president," ~ John McCain on NBC's "Meet the Press)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion; FBD; BraveMan
Thank you for remembering me c_I_c, I might've missed this excellent analysis if not for you. ;^)

BM & FBD, THIS is required reading, just follow the link.
While compared to what's usually posted here in length, considering the subject the author synopsizes the predicament extremely well. Man does an exemplary job with his research into what makes today's Liberal-Socialist buggers *tick*.

Among many excellent points the author does say, paraphrased, "We must take back our institutions of higher learning etc etc...to which I say, too late for taking anything back, now.

That means just one thing.
Either of you two care to venture a guess what that "thing" will very likely be?

... -BTTT-

83 posted on 02/10/2008 12:43:25 PM PST by Landru (~& when the band you're in starts playing *different * tunes...)
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To: Landru

start over?


84 posted on 02/10/2008 12:47:42 PM PST by FBD ("I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good president," ~ John McCain on NBC's "Meet the Press)
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To: FBD
"start over?"

Whaaaaaaaat, start a'tall. :o)

...-BTTT-

85 posted on 02/10/2008 1:00:22 PM PST by Landru (~& when the band you're in starts playing *different * tunes...)
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To: Landru; conservatism_IS_compassion; BraveMan

that is a good essay CIC,
thanks for the ping to it, Lan.

>”we should not be embarrassed by their begging the question but should demand that they prove their case.”<

-agreed.
But I’m still stumped over that “one thing”, that landru refers to, so I’m hoping he will enlighten us...unless Brave Man has the answer!


86 posted on 02/10/2008 1:00:43 PM PST by FBD ("I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good president," ~ John McCain on NBC's "Meet the Press)
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To: FFranco; BIGLOOK
or were they part of the plan to allow the terrorists to successfully attack our Nation?

I don't believe that for a minute. That's ranks right up there with the Truthers. That the Dems in power were negligent is for sure, but I don't believe that they were in on the plan.

87 posted on 02/10/2008 1:34:01 PM PST by StarCMC (http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com; http://starcmc.wordpress.com/ - The Enemedia is inside the gates.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
At that moment, I realized: They really do hate America.

Yes they do. And there's another factor:

They are statistically very unlikely to be personally effected by terrorism.

It is part of the self centered nature of the Baby Boomers.

I'm one of em, and I'm ashamed of them

88 posted on 02/10/2008 1:41:50 PM PST by lawnguy (The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
The Left DOES hate this country. I saw it first hand during the Vietnam anti-war protests. Many of them were be paid by the Soviet Union. The railed against “the establishment.” No, I see that THEY wanted to be the establishment. They scream that “Bush is a dictator.” It is THEY that want to be dictators. I remember several of them saying during Vietnam that “dissent from the Right will not be tolerated.” They openly... and happily talked about raping and killing people....WHITE AMERICANS were their targets, even though they were white, themselves. My ex was least honest about them. He said, “we don’t care about people. We’re dictators, we’re Communists.”
89 posted on 02/10/2008 1:50:35 PM PST by societygirl
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To: the invisib1e hand
Start with Jimmy Carter, and the Iranian hostage mess. The Mid-East, always a problem, fell apart right then. We KNOW how Carter feels about this country, and his love, even then, for dictators.
90 posted on 02/10/2008 1:52:42 PM PST by societygirl
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To: Swordmaker
> ...the only thing about this article relating to Apple is in the title...

Gee, and here I thought immediately that, New York City Jewish liberal and all, the author clearly meant "The Big Apple", i.e. New York City.

Regurgitation is not what comes to mind when I think Apple Computers. But it is, when I think of NYC. I'm from Upstate NY, and they could take NYC and slice it right the hell off and make it another state and I wouldn't mind. My taxes support those city rats.... grrr-rr.

But thanks for the ping! Great article.

91 posted on 02/10/2008 1:53:34 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Swordmaker
The Electric Universe List

What's the topic of this list? 

92 posted on 02/10/2008 1:54:19 PM PST by zeugma (McCain, if you want to be sold out for a day on TV.)
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To: wintertime

Hollywood opearates these days, on sex, period. Any and all kinds. That’s how these nitwits get their jobs, by and large. Michael Jakcson molesting little boys to these freaks is okay, “as everyone does it.”


93 posted on 02/10/2008 1:56:45 PM PST by societygirl
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To: Scotswife

Most liberals I know have a real problem with authority.

Unless it is LIBERAL authority. They are Hitler, Stalin wannabees. I once hear that moron Ed Asner, say that Stalin was “misunderstood.” I guess the deaths of 20 million Russians under him was a “misunderstanding,” according to the Left.


94 posted on 02/10/2008 1:59:35 PM PST by societygirl
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To: Scotswife

LW Dems idolizs Kennedy. Not for his political skills, but his promiscuity. Again, it’s all about sex, to the Left.


95 posted on 02/10/2008 2:00:58 PM PST by societygirl
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To: ModelBreaker

However, the one GOOD thing about McCain is that he IS a vicious fighter, and can be just as nasty as the Dems.


96 posted on 02/10/2008 2:02:25 PM PST by societygirl
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To: SauronOfMordor

I find getting into the Liberals faces, is the way to go. They are so SHOCKED when someone tells them off. Conservatives win that way. The Left counts on us to be “too nice” and not to say anything back to them. When yo do take them up on the idiocy, they back down. Reagan ALWAYS nailed them.


97 posted on 02/10/2008 2:06:29 PM PST by societygirl
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To: Rurudyne; pandoraou812
BTTT

I highly recommend reading this, pandy. It is very long but worth it. It might be worth printing out and letting your kids read it. It could help them sort out "what's wrong" with their liberal friends.

bookmarked

98 posted on 02/10/2008 3:15:09 PM PST by TigersEye (I'm a maverick. I'm sticking with conservatism.)
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To: TigersEye

Thanks!


99 posted on 02/10/2008 3:36:18 PM PST by pandoraou812 (Out, damned spot......)
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To: FFranco

The first attack came close to success. Furthermore, the towers had a lot more people in them in 1993. If One had come down, more people would have been killed than on 9/11.


100 posted on 02/10/2008 3:47:39 PM PST by RobbyS
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