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Obama Unleashes the Left
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 5/7/2014 | DANIEL HENNINGER

Posted on 05/07/2014 8:42:10 PM PDT by Beave Meister

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To: nathanbedford

“...the left is wholly untroubled by conscience in this or any other regard.”
iow: sociopaths.

It is difficult for the right-thinking ‘normal’-minded to grasp this. How does one understand insanity?
The facility with which they ‘abandon their high ideals’ is proof that they never really held them in the first place. (you, me, and other naive idealists DID - that’s precisely why we “left” the left!)

Their mouthings are mere sops to the ignorant now. We see their seductive appeals to equality and freedom as mere tools they employ to gain footholds to the levers of power.

I’m not as interested in the distinction btwn libs and leftists, though I don’t begrudge those who do the differential diagnoses...I see them all “as a piece”...
= Narcissism and Sociopathy writ large.


21 posted on 05/08/2014 5:23:56 AM PDT by spankalib ("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
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To: nathanbedford

>> I was trying to draw that out with reference to my own history since as the 1960s.

No doubt — that was clear, and the reason for my reply.

The Left progressed from politics, academia, the courts, to industry. The Country’s heavily infected, and Liberals are too lazy and delusional to notice — they want their “free” health care, and trains that run on time...


22 posted on 05/09/2014 9:07:57 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Talisker; nathanbedford

>> The “achievement” of liberalism is the utter surrender of personal conscience to the collective.

So true.

Reagan knew how to speak to this.


23 posted on 05/09/2014 9:11:04 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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