Posted on 09/26/2020 3:04:26 PM PDT by knighthawk
I dont know when it first hit me that the world had gone nuts.
It might have been when an American white woman named Rachel Dolezal self-identified as black on national television despite both her parents being white. That was nuts.
Or perhaps it was when Altrincham Grammar School for Girls in Manchester asked staff to refrain from calling female students girls because it might offend transgender students yet didnt change the gender-specific name of the school. That was nuts.
Maybe it was when there were strident calls from radical feminists who, like all radicals, destroy support for their cause by taking everything to absurd extremes for James Bond to be female. That was nuts.
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They were always that ... they just don’t hide it anymore
Scratch any liberal, and you'll find a tyrant underneath.
Yes.
Piers Morgan is always an interesting read. Hes a liberal, I guess. But he quite often surprises on the upside. Way more often than a broken clock is right twice a day sort of thing.
I suspect that Morgan is actually deep down a conservative. Or a libertarian anyway. He just has great difficulty in shedding that liberal skin of his.
I love your tagline.
I think there are many traditional old-line “liberals” who are thinking exactly the same thing. We need to encourage them, not stomp them into the ground.
One of the things I hate about some of the posters on FR is that they never forgive and never forget. So therefore, why should a liberal bother to change their opinion and take the grief for going public with their new opinion...if conservatives are going to hate you anyway for something they disagreed with you on in the past?
Forgive and forget and move on. Get support where you can.
Not all of them. Remember Pat Moynihan? Zell Miller?
But sadly, they don’t make them like than anymore.
Over time being a Liberal drives you completely Insane
Pluralism is a way station on the way from one orthodoxy to another.
They were always purveyors of "do it my way or ELSE!"
You just used to agree with what they were forcing people to do.
Now you don't.
Welcome to hell boy-o.
They preach tolerance but practice intolerance, preach love but practice hate, preach diversity but demand conformity. Thet sort of thing.
You haven't been paying attention, Piers.
So why have liberals become a shrieking mob hell-bent on silencing all dissent?
They have always been hell-bent on silencing all dissent.
They have become a shrieking mob because they have been confronted with truth.
They never championed anything that didnt have something for themselves
“Classic liberals” founded his country. Classic liberals are the 21st centuries conservatives.
Man, Piers went on an almost epic rant there.
Good post, yours. And I agree. Piers Morgan is best described as a classical liberal. Those folks had common sense. And they would defend a conservatives right to free speech even if they didnt agree with it.
Its a pity that so few of them remain.
This is one of my favorite hobbyhorses. These current Leftists are NOT Liberals. Liberalism is a product of the Enlightenment, represented in the thought of such luminaries as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and most of the Founders. True liberal values include: free individuals in a competitive society, free markets & free trade, rule of law, private property, trade, individual liberty, personal responsibility, Republics, Constitutions, small government.
This went downhill in the late 19th century with importation of German philosophical ideas and the related advent of Progressivism, which pretended to be Liberal in philosophy, but was anything but. The New Dealers hid their program of national socialism by calling themselves liberals.
Socialists and Communists detest Liberal values, but have used the name as a way to get into power through the Democrat Party. This has led what passes for conservatives in America to make “Liberal” a title of opprobrium, wrecking the brand forever. That’s a shame because it deprives many people, including most Freepers, of a concept that comes closer to their world view and values than “conservative.”
For Morgan, that would be like becoming a Tottenham Hotspurs fan, after being an Arsenal fan all his life.
duh
they just wanted the power
they love dictatorships and totalitarian systems
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