Posted on 01/27/2008 4:10:40 AM PST by Sub-Driver
The 13 Steps of Liberals Anonymous By C. MacLeod Fuller Liberals Anonymous (LibAnon) is a nationwide organization of current, former, and recovering American liberals and Democrats. Its sole mission is to establish and maintain recovery programs designed to help similar individuals overcome the plethora of congenital illnesses inherent in postmodern American liberalism with which they are embittered. Liberals Anonymous accomplishes this worthy goal by making the idiosyncratic elemental disease nature of liberalism self-evident to the afflicted individual.
LibAnon then educates him (or her, as the case may be) in the cold steel of factual investigation and inoculation. This is followed by repetitive, supervised exercises in analysis and synthesis of actual and accurate concrete data, combined, when necessary, with occasional doses of reaction-formation therapy and electroshock treatments. After this, a documentary collection and a psychological baseline of Conservative opinions is established for the recovering liberal. These are rooted firmly in a substantial, PaleoCon strata of clear, hard fact. The individual's "factual baseline" is used as his daily touchstone to impede potential program backsliding or worse - withdrawal, followed by a return to magical thinking, renewed liberal ideation through collective association, and re-infection with its attendant self-deification.
Many LibAnon members have never before experienced an opinion actually based in either fact or the experiential real world, much less both. Academicians, politicians, and Episcopalians are the organization's most difficult members in which to affect even a semblance of thought moderation - much less cure.
An important part of the recovery program to which Liberals Anonymous subscribes is set forth in the chart below - 13 Prescriptive Principles or "Steps."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Bump!
Certainly a vastly undersubscribed organization.
Sorry, but step 13....
“13. Having experienced all of the above, WE vote only for true Conservative Republicans in every election, and plaster our automobiles with the biggest support stickers we can get as a visible outward sign of our inward moral regeneration. “
... can’t be done this election. No conservatives are running for President.
[supervised exercises in analysis and synthesis of actual and accurate concrete data, combined, when necessary, with occasional doses of reaction-formation therapy and electroshock treatments]
Electroshock treatments?That is not right at all.
[Many LibAnon members have never before experienced an opinion actually based in either fact or the experiential real world, much less both. Academicians, politicians, and Episcopalians are the organization’s most difficult members in which to affect even a semblance of thought moderation - much less cure.]
[Academicians, politicians, and Episcopalians]
This is so true.
If you'll allow this former five-alarm, flaming lib a slight correction...
WE vote only for true Conservatives in every election...
:)
Party means jack anymore.
Forgot the small "c" :)
I wonder if the writer knows what Step 13 is in AA.
Are you content, then, with the alternative? Obama? I’m running, screaming.
Well, that Hunter and Thompson are no longer in the campaign doesn’t mean they can’t still be on our ballot. If we can write em in we should do so. Lacking that possibility, we can cast a vote for no candidate at all....much better than not voting, or voting for a lib GOP guy. (IMHO).
Which accomplishes absolutely nothing.
Voting for RINOs just breeds more RINOs.
Call me old fashioned, but it's about good governance, not winning.
In any case a RINO win would just be a Pyrrhic victory.
Unfortunately, good governance is not on the ticket.
We can only choose between bad governance and worse governance.
There is a third choice :)
You can always write-in. That's what I'm gonna do if the GOP nominates a RINO.
7. WE humbly pray for the removal of our shortcomings and “good intentions” before they result in Our Country’s burial somewhere along the road to either a world-rendering nuclear “oops” or perdition.
8. WE made a list of all persons we had harmed with our kooky opinions, views, and acts by looking up everyone we ever knew and became willing to make amends to them all. Somehow.
9. WE made political and societal amends to Conservatives whenever and wherever possible, except when to do so would cause injury to anyone other than ourselves.
10. WE continued to take personal inventory of our liberal tendencies and when they are exposed promptly admit it, and gave wholly of ourselves to teach Conservative thoughts to others.
12. Having experienced a political awakening of conscience, reality, and responsibility for this and future generations as the result of these Steps, WE evangelize the Conservative message to Liberals, Progressives, Academicians, and Anarchists of every stripe wherever we can find them, and practice these principles in all our affairs.
13. Having experienced all of the above, WE vote only for true Conservatives in every election, and plaster our automobiles with the biggest support stickers we can get as a visible outward sign of our inward moral regeneration.
There, that is better
All reference to that sewage trap of an organization,
the RINO conglomerate have been deleted
But that doesn't do anything, write-ins have no chance to win.
Say we are at Pizza Hut deciding on toppings.
Refusing to vote for pepperoni because you would prefer fried catfish is useless.
The catfish isn't on the menu.
You can vote for catfish all you like but you can't get it at Pizza Hut.
I haven’t quite come to that yet. Any of the Pubes except Huckabee are still less commielib than Hitlery. But my enthusiasm for the ‘conservative party’ is seriously challenged. About the only advantage I see for voting for the Pubes will be the slight possibility of a better Supreme Court nomination than the Ginsberg2 that we’d get from Hitlery of Obama. Even as socially liberal as Bush is he still did acceptable USSC appointments. That’s a poor consolation, I know.
Boy, I’m going to pi$$ off a bunch of Libs with this article!!
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