Posted on 12/19/2009 5:48:08 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
An always contemporary explanation of American politics in 2009 English. How strange will this sound to the readers of, say, 2050? That is, if they can read. I don’t think the govt will read THIS to them.
Put simply, libtards believe “Man is basically good.” (Paraphrasing) Jesus said, “All the evil in the world comes from the heart of man.” Who do you believe?
Furthermore, the traditional notion that liberals are more optimistic about human nature than conservatives is pure bunk and needs to be overturned. You can tell liberals aren’t optimistic by the fact that they basically reject liberty. They want the central authorities to manage people’s lives, not the people themselves. They don’t trust people to make their own decisions. Does that show optimism? Nope.
Actually liberals think man is fallen and doomed. The only hope they see is in putting massive power in the hands of the state to coerce people into behaving. Liberals believe big liberal-run government is good, not Man.
“There are evil people out there.”
I believe, without a doubt, that liberals are evil. I believe that our society will go down the drain unless we obtain a divorce from liberals and liberalism.
I believe that we are doomed to penury and slavery if we do not evict the liberal mindset from our country.
I know that liberals will not go away on their own and leave us alone. They insist on intruding into every aspect of our lives, telling us what to do and how to do it.
There are two choices we have. Submit or resist. There will be no live and let live with these people.
In my opinion this is the true split in today’s political arena.
The democrats would have us believe that the struggle is between the haves and the have not’s.
I believe you have highlighted the true struggle between the believers of man are inherently good or that man is inherently flawed.
As a Christian myself, I believe the latter.
In the minimal education I have had regarding apologetics the one thing I find most useful is; in order to sway or to enlighten someone trapped in false belief, use must use their own book, text or list of principals to educate them to the truth.
It is very difficult to use your set of values, morals and precepts as they are generally to “foreign’ to the unbeliever. This in my opinion is why Jesus used parables to enlighten the people of his day.
Some good examples of this today are seen in “Affirmative Action Bake Sales” that were held on campuses in recent years where baked goods were priced for sale using the same formula used for admittance in that particular college. Although this infuriated the power people, I believe it had a lasting effect of educating students and faculty to the hypocrisy of Affirmative Action.
We need more of this reasoned thinking in our effort to take back (political) America from the left.
I think we need to refrain wherever possible from looking at the left as the enemy and to think of them as lost brothers and sisters.
Let’s “re-educate” them by using their own hypocritical policies and thinking and as Jesus did when He asked “Come follow….” We need to keep walking toward the future.
Merry Chrismas
We are Doomed,
We Had a Good Run.
Enjoy What You Have ,Revel in Your Accomplishments,
But Know This ,From Here on It is a Fight of Biblical Proportions.
The Dem party has quite a few liberals, but it also has quite a few leftists. What is the difference? Why the distinction? From a distance they look and act nearly the same. In brief, liberals subscribe to the flawed world view as described in the article. Leftists traded their world view for power attainment. Leftists either discovered that their world view is shared by a perpetual minority or is simply untenable or whatever. They sold their Liberal souls for the power that Liberals can bring to them - these are usually politicians and activists. They walk and talk like liberals but in the end they heard the whisper “ye can be god-like” and seek power for power's sake.
These leftist rely on the tactics of their political forefathers, the communists and the fascists, to move their agenda - propaganda, coordinated demonizing, etc.
I believe the leftists are largely in charge of the Dem party and not the liberals!
For democrats - yes. For liberals - sometimes yes, sometimes no. For leftists - no.
They are called DemonRATS.
My Christmas wish is that all liberals, leftists, statists, bureaucrats, academics, celebrities, union leaders be rounded up and dropped on a remote island and forgotten.
After 20 years, anthropologists can visit and see what kind of utopia they have created for themselves.
This in my opinion is why Jesus used parables to enlighten the people of his day.....I think we need to refrain wherever possible from looking at the left as the enemy and to think of them as lost brothers and sisters.
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Very interesting post! I just read your post to my young adult daughter.
I pray for this nation every day....Actually, I pray **frequently** throughout the day. Hopefully through God’s intervention we can save ourselves from tyranny.
By the way.... A Christian’s **most** important mission field is own children. A Christian’s second most important field is the children of his own congregation. So?...Why do we allow our children to go to Marxist dominated government schools where they are taught to adopt a godless worldview, and enticed daily to join the camp of the lost souls?
Marxism is our nation’s most serious threat. Schools are the Marxists’ most powerful weapon.
Speaking for myself I’ve always felt that conservatives are adults while liberals are children. Stunted adolescents really . Putting liberals in charge of anything is akin to allowing the kids to be in charge of your beautiful(and hard-worked for) home while you, the adults(the parents) go away for the week-end. I think we know what happens next.
"They are called DemonRATS."
Sorry, no. Too simplistic. Political philosophy cuts across the subset of those who are curmudgeons.
"All people are not benevolent, desiring to help others, and kind-hearted." (From the article.)
Nor should they be or should we expect them to be. If charity were universal, an act of kindness would be nothing exceptional.
They say it takes all kinds; truth is, we simply have all kinds, and we will have to struggle along with the crew we've got at least until we get to the next port.
Democrats are not monolithic in temperament, nor are Republicans or Conservatives. We all have our share of people who want to be left alone. Generally, we have a different view of what it would take to accomplish that.
Thank you.
I agree the Public School System has become the main recruiting arm of the socialists’ movement.
My 16 year old attends K-12, virtual school at home. Like you I believe in first things first.
If I was to disagree with you it would be with your last point. The most serious danger facing this country is apathy.
Socialism can only succeed where people refuse to do anything about it.
some liberals are naive, but most are purely evil and use that hopeychangy thing to amass power, simplistic in an evil sort of way...
kill the weak and embolden the murderers around the world to wield the axe of compliance to their tyranical ambitions...period...
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