Liberal Lies And Slanders Are A Slippery Slope To Trouble

Now, the problem for liberals is that when we reason, they lose. Leftism has a historical track record unblemished by success, and that includes its effeminate little brother American liberalism, whose greatest hits include rampant crime, welfare cheats, and national decline. This legacy of failure is why the goateed durwoods lurking around campus coffee shops in berets and ironic Army surplus jackets always insist to anyone within earshot that “True socialism has never been tried.” Hope springs eternal in the hearts of Marxists, but the rest of us have too much common sense to buy that nonsense.

So, being unable to convince the normals that they have nothing to lose but their chains, our liberal pals have simply given up on the idea of convincing anyone of anything at all. Instead, they are opting for the hitting-over-the-head solution, except their clubs are not wooden. Their clubs are institutional and cultural.

They seek to eliminate our ability to speak – that’s the de-platforming part of their scheme. They want to eliminate any venues for dissenting argument. Europe is their model – there, you can actually be arrested and imprisoned for saying words. Think about that – they do, and it gets them all excited and sweaty. They would love to do it here – do you have any doubt that the Democrats, back in power, would ban “hate speech,” and do you have any doubt that “hate speech” would be defined as pretty much anything we are interested in saying?

Reasoned discussion requires good faith argument – an argument that accurately characterizes the opposing view and refutes it with facts and evidence. But since liberalism can’t refute conservative arguments with facts and evidence – history and human nature are insurmountable obstacles – they need to attack arguments normal people are not making. It’s a bad faith strawman strategy, and it often manifests itself in the New Obtuseness, the stubborn insistence that what someone just said is something entirely different than what he actually said. It’s basically fancy lying.

The New Obtuseness was in full effect recently when Trump called MS-13 dirtbags “animals.” Despite the video of him discussing these evil gangbanging scum, the liberals and their media windowlickers insisted that he was calling all illegal aliens “animals.” And they knew it wasn’t true – they just lied, knowingly and intentionally. They do it all the time. We, presumably, are supposed to disbelieve our own lying eyes and ears.

And this ploy is getting more common. For example, the NRA rejection of the idea of an unaccountable government bureaucracy being able to ban citizens from exercising a key natural right merely by putting their names on a list that has demonstrably been proven to be full of errors becomes “The NRA wants to let terrorists buy guns.” Of course, that fits in with how all of us NRA members are terrorists because we refuse to give up our rights because of some crime we didn’t commit. The New Obtuseness is a fresh take on old-fashioned dishonesty.

Then there’s the idiotic idea that Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick thinks exits cause school shootings, because conservatives deny exits or something. Apparently “Do something” only means disarming innocent citizens and does not include doing anything that might actually address the problem, like hardening the target by limiting access as occurs in every other single secure area in our society. The New Obtuseness counts on you being stupid.

I experienced it when liberals and their Never Trump poodles collectively wet themselves screeching that I was advocating a second civil war in a column expressly and repeatedly stating the precise opposite. And I have $100 that says some commenter or social media idiot repeats that lie about this column too.

Now, this tactic really doesn’t work – no one who can count to 21 without taking off his shoes and pants buys this baloney – but it does make the normals really, really mad. While using the New Obtuseness feels good right now – take that, Trump! – it’s not a good long-term strategy and a two-edged sword. Any strategy that makes you effectively defend MS-13 is a poor one. I can’t wait for the campaign ads this fall.

This kind of rhetoric doesn’t inspire normals to give up and allow the left to win the fight over policy by default. Instead, it encourages normal people to tell their opponents to molon labe. Double down on democracy, liberals, because you won’t like what’s at the bottom of the slippery slope.