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Why Liberals Are So Stupid
Liberals, especially Secular Humanists, believe that Man is innately good. The good just has to be encouraged by untrammeled personal license and therapy. So, evils like crime and terrorism cannot be simplly condemned as evil. Liberals have to look for a "politically- correct" root cause for wrongdoing. Popular scapegoats for Liberals
are: "Poverty" (even when that poverty is the fruit of a
dysfunctional society unwilling to adapt to new realities),
"Racism"(which might limit one's opportunities but doesn't lead
directly to criminal behavior), "Zionism" (the Jews always make a
convienent scapegoat), "Colonialism" (even though most of the
colonial empires educated their subjects and built enough
infrastructure for said former subjects to make a better go at modern statehood than they otherwise could have), or "Alienation" ( a convienient dodge for those who lack ambition, a work ethic, or any sense of personal responsibility).
Therefore, the United States, being relatively rich, powerful, and
the world's policeman must be the cause of all the world's ills. The solution is to hand our American sovereignity and military over to the United Nations, a true coalition of the weak and powerless. If the United States imprisons terrorists caught on the battlefield as unlawful combatants at Guantanamo, then it is a "gulag" and the U.S. military is equivalent to "Soviet Russia" or "Pol Pot".
How can Liberals make such a morally ignorant simile? It's really
quite simple. First off, to a liberal, history is mutable. History to
be valid has to be reinterpreted by each generation and by each
"oppressed minority". You end up with no history at all, unless it is in the Orwellian sense of constant reinvention to suit the causes of the immediate present.
Facts don't matter much either. Facts are hard and cold, the province of Conservatives who care about results. Results don't matter, only intentions. How else can a bloody-handed murderer like Che Guevara still remain a cool lefty icon? So what if Castro runs real gulags and Guevara was his hangman? Castro brought free health care and education to Cuba.
It's all about emotions. Liberals have to be constantly outraged. And they feel the need to express their outrage by outraging others. Why else would a picture of a crucifix and a beaker of piss be considered great art? It expresses what Liberals really want to do, which is piss on religion. They react emotionally, so they acclaim the "artist" in a Pavlovian response.
They commit outrages, because they don't want to build. Not really anyway. There are rare exceptions like Jimmy Carter out there swinging a hammer for Habitat for Humanity (which is, btw, a Christian organization) The Left really wants to destroy. They want to destroy America, the family, God, capitalism, the Boy Scouts, and all these bourgoise fascist infrastructure that keeps them from their Neverland utopia where we can live off the dole, smoke pot, sleep around, and somehow not starve. Peter Pan was the penultimate liberal, because he never wanted to grow up and always got the best of that fascist capitalist pirate, Captain Hook.
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John
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