Liberalism Is Eating Itself

Posted by Eudaimonia 11 years ago to Politics
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Excellent article.
Deserves attention of Gulchers.

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  • Posted by Susannah 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree. They hate themselves, individually, whether they realize it or not. They project this hate on those around them under the unfortunately incorrect impression that by denigrating, misusing, berating, restricting and inflicting pain on others it builds themselves up to whatever it is they imagine themselves to be. Their kind of liberalism is a sickness. JMHO.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Of course, Truth & Reality is such a chemorepellent, but it is far from a permanent repellent. The looters and moochers are only deterred, and some have mutated into superlooters that have become resistant to Truth & Reality. I hope you got a good laugh.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree, CircuitGuy. It seems the sideshows are always fogging our view of the big show.

    "It's not a conspiracy, but it just works out that way". Well said.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Greetings, jbrenner. The product already exists. It's called Truth & Reality. Apply or spray liberally (no pun intended). :-)
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  • Posted by illucio 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I see your point. There are those who argue (I don´t agree) that ideas are common wealth. That because of all the advances made by humanity, there´s a continuum and we all have a right to acces it.

    The truth is that the best ideas are the ones kept secret. Patenting is a guarantee of intelectual currency, but it´s submission is barely exclusive. Especially if one takes into account that most patents go public after 20 years. But keeping things appart from the general public is like being a musician that doesn´t share his compositions. So there´ll always be a glitch.

    Look at industrialists and big corporation production. They care not for borders, nations, people or even their own products that much. They care about the all mighty buck, and today China is the best option for production. So, like I said before, local economies crash and we´ve got that alienating effect of no one talking to each other anymore, rather texting or skyping or whatever to someone on the other side of the globe. I love this age of communication, but I dare not forget that there´s nothing like a one on one conversation or a real meeting. I tell all my clients, friends and colleagues to write sms´s for I won´t answer cell phone calls unless I´m free, I hate having to interrupt a real life conversation.
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  • Posted by Susannah 11 years ago
    One wonders how long haters can go on hating without finally running out of people to hate. The natural progression would be for them to then turn on themselves. Maybe by them having had this extended time of unrestrained power, where their natural proclivities have run rampant, they have expended so much bile that they have reached that place where they can no longer tolerate each other. It is to be devoutly hoped.
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  • Posted by airfredd22 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Re: lana,
    Despite your good intentions to establish that liberals and conservatives are not really so different, I must disagree with your contentions.

    Liberals in general want government to always spend more as lng as it's other taxpayers money. They can't seem to understand that a government spending and growing an ever greater deficit can not grow an economy that will provide jobs. Conservatives want government to live within its means. Conservatives understand that a growing economy aided by lower taxes will generate more tax revenue as the economy inevitably grows.

    Liberals look at social progress to mean everything is acceptable from lifestyles to drugs to abortion. Conservatives recognize that traditional rules of society work better for everyone. That's not to mean that change is not good, but that it is not always goo to have change without responsibilities.

    These are just a few of the major differences that liberals and conservatives have. Ultimately, conservatives recognize and appreciate the brilliance of our Constitution and want Americans to live by its laws and standards. They recognize that our government ind its liberal Congress and present administration has discarded all understanding of the Constitution and has almost no respect for it at all.

