Posted on 05/08/2008 7:00:29 AM PDT by Ouderkirk
And worshiping the Earth isn't a religion? Psh.
How do you tell the difference between a liberal and a conservative? The conservative will have no issues taking money out of his own wallet to leave a 10-15 percent tip for good service. The liberal, on the other hand, will take money out of the conservative's wallet, keep half of it, and then leave a 5 percent tip, all the while complaining that the conservative is stupid for leaving a tip.
“On the contrary, instead of just “feeling” about the suffering of others, they take action and give not only their money but their time to actually bring relief to those people. These ministries often help suffering people be able to help themselves better as well.”
You hit the nail on the head. A conservative takes care of his or her family first, does what he or she can to help others and then realizes that is all they can do.
A liberal wallows in worry and is miserable over things that he or she can’t change.
#1 reason conservatives are happier than liberals is...
Personal responsiblity.
You are responsible for your own ‘happiness’ (and most importantly, you are able to determine what makes you happy)
Conservatives have been taught to help those in need, to show them the path to prosperity, but you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink.
Liberals teach others that they are miserable because they can’t be happy until liberals tell them they are.
Success is a habit.
I know if I give a conservative assistance, they will correct the situation and then ‘pass it on’.
If I give a liberal assistance, they will just be back for more and there will be no improvement.
‘Teach a man to fish....
It’s the love of independence and liberty vs the entitlement mindset.
You’ve got that right.
I’ve had libs actually get angry when I give them “the rules”:
Your first responsibility is to ensure that YOU are not an involuntary burden on others.
After that is achieved, you can think about having a family, if you can ensure that your family will not be an involuntary burden on others.
At that point, you are personally obligated to do what you can to help others in need.
If everyone followed these rules, there’d be a lot less “needy” in the first place.
Liberals are dangerous to the continued existance of our great country..
Why are conservatives so opaque to liberals. We understand them perfectly.
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LOL. The FR version of liberals is [donning asbestos suit] as cartoonish as DU’s version of conservatives. Both sides are equally guilty of painting the vast middle with the tiny extremes.
It’s what makes it fun.
I am honestly perplexed that my liberal Christian brothers and sisters think that God wants us to deal with the poor by outsourcing our Christian charity to the government which is by definition and by law godless.
I don't care to make them do what I want.
I don't agonize with guilt because they are lazy or unlucky.
I don't seek out their approval or cry when they disapprove.
But I certainly don't hate them.
A great portion of the atrocities committed in history have been by people who seek some version of utopia. Every time you hear someone who seeks power promising to use government to make it all better for everyone, BEWARE!
Instead of reacting and defending ourselves, we should be attacking and destroying the “Universities” and “researchers” that promote this bilge.
Who is paying these guys? And why?
This simple "explained away" reason is not something liberals are able to grasp because liberals lack the capability to process reality. My theory for why liberals can’t process reality is because of a missing gene but that is a discussion for another time.
For all liberals who wish to strain the limits of their comprehension here is the reason that “explains it away”. The rich are rich and the poor are poor because of the same reason. They both keep doing the things that make them what they are.
Leftists in general think they know better than everyone else about how they should live their lives or spend their wealth, or about their personal decisions.
True, a given lib may have more general knowledge than any given poor person,
but they damn well do not have more knowledge than all the poor people collectively do nor do they have the specific knowledge of each person’s situation to make decisions on their behalf.
When I expressed this to some of my co-workers....my DEMOCRAT, liberal-leaning co-workers....they all expressed amazement that I, as a Republican, would vote for a Black Man.
I just let it go...not worth arguing with fools. BUT - I haven't decided yet if their holding views like that is 1) Sheer Stupidity on their part. 2) Sheer ignorance on their part. 3) Sheer bigotry on their part. or D) All of the the above. Might be D), as far as I'm concerned.
Great statement. That's tagline material!
Even as we fulminate on our excess and ill gotten gains, Bill Moyers is explaining in the MSM how we have constructed an improper reality; that, only by having the saintly liberals reconstruct a proper reality will we all be happy without hate (or religion, or a constitution, or capitalism, etc.)
Remember, you fantasy weaving conservatives, religious extremism is connected to conservatives, and the sooner we become atheists, the better we all will be.
Leftists have killed more people and destroyed more wealth during the last 100 years than in any time in history. They are not slowing down.
I can foresee a day when there will be re-education camps in this country - and they will be full of white, Christian, conservatives.
I’d gladly vote for a black person, but not THAT black person.
I’d gladly vote for a woman, too, but not THAT woman.
My favorite recent conversation with a Democrat went something like this:
Her: “I’m supporting Hillary”
I: “Our family is on the ‘giving’ end of socialism, so we will not support her or Obama”
Her: “Oh, I don’t like socialism either.”
What do you say after that?
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans, the Gemans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't like anybody very much. -- Kingston Trio, Merry Little Minuet
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