Posted on 07/01/2013 1:05:04 PM PDT by jazusamo
When teenage thugs are called "troubled youth" by people on the political left, that tells us more about the mindset of the left than about these young hoodlums.
Seldom is there a speck of evidence that the thugs are troubled, and often there is ample evidence that they are in fact enjoying themselves, as they create trouble and dangers for others.
Why then the built-in excuse, when juvenile hoodlums are called "troubled youth" and mass murderers are just assumed to be "insane"?
At least as far back as the 18th century, the left has struggled to avoid facing the plain fact of evil — that some people simply choose to do things that they know to be wrong when they do them. Every kind of excuse, from poverty to an unhappy childhood, is used by the left to explain and excuse evil.
All the people who have come out of poverty or unhappy childhoods, or both, and become decent and productive human beings, are ignored. So are the evils committed by people raised in wealth and privilege, including kings, conquerors and slaveowners.
Why has evil been such a hard concept for many on the left to accept? The basic agenda of the left is to change external conditions. But what if the problem is internal? What if the real problem is the cussedness of human beings?
Rousseau denied this in the 18th century and the left has been denying it ever since. Why? Self preservation.
If the things that the left wants to control — institutions and government policy — are not the most important factors in the world's problems, then what role is there for the left?
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Actually, libertarians are much more at home with leftists than with actual conservatives. That’s because they share the social leftists views with leftists. All of them.
So, Little Jeremiah -- please show how and where Thomas Sowell, a self-described libertarian, shares social leftist views with leftists?
Very well stated. Yes!
If you have no idea what is going on in your city’s political arena it makes it so much easier (in your own mind) to blame the Republicans for everything that is bad happening.
The first sentence says it all
I'm with you there. The ideas and ideals put forth by, fervently believed-in by, and forced upon everyone else by "liberals" defy all reason and logic.
Increasingly I cannot see how any sane, rational person could believe the positions taken by the left. It requires a brainwashing, a willful ignorance of facts, a complete disconnect from rationality and reason. Those traits are often associated with various forms of mental disorders.
Crack of Dawn.
I thought you said all libertarians were liberals?
Show me or admit that you’re a liar.
Pathetic sad little clown.
Ask her why she can't have her wedding at a more decent hour like all the other proper lesbian couples would do.
I wouldn't even go to "their" 3 p.m. wedding in my own family!
“Yep, the older I get the more I really believe liberalism is a mental disorder.”
That’s what G. K. Chesterton wrote a hundred years ago.
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