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To: GrandMoM
In The Ethics, Aristotle wrote, "men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives."

Good piece. Rush Limbaugh remarked a number of times that this country has always had a few wierdos and oddballs and they were considered wierdos and oddballs by everyone else. Now they are tired of being considered wierdos and oddballs -- they want to be the new majority.

I've read about people involved with various radical movements and what struck me was that so many project their own personal problems, misfortunes, frustrations or failings on society. For example, a woman may be drawn to feminism because her father was an SOB. Instead of just accepting the fact that she had an SOB for a father, so turns on all men and society. She blames society for her personal misfortune and seeks to radically change it. Leftists have succeeded in fostering resentment, hate and the desire for revenge in many previously happy and content people.

I see liberalism simply as rationalized bad behavior -- rationalized selfishness and self-indulgence. They want to do what they want to do, they don't want anyone to make them do what they don't want to do, they want someone to give them whatever they want and take care of them when things go wrong. BWAA! BWAA! They're nothing but a bunch of adult spoiled brats. Liberals will self-righteously blubber about the poor and the oppressed, but they don't really care about them (they don't care about anyone) - their politically correct noises are just an affectation and allow them to look good to like-minded people and feel good about themselves.

25 posted on 09/08/2003 4:16:08 AM PDT by Siamese Princess
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To: Siamese Princess
For example, a woman may be drawn to feminism because her father was an SOB. Instead of just accepting the fact that she had an SOB for a father, so turns on all men and society. She blames society for her personal misfortune and seeks to radically change it.

Andrea Dworkin must have hated her father's very soul. I made the mistake of reading her ramblings once, trying to understand what one of the leading theorists of radical feminism was trying to say. I regretted it, and concluded that Dworkin is to men as Hitler was to the Jews.

29 posted on 09/08/2003 6:49:48 AM PDT by Mackey
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