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Leftism Makes You Meaner
Townhall.com ^ | January 10, 2012 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 01/10/2012 7:25:15 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
The problem for the left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

In a nutshell!

41 posted on 01/10/2012 10:53:21 AM PST by caww
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To: SMARTY

Smarty,....I have a Dept. manager like that. I learned to speak up when comments were as you depicted. I might have said when she complained about the copier. “Well, it would have been nice to hear you say welcome back and how is your mother doing.” They do get it and it often stops them in their tracks.

My manger is a moody individual...if she’s miserable you hear it in her tone...if she’s being silly and playful...that too. But when it comes to being compassionate it’s a matter more of how whatever is happening is affecting her...it’s rarely about the employee aside from that.


42 posted on 01/10/2012 11:00:58 AM PST by caww
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To: tanuki

If I was a younger person I’d leave.

However the way things are, I don’t want to be job hunting just now.

Actually, I think my boss is pathetic. She is very attached to her hatred for me. It is so nauseating. I wish she’d find someone else to hate!! It must be pure magic at her house.


43 posted on 01/10/2012 11:05:58 AM PST by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: Kaslin
Because leftism fills many of its adherents with contempt and hatred

Libtards have an anti-man sense of life that they experience as an absolute and irreducible primary which it never occurs to them to question.A sense of life is a pre-conceptual equivalent of metaphysics, an emotional, consciously integrated appraisal of man and of existence.An anti-man sense of life produces the feeling that man is worthless, insignificant, and unimportant and by his very nature helpless and doomed, and that he doesn't deserve happiness.Once this mentality is accepted, it is an easy step to altruism and collectivism and then to statism and socialism.

44 posted on 01/10/2012 11:12:17 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: South Hawthorne
SH, I have found it very true on matters of race and gender.

The most misogynist abusers of women I've known have been Democrats.

The most racist people I've known have been Democrats.

45 posted on 01/10/2012 11:40:15 AM PST by Tribune7 (Vote Perry)
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To: goodnesswins

Leftism and narcissism go hand in hand. That’s one of the points that Prager emphasizes all the time: There’s a reason that the self-esteem movement in schools came from the Left, because no one has a higher opinion of themselves than leftists. They are certain that they are better than you.


46 posted on 01/10/2012 2:11:56 PM PST by Cymbaline ("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
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To: Kaslin

I’ll tell you what I think is REALLY WEIRD. That is when a guy lets another guy stick his thang up his butt.

...and then when an otherwise-normal person can bring himself to publicly admit he he (or she) has a problem with that.

Now that is REALLY WEIRD.


47 posted on 01/10/2012 6:09:31 PM PST by BobL ("Heartless" and "Inhumane" FReepers for Cain - we've HAD ENOUGH)
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To: South Hawthorne

“Tell a fool that he can be greedy and vain, and disguise it as probity, and you have a new liberal convert.”

Your last sentence is remarkable for its brevity and insight. With your permission, and attribution if desired, I would like to use it as an introduction when discussing ideology with others. I also think that it succinctly indicates how liberals get drawn in to leftism. What they don’t realize is that getting out is very difficult.


48 posted on 01/11/2012 7:55:45 AM PST by iacovatx (If you must lie to recruit to your cause, you are fighting for the wrong side.)
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To: Jumper
They tend to pat themselves on the back as being more enlightened...

Lemme tell you whut. Anyone that touts their "enlightenment" - ain't. Some are on that path, but the really rare ones to actually attain enlightenment would never say so.

49 posted on 01/11/2012 8:18:43 AM PST by numberonepal (First they came for Sarah, then they came for Herman.....)
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To: iacovatx
Why thank you for your kind words!

No attribution necessary - use it in good health!

50 posted on 01/11/2012 9:15:53 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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