Posted on 02/21/2014 5:47:33 AM PST by Kaslin
Further closing of the American mind..........or whats left of it. (no pun intended).
Look at Obama's background. This is exactly what he came from. Is it any wonder?
Succinct and accurate.
Your remark reminds me of one of the more memorable scenes from Dith Pran's The Killing Fields.
Not the gruesome stacks of bodies and gratuitous executions. There were so many of them, your mind got numbed.
But the scene of the kid, maybe 9 years old, who gets praised lavishly by the prison camp guards for pulling up tomato plants.
It seems some of the inmates were cheating on their meager food rations by planting tomatoes; a metaphor on the liberals who want to tax those who show any ambition to earn more than the state allows.
BS...Bush Sr was left of center; Clinton far left; Bush Jr Center...Obozo=communist.
“Diversity” Means:
No ‘white faces’.
No male genitalia.
Leftist agendas ONLY.
Same-sex relations a PLUS.
Signed, A Tolerant Liberal
LOL... While I agree with you, your comment is very representative of the perception problem that positions of others are different based upon where you stand to view them.
“It is getting harder and harder not to cry when contemplating the future of our country.”
I do cry as I see the pain that is ahead for all and I can’t help but have compassion for the painful experiences of many.
While I am well ahead of the turmoil ahead, I find my strength in several beliefs.
1. God is in control and everything is happening according to His Divine Plan as predicted and told to us by His Son. It is happening for a reason. What we see as painful from the perspective of a three year old, God from the parent’s perspective sees as being a good experience required for us to grow.
2. It is the matters of the soul that are important and not the matters of the flesh. They could drop an atomic bomb on my head and totally destroy every cell in my body, but it would not harm my soul.
3. Love is the most important thing. Not human love like I love my gun or dog or family, but Divine Love that is unconditional and freeing. By finding my strength in my Love of God, it is easier to let go of all else and be truly free. My joy comes from seeing my children and all around me grow to find that same freedom.
As I read this article I’m struck by it’s title, and how it illustrates how wrong it is to call these people ‘liberal.’ There is absolutely nothing liberal about the modern American left. I wish conservatives understood the power of words and language as well as leftists do.
sigh...I'm living this quote.
If small government is the goal of the right and big government is the goal of the left, that means that the extreme right is anarchy and the extreme left is totalitarianism. In this country, the center SHOULD be strict constitutionalism.
Given this situation, I suggested in 'Repressive Tolerance' the practice of discriminating tolerance in an inverse direction, as a means of shifting the balance between Right and Left by restraining the liberty of the Right, thus counteracting the pervasive inequality of freedom (unequal opportunity of access to the means of democratic persuasion) and strengthening the oppressed against the oppressed. Tolerance would be restricted with respect to movements of a demonstrably aggressive or destructive character (destructive of the prospects for peace, justice, and freedom for all). Such discrimination would also be applied to movements opposing the extension of social legislation to the poor, weak, disabled. As against the virulent denunciations that such a policy would do away with the sacred liberalistic principle of equality for 'the other side', I maintain that there are issues where either there is no 'other side' in any more than a formalistic sense, or where 'the other side' is demonstrably 'regressive' and impedes possible improvement of the human condition. To tolerate propaganda for inhumanity vitiates the goals not only of liberalism but of every progressive political philosophy.If the choice were between genuine democracy and dictatorship, democracy would certainly be preferable. But democracy does not prevail. The radical critics of the existing political process are thus readily denounced as advocating an 'elitism', a dictatorship of intellectuals as an alternative. What we have in fact is government, representative government by a non-intellectual minority of politicians, generals, and businessmen. The record of this 'elite' is not very promising, and political prerogatives for the intelligentsia may not necessarily be worse for the society as a whole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWWCpuqV4c0&feature=player_detailpage
Language and content alert...Click if you are not offended by the ironic truth...
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