Very insightful young writer.
It’s a bit surprising that, for all the unpleasant but accurate things said about liberals on Free Republic, it’s rarely that anyone attacks them as cowards.
Liars, yes. Traitors, yes. Bullies, certainly. Haters of the God of the Christians and the Jews and all that is good and decent in His creation, absolutely
But young Mr. Bristow highlights an aspect of the liberal mindset that we would do well always to remember.
Indeed, I get this strong gut-level sense that the deceit, treason, brutality, and atheism all spring from the fact that liberals are basically sniveling cowards who can’t face life.
Unable to rationalize their cowardice any other way, they have channeled it into an incoherent yet undeniably potent political system.
I can state from experience that I have members of my immediate family who order their entire lives around their personal fears and hangups.
They quite literally stick their fingers into their ears if I ever utter a discouraging word about Emperor Bozo the Usurper or suggest that many members of Congress don’t care about anything but lining their pockets at the expense of the taxpayers.
Free speech for me but not for thee ... even in the domestic sphere it all works the same rotten way.
Agreed about cowardice being the root. But as revolting as this might sound, I don't think it's compelled cowardice, but chosen cowardice - cowardice as a deliberate strategy towards life, to support a level of selfishness that is literally incomprehensible to the psychology of a true adult.
The process of adolescence is the transformation of childhood selfishness into the acceptance of adult responsibilities. Liberals refuse this change - absolutely, fundamentally refuse. And so they must constantly seek ways to survive as physical adults while still indulging in childhood selfishness. The only way to do this is by adopting cowardice as a strategy, because cowardice will always lead to decisions that avoid adult responsibilities.
Unlike true childhood, which is innocent in it's selfishness, liberalism leads to a revoltingly hypocritical and craven life, predicated upon self-loathing and the destruction of community and dignity and the adoption of constant lying, cruelty and violence towards, literally, life itself.
But hey, every goal requires some sacrifice.