How Do They Get That Way?

Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 11 months ago to Philosophy
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Have you ever asked yourself why liberals are so wrong minded, even when their beliefs are proven to be irrational and their philosophy demonstrably faulty?I have come to believe that it is built on self-hatred.Perhaps it was instilled in them by their parents, or by the many other soul-crushing events that can happen to a child as they grow into adulthood. some of you will understand because you have gone through it and have had the strength to overcome it and are quite pleased with yourselves.My Granddaughter recommended the poetry of W.H. Auden so, being a poetry lover I picked up a book of his poems.Now, you should understand she graduated from a state college, well known for its liberal attitude as most of them are.I didn't expect much elucidation from this famous ode-maker.I came across a poem called "In Praise Of Limestone"."I 'm a long way from being a shrink, but it brought back all the shrinkish stuff foisted on me during a great tragedy in my life. I've overcome being in a liberal family, in a liberal neighborhood, among liberal relatives which I managed to overcome as I struggled for rationality.Let me quote the part of the poem that got me started on this diatribe.
"I am the solitude that asks and promises nothing;That is how I shall set you free. There is no love;
There are only various envies, all of them sad."

The terrible lonliness of being with yourself.Boo-hoo. It is during the emotional 'teen years where this is particularly foisted onto persons, when they are flooded with hormones, and unidentified feelings. It's no wonder they are attracted to philosophies of emotion , where concern for their fellow man overrides concern for themselves. I have no degree in shrinkology, so you might say I'm merely prattling so much garbage. Maybe so, but that poem excerpt is typical of the left, justifying almost anything because it demands sacrifice, and the people have been conditioned to self-hatred. That's why such poetry is typical of the left. You won't find heroes in their literature, or positive aspirations in their fiction, That's why I don't read any "serious" books of fiction. Only thrillers, Where I can identify with the good guys and hate the bad guys.


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  • Posted by BCRinFremont 6 years, 11 months ago
    ....and thusly we will be ruled by children who may never figure out the difference between reality and fantasy.

    “Off with his head..” said the Queen of Hearts and our heads will be off...
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Maybe they consider the higher premiums just a tax that the producers can afford
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  • Posted by Solver 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    To them, Obamacare is working. Just like all of these other social dependency programs are working. Of course with higher taxation they could be made to work “better.”
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Perhaps the liberals just ignore the poorer service, just as they ignore the failures of socialism in general- in order to keep alive the hope that it "might" work if done better.

    Obamacare just needs "modification" and then it will work.......
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  • Posted by ycandrea 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I also love the way Dean Koontz writes. Very funny sometimes and very poetically descriptive.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No super powers, just a devious mind. Netflix has a series of Odd Thomas flicks. Nothing profound, just fun.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are correct, of course, I also get the impression that many feel that it's OK to have poorer service or product so long as it is provided at no cost or effort.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It used to be an insult to be called a wimp. Now, I'm not so sure. It used to be women who were delicate creatures who fainted easily. When in was proven that it was actually the tight corsets that cut off oxygen to their lungs, another ploy was promulgated. In the case of the delicate creatures of the 21st century, I think it may be due to gross overuse of psycho docs, which seems to help justify every boogie man in the closet.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There were some very sharp minds behind the revolution putting together a set of rules for a government of, for, and by the people. Nothing else could have given us the freedom and prosperity we have. Not perfect. mostly because nothing is. But nothing is better even though, so far, no one has managed to create and enforce a pure capitalist economic system which is the only economic system that works with our Constitution.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think the liberals really WANT the idea of socialism and being taken care of. Thats why they deny its failures, and always say it just wasnt done right. They cant admit that they are on their own in this world, and subscribe to the hope of "stronger together", and just deny that it has never, and in fact cant work
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  • Posted by 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Pretty much everyone of the members of this forum -- and a few newbies, I would say.This is not a new concept among the G.G. members.However there is a great misunderstanding among the great unwashed as the word democracy is bandied about as if people understand its meaning as it pertains to the USA.As Franklin said when a woman enquired what all they were doing "What have you given us, Mr. Franklin?" He replied "A Republic, if you can keep it, madam." But, because a degree of democracy i s used, people get confused, playing fast and loose with the word. It is a representative Democracy eith all kinds of restrictions but most of all a Republic where the democratic voting is done by certain elected officials to represent the people. Remember that the USA was totally new and the framers incorporated Bits and pieces of everything good that they saw in other governments a left out anything that smelled of a ruling class.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oy! I gotta watch what I say around you people. Not a bad phrase though. a born again objectiviste, but in my I case, it happened like this: My mom told me I shouldn't see the movie "The Fountainhead" because I wouldn't understand it. But then, she also told me I wouldn't like roller coasters, and was she ever wrong. I saw the movie, then saw the book in a soft cover edition at the local drug store and bought it.You can fill in the blanks from there.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm glad I'm not the only one who quotes "Invictus"
    "I am the master of my fate.....and I mind my own business."
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 6 years, 11 months ago
    When you are endlessly told you are a helpless, innocent victim, even if you are materially well, it's easy to think that everything in life that doesn't turn out the way you want is the result of evildoers who don't want you to be happy.

    Our social justice system imbued in our education/brainwashing cabal tells the young that everyone is special, and has the right to have rewards for just existing. Any discussion of personal responsibility for one's own future is viewed as a personal attack.

    This creation of fragile beings who feel they must be protected from reality at all costs is a result of state control, and as the author cites, the breakdown of family bonds and guidance. The bizarre thing is that all of this anger springs not from the abjectly poor, who are consumed by the need to survive, but from a relatively well off segment of society that has been taught they are completely innocent of any bad things in the world, and that only the evil, cruel, and corrupt become wealthy and unjustly happy.
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  • Posted by shaifferg 6 years, 11 months ago
    If the goal is to regain control of the country from the socialists then check out Article five of the constitution and also The Convention of the States movement. We can fight back but will fail if we don't even try to move back to a constitutional form of government. I cringe every time I hear this country referred to as a democracy. Anyone ever heard of a Constitutional Replublic?
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  • Posted by shaifferg 6 years, 11 months ago
    I often told students that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Trying to convince them preparation should come first for luck to happen.
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  • Posted by rtpetrick 6 years, 11 months ago
    Out of the night that covers me,
    Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
    I thank whatever gods may be
    For my unconquerable soul.

    In the fell clutch of circumstance
    I have not winced nor cried aloud.
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
    My head is bloody, but unbowed.

    Beyond this place of wrath and tears
    Looms but the Horror of the shade,
    And yet the menace of the years
    Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

    It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll.
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul.

    William Ernest Henley
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  • Posted by Solver 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    +1
    And nearly every individual wants to do the telling. Hence collectivism always progresses toward a purposely complex hierarchy of totalitarian rulers.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No one wants collectivism even if they were born into it.But alternatives are rarely offered as we can see in school and government.When I first read Rand I was transfixed, but I didn't know why. I had, all my life heard nothing but negatives about capitalism.So I started reading in order to figure out why I felt uplifted by Roark's speech. It was like being reborm..
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