Posted on 10/18/2014 7:23:06 AM PDT by grumpa
My biggest complaint against liberalism is that it exists in a utopian dream world in which the facts are largely ignored. Just some examples:
• On the social issues of abortion and homosexuality, the science is unambiguously against liberalism. Abortion takes the life of an innocent person. On homosexuality, there is no gay gene. Even so, marriage is not about love or rights of adults; it is about procreation and children. The evidence consistently points to children doing better in a home with a mom and a dad. And promiscuous anal sex, which is the norm in the gay lifestyle, results in all sorts of pathologies. (Get over it. These are the facts.)
• Liberals just conveniently ignore that the war on poverty is a complete failure. We have more people in poverty and on food stamps than ever. I say again—it’s a failure!
• Redistribution of wealth is illusory. It is theft. And it damages the incentive of both the recipient and the ones from whom the wealth is taken. You just cannot lift someone up by bringing someone else down. True compassion is personal and voluntary, not confiscation by the heavy hand of the state. Listen to me, my liberal friends. The economy is not a pie to be divided up. Economics is about growing the whole pie. Class warfare is not the answer.
• Liberals pretend that deficit spending doesn’t matter. It’s like drugs. It feels great for a while, but the eventual pain is worse than the temporary high.
• Many liberals tend to think that all worldviews and religions are more-or-less equal. They are not. Secular humanism, progressive socialism, and Islamism are far more likely to breed inequality and injustice than biblical Christianity. Evil exists. The liberal mantra “can’t we just all get along” is a dangerous failure to see the truth. Islam, in particular uses liberals in the West as useful idiots to push their radical agenda.
• Liberals think that government is the answer to every problem. Wrong again. Free individuals interacting under the rule of law has solved more problems and created more enduring benefits for society than any government bureaucracy.
• Another recent example of how dangerous a liberal utopian mindset can be is President Obama and his team minimizing the potential problem of Ebola. Refusal to quarantine victims and stop air traffic from west Africa borders on psychotic self-destruction. You can’t “just ignore it and it will go away.”
We have seen for the last six years what you get, if you put liberals in charge of our government.
I hope the Obama administration has opened some people’s eyes as to what you can expect if you elect liberal presidents, senators, and congressmen.
Well said though much more could have been said...: )
Liberals don’t live in the real world, it sometimes seems.
We hear pronouncements that Obamacare is working so well, when all evidence is to the contrary. The liberals wish Obamacare was delivering a healthcare utopia, but in the real world, their law is having some severe unintended consequences.
We hear that America is racist, sexist, bigoted, etc. Based on the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, you would swear that America has not changed since the days of Emmitt Till in 1955, and you would swear that white cops and white Hispanic gunmen use black men for target practice.
We hear that life as we know it will cease to exist, because of global warming. You would swear that we have less than 10 years, or some short time, to prevent irreversible damage to the earth. All because Congress didn’t pass Obama’s cap and trade bill. Really????
We are told that because we are a nation of immigrants, that we have to be liberal dealing with illegal aliens, who are simply the immigrants of today, etc. etc. etc.
I’m sure there are other examples of liberal utopian dreams of how the world should be, if only evil Republican and conservatives get out of the way.
The American oil men began living in the KSA in the early 1920's, as the Saudis has NO expertise in getting petroleum or natural gas out of their ground.
ONE of the things the Americans insisted on was to have Christian men-of-the-cloth. Since any other faiths were not allowed in the countries the Saudis TYPICALLY made "adjustments."
The men-of-the-cloth were called "special teachers."
Our little camp, Ras Tanura, had a priest, Reverend (who took care of all denominations of Christianity) and a Vicar who came once a month since there were only six Anglicans.
Our "Sunday" was held on Friday, the Muslim "Sunday," but I refused to go to Mass on Friday and insisted on going on Sunday. However, Sunday was a work day. Our "weekends" were Thursday and Friday.
