Great Franchise Opportunity
Posted on 09/07/2011 8:14:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
I was raised by two very Liberal Children of the Sixties. No doubt my parents are both sick to their ethereal stomachs somewhere in the afterlife looking down on their baby boy who hosts a conservative talk show, is a Republican precinct chairman, and pens the occasional column for Townhall.com
Yes indeed, I was raised on a steady diet of Ms. Magazine, Free To Be You And Me, Peter Paul and Mary.
And to my parent’s credit, I maintained the Liberal line well into my late 30’s. I had a subscription to The Nation, read Mother Jones and even made a donation to the NRDC.
It wasn’t much, I was pretty broke at the time. Something on the order of twenty bucks. I had a calendar on my wall at home of 12 great Liberal heroes of the 20th Century and never missed “All Things Considered” on NPR.
In fact, following the great Democratic Takeover (No not 2008, the one before that) on Capitol Hill, I teased my boss mercilessly about it. On the night of that election I went home and let Dylan’s “The Times They Are A Changin’” lull me to sleep.
I remember once on a hike through Canyonlands National Park, I stood and beheld a breathtaking view and thought of the evil oil companies who wanted to level it all, and my heart burned with hatred for Sean Hannity.
What Hannity had to do with oil I do not know but being a good Liberal I needed a focus for my ire, even if that focus had nothing to do with the subject at hand. I was angry at conservatives for wanting to rape the land, and Hannity was the first conservative who came to mind.
It’s a Liberal thing, you wouldn’t understand.
So what flipped me from Red to Blue? Well that gentle reader, is a long tale, but I can tell you when it started.
I was on the treadmill at the gym sometime in 2005-’06 maybe, and was watching the news.
House Republicans were chanting “Shame! Shame! Shame!” at the House Democrats who had lost a vote on providing medical benefits to illegal aliens and had changed the rules of procedure to have another vote to ensure that it passed.
And truth be told, it wasn’t the subject of the vote that bothered me. What bothered me was the fact that the party I had been raised to live and die for was taking the low road, manipulating the game, changing the rules, dealing from the bottom of the deck, take your pick of aphorisms.
I was taught that Liberals don’t do that! We’re honorable! We’re clean! We’re righteous! Only conservatives stoop that low!
But that was the moment that started me on the road to becoming a Conservative; the moment in which I suspected all was not as it seemed; the moment that I realized that someone was preaching one thing and practicing another; the moment it began to dawn on me that maybe…just maybe…I’d been had.
After the speeches delivered today by Vice President Biden and Mr. Hoffa; after listening time and again to the mass of people regurgitating what they have been fed about fossil fuels and global warming; after seeing people whose faces are frozen in hatred and rage for reasons even they do not fully fathom, much as I was angry at Hannity; after watching the crowds swarm the Wisconsin State House; after listening to the vitriol of the Main Stream Media; and even after hearing Congressman Andre’ Carson equate Tea Partiers with lynch mobs, I have to say it is not what the members New Left are capable of that unnerves me.
It is what they are incapable of that leaves me cold.
They are incapable of critical thought.
If they ever sat down and honestly talked with a Tea Party member, they still would not grasp the message of the Tea Party. If they ever met on honest terms, the people on the street who advocate the responsible use of fossil fuels they still could not amend their position one iota.
If one were to point out to them that some of the loudest voices calling for higher taxes on people who make over 250 thousand dollars a year are quite wealthy and avail themselves of tax loopholes and benefits, one would be met with a vacant stare.
If one were to diagram for these people how renewable fuels work best for the advocates and companies who are making money from them, their hatred would not lessen one degree.
In short, the masses of New Left are incapable of seeing that they are being manipulated by people in power who wish to remain in power, and who wish to remain wealthy.
I understand their passion and can even empathize with their rage. It wasn’t that long ago I felt the same way. I know where they are coming from.
What is frightening is that they have no idea who is driving them, and that no good will ever come from them.
"Useful idiots."
