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Posted on 02/16/2007 3:33:48 AM PST by Aussie Dasher
It takes a lot more integrity, character, and courage to be a conservative than it does to be a liberal. That's because at its most basic level, liberalism is nothing more than childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues.
Going to war is mean, so we shouldn't do it. That person is poor and it would be nice to give him money, so the government should do it. Somebody wants to have an abortion, have a gay marriage, or wants to come into the U.S. illegally and it would be mean to say, "no," so we should let them. I am nice because I care about global warming! Those people want to kill us? But, don't they know we're nice? If they did, they would like us! Bill has more toys, money than Harry, so take half of Bill's money and give it to Harry.
U.S. Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)(R) and Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) hold a news conference on the war in Iraq on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 15, 2007. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES) The only exception to this rule is for people who aren't liberals. They're racists, bigots, homophobes, Nazis, fascists, etc., etc., etc. They might as well just say that conservatives have "cooties" for disagreeing with them, because there really isn't any more thought or reasoning that goes into it than that.
Now, that's not to say that conservatives never make emotion based arguments or that emotion based arguments are always wrong. But, when you try to deal with complex, real world issues, using little more than simplistic emotionalism that's primarily designed to make the people advocating it feel good rather than to deal with problems, it can, and often has had disastrous consequences. Liberals never seem to learn from this.
Why don't they learn anything from failed liberal policies? Because there is nothing underpinning them other than feelings and so even when they don't work, their good intentions are treated, by other liberals at least, as more important than the results of their actions.
Just to name one example of many, look at Vietnam. South Vietnam was policing its own country and holding off aggression from the North with the help of the United States. But, people get hurt in wars, so wars are bad. As a result of thinking that went no deeper than that, liberals in Congress cut off the aid and air support we promised the South Vietnamese. The result?
The conquest of South Vietnam, a holocaust in Cambodia, millions dead and in prison camps, another million boat people, a crisis of confidence in America, and our country's reputation around the world was left in tatters, which led to a revolution in Nicaragua, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and a lack of faith in the U.S. military which wasn't truly restored until Operation Desert Storm.
So, we're talking about one of the most shameful and damaging mistakes in American history. Yet, the left is pushing to do the same thing in Iraq, despite the fact that catastrophic consequences would surely also follow a U.S. retreat in that country.
But, this isn't just about foreign policy. Look at Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty," which did nothing to reduce the poverty rate despite the trillions that were spent; however, it did help drive the illegitimacy rate among black Americans from 22 percent in 1960 to 70% in 2005.
What?
It's getting late down here. I should have taken the photo caption out. Sorry!!!
Why don't they learn anything from their failed liberal policies?...................................
(vanity)
"The insincerity of liberals has no bounds. Worst of all, it allows them to ignore the failures of their "programs", while watching the plight of their "constituents" continue unresolved."
Just as they wish it to.
It was probably a caption for a photo.
The difference between liberals and conservative is same as the difference betwenn children and adults.
It's called "Arrested Development" or "Maturational Apathy Disorder" (MAD)
Has there ever been even a *tacit* acknowledgement (from a lib) that these are related, or is the response (as usual) that not enough money was spent?
Nailed it. This guy is a hammer. Nothing to add. You either agree or not. If you don't agree, you must be someone who is living out their days in a welfare hospice for the terminally stupid.
Bump!
BTTT!
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Fantastic article; thanks for posting it!
You summed up the thrust of Thomas Sowell's brilliant book "The Quest for Cosmic Justice", which should be mandatory reading for all conservatives.
They support choice to kill, but make laws regulating a legal product, cigarettes.
They support rehabilitating murderers and predators, but are against your right to defend youself from them with a gun.
They reward the lazy losers and punish the successful.
They give more money to failing schools and try to make laws restricting "choice" in education.
Etc, etc, etc. Their hyprocrisy and idiocy knows no bounds
Nice aritlce.
Didn't Duncan Hunter just sign this guy up for advertising?
The author omitted another important reason the Left persists in failed policies and seems to base their advocacy upon emotion: subjectivism.
Utopian ideology is rooted in subjectivism, which holds that if you wish for something to be so it will happen. Of course, those who hold contrary points of view are threats. When logic/evidence are eschewed in favor of subjective belief, the content of other peoples' thoughts are the battleground -- wherein contrarians are to be regarded as pathogens to be exterminated.
It is no accident therefore that the practice of wholesale slaughter by government came into fruition under leftist regimes -- and I count the National Socialist Worker's Party amongst them.
Yep. Hes' the guy.
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