My co-worker, a Catholic Indian, said I should go to Mass on Fridays, like the other Catholics. There was a daily 9:00 A.M. Mass since Catholics DO have a daily service and THAT was the Mass I wanted to attend on SUNDAYS.
So I did. It was a 2-minute walk to the clubhouse where Mass was held, a 16 minute service (me and the dozen or so Filippino workers) and a 2-minute walk back to work.
I made up those 20 minutes that I missed at LUNCH time.
My co-worker was furious and threatened to tell my boss. After three weeks of our brangling, he DID tell our Muslim boss, Mohammad Hussein.
I'll never forget what our boss said to my co-worker.
"Harry, God is number one. There is always time for God. CloudMountain (not my real name, of course) can go to pray whenever she wants."
Both Harry's and my jaw dropped. SO, I went to my Sunday Mass.
After thinking about it, I did say to myself:
If I TRULY believed that at Mass the priest is allowed and authorized to say the "words" so that simple bread and wine are changed into the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus, and I was allowed to consume them, why WOULDN'T I go to Mass every day?
SO, I did. I began that daily habit of Mass, thanks to the allowance of my Saudi Muslim boss. I STILL maintain that habit today, years later.
God truly works in mysterious ways.
At that time a social revolution emerged that in reality was anti government and steeped in libertarian values. The new left is something very different.
I think that an inside cadre of power hungry opportunists and totalitarians seized upon the vulnerability of people with low self esteem and an inherent laziness and took control of them with propaganda oriented issues aimed at simple minds in small segments of society. Over the years they have been able to bring these small populations together as one voting community that thinks it has a mutual goal. But the goal is never defined and a vision for success is never spelled out beyond, "we are fighting for you".
It has morphed into a sort of liberal monarchy where the royals who want nothing to do with the garbage they are selling and the people they control, rule with the consent of their minions who generally get nothing in return but more promises. Thus they have created a vast contingency of followers who really know little about who or what they are following.
I've repeatedly asked democrat followers what they want in the long run and invariably they either cannot say what it is or they timidly share a vision that is in reality very similar to what many conservatives want.
So, what I have come up with in my pedestrian way of looking at this is that a very driven power hungry society of elitists has found the perfect formula for unchecked power an unlimited riches. Their support comes from supporters who are very much naive in the belief that they will be taken care of because they heard it on the news.
In the end, liberalism is about power for the elites and social anarchy for the followers, many of whom have no idea what they are voting for, or why they are voting in the first place.
I can’t be a liberal because my mother and father were married.
And the drug dealer wants his FReepin' money, now.
Very nice summary. I try to sum it up like this:
The primary beneficiaries of a socialist program are the socialist politicians. The secondary are the bureaucracies, and tertiaries are the supposed recipients. Everything after is fluff.
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions. — Thomas Paine
1) rests on a metaphysical foundation of fantasy and an epistemological foundation of emotionalism.These lead to an ethics of altruism and collectivism, which lead to statism and socialism, which lead to misery and suffering, because they are incompatible with the nature of man as a rational being whose ultimate goal is to live the life a rational being.
2) leads to internal inconsistencies and self-contradiction.They claim that they are for a better life for all, but their policies lead to misery and suffering.
3) leads to costs and problems being greater than the benefits.Example after example can be given showing how costly libtard policies are and how many problems they cause.
Why I’m not a liberal: I’m not ignorant, I’m not a liar, and I’m not a fascist. To be a liberal today, you have to be some combination of these three.
Charles Barkley said it well; "Poor people been voting for democrats for fifty years and they're still poor".
Of course, the socialist politicians are not socialists at all. They use the propaganda to manipulate people.
A while back Congressional rep Jim McDermott from Seattle who is an avowed socialist lost a court decision over illegal wiretapping and was ordered to pay over $800,000. Rather than borrow money or sell his million dollar estate atop Seattle Queen Anne's hill he had Bill Clinton and other dem big hitters come out here to conduct legal fund fundraisers for him. Socialist rulers would never spend their own money, not even on themselves.
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