I got myself on several lefty email lists just to keep tabs on them.
Its amazing how much time they spend trying to indoctrinate their members to be open minded while telling them to ignore opposing opinions.
The last question is especially telling.
These are EXCELLENT questions. I plan to copy them to a Word document and use them! ;-)
I tire of trying to have meaningful conversations with Soviet minions.
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Thanks for the post. This reminds me of back in the seventies when I was going to school there were socialist and communist groups on many campuses. I love to discuss anything so I would talk to them and they didn’t like questions that didn’t agree with their viewpoints. My father was a factory worker and they really didn’t like it when I pointed out how different their image of the oppressed worker was from reality. It was talking to these folks that pushed me toward being more conservative as I grew up.
One of my faves - name one traditional liberal value.
“If G. W. Bush is, as liberals claim, the stupidest and most incompetent president in history (and liberals are the most intelligent of people), why was it so easy for Bush to convince so many liberals that Saddam Hussein had WMDs and was a danger to the entire world?”
Excellent questions. Will save for future forwarding.
I sympathize with the author. His first mistake was even engaging them, given their approach.
Speaking with liberals is possible, but only with liberals who are in the middle 30%.
The upper 30% are people who will vote liberal no matter what, and are too stupid to be able to engage in any kind of discussion. Most of the time they aren’t interested in any kind of discussion anyway.
The Bottom 30% are moonbats who are all too happy to engage in discussion, and will regurgite reams and reams of “data” they have harvested from the media. These are the ones who maintain it was Sarah Palin who said she could see Russia from her house, Bush stole the election, etc. etc. etc. These two persons who engaged the author were in this group. (I also lump in hard-core Aslinskyites in this group as well, even though they may not swallow all the liberal propaganda hook line and sinker. They know what their goals are, and they know how they want to get there. In both cases, it is utterly worthless to engage them. They have neither the patience or inclination to listen, the inability to apply reason or logic to an argument, and the inability to feel shame or cognitive misgivings when they are proven wrong. They lack introspection, and are incapable of evaluating their own stance dispassionately from a distance.
The middle 30% of liberals are usually thoughtful, intelligent,insightful and, generally decent people who allow their emotions to rule their intellect, and unthinkingly and unhesitatingly accept many tenents of liberal dogma, because “Who doesn’t want to help people in need?” You can talk to these folks, they will often listen, and sometimes, even change their views.
This author was from the Soviet Union, I would think he had them scoped out pretty quickly, even though he sounded surprised they existed.
“Why are blacks who are proud of their race and heritage praised by liberals, and whites who are proud of their race and heritage condemned by liberals as racists?”
Gosh, this game is so easy!
WOW! This guy is funny
Is the book as good?
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Excelent questions to pose to liberals bookmark, and home viewing links bookmark.
Excellent. - Bookmarked
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