Posted on 06/25/2002 12:42:28 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
AMEN! You got it!
No! No Mr. Fabian here!
The word "Fabian" means slowly, over a long period of time, creaping, as in "The Fabian Society advocated socialism without revolution, calling for "a gradual transition to Social Democracy"...
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Liberals are insecure about their own morality and compassion. In fact, deep down at their core they disbelieve that they possess these virtues.
This insecurity causes them to commit ever-more-outrageous acts of "conspicuous compassion", in order to demonstrate to others -- and secretly to themselves-- their moral superiority.
But the black hole within the souls of liberals can never be sated. It will eat the world--consume the universe--if not thwarted.
All of this would be sadly amusing were it not for the fact that the left discovered they could force others to pay for their displays of "compassion". Thus was born Forced Compassion (tm). Forced compassion is NOT compassion. It is easy to be "compassionate" when someone else is paying the tab.
Let Teddy Kennedy and Jane Fonda bankrupt themselves, take up the lifestyle of Mother Teresa, and give all they have to the poor. Then they will have the moral stature to lecture the rest of us on the inadequacy of our compassion and charity. Otherwise, every word that drips from their smarmy mouths will be met with the whisper, "Hypocrite" in every ear.
The Fabian Society was founded in 1884 as a socialist society committed to gradual rather than revolutionary social reform. The name comes from the Roman general Quintus Fabius, known as Cunctator from his strategy of delaying battle until the right moment...
Good ol' internet.
And isn't "Cunctator" prime internet forum handle material?
BTW, while Republicans are portrayed as "the party of Big Business and the Rich", the media ignore two dirty little secrets:
I have read most of his book on The Anointed and thought it was on the mark now I can see that I ought to find time for the Cosmic book!
Thanks!
Great leaps.
Forward, backward, who the hell knows. It's all about leaps. Society can't just move to a point gradually or naturally, one must 'leap' there. This explains the Left. My frog is about worn out. And my fiddle could use new strings.
Yeah, it's getting bigger and shows no sign of slowing down (that I'm aware of). Which raises the question: just how big and powerful can government get? Is there an upper boudary somewhere?
Very interesting indeed! Hadn't seen that before!
Thanks!
Rightly dividing the political spectrum is a notoriously confusing problem.Are we outside the house of mirrors yet?I lean to the idea that "conservative", "rightist", "leftist", are ambiguous terms and that this fact is no accident. I think that journalists are very influential in assigning language meanings.
I also lean to the idea that "leftists" like Stalin did not become conservative when in power--it's just that leftism consists of
criticism,Thus, Stalin evaded responsibility for the fact that his bureaucracy was even worse-suited to the creation of prosperity than was the mess that preceded it--and did so with show trials of the people who had tried to make the system work.
condemnation, and
complaint.You may say, yes but you are criticizing, yourself. How then is that a distinctive of the left?
The Boston brahmin was condescending to the Texan, and said, "We in proper society think that breeding is everything."You need not, as a practical matter, worry about who is a leftist. You need only wait a moment, and they will tell you. Tell you that you are a rightist, that is . . .The Texan replied, "We down in Texas think it's fun, too--but we try to have some other interests!"
Leftism is criticism of those who created, and/or are trying to create, something of value to society. Criticism with a view to ruling or ruining the fruits of the creative efforts of we-the-people. Criticism in the name of "the people" but destructive of the general welfare.
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