A Special Place In Hell

“They will not rest until everyone not as “pure” as they are is either dead or afraid to speak. And after that rest, they’ll go after those who are afraid to speak. Progressives, as the 20th century has now, love purges.”

Hmmm...sounds a bit like adherants to a certain head chopping religion trying to out jihad one another.

Because most Republican (95%) elected officials are cowards.

Civil citizens can only express themselves at the ballot box. For the most part they continue to elect cowards.

“This is where the Democrats are heading....open violence that will be openly supported (like the kind words said about ANTIFA by Biden) or silently.”

Yes, and what are we going to do about it?

“Because gullible Christians seek to co exist.”

Christians appear to have an inexhaustible number of cheeks to turn... and the left is more than happy to keep slapping them.

I had a liberal Jewish friend since the second grade. He has a high IQ and we argued politics and other issues even when we were kids. His nonsense was mostly humorous to me. But after President Trump was elected, he decided to have nothing more to do with me. No real skin off my nose, but it is interesting that the left has become so intolerant that a 50 year friendship was ended.

I'm not sure WHY we grant credibility to these liberal balls of hatred. Can someone explain that to me?

The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

I think you’ve got it...

Adam Smith was amazing in his time - - and in ours.

Betrayal by parents at a young age can stop the normal desire to trust... I wonder if it would also hamper the ability to lead?.. Thanks for the quote - and the link.

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