Mr. Brown, your parents, though liberal, raised a thoughtful caring young man. They are to be commended for that.
And you are to be commended for using the mind that God gave you, to think about the issues of the day, and concluding that liberalism falls short as a political ideology.
You are to be commended for saying that these liberals just don’t critically think about the issues. Too many liberals engage in “group think”.
I think your parents would be proud that you are an engaged, politically active citizen, even if not too happy that you are so conservative.
I remember having to watch these stupid movie in grade school and Jr High. Marlo Thomas was in them, right?
I had no idea what the message was at the time, most of us were happy when to be watching anything rather than having to do classwork.
Half the population is below average.
Great Franchise Opportunity
Leftists are of two types. Those that have been made leftists by their environment. They can be cured. Then, there are leftists that are genetic, hardwired that way. They are a lost cause and there is no point in trying to discuss anything with them.
I’m tired of the Red = conservative meme. I’ll be true blue til the day I die.
Red is a communist color. By sticking to this meme conservatives are going to confuse another generation who think liberals like individual liberty and conservative support the king.
“Welcome to the party, pal.”
“I was taught that Liberals don’t do that!”
Only another Liberal would teach their kid that.
Everyone else knows better, we know Liberals wrote the book on fraud, deceit, mendacity, etc.
“I understand their passion and can even empathize with their rage. “
Rage will get you in trouble every time. God reserves rage to Himself. Liberals, being their own god, are of course entitled.
Of all the people to whom liberals lie, the worst are themselves. Without the ability to ignore the facts before your eyes, you can’t stay a liberal for long.
My parents were big time leftists. Even as a young child I remember the things they would tell me didn’t make sense. I would read the biography of all the founding fathers and when I said my prayers at night I wuld thank God that I was born in this country. I love to hear other personal stories such as this one.
I can understand all this. I too, am a recovering liberal. Well, I thought I was a liberal because I was “just not into politics” and my older sister and brother are die-hard liberals (lawyer & a teacher, imagine that).
9/11 was my epiphany. Learning how the liberal left really gutted our intelligence really burned me up. Then I started reading more on my own, discovering how liberals operated. That is what really drove me to be a conservative — thinking for myself.
A true Liberal would never lock their front door.
Thanks for sharing.
These people were subverted-—filled with cognitive dissonance since young children. When your foundation is that of lies (Marxism), you can’t think critically. Our education system was subverted by a socialist Dewey and his communist (progressive) friends.
The only “Critiecal theory” taught in schools for the last forties years was designed by Cultural Marxists to destroy and tear down that which is good. They replace it with nothing or trash—like The Beats or whatever, to corrupt morals and destroy loyalty in all relationships.
People raised on half truths—like Heather has two Mommies—will not grow up to be rational and able to think in a logical, reasoned manner. Their foundation is destroyed and it takes years to relearn the truth of nature, if they can at all—it is like they are mentally ill and can’t think. Emotions are elevated in the “lie” learning and no intellectual thought is practiced. They do not learn “how” to think, it is always “what” to think—and it comes right out of Marx and his “hierarchy of gender” cr*p. They use B.F. Skinner methods to reinforce and condition the ideas in children. They use peer pressure, humiliation of those who “think outside the box (non Marxist)” and other disturbing techniques that have been highly effective (BK Eakman).
Remember Marx was a self-loathing Jew who had an 8 year old servant whom he later fathered children with and kept in severe poverty and filth.
You can get a gist of what is going on now in American schools here....it is really bad enough where you should burn all public school books and abolish all state and federal government schools—reestablish them at the local level with parents hiring whomever for teachers (no “certification” required) and school board only controlled by the local parents—no outside “agents”.
Any teacher that believes in “feel good, do it”—any atheist....should never be hired. They do not believe in God-given rights and ‘dignity of man’ unless they have Judeo/Christian principles which believes man is not just a “trousered ape”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN0By0xbst8
Replace the words 'New Left' with 'unions' and you have hit the jackpot. Union goons are the epitome of the hard-wired liberal that has a 2 watt brain.
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