Being a Leftist Means never having to Say You're Sorry

Flopping Aces | 02-06-16 | Brother Bob

[Starman417]

What may be the most appealing thing about being a leftist is that you can never be wrong - ever. As we learned from our last post, leftist ideas never fail because their only objective is to make leftists feel good about themselves.

If their ideas appear to fail, it is always someone else's fault - greedy businesses, obstinate Republicans, racist Americans, etc. It never even enters the thought process that when a leftist idea fails it's becasue their ideas might not have been good to begin with. As The Bookworm puts it,

"Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts." Now that's not to say every leftist is an idiot (although looking at who they vote for in presidential elections raises questions), and not every person on the right is a genius. On our side I've noticed it more in the Ronulan strains, many of whom I have a feeling have migrated into the Trump camp.

In a world where consequences are completely irrelevant it's no surprise that the policies favored by the Radical Left produce the results that they do. National Review's Mona Charen looks at a favorite jobs program for teachers' unions expecting a return on their investment in radical politicians, that being the behemoth known as Head Start:

"The point of Head Start is the promise that it offers poor children a leg up and prepares them for school. It would be nice if it worked, but it doesn't. It does provide jobs for teachers and federally subsidized day care. But taxpayers have spent $180 billion since 1965 for a program that fails to achieve its objectives."

American Thinker's Tom Trinko makes some great points about how the left's love for drugs have consequences that they'd prefer to ignore:

Mexico is turning into a cesspool of violence and corruption because Americans want their drugs and they don't care who suffers.

The river of drug money also leads to the corruption of the police that in turn causes the very sort of police misconduct that liberals excoriate.

However, liberals tend to be people who eschew personal responsibility so they fail to see the connection between their giving money to criminal organizations and the violent acts of those cartels.

If liberals were to admit to themselves that the average cop is a decent person who tries to treat people fairly, they’d have to confront the fact that it's a liberal’s choice to break the law that makes liberals fear the police. Sadly, liberal DNA just doesn't include accepting responsibility for one's actions so they continue to blame others for the consequences of their drug use, including their fear of police.

Back to NRO, Kevin D. Williamson points out how lack of thinking through the details and demagoguing Obamacare as a completely emotional issue guaranteed its failure:

Obamacare's partisans were confronted with the economic facts long before the law was even passed, and their answer was: "Never mind the economics, we’re the good guys, and you want poor people to die." Democrats argued that Republicans literally wanted to kill poor people, that their plan was for the poor to "die quickly." This is a habitual mode of discourse among progressives: Reality doesn't matter; only the purity of Democrats’ motives matters. Obamacare is what it is: Another damned five-year plan based on wishful thinking and very little else. The fact is that Obamacare has fallen apart without Republicans’ dismantling it.

Of course, while the White House has no problem fear-mongering over the cost costs of repealing their toxic signature law, its not like they have any backup plan if Obamacare fails. Actual plans and real world solutions are for grown-ups, aka "somebody else".

Another example of policies of the Radical Left having the exact opposite effect of what they supposedly stand for is the Black Lives matter movement. NRO's David French provides the numbers that show how #BLM is wrong about police shooting stats, while City Journal's Heather MacDonald breaks down how #BLM is in denial about inner city crime. But most disturbing part of the movement comes from the study by Accuracy in Media's James Simpson, showing how the radicals who've seized control of the Democratic party are getting black lives ended to exploit a voting bloc that will help them advance their extremist agenda:

Many members of the black community would be shocked to learn that the intellectual godfathers of this movement are mostly white Communists, "queers" and leftist Democrats, intent on making blacks into cannon fodder for the revolution.

Two other examples come to mind, showing how history repeats itself. Forty years ago, in the aftermath of the Radical Left's efforts to lose Vietnam, we saw the refugees, aka "The Boat People". As much as I hate to broadly generalize an entire people as lefties like to do, the fact that the Vietnamese weathered armed troops coming through their villages, bombs, and napalm, but ran for their lives when faced with heavily armed socialists says a great deal about both their bravery and intelligence. Today we've watched Democrats Hell-bent on turning the victory in Iraq into chaos out of their spite against George W. Bush lead to the rise of ISIS. Of course, to a leftist when this could have been avoided by our president not screwing up a simple Status of Forces Agreement, naturally ISIS is the fault of... Bush.

Of course, since the virtue or malice of an action has nothing to do with teh action itself but how well the person committing teh act is liked by the Radical Left, Jon Gabriel was kind enough to draw up this handy reference chart for members of the media when discussing gun violence:

[556x45]

It makes sense if you understand how liberals view themselves...morally, ethically and intellectually superior. They think theyre right so why apologize if youre not wrong.

[exnavy]

Trump supporters take note.

[NEMDF]

I would say that this also applies to personal relationships by leftists.

[KeyLargo]

Hitlery is "down for the struggle". But there are only Whites standing behind her during her concession speech. I guess that the Black supporters were occupied working on the Clinton plantation that day. LOL.

[Talisker]

I would say that this also applies to personal relationships by leftists.

Big time. And it's broken millions of families, too.

Liberals have rejected the conscience that supplies the integrity for personal relationships. The only thing they have left is abuse, lies and cruelty. As many FReepers have discovered for themselves.

[squarebarb]

What I call the New Liberals have NO philosophy, NO economic theory, NO sociological analysis, nothing except social snobbery.

I am seeing it more and more. They have absolutely no idea what ‘socialism’ means. They are just social snobs. They look down on the working people, rural people more and more every year. That’s all. That’s it. They cling to the coattails of the truly rich ruling class hoping crumbs will fall their way. They only way they can feel good is to be superior to a lower class. And that’s about it, folks. It’s real simple.

[SkyDancer]

Living in NYC will do that for you.

[PIF]

Liberals do not think they are right! They know they are ...

[PIF]

Looks like the Hillary and the Chelsea have been eating all Bill’s food ...

[PIF]

Yet it’s us working people who provide their food and water ... but then the liberals and socialists don’t worry about that because there is plenty in the store or from their favorite online food provider ...

When I was a young guy some 65 years ago everybody looked down on any sort of manual laborer - ‘go to college get a degree you don’t want to end up a ditch digger do you?’ If you didn’t have a place worth north of one million, something was wrong with you - was a very affluent town

Same as before, around again.

[minnesota_bound]

100 million people dead and counting, billions of lives wrecked. People who are socialists and communists always have a siren song but in the end they end up rich and you dead.