re. #15
One of their greatest decisions was
Stop .. in the name of love !
Posted on 08/24/2007 6:48:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
Here's a fun exercise for conservatives: Spend some time just listening to your liberal friends. Don't bother to say anything at all. You'll be amazed. I've certainly been wowed every time I've tried it.
Libs believe the darndest things. They're not as cute as the things kids come out with, but having millions of adults who are stuck in false beliefs puts our society at a lot greater risk.
Among the pearls of political wisdom I picked up from ordinary, friendly, prosperous and apparently intelligent lib friends were the following:
1. Christians. Believing Christians are scary folks, sort of proto-fascists, who would kill or convert us all to their strange and scary beliefs if they had the chance.
I find this staggeringly ignorant. It implies, among other things, that nothing worthwhile was accomplished in Western Civilization before, let's say, the Sixties. (Well, whatever, dude... )
2. Jews. Peaceful Orthodox Jews are just as bad as head-chopping Islamic fascists. Because they're all fundamentalists! (No kidding.)
3. Capitalism. Corporations are evil. Capitalism murders just as many people as Stalin and Pol Pot did. Every political system kills millions of people. (The mind reels.)
4. Tolerance. You can't trust other ethnic groups, and even your own. One liberal friend can't stand Russians, Turks, and Poles. Another is deeply suspicious of Southerners and Midwesterners, considering them guilty until proven innocent. Another is suspicious of Blacks; however, a Black liberal I know thinks that Whites are "ice people." A very radical friend thinks that hippies are fascists. (Honest). This is just a sampling of liberal tolerance and openmindedness.
5. America. Americans are contemptible. Europeans are wonderful. (Facts are irrelevant).
6. Genocide. The US murdered just as many Native Americans as the Nazis killed Jews. Oh, and the Spanish Inquisition killed 9 million women. (Both bizarre, historically; no respectable historian agrees, but it's in the minds of your neighbors. They are still allowed to vote.)
7. Mind-reading. Liberals can read the minds of conservatives, without, of course, bothering to read anything conservatives have written, or even talking to them. Many libs are firmly convinced (without a shred of evidence, of course), that conservatives hate Blacks, Jews, Gays, and Women.
It does not seem to occur to my friends that it's difficult to read other people's minds; or that conservatives might actually be far more tolerant than liberal race demagogues, judging by their own words.
9. Israel. Israel is a pretty bad and nasty place. This is from a very liberal friend with many Jewish friends.
10. Militarism. Israelis are "militaristic," according to a very liberal Jewish professor. This is the first time I realized that defending your country against murderous assaults on innocent civilians is "militaristic." I thought militarism was the Prussians in World War One shouting "Hoch! Hoch!" while the Kaiser's troops went goose-stepping by with pointy-headed helmets and fixed bayonets. No such thing. Militarism = self-defense. Amazing.
11. Population. The world has far too many people, and (hint, hint) it would be a lot better if a lot of them died or were never born.
12. News vs. propaganda. Any news source other than the mainstream media is right-wing propaganda. Indeed, anything suggesting that liberals are less than 100 percent right is right-wing propaganda. This comes from a friend who engages in constant self-censorship, who becomes visibly agitated when his beliefs are gently questioned.
13. Dictators. Stalin was not so bad. Yes, he killed millions in the Gulag, but so did the United States. As for Castro, he is a great and wonderful hero. So is Hugo Chavez. However, Augusto Pinochet was a bad, bad guy. (Bizarre beyond belief.)
13. Republicans. Assassinating Republicans is a pretty good idea, as long as somebody else does it. (From a prominent liberal community leader.)
15. The Supremes. Justice Clarence Thomas is a dunce.
16. War. War would go away if just Republicans stopped stirring it up.
17. Criticism. Thinking negative thoughts about people is the source of violence in the world.
18. Relativism. Reality is only a social agreement. There's no such thing.
19. GlobWarm. Human-caused global warming is probably a lie, but it's a useful lie. (I swear).
Had enough? This is just a start. I don't want to spoil it for you. Every conservative might consider just quietly listening to our liberal pals, without trying to change their minds. You'll be amazed and enlightened. But be ready to bite your tongue.
We have a lot of truth-telling to do, to put straight what is snarled and upside-down in the minds of 'way too many Americans. But don't argue with liberals, at least not the ones I know; it never works. Their minds are made up and locked tight.
Discussion only works with open minds.
“News vs. propaganda. Any news source other than the mainstream media is right-wing propaganda.”
lol DU`ers believe ALL the media is right-wing propaganda. That includes CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, New York Times, etc.
Modern liberalism is just another name for serious mental psychosis.
“Oh, and the Spanish Inquisition killed 9 million women.”
This is actually true. How many women were around at the time of the Spanish Inquisition?
And how many of them are alive now, hmmm?
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
re. #15
One of their greatest decisions was
Stop .. in the name of love !
Somebody's gonna be in for one hell of a shock...
Naturally, because liberals are hypocrites
I have a friend, very liberal, who is a self-described socialist. After we defined the terms of socialism, the government control of production and distribution the question I asked was just who will decide what will be produced and how will it be distributed. Seems he can't or won't answer. Those that want socialism really fail to understand just what it is they want.
I don’t have an liberal “pals”...but this article is spot on to the thinking system of liberals. It is not rational, but apparantly rationalism is not a part of their mantra.
They truly scare me in a day of world wide jihad where the enemy won’t stop until they control a sharia law world.
- Bush is a liar.
- Bush "stole" the 2000, and probably the 2004 election.
- We need to eliminate the Electoral College.
- There were NO WMD's in Iraq.
- Dick Cheney still somehow, runs Haliburton, and secretly diverts millions of U.S. government dollars into his own pockets.
Shall I go on?
... 11. Population. The world has far too many people, and (hint, hint) it would be a lot better if a lot of them died or were never born. ...
And how many of those who say this are willing to remove themselves to make the world a better place?
A variant of this is that the general population level is not all that bad, it's just that the Wrong Sorts of Persons are having Too Many Children.
And of course Christmas in Cambodia.
Flo and Mary were gorgeous, but back in those days, I was so madly in love with Diana, I didn’t notice them.
Well, unless someone is from the mid-west or south. Those people are all stupid and backwards. She really thinks that WE (she and I) are better than all those people because we have college degrees and grew up in California.
Living in Indiana drives her crazy. I laugh at her and tell he that I love Kentucky and wouldn't move back to California for a million dollars.
Sounds about what I hear from them.
Isn’t it sad? My brother lives in Michigan, and he thinks of people in Indiana as southern hicks. Of course he also thinks Hugo Chavez isn’t so bad, since he’s taking back the people’s property from those evil outsiders. It’s hard to talk to him sometimes. He deplores any development and would greatly restrict other people’s freedom to buy and develop property, yet doesn’t want anyone telling him how to maintain his own property. Product of the 60’s, in many ways.
As Ronald Reagan said in his 1964 speech Time For Choosing, “It’s not that our liberal friends are ignornant, it’s just that so much of what they believe is not true.”
The more things change...
Great summary of liberalism. I first saw this from the inside as a young man raised by good socialists from the upper West Side of Manhattan, and it took a few years for me to understand that I was looking at an insane worldview. Even now, I’m the black sheep of the family (to use an Afrophobic metaphor... LOL)...
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