What is a liberal?(vanity)

The defining characteristic of the typical liberal is self-absorbtion - he believes no one is as bright, perceptive, or wise as he is; thus anyone who disagrees with him must be stupid, crazy, or lying; lacking true compassion and feeling for others, his attempts at helping them amount to simplistic measures such as showering them with money rather than helping them establish real capabilities and independence; as the center of his own universe, he can not imagine any greater power than himself, and thus attempts to destroy others' religion because it reminds him that he is not almighty; so involved with himself is he that he often can not bring himself to attach to others even for sexual gratification, settling for the closest identity to himself for outlet and thus accounting for the large percentage of homosexuals among the liberal cadre...indeed the liberal makes a very small package all wrapped up in himself......

Liberals today are usually programmatic adherents of the New Deal/Great Society/New Left in American politics. They are mostly shallow and unreflective these days, with little understanding of why they believe what they believe except that they are right and conservatives are wrong and evil.

Nevertheless, liberalism can be traced deep into human history and psychology. Eternally, Man wonders why he and the world are so flawed and what can be done about it. Conservatives are inclined to accept the answers offered by religious faith, and to prefer careful, prudent changes, if any, with respect for tradition and innate human resistance to the commands of others. Liberals tend to be less adherent to religious faith or reject it entirely, and want radical changes and reforms to improve Man. They are ready to tax, expropriate, and shed blood for the sake of their vision.

For modern Western civilization -- say from 1750 on -- the waning power of faith and the growing power of science, technology, and the State raised the stakes and made radical change more plausible and tempting. The bloody and destructive French Revolution was the first example of this philosophy in power, with the American Revolution its counterpoint, based on freedom and reliant on religious faith.

From that perspective, a liberal is in effect, an adherent of the Rousseau/Hegel/Marx/Dewey/Croly/Adorno side of the great divide in Western civilization. A liberal may nominally have religious faith, but their true faith is in the ability of science and political power to remake man. As much as liberals try to appropriate the language of freedom, their true purpose is to subvert freedom.

Liberalism is nearly impossible to define because it has no fixed, positive values. Liberals slide effortlessly from one view to another regardless of contradictions. You cannot predict from their absurd agenda today what new and different rubbish they will espouse tomorrow. They have no core to refer to, save the negative ones of always rebelling against God and always hating the faithful.

Chesterton had the liberals' number by observing that if you will not believe in God, the danger is not that you will believe in nothing, but that you will believe in anything. Orwell likewise referred to theories so stupid or bizarre that only intellectuals would believe them.

At the tactical level, liberals get their thinking from their oracles (NPR, New York Times, etc.) and they get it in predigested slogans and sound bites. They inhale it. They internalize it in a heartbeat. They respond to the nasal tones of the Sacred NPR Voice the same way that devout Muslims respond to Muezzins calling them to prayer. Swiftly they will regurgitate the day's slogans as religious canon carved in granite. Tomorrow or the next day, they will believe something very different, and quite as fervently.

The wronger they are, the louder they get :-) They will berate infidels like us for being stupid or evil, especially if we are doubled over laughing at their latest silliness. But that's all liberals are good for -- being laughed at.

A Liberal is someone who fervently believes that all the worlds problems would be solved if only people would shut up and listen to them. They would then replace generations of the wisdom of society with an idea they had that morning, and use the force of government to compel people to obey, whether they felt it was in their interest or not.

Every tyrant throughout all of history were liberals.

A liberal does not beleive in absolute Truth, everythng is relative;

A liberal will tell you what s/he feels about a situation, but never what s/he thinks (because they don't);

A liberal might hear, but s/he never actually listens;

A liberal does not believe that evil actually exists;

A liberal is always a victim;

A liberal is either naive or power-hungry. Try to educate the former and expose the latter.

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