Once you've watched liberals
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Once you've watched liberals long enough to understand how they think --
scratch that, how they feel -- they become extraordinarily predictable.
To begin with, the liberal agenda is, in many respects, the same as it was
in the thirties. Whether you call it communism, fascism, socialism,
liberalism, or progressivism, the only real difference is how much they
believe they can get away with, the way they sell it to people, and the
latest trendy name for what they believe.
So, once the liberals pick a policy from their stale program to push, the
next step is to get it implemented. This is where liberals have problems
because whether a policy makes sense, is practical, or actually improves
people's lives is of secondary importance to them. What is important to
liberals is whether supporting or opposing that policy makes them feel good
about themselves.
This is why liberals continue to support dysfunctional policies that have
been failing miserably for decades and why they often oppose common sense
programs that have been proven to work time and time again -- because it
isn't about whether it works or not, it's about how it makes them feel.
In other words, a liberal will almost always prefer a policy that's
extremely expensive, is difficult to implement, helps almost no one, but
seems "nice" -- to a policy that is cheap, simple to implement, extremely
effective, and seems "mean."
However, since most Americans make decisions about policies based on
whether or not they believe the policy makes people's lives better or
worse, liberals have had to become habitually dishonest about what they
believe and want to do to get their ideas put into action.
This is a point worth stressing because many people who aren't familiar
with politics believe that conservatives and liberals are simply flip sides
of the same coin and therefore, approach issues the same way. However,
conservatives genuinely believe that this is a center-right country. That's
why conservatives have no qualms about being publicly labeled as
conservatives and it's part of the reason why we're much more honest than
the Left -- because we believe that a majority of the American people
generally agree with us and share our values.
So, those of us on the Right spend our time trying to explain to the
American people what we really want to do, while the Left spends its time
trying to hide what it really wants to do from the American people.
Because of this, when liberals don't feel that the political winds are
blowing in their direction, not only will they generally avoid discussing
the things they believe, they will typically deny that they believe them at
all.
Additionally, liberals go to bizarre lengths to tilt the political playing
field in their favor. They move into the mainstream media so that they can
tip what are supposed to be "objective" news stories in their favor. They
get into positions of power in our educational system so that they can
teach kids liberal propaganda before they're old enough to know better.
They uniformly support judges who care nothing about the Constitution as
long as it moves liberal ideological goals forward. Even the Left's support
of illegal immigration is rooted in the desire to bring in millions of poor
people from socialist countries who are more likely to vote Democratic. If
they can't convince the American voters they're right, then they'll just
bring in some new voters.
More disturbing is the Left's ever-increasing reliance on what are commonly
thought of as fascist tactics. Liberals at college campuses attempt to
disrupt conservative speeches and the Democrats want to try to drive
conservative talk radio hosts off the air with the Fairness Doctrine.
Conservatives like Tom DeLay, Rush Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter have been
targeted criminally for political reasons and there's even talk of trying
to jail members of the Bush Administration over policy differences after
they're out of office. Ideological soulmates of modern liberals -- like
Stalin, Lenin, and Mao -- would certainly approve of those tactics.
Still, even though this is a center-right country, we do have political
cycles and there are times when those cycles favor the Left. When that
happens and the Lefties start to get a bit more confident, usually a few
liberals at the edges will start talking about what they want to do. At
that early point, most other liberals will still vehemently deny their
ideological goals to the public out of fear that it will prevent them from
getting into power.
However, when the Left gains enough strength to be capable of getting one
of the policies they favor implemented, all the liberals who previously
denied that they supported it will unapologetically shift on a dime and
vote for it en masse -- while they rely on their ideological allies in the
media and the fact that many Americans are ill informed about politics to
cover their tracks.
So, if you want to know what liberals want to do, their words mean
absolutely nothing because lying about their agenda has become as natural
to them as chasing a cat is to a dog.
Instead, what you have to do is watch what other liberals have done when
they have come into power. Look at Canada, where conservatives are being
put on trial for hate crimes because they've dared to criticize Muslims.
Look at European countries, where they have socialistic economies, sky high
tax rates, rigid speech codes, and overweening nannystates. You can even
look at liberal enclaves in the United States like Berkeley and San
Francisco, where members of the military are treated like pariahs and they
boo the national anthem.
If you believe the liberals in Berkeley, France, Canada or for that matter
in the bowels of the Daily Kos or Huffington Post, are significantly
different than, say Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, you are kidding
yourself. The only differences are in what they think they can get away
with and how honest they are willing to be about their agenda.
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