Posted on 07/31/2012 5:41:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
"It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so." -- Ronald Reagan
”You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.” -- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
1) Being Open Minded: To a liberal, this has nothing at all to do with seriously considering other people's ideas. To the contrary, liberals define being "open-minded" as agreeing with them. What could be more close-minded than assuming that not only are you right, but that you don't even need to consider another viewpoint because anyone who disagrees must be evil?
2) Racism: Liberals start with the presumption that only white people who don't belong to the Democratic Party can be racist. So, for example, even if Jeremiah Wright can make it clear that he hates white people because of their skin color or if liberals take an explicitly racist political position, like suggesting that black people are too stupid and incompetent to get identification to vote, they can't be racist. White Republicans, on the other hand, are generally assumed to be racist by default, no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary.
3) Fairness: In all fairness, I must admit that fairness is an arbitrary concept. So, you could make the argument that no one could get "fairness" wrong. Still, liberals do because they don't make any effort to actually "be fair." As a practical matter, liberals define "fairness" as taking as much as possible from people who they don't think are going to vote for them and giving it to people who may vote for them in return for their ill gotten largesse. Certainly conservatives, libertarians, and moderates might disagree about how much money to take from the wealthy to redistribute to the poor or how to help the disadvantaged, but the only liberal answer to the question, "How much is enough?" is "more."
4) Greed: To a liberal, believing that you pay too much in taxes or even opposing paying more in taxes is greedy. In actuality, wanting to loot as much money as possible that someone else has earned to use for your own purposes, which is what liberals do, is a much better example of greed.
5) Hate: Liberals often define simple disagreement with them on issues like gay marriage, tax rates, or abortion as hatred. No matter how well a position is explained, or the logical underpinnings behind it, it's chalked up to hate. Meanwhile, the angriest, most vicious, most hateful people in all of politics are liberals railing against what they say is "hatred." This irony is completely lost on the Left.
6) Investment: Actual investments involve putting money or resources into a project in hopes that they will appreciate in value. Liberals skip the second half of that equation. To them, an "investment" is taking someone else's tax dollars and putting them into a project that liberals approve of and whether a profit is made or lost is so irrelevant that they typically don't even bother to measure the results.
7) Charity: Contributing your own money or time to a good cause is charity. Liberals view themselves as charitable if they take someone else's tax dollars and give them away to people they hope will vote for them in return. At a minimum, they should at least credit the taxpayers who paid for the money they gave away for the charity, although it's not really charity if it's involuntary. Of course, there's nothing charitable about asking someone else to sacrifice for your gain, which could actually be better described as selfish.
8) Patriotism: Liberals love America the way a wife beater loves his spouse. That's why they're always beating up the country "for its own good." Doesn't the country understand that liberals have to hit it in the mouth because they LOVE IT SO MUCH?!?!? Of course, the conventional definition of patriotism, which is loving your country and wishing it well, isn't one that liberals can wrap their heads around.
9) Tolerance: In a free, open, and pluralistic society, there are all sorts of behaviors that we may have to tolerate, even though we don't approve of those activities. Liberals don't get this distinction. For one thing, they don't understand the difference between tolerance and acceptance. They also don't extend any of the tolerance they're agitating for to people who disagree with them. Liberals silence people who disagree with them at every opportunity which is, dare we say it, an extremely intolerant way to behave.
10) Diversity: What liberals mean by "diversity" is that they want a broad range of people from different races, colors, and creeds who have identical political views. A black or Hispanic conservative doesn't contribute to "diversity" in liberal eyes because he actually has diverse views. Incredible role models for women like Sarah Palin can't be feminists to liberals because she doesn't share the same liberal beliefs as sexist pigs like Anthony Weiner and Bill Maher. How can you have any meaningful "diversity" when everyone has to think the same way?
You’re right - they hate standards that they don’t define for themselves. It has to do with the need for righteousness that God created in us. They don’t want to live to His standards (and we know that’s impossible anyway), and only want to live to their own, self-defined standards.
0bama: “Sin is... being out of alignment with my values.”
Recently ran across this poem from four decades or so ago:
The Angry Man
The other day I chanced to meet
An angry man upon the street —
A man of wrath, a man of war,
A man who truculently bore
Over his shoulder, like a lance,
A banner labeled “Tolerance.”
And when I asked him why he strode
Thus scowling down the human road,
Scowling, he answered, “I am he
Who champions total liberty —
Intolerance being, ma’am, a state
No tolerant man can tolerate.
“When I meet rogues,” he cried, “who choose
To cherish oppositional views,
Lady, like this, and in this manner,
I lay about me with my banner
Till they cry mercy, ma’am.” His blows
Rained proudly on prospective foes.
Fearful, I turned and left him there
Still muttering, as he thrashed the air,
“Let the Intolerant beware!”
Phyllis McGinley
http://holyjoe.org/poetry/McGin3.htm
Side note, interesting bit of trivia -
do you know where the word “sabotage” comes from?
It derives from literally the act of throwing a wooden shoe (sabot) into the gears of a Dutch windmill.
And they forget Hitler was a Socialist, who took guns away from his people. But Liberals call Hitler 'far right'
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
“To liberals, being “open-minded” also means that one “does not judge.””
I’d say it’s more accurate to say they don’t want people to judge for themselves. Liberals have no problem pronouncing judgement on things, but only like to condemn those things that all liberals have collectively agreed to condemn, such as racism, birthers, Christian “fundamentalists”, etc.
As you say, they appeal to moral relativism to say we shouldn’t judge other cultures, but they have collectively pronounced judgement on Western culture, so they feel free to condemn that.
Who would want to do that to some poor dutchmans mill? Was it during a war, that the phrase was coined?
Just like how do we know that bears crap in the woods and steal picnic baskets.
I like it! Thanks for sharing!
The left thinks they should be able to set up a virtual city in a private park, shut down traffic, destroy property, chant idiotic slogans, play drums all night while the police stand by and do nothing, and declare it "free speech".
But let a private citizen owner of a privately owned corporation express a personal opinion, a opinion held by a majority of fellow citizens, and the left demands marshaling the power of government to destroy this verbal tyrant.
No, it was during the industrial revolution. Dutch seamstresses (and their male counterparts) were upset at the way the new "automatic" looms were outproducing them, causing their wages to fall. So they "sabotaged" the machinery powering the new automatic looms...
One of the first recorded cases of "union" violence.
I hadn’t heard of that applying to a windmill, but to industrial machinery in general.
Regardless, it came out of the early years of mechanization, when traditional artisans were fighting to stop the new machines that were increasing production by leaps and bounds while destroying the laborers’ established lives.
Interesting info, thanks
I guess todays computer viruses are an offshoot of that. Just think how many more manufacturing jobs we’d still have in our country if there wasn’t computer-aided engineering, technology and manufacturing.
I saw Larry King ask Peter Jennings whether he thought liberals were “tolerant”. To which, Peter Jennings replied that liberals tolerate people who agree with them. Neither one of them batted an eye or thought anything odd about such a statement. I’ve seen it expressed that exact way before and after. To which I reply to the tolerant liberal “Even Nazis tolerate people who agree with them. Liberals are no more tolerant than Nazis”.
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We might expand that to include a discussion of fairness in terms of equality. By this I mean to liberals, "fairness" means the equality of results, whereas to conservatives, "fairness" means equality of opportunity.
This is why we struggle with judicial activism. A liberal would have a judge read law creatively to ensure an equality was achieved in a particular case, whereas a conservative would have a judge read a law simply and let the chips fall where they may.
This is great.
Want to have some fun, send it to all the libs you know and watch their heads explode.
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