    Fred Speckmann
    commonsenseforamericans@yahoo.com

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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Some part of us is more comfortable with the answer that there's some conspiracy that _really_ runs the country rather than the idea that it's a herd of people with various interests competing and collaborating.
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  • Posted by Lana 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    How can anyone do business when ideas, technology ... Etc...can be stolen by the world at large, with no consequences. We are in hell already. Why would anyone want to produce something that could be easily stolen? We want to create but not when the ethically challenged hop on the bandwagon and benefit from ideas that are not their own. I see it all the time. Remember Lotus... It was an idea stolen from VisiCalc by Lotus. VisiCalc the company with the creators who produced the first spreadsheet, disappeared into oblivion. And look at where the spreadsheet is today..... On every PC.... Worldwide.....
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  • Posted by illucio 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Patents are the new capitalists, ideas are the new resources. In a global scale at least. Everyone´s a sell out, nations and local economies are forgoten. And to go local is now the way of the future, because revolt comes from the inside out, and soon we´ll see it´s ugly head spout once more. That is unless we start going back to basics, and take care of our next door neighbors more. If the local economy works, the global economy will catch on. Otherwise, it´s all going straight to hell...
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  • Posted by Lana 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I fully agree. Time and energy spent on negativity produces nothing that is good or of value.
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  • Posted by Lana 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank you for your insightful post. You pose an interesting question....who is creating our futures?
    Another observation ... We should never...ever have gone to China to do business. The Chinese are learning from us and stealing ideas.... That is stealing power. I have read articles that their doors open and close depending on what they want from us.... The more desirable the ideas the easier to do business. Some of the business owner who had been doing business are now being edged out. The market does not rule in China ... Politics for power does. The US opened the door to unforeseen consequences in dealing with China or maybe it was by design... I guess time will tell.
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  • Posted by MattFranke 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Well put blarman. People are unable to (truly) respect others, if they have no respect for themselves. Same with love and trust. It is impossible for a person who views himself as untrustworthy to be able to trust others. How can one love another, if they have no idea what 'love' is? If one has no self-respect, no self-love, no trust in *himself*; those will be the very things they finds particularly lacking in every personal relationship they have, from the guys at work, to friends, and especially, their significant other. So goes the world.
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  • Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I've got to say that I started a kerfuffle with my above post. Since I don't regard myself as an entolmologist, I would ignore the liberal psyche but for one simple reason. My philosophy, as espoused in my books and website, is live and let live (laissez faire). Liberals, on the other hand, need my money and my non-voluntary compliance to their laws, regulations, and other dictates, enforced by their guns, to realize their ambitions. In other words, I'm happy to ignore liberals or anyone else who does not believe as I do, but liberals cannot let me ignore them. They have to tell me what to do and they have to take money from me. Looking at this thread one sees a number of comments hidden by the moderator, one of which accused me of extolling hate. I don't waste my time hating anyone, but I would, if I could, avoid contact with people who want my money and want to tell me how to live, i.e. liberals. To all liberals: just leave me alone and I'll never say another nasty thing about you. I continue to believe that my and pixelate's analysis of the liberal mindset is correct.
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Boom! Thank you for the assessment - we're on the same page. I am working on a paper "Understanding the Liberal Mind." In it, I describe both the overt (affect displays) and covert operations of the Modern Liberal. These people are very much ignorant of basic economics and human morality. Their hidebound hold on their dogma is so strong that any, even basic, explanation of economics or morality (think von Mises "Human Action") is completely disregarded. Their rage is oft fueled by the toddleresque emotion of envy. Implementation of their policies can only result in misery - the widespread destruction of the means to support human life -- this is a measure of their self-hatred. But on top of it all is egomaniacal delusionalism. They believe that they are the anointed - and that by being a "member of the party," all the ills that precipitate as a consequence of their policies will fall on others - they will not suffer the pain of their implemented immoral philosophy.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years ago
    Liberalism is starting to eat itself, but it still has plenty of us to devour in the meantime. All targeted delivery systems attempt to evade the immune system, but the clever ones, like some bacteria, emit chemorepellants. Imagine having a bug spray to spray in the faces of looters and moochers. We may need to develop this product.
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  • Posted by jimslag 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I am terribly sorry it took you 36 years to find your way out of the land of fruits and nuts. I myself spent 3 years in the mid 80's and 1995 there, courtesy of the United States Navy. I never looked back and will probably never be there again unless I have change flights at LAX or somewhere else. As for Bezerkley, I lived there for a year but it was way to liberal for me.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Hate is a mirror - it is merely a reflection of how one sees one's self and one's own individual flaws. The problem is that everyone has flaws and is embarrassed by them, so it is pretty easy to prey upon and manipulate those insecurities by projecting them onto others. When combined with the assuaging of one's own position, it quickly turns into class-warfare between those who have a particular attribute (religion, money, political stance, etc.) and those who wish they could have it but don't want to change themselves to get it.

    The only remedy for hate is for everyone to recognize his/her own individuality and accompanying flaws and then - knowing of one's own imperfections - to tolerate others for theirs. Easier said than done, however.
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  • Posted by g4lt 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Actually, no, I classify myself the way Neal Peart does; bleeding-heart libertarian, not much liberalism in there unless you count Classical Liberalism, the basis in which this country was founded
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 11 years ago
    Of the three history-changing revolutions in the last 238 years, one (American) was based on Reason and the others (French and Russian) were based on Emotions. When the American Revolution was completed, no recriminations were sought against citizens who had supported the Crown. They had to pledge allegiance to the new country or were free to return to Britain as Ben Franklin's son choose to do. By comparison, both of the others turned in on themselves in an orgy of slaughter. Current American Liberals are no less emotionally driven than the Russian and French revolutionaries. As they get closer to total victory, I believe we may expect to see their violence increase as they seek revenge for real or imagined injustices and jockey for positions of power to sit atop the lofty peaks of their imagined kingdom.
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