Posted on 07/08/2002 4:59:49 AM PDT by IronJack
Great thread Ironjack, thank you soooo much.
Prepare for the next wave of liberal slander... as Coulter gets pilloried for being a 'redneck' over that picture.
FGS
"jeremiads"-- can't say as I've run across that word before... I dig, IJ, I dig.
After reading it, I was struck by several points she makes:
I was also struck by how closely Coulter's observations mirror my own. For the last year and a half, whenever a thread comes up discussing how liberals think and act, I've been posting the following:
"Liberals are also emotionally quite insecure. They pursue the politics of persons with an acute insecurity/inferiority complex. This is why they like to call themselves “Progressives". They appropriated this moniker to feed their egos."
"Liberals essentially suffer from a sense of inadequacy and self-loathing. They invent a set of internal rationalizations to make themselves feel good about themselves. This sense of inadequacy, of inferiority, causes them to develop a façade of worth and virtue. They begin to believe that they, and only they, have a monopoly on virtue."
"Being emotionally immature, and being supremely selfish, they have no use for or any understanding of religion. Religion, means giving in to a power greater than their own. This they cannot do. They transfer the innate human need for religion into another form of authority – themselves (and ultimately the highest expression of themselves – government). They, rather than religion, become the final arbiter of right and wrong, good and evil. They, of course represent “good" and all that is good. Remember, they have a monopoly on virtue."
"As well, anything dealing with the “self" and satisfaction of the self is a priority. This is why most, if not all liberals are essentially selfish. Their own emotional needs come first. Luckily, the law, and societal rules prevent them from exercising the most egregious examples of these pursuits. Liberals are hedonists, and hedonistic values have a high priority in their lives. They like laws that give license to hedonistic values, and that which exalts the human body. They dislike any legislation, which limits what can be done to the person, particularly with respect to sexual activity, and it’s consequences. Think about this. This means everything from sexual activity right through conception and beyond. To the liberal, the human body is the altar, and the temple of their faith. All meaning, all law, all spiritual sources begin with the self and its physical being. What this means is that liberalism ultimately demand the atomization of society. True community, based on religion, cultural tradition or family, is replaced by ultra-individualism, ultra-selfishness. Community becomes defined by a selfish, narcissistic, vain elite, who place themselves in charge."
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"So, ultimately, with liberals, it comes down to the pursuit of the “Hip”, the avant-garde, the “progressive” idea. Their intense need for validation and a sense of self-worth means that liberals will commit the worst moral crimes and accept the most immoral acts as normal all in the pursuit of this ephemeral progressive idea. Liberals have an obsessive need to be “hip”. Always keep this in mind. This is key to understanding the liberal mind. To a liberal, the worst crime conservatives commit is that of being “square”. To a liberal, no conservative can ever be “hip” enough. This is why liberals are attracted to artists, Hollywood types, musicians, and the like, and vice-versa. Entertainers, artists, actors, etc. consider themselves ultra-hip; thus, the only logical political idea for them is liberalism, which is of course, quite hip. "
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"Ultimately, liberals are so morally arrogant, so elitist, that they automatically disqualify and dismiss conservative arguments and ideas from the sphere of consideration. Like religious fanatics (which in a sense, they are) they dismiss and reject blasthemous and heretical thought. Thus, conservative ideas are ignored, even rendered invisible. Untill it's too late. This is why liberals never learn. For, if they are rarely, if ever exposed to conservative thought, they never really get a grasp on what and how we think. They dwell in a world of myth and folklore, trading on their superstitions about the right. Furthermore, since they believe only they possess a monopoly on virtue and goodness, conservatives must therefore be evil. So, to liberals, since we are evil, there's no point hearing us, arguing with us, or even considering our arguments."
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"The problem with liberals is that they are constantly searching for the “hip”, the “progressive”, the avant-garde. They honestly believe that only G-d, or some galactic spirit, or maybe “gaia” imbues them with a monopoly on virtue and goodness. Only liberals have this progressive wisdom, this hipness, and this sense of being the social avant-garde. Thus, it can only be that their opponents, conservatives, must be the possessors of “evil”. Thus, they render conservatives illegitimate and their ideas, beyond the pale. This moral and cultural arrogance prevents them from truly understanding their adversaries, conservatives. If conservatives’ ideas are illegitimate, nay even evil, there’s no point studying them, or examining them. The result is that liberals are essentially ignorant about conservatives and what they believe. They trade in liberal-spawned myths about conservatives and conservatism, and the live in a world of false-hoods and shibboleths, constantly spinning the same tired clichés about conservatives. "
Basically, a key source of leftist thinking is a combinations of arrested emotional development, ultra-narcissism, and total self-centred focus and selfishness. Me, me, me. The exhalting of the self to a position of virtual self-diety.
These are misguided people who are using leftist politics as a crutch for their own inadequacies. Whether it's a simple case of arrested adolescent develoment, or the internalization of social rejection in their youth, or gender issues, it's all played out as a search for meaning in their lives. They seek "empowerment" through the weakening of their perceived enemies. They work under the delusion of being "The Annointed". Add to that a childish and romantic attachment to the socialist fantasy, and there you go. The politics of fantasy.
There is another aspect to liberalism. A form of cultural elitism and prejudice that in it's most extreme form, is a form of cultural imperialism. Urban liberal elites, believing that their culture, ideas, and lifestyle is superior to all others form opinions and prejudices against those who they perceive to be their "lessers", those who they perceive to be of a lower culture or lower social class. This includes their cultural and political opponents. This definitely means that there exists a culture war between liberals and non-liberals. For many liberals for whom liberalism is a secular faith, this implies a form of pseudo-religious war, a jihad, in a sense. If you think about this culture war in the terms of a jihad, then the actions of liberals, and their reactions to conservative ideas begins to make sense.
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exerpts from "The Liberal Mind", to be published 2001 2002(?).
Copyright 2001
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After seeing Ann Coulter's almost identical observations in print, I'm now convinced of it's truth.
(And yes, I'm obviously messed up in the head if the first thing I noticed about that picture was the firearm).
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