How to Be a Liberal(What to avoid)

americanthinker.com ^ | 9/5/2016 | Matt Patterson

[rktman]

It’s easy to be an American liberal. All that is required are hypocrisy and ignorance.

Ignorance is an absolute must, but especially ignorance of three things: economics, human nature and all of recorded history.

One has to be truly economically illiterate to believe that high taxes encourages productivity, that union-imposed labor regulations don't dis-incentivize hiring, that energy regulations don't raise prices on the poor and working class.

Likewise, to be a liberal you must pretend that men and women are exactly alike in every respect and that communism produces the most happiness for the most people.

Of course you can search the history books in vain for a communist society that did not produce poverty, misery and/or death on vast scales. But American liberals don’t read history books – just note the vast throngs who came out to support Bernie Sanders for President of the United States.

[rktman]

Just some things to avoid becoming a lib. Pretty sure most FReepers are already aware of these.

[Starboard]

Being a liberal means never having to say you’re sorry. Its always someone else’s fault.

[allendale]

Liberals are fundamentally dangerous. They are able to mold their conscience to accept any abomination. They have no difficulty whatsoever voting for the inherently dishonest, shamelessly corrupt, impaired and sloppy Hillary Clinton. Simply can never trust a liberal.

[cyclotic]

Being a good liberal only requires good intentions. Results don’t matter. Especially if you are a Presidential candidate, then no intent completely trumps horrific and treasonous results.

[albie]

Ignorant of all of history, economics and human nature are the 3 biggies. It’s also having common sense.

[rktman]

Reason and logic need not apply. :-) “They” are ALWAYS right no matter what the issue and you had better not try to prove them wrong. They’re like badgers when cornered.

[PfromHoGro]

That and shamelessness is a bad combination.

[Buffalo Head]

Thanks for the post.

[rktman]

LOL! Scary right?

[Buffalo Head]

Thanks for the post.

[sockhead]

I laugh when Hillary and the dems use historical references. Why bother? The references are meaningless because liberals have done a good job making sure no one learns any history.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Immigration is another area where hypocrisy is an absolute must. Does one imagine for a moment that if Anglo-Americans were flooding into Mexico by the millions, overwhelming social services, and changing its demographics, that Mexicans would welcome them with open arms and demand citizenship to all of the illegal newcomers? Yet that is exactly what liberals expect of Americans when the reverse is true.

Anglo-Americans were flooding into Mexico and changing its demographics once. Back when Texas was part of Mexico. Didn’t work out too well for the Mexicans then, the reverse won’t work out for us now.

[Leep]

How to Be a Liberal

Avoid hard work, work hard at getting out of real work, do not create anything tangible, never use your own money to pay for anything, lie, cheat steal and blame other people for your lying cheating and stealing, Always have some low level stooge take the rap for you,position yourself as the over seers of everything, regulate the crap out of things to keep out competitors,raise taxes (call said taxes anything but taxes)

[Leep]

Actually, my examples are not liberal so much as how to be a modern day politician.

[SERKIT]

[Dick Bachert]

Here’s a strong dose of the antidote to liberalism.

HEEEE’S BACK!! Joe Dan serves up another tasty helping of INTELLECTUAL FROGLEGS! Enjoy and share with everyone — especially any liberals you may be unfortunate to have in your orbit! Then back off to a safe distance lest you be splattered with fragments of their tiny limbic cerebral ganglia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZcsKMWZDc4

[iacovatx]

Actually, this article is good but there is even a simpler way to understand liberals. Liberals do whatever makes them feel good. Liberalism is institutionalized and collective self-gratification. Economics boils down to greed. Morality boils down to personal happiness. History is too boringly complex to study, therefore, they just make stuff up or parrot what some propagandist told them.

Liberalism is always the easy, greedy way.

[M Kehoe]

Have a lobotomy?

5.56mm

[EQAndyBuzz]

The author isn’t describing liberalism. He is describing groupthink, where useful idiots attach themselves to failed Marxist ideology as the cure for a Capitalist society that they are too angry with. This stems from their own inability to think logically as well as their indoctrination by professors who also couldn’t make it in a free society.

[mjp]

It’s easy to be an American liberal. All that is required are hypocrisy and ignorance.

and the worship of big government as an omnipotent, omniscient, and infallible god