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."
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That's why:
Of course not. I’ll be holding my nose again. But reality is reality regardless of how we might want the world to be. Pretending that these guys aren’t all jogging towards the totalitarian collectivist state rather than running full tilt like the Rats is foolish. Both are taking us to a slave state, just at a different rate.
Well, that may be, and may not be. Depends upon the ultimate result. If the GOP loses because a significant portion of their electorate either wrote some other candidate in, voted null, or didn’t vote (the worst alternative), then GOP thought patterns must be affected. Voting patterns will be gone over, ad nauseum, by both parties. Especially by the loser. If the GOP loses (likely) it will look at the Republican votes that were cast not for their candidate. To date, they have decided that there are more Lib GOPers than conservative. Many have been cowed into voting for GOP liberal candidates because Dems are so much worse. But with Bush that distinction is becoming blurred.
Rush iterated my long time thoughts the other day: If someone is going to screw up this nation, let the Dems do it, and be associated with it.
I just can’t help liberal GOP get elected anymore.
Personally, I’ve come to the conclusion that either party is taking us down the tubes, just, one faster than the other. I can’t support libs anymore just because they have an R in front of their name. I’ve run out of patience. I’ve spent too much time around socialism around the world and I don’t want to see it here. I already don’t recognize this country. We are very close to total government control of the people. I see it every day. So, likely, do you.
I’m old enough to remember being a kid in L.A. and taking my .22 rifle to school so I could shoot it at the range in Inglewood after. Today a kid who tried that would be arrested and likely forced on a load of psyhciatric drugs that would f*** him up beyond belief.
Yes, I’ve seen the change. Most Americans are looters now and want a totalitarian govt to “protect and provide for them”. I fully expect there to be another domestic attack. After that internal travel papers and GPS microchiping of us all will be instituted in a few years to the cheers of most of the country. Heck, there are plenty of running dogs for the govt here on the FR. I can’t believe how it’s gone in the last 10 years.
Yes, and that I find truly disheartening. One sees even the talk radio pundits abandoning conservatism, one by one: Hugh wants Romney (Hugh is a real estate industry guy who wants to go light on illegals.) Prager wanted Juliani, Medved, for chrissake, wants McCain. Hannity has no clue. It is truly amazing to me. It looks to me like the USA has run its course, which means hard times ahead for dictators and socialists around the world who get by with money stolen from American taxpayers (whose funds will soon be plundered out), which means a very great turmoil approaching.
Hi, My name is Dead Dog..and I’m a Classic Liberal and I own a rifle. it’s been 15 minutes since my last beer.
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