Author Topic: Fundamental Political Law  (Read 984 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

sirs

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 27078
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Fundamental Political Law
« on: August 23, 2011, 04:55:09 PM »
7 Reasons Why Liberals Are Incapable of Understanding The World

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. — Charles Krauthammer

Even liberals who've accomplished a lot in their lives and have high IQs often say things on a regular basis that are stunningly, profoundly stupid and at odds with the way the world works. Modern liberalism has become so bereft of common sense and instinctually suicidal that America can only survive over the long haul by thwarting the liberal agenda. In fact, liberalism has become such a toxic and poisonous philosophy that most liberals wouldn't behave differently if their goal were to deliberately destroy the country. So, how does liberalism cause well-meaning, intelligent liberals to get this way? Well, it starts with...

1) Liberalism creates a feedback loop. It is usually impossible for a non-liberal to change a liberal's mind about political issues because liberalism works like so: only liberals are credible sources of information. How do you know someone's liberal? He espouses liberal doctrine. So, no matter how plausible what you say may be, it will be ignored if you're not a liberal and if you are a liberal, of course, you probably agree with liberal views. This sort of close-mindedness makes liberals nearly impervious to any information that might undermine their beliefs.

2) Liberals sources of information are ever present. Conservatives are regularly exposed to the liberal viewpoint whether they want to be or not. That's not necessarily so for liberals. Imagine the average day for liberals. They get up and read their local newspaper. It has a liberal viewpoint. They take their kids to school, where the teachers are liberal. Then they go to work, listen to NPR which has a liberal viewpoint on the way home, and then turn on the nightly news which also skews leftward. From there, they turn on TV and watch shows created by liberals that lean to the left, if they have any political viewpoint at all. Unless liberals actively seek out conservative viewpoints, which is unlikely, the only conservative arguments they're probably going to hear are going to be through the heavily distorted, poorly translated, deeply skeptical lens of other liberals.

3) Liberals emphasize feeling superior, not superior results. Liberalism is all about appearances, not outcomes. What matters to liberals is how a program makes them FEEL about themselves, not whether it works or not. Thus a program like Headstart, which sounds good because it's designed to help children read, makes liberals feel good about themselves, even though the program doesn't work and wastes billions. A ban on DDT makes liberals feel good about themselves because they're "protecting the environment" even though millions of people have died as a result. For liberals, it's not what a program does in the real world; it's about whether they feel better about themselves for supporting it.

4) Liberals are big believers in moral relativism. This spins them round and round because if the only thing that's wrong is saying that there's an absolute moral code, then you lose your ability to tell cause from effect, good from bad, and right from wrong. Taking being non-judgmental to the level that liberals do leaves them paralyzed, pondering "why they hate us" because they feel incapable of saying, “That's wrong," and doing something about it. If you're against firm standards and condemning immoral behavior, then your moral compass won’t work and you’ll also be for immorality, as well as societal and cultural decay by default.

5) Liberals tend to view people as parts of groups, not individuals. One of the prejudices of liberalism is that they see everyone as part of a group, not as an individual. This can lead to rather bizarre disparities when say, a man from a group that they consider to be powerless, impoverished victims becomes the leader of the free world -- and he's challenged by a group of lower middle class white people who've banded together because individually they're powerless. If you listen to the liberal rhetoric, you might think Barack Obama was a black Republican being surrounded by a KKK lynching party 100 years ago -- as opposed to the single most powerful man in America abusing the authority of his office to attack ordinary Tea Partiers who have the audacity to speak the truth to power for the good of their country.

6) Liberals take a dim view of personal responsibility. Who's at fault if a criminal commits a crime? The criminal or society? If someone creates a business and becomes a millionaire, is that the result of hard work and talent or luck? If you're dirt poor, starving, and haven't worked in 5 years, is that a personal failing or a failure of the state? Conservatives would tend to say the former in each case, while liberals would tend to say the latter. But when you disconnect what an individual does from the results that happen in his life, it's very difficult to understand cause and effect in people's lives.

7) Liberals give themselves far too much credit just for being liberal. To many liberals, all one needs to do to be wise, intelligent, compassionate, open minded, and sensitive is to BE LIBERAL. In other words, many of the good things about a person spring not from his actions, but from the ideology he holds. This has an obvious appeal. You can be a diehard misogynist, but plausibly call yourself a feminist, hate blacks, but accuse others of racism, have a subpar IQ and be an intellectual, give nothing to charity and be compassionate, etc., etc., and all you have to do is call yourself a liberal. It's a shortcut to virtue much like the corrupt old idea of religious indulgences. Why live a life of virtue when you could live a sinful life and buy your way into heaven? If you're a liberal, why actually live a life of virtue when you can merely call yourself a liberal and get credit for being virtuous, even when you've done nothing to earn it?

