Liberal Liers
Willie
Beware the liberliars
By Robert Ringer
© 2006
A number of events over the past few weeks have again reminded me what
a menacing condition so-called liberalism is.
First, there was Brian Rohrbough, whose 15-year-old son Daniel was
killed in the Columbine massacre. During his interview with Katie
Couric, Rohrbough said, among other things, "For over two generations,
the public school system has taught in a moral vacuum. We teach there
are no absolutes, no right or wrong. And I assure you, the murder of
innocent children is always wrong, including by abortion."
Amazingly, on her Internet blog, Killer Katie wrote, "We knew when we
decided to put on this segment that a lot of people would disagree with
it. We also knew some might even find it repugnant." Hmm ... I must
have missed something.
Then there was the ever-gentle Barbra telling a heckler to "Shut the
f-- up" because he was displeased with her skit portraying President
Bush as a bumbling idiot. And I'll bet you thought Mr. Streisand
married Babs for her money. Not so. It's her femininity that he found
irresistible.
Finally, there was the near-riot at Columbia University when Jim
Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, spoke at that revered
institution of higher learning. Brain-scrambled students made like
savages as they overturned tables and chairs and shouted down
Gilchrist.
Speaking of savages, it reminded me that today's liberalism is, as the
title of Michael Savage's book puts it, a mental disorder. I use the
term "today's liberalism," because the word liberal was long ago
hijacked by a dysfunctional group of self-serving moralists who now use
it to mean restriction of liberty.
A true liberal is open-minded and tolerant, which more accurately
describes libertarians. The truth be known, hard-core liberals of today
are conspicuously closed-minded and intolerant. Worse, as Shelby Steele
points out in his revealing book, "White Guilt," today's liberals are
inherently racist. They believe that people of color are not smart
enough or responsible enough to make it on their own.
All of which is why I prefer to use the term "liberliar" rather than
liberal, because to be so abjectly closed-minded, intolerant and
racist, one must lie to oneself. Of course, there are many different
kinds of lying. Some liberliars consciously lie with a premeditated
intent to deceive. Others lie without really being consciously aware
that they're lying. But the lying that all liberliars have in common is
that they lie to themselves.
Why? Because liberliarism is so at odds with reality that the only way
a person can remain a liberliar is to deceive himself. It's a form of
cognitive dissonance, a psychological term used to describe the
discomfort a person experiences when confronted with facts that
contradict his belief system.
A true liberliar simply ignores such facts and clings to his firmly
entrenched beliefs no matter how unfounded they may be. Which is why
liberlying is, literally speaking, a mental disorder.
Because of my fascination with the human psyche, I've spent years
studying this crippling cerebral condition. As a result, I've managed
to isolate five distinct subcategories of liberliars, as follows:
Dumblibs. Dumblibs are liberaliars who lack the intelligence to
accurately process information. They simply do not have the mental
capacity to understand why their entrenched beliefs are immoral and
contradictory. Think Deaniacs.
Emptylibs. Emptylibs do not lack intelligence; they lack knowledge.
They tend to babble incessantly and incoherently in an effort to cover
up their empty-headedness. To drown out those who dare to confront them
with facts, they are adept at talking loud, fast and aggressive. When
all else fails, they resort to shrieking. Think college kids wearing
Che Guevara T-shirts.
Nicelibs. Nicelibs are for the most part well-intentioned but clueless
liberliars. But don't be fooled. Well-meaning liberliars who act
contrary to reality can be just as dangerous as malevolent liberliars
who have an accurate grasp of the facts. The reason for this is that
people tend to let their guards down against those who are seemingly
well-meaning. Think Lanny Davis and Juan Williams.
Fakelibs. Fakelibs are the liberliars who have more in common with
Marie Antoinette and the Upper Eastside dinner-party crowd than with
the downtrodden they claim to represent. They thrive on hiding inside
their mansions and babbling endlessly about helping "the poor" and
disemboweling "the rich."
In reality, most fakelibs are extreme narcissists who worship money and
material possessions and, notwithstanding their shameless rhetoric,
harbor an obvious disdain for society's underclass. Think most of
Hollywood.
Meanlibs. Meanlibs are liberliars who are out-and-out malevolent. They
truly enjoy inflicting pain. They hate free speech with a passion. And,
above all, they are inclined to violence. Meanlibs who achieve
notoriety almost always transform into fakelibs as they become addicted
to the goodies that go along with their increased power. Think James
Carville and Dan Rather.
Can liberliars be saved? It's theoretically possible, but conversion to
a rational, moral life must normally occur between the ages of 25 and
35. Before 25, a liberliar hasn't had enough time for the Marxist
rhetoric of his college professors to have been tested in the real
world. After 35, stubbornness tends to set in, because the liberliar
cannot accept the devastating reality that he has wasted years of his
life constructing a belief system that is unethical, immoral and
harmful to others.
Liberliars would do well to heed the words of Eric Hoffer: "A man is
likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is
not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other
people's business."
An excellent place, then, for liberliars to start if they really want
to help make this planet a better place for everyone is to forget about
trying to reform society and, instead, concentrate on reforming
themselves.
jones
"Willie" <yoba...@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Thursday, October 19, 2006
> Beware the liberliars
> By Robert Ringer
> © 2006
> A number of events over the past few weeks have again reminded me what
> a menacing condition so-called liberalism is.
(snip of garbage)
Wikipedia
Robert Ringer is an American entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and author
of several bestselling self-help books.
His first book, Winning Through Intimidation, was first published in 1974.
In December 2004, Ringer revised and updated the book and republished it
with a new title: To Be or Not to Be Intimidated?: That is the Question.
A devoted admirer of Ayn Rand, Ringer wrote his most politically-oriented
work, Restoring the American Dream (1979), which dealt with various problems
in the United States, and offering solutions through a laissez-faire free
market libertarian perspective (in recent years Ringer has modified his
views, now describing himself as an "theoretical libertarian/practical
conservative").
His other books include Looking Out for Number One (originally published in
1978, but a revised and updated edition is planned for Fall, 2006); Million
Dollar Habits (1990), and Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves
(2005).
He is married to a Panamanian former stewardess and Playboy magazine
centerfold, Ester Cordet.