6 Basic Concepts Liberals Don't Get
American Thinker,
by
John Green
Original Article
Posted By: DW626,
1/3/2022 5:16:00 AM
There's a famous saying often attributed to Edmund Burke: "If you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain." Youth is attracted to liberalism because its ideals sound good — they really do. You'd have to be some kind of monster not to want to save the planet, lift up the poor, correct past injustices, and share equally in Earth's bounty. The problem with liberals is not their ideals; it's their actions — which never accomplish their intended purpose. That's because liberals are emotional, rather than rational, animals.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/3/2022 6:38:56 AM (No. 1026553)
I’d add a 7th.....Freedom. It scares the hell out of them.
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Supply/demand
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
franq 1/3/2022 7:27:07 AM (No. 1026601)
The biggest one: there is a God, who sent His Son Jesus, and gave us His Word to live by. Rejection of that truth is the root of liberalism.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 1/3/2022 7:31:14 AM (No. 1026605)
…and will never get.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
privateer 1/3/2022 7:33:13 AM (No. 1026610)
The Golden Rule; do unto others....
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Clinger 1/3/2022 7:55:06 AM (No. 1026628)
They don't get that when you spend other peoples money on yet other people you care not about quality nor cost. They don't get that when you tax an economy beyond a certain point that you actually collect less in taxes and that we have been beyond that point for a long time.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
walcb 1/3/2022 9:38:59 AM (No. 1026744)
These 6 concepts should be written into a Republican platform as a contract with Americans.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/3/2022 9:40:59 AM (No. 1026745)
“ You'll be treated to an endless word salad of leftist talking points, followed by anger and a personal insult.”
I’m sure that we all remember how Rush would put a leftist at the head of the line and then time how long the caller took to start throwing personal insults when Rush backed him/her into a corner with the truth. How I miss that wonderful man!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LesUNo 1/3/2022 9:46:10 AM (No. 1026754)
Liberalism is no longer an ideology. It is an identity and any criticism is taken very personally.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/3/2022 9:53:06 AM (No. 1026771)
Physically, humans hit their peak at 25. Mentally, the brain doesnt settle down till earlyto mid thirties.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Catfur27 1/3/2022 10:12:41 AM (No. 1026799)
He left out a BIG one : Tolerance
Libs truly BELIEVE to tehir core that THEY are above all other things - TOLERANT ....that's what makes them so special....but..in reality...
..they are only tolerant of the those people and things that THEY agree with....have a different point of view ( ie - a sane perspective) ...and you are a "bigot...racist..homophobe...uneducated...conspiracy theorist etc etc ..."
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 1/3/2022 10:14:14 AM (No. 1026800)
I'm old but I can never understand a person (this is not a put down to anyone) who can say "I was once a liberal". What? I never swayed that way, ever. I was conservative as a teen before I could vote. Maybe it was the way my father would look at someone being stupid it was a lesson learned. I don't challenge a liberal because it is a fool's quest. I can honestly say I have no liberal friends. The brains of a liberals are hard wire different from mine one factor is the killing of an unborn child that should tell you what you are worth is to a liberal, it's nothing they would do it to you with joy death defines liberalism. MAGA
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/3/2022 10:31:29 AM (No. 1026825)
It's like arguing the Bible and its meaning...it is what one believes it to be. The concept conservatives don't get is that liberals don't care about these "details". Their ends justify any means, and there is no fact or logic that will dissuade their commitment. It's why liberals are activists, to the point of burning cities and otherwise fouling them with human jetsam and flotsam.
What conservatives see as "stupid" doesn't matter to them. Like they say, "Rust never sleeps", and neither does liberalism. Every fight is a step on their road to Utopia, win, lose or draw. It opens the discussion, which generally ends with "change", even if marginal. Conservatives mistakenly believe that anyone with brains can see the falsity or error...and stand by to watch the language hijacked and "argument" prevail. Social justice, anyone? Climate change? Insurrection?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
FLCracker 1/3/2022 11:22:41 AM (No. 1026879)
Under 3. Welfare, the comment about welfare now being a way of life. At this point, we have "families" (matrilocal, matrilineal ones) that have been on welfare for three generations or more. This isn't a "way of life"; it is a culture. (And a parasitic one, at that.)
Under 5. Biological sex is not a choice God has granted us, the comment "God (or Gaia if you prefer)". I vote for God. "Gaia" aka Nature is unforgiving and knows no mercy. If you want your chromosomes changed, you have a much better chance appealing to God, who does the occasional miracle.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 1/3/2022 2:05:53 PM (No. 1027076)
All important, accurate points. Well said.
I would add something along the line "After action reviews and rethinking your strategy is a critical tool."
They suppose that a certain action will 'fix' a certain 'problem'. After a decade or two of their "fix", when the "problem" is worse.....they never say "Oh, that didn't work, let's do something else". NEVER. They say "Oh, we didn't do ENOUGH of our fix, need to double down." And then in another decade when it is even worse....they still don't reverse course. EVER.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 1/3/2022 2:10:22 PM (No. 1027078)
Thank you, #12. I agree.
My father briefly explained the basics of Communism to me when I was about 12 or 14, when I asked about it. I was astounded that ANYONE could be so naive and foolish as to buy the whole "everyone will work for the common good" story, even as a pre-teen/early teen. It was obvious as hell to me that the lazy would slack off and just take handouts. Yep. And then reading "Animal Farm" firmed up everything very clearly.
I have never bought any of the leftist drivel.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/3/2022 5:05:56 PM (No. 1027208)
Just 6? I can list at least 100, give me about 6 minutes!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
homefry 1/4/2022 7:45:49 AM (No. 1027589)
Those ideals are fine, it is the way dim-0s try to accomplish them that sucks. Everything they touch turns to dookey.
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