The left panders to minorities and gays because of the VOTES they represent, not because of any core value. As the author states, Israel is a functioning CAPITALIST society, therefore, they must be opposed.
The PA is a socialist kleptocracy.
Leftist tend to be actually very puritanical when they get into power.
Well said!
...increasingly, government has come to be seen as a way of benefitting particluar groups adopted as mascots, often without much regard for what that does to other groups or to the integrity of the system as a whole. Groups disliked, distrusted, or feared by the general public are particularly eligible to become mascots who symbolize the superior wisdom and virtue of the anointed. [Emphasis mine]
This is in perfect harmony with Sowell's diagnosis of the Left as a community that sees itself as elevated above the common herd, both morally and intellectually. Such a difference must perforce manifest itself as a difference in causes championed, and therefore in groups singled out for special defense. That need for a difference drives the Left to adopt as their pets the very persons and groups ordinary people find most loathsome: criminals, bums, disease carriers, terrorists, and the purveyors of nihilist doctrines.
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It undermines their every position and demonstrates how baseless their philosophy is.
More and more people are realizing that the Left is not based on any high ideals, but on pure hatred. And pure hatred is an ugly thing.
Becki
Since Jesus as the Messiah came out of Israel and the Bible shows how repeatedly the Jews were being pushed into near extinction except by divine intervention, then I think the evil demonic powers that were at work to destroy Israel back then is still currently at work in the world today through these 'leftist' types.
"the left does not care about women, independent judiciaries, minorities, democracy, gays or almost anything else for which it marches.The left also does not care about truth, liberty, freedom of speech, open-mindedness, freedom of inquiry, or liberalism. In fact, "Liberals" are contemptuous of such things.
"Nearly all the causes the left speaks for are noble-sounding covers for its real agenda -- the overthrowing of Western, especially Judeo-Christian and capitalist, values."And in the Information Age--thanks to the internet, talk radio, et al.--people are able to see through this facade and understand exactly what's going on.
"In psychoanalytic terms, it is antagonism to one's father and his values."This sounds like gobbledegook psychobabble, but think about it. The left is xenophilic. It hates the familiar and embraces the exotic, especially the bizarre. This is a denunciation and rejection of the establishment, established values, and, notably, "the patriarchy".
"Those of us not on the left believe that the purpose of a college education is to discover what is true and what is good."To the left, the purpose is indoctrination. "Liberals" do not want free speech and free inquiry. They want madrassas.
"America embodies all that the left dislikes. It is the most religious of the industrialized democracies (proudly and uniquely Judeo-Christian). It is also the most capitalist."And, what drives the left especially crazy is that because of all this religion and capitalism, America is the most powerful force on earth -- economically, militarily and culturally.
"Israel is Little America."Yes. Israel is an outpost of Western Civilization.
This is the reason for the strong support of Israel in the American Heartland.
It is not--as "Liberals" would love to have everyone believe--because of some spooky prophesy or because Christians are determined to convert the Jews or some such nonsense. That has nothing to do with it.
It is because the people of the American Heartland--Bush country--love America; love Western Civilization; and see Israel as an outpost of Western Civilization besieged by backward, benighted, determined, and dangerous enemies--enemies that have also attacked America and would, if they could, destroy not only Israel but America and all of Western Civilization.
This is why the Heartland supports Israel.