Op-ed
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle

Christians4LessGvt

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11139
    • View Profile
    • "The Religion Of Peace"
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Fundamental Political Law
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2011, 06:02:37 PM »
liberalism has become such a toxic and poisonous philosophy that most liberals
wouldn't behave differently if their goal were to deliberately destroy the country
I agree.

It is usually impossible for a non-liberal to change a liberal's mind about political issues

I don't agree.
Liberals minds can be changed because their positions are usually founded on falsehoods.
It is true in many cases it would be impossible, but in many cases it is possible
mainly because liberalism is at it's core illogical, a fraud, and anti-democratic.

When I married my wife she was a liberal. I used a soft-sell approach over time.
Never told her she was crazy
Never told her "how wrong she was"
Always showed respect for her stances, but gently explained the "other side of the coin"
gave lots of empirical examples and logic
within a year or two....great progress was made.
Today she is a great conservative woman voter in every election

My best friend did the exact same thing with his wife.
She was liberal leaning.
After a few years of watching Fox News she now votes Republican.
If explained softly why most liberal policies dont work people will respond.
Of course we are not going to change people's minds in here....
But the average Joe Public is not nearly as entrenched and responds well to logic.

I think given time I could "convert" most liberals
sure some are so entrenched nothing could change their mind
but i think i could "convert" a very high percentage....given time
it's really pretty easy when you have freedom and logic on your side
and you dont have to hide what you really believe in.....when there
is no "Trojan Horse" to try and control people! Liberals have to sneek
most of their agenda in because no one would ever vote for it.
« Last Edit: August 23, 2011, 06:14:38 PM by Christians4LessGvt »
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - Ronald Reagan - June 12, 1987

Plane

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 26993
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Fundamental Political Law
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2011, 11:36:52 PM »
Quote
Unless liberals actively seek out conservative viewpoints, which is unlikely, the only conservative arguments they're probably going to hear are going to be through the heavily distorted, poorly translated, deeply skeptical lens of other liberals.



Yes!

So any Liberal who has the courage to enter into a real comparison of ideas should not be discouraged.

Quote
...................Never told her she was crazy
Never told her "how wrong she was"
Always showed respect for her stances, but gently explained the "other side of the coin"
gave lots of empirical examples and logic
within a year or two....great progress was made.
................


Where there is life there is hope.

sirs

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 27078
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Fundamental Political Law
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2011, 01:15:40 AM »
liberalism has become such a toxic and poisonous philosophy that most liberals
wouldn't behave differently if their goal were to deliberately destroy the country

I agree.


It is usually impossible for a non-liberal to change a liberal's mind about political issues

I don't agree.
Liberals minds can be changed because their positions are usually founded on falsehoods.
It is true in many cases it would be impossible, but in many cases it is possible
mainly because liberalism is at it's core illogical, a fraud, and anti-democratic.


Thankfully Cu4, your wife is an exception to the usual rule
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle

Christians4LessGvt

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11139
    • View Profile
    • "The Religion Of Peace"
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Fundamental Political Law
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2011, 10:14:15 AM »
Thankfully Cu4, your wife is an exception to the usual rule

not to toot my own horn
but i think in person...one one one
i have a unique talent to convert liberals
not the entrenched type
but typical average everyday liberal
give me time....and i will convert them
i think i inherited this talent from my Mom
her track record and mine is quite extensive!  ;)

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - Ronald Reagan - June 12, 1987

Xavier_Onassis

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 27916
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Fundamental Political Law
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2011, 01:27:53 PM »
Bullcrap!

I see no ability of you to convert anyone to anything.

You are less annoying than sirs or Kramer, but that is about it.

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

sirs

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 27078
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Fundamental Political Law
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2011, 01:52:09 PM »
Political Law #7

Liberals give themselves far too much credit just for being liberal.

To many liberals, all one needs to do to be wise, intelligent, compassionate, open minded, and sensitive is to BE LIBERAL.  In other words, many of the good things about a person spring not from his actions, but from the ideology he holds
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle

Xavier_Onassis

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 27916
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Fundamental Political Law
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2011, 03:14:15 PM »
These are not political laws, they are simply rightwing platitudes.

I have yet to see anyone with a knowledge of pesticides that thinks that substituting other pesticides for DDT was not a wise thing to do.

Everyone involved in politics sees voters as members of specific groups, not just Liberals. Everyone knows that it is unwise to say unkind things about Netanyahu at a B'nai B'rith meeting, since 95% will oppose you. It is unwise to mention that MLK may have plagiarized a part of his dissertation at a Black church. People do, in fact, tend to share beliefs.
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."