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To: Cincinatus' Wife

What does the Left offer other than fear?

Fear of a warming planet.
Fear that granny will be pushed off a cliff.
Fear of gay-bashing that will happen if gays can’t marry.
Fear of our guns.
Fear of the “War on Women”.
Fear of law and order.
Fear of profits.

Their whole agenda is based on, “If you don’t vote for us, the following catastrophes will happen:...”


7 posted on 01/03/2015 6:19:38 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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What does the Left offer other than fear?

LIES "......As a student of the left, Jamie Glazov, has observed in an article about the middle-class defenders of recently captured Seventies terrorist Kathy Soliah: "if you can successfully camouflage your own pathology and hatred with a concern for the 'poor' and the 'downtrodden,' then there will always be a 'progressive' milieu to support and defend you."* Huey Newton, George Jackson, Bernadine Dohrn, Sylvia Baraldini, Rubin Carter, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rigoberta Menchu and innumerable others have all discovered this principle in the course of their criminal careers.

There is a superficial sense, of course, in which we were civil rights and peace activists—and that is certainly the way I would have described myself at the time, particularly if I were speaking to a non-left audience. It is certainly the way Mrs. Clinton and my former comrades in the left refer to themselves and their pasts in similar contexts today.

But they are lying. (And when they defend racial preferences now—a principle they denounced as "racist" then—even they must know it).

The first truth about leftist missionaries, about believing progressives, is that they are liars. But they are not liars in the ordinary way, which is to say by choice. They are liars by necessity—often without even realizing that they are. Because they also lie to themselves. It is the political lie that gives their cause its life."...

12 posted on 01/03/2015 6:27:29 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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