Why Does Evil Make Liberals Stupid?

[cwo_ghwebb]

In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, we are suffering through the inevitable period of liberal hand-wringing. Liberals can’t help themselves: while normal people are reviling the bombers, celebrating their capture or death, and debating measures that can be taken to prevent future atrocities, liberals’ thinking (if you can call it that) goes in a different direction. Liberals call for understanding; tell the rest of us we don’t realize how complex mass murder is; recommend introspection (But why? I didn’t do it.); and warn against various forms of overreaction to the latest terrorist outrage. The reality of evil, a constant in human affairs for millennia, renders liberals not speechless–that would be too much to hope for–but incoherent.

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This piece in The Atlantic is a good exemplar of the mushy liberal commentary that has proliferated in recent days. Authored by one Megan Garber, it is titled: “The Boston Bombers Were Muslim: So?” Before taking a close look at Ms. Garber’s article, let’s advise The Atlantic not to put away that headline. It could come in handy so often. “The Cole Bombers Were Muslim: So?” “The Embassy Bombers Were Muslim: So?” “The First World Trade Center Bombers Were Muslim: So?” “The September 11 Bombers Were Muslim: So?” “The Madrid Bombers Were Muslim: So?” “The London Bombers Were Muslim: So?” “The Shoebomber Was Muslim: So?” The Underwear Bomber Was Muslim: So?” “The Fort Hood Shooter Was Muslim: So?” “The Beslan Child-Murderers Were Muslim: So?” “The Times Square Bomber Was Muslim: So?”

Why Does Evil Make Liberals Stupid? | Power Line

Living in a fantasy world where unicorns are jumping over the rainbows has a tendency to make one a bit unused to reality.

 

[Vince]

The piece in The Atlantic was written by a real idiot. I've haven't read so much crap since the last time I read something written by a liberal. She's trying to justify terrorism? These two are terrorists. They deserve the death penalty, not life in prison.

 

[b23hqb]

Liberal + really stupid = evil.

Liberal by itself is just stupid (gnashing of teeth, wailing, hand-wringing, emotionally overcome, etc).

 

[Sweet 16]

They (meaning libs) were so quick to jump to the conclusion that this was the work of tax-hating, white, American, Tea Partiers without a shred of proof. Yet they seem completely unable to fathom that these people (meaning believers in radical Islam) hate us and want to destroy us when the evidence is right there in front of them.

 

[SamSpade]

Why Does Evil Make Liberals Stupid? | Power Line

Living in a fantasy world where unicorns are jumping over the rainbows has a tendency to make one a bit unused to reality.

I never understood the liberal need to deconstruct heroes, rewrite history to make heroic ideals sound horrible and so on. No matter how monstrous someone was, there's always someone to tell us - it was "our" fault. Any great victory really wasn't one, any brilliant idea was actually stolen. It's endless. There's this perennial need for mea culpas.

Sort of. While they point the blame, they automatically exclude anyone on their side. Our "culture" is to blame - but not if *I* were in charge of the culture. When they want to blame "America", they really only want to blame the America they don't agree with. So they're not really blaming themselves, they're just doing it in a way that looks like it. Really, they're just blaming others.

I know. I was kind of liberal in high school. I remember giving a little speech in history class about the evils and greed of the American Dream - not praising risk-taking, courage, hard-work and ambition - but ascribing it all to naked greed. I loved songs like "One Tin Soldier". But *I* wasn't one of the People of the Valley - I was one of the slaughtered, peaceful People of the Mountain.

I'd believe the liberal mea culpas if they ever actually said, you know what? We're the bigots; we're the intolerant ones; we're the enablers. We need to stop doing this.

 

[b23hqb]

I never understood the liberal need to deconstruct heroes, rewrite history to make heroic ideals sound horrible and so on. No matter how monstrous someone was, there's always someone to tell us - it was "our" fault. Any great victory really wasn't one, any brilliant idea was actually stolen. It's endless. There's this perennial need for mea culpas.

Sort of. While they point the blame, they automatically exclude anyone on their side. Our "culture" is to blame - but not if *I* were in charge of the culture. When they want to blame "America", they really only want to blame the America they don't agree with. So they're not really blaming themselves, they're just doing it in a way that looks like it. Really, they're just blaming others.

I know. I was kind of liberal in high school. I remember giving a little speech in history class about the evils and greed of the American Dream - not praising risk-taking, courage, hard-work and ambition - but ascribing it all to naked greed. I loved songs like "One Tin Soldier". But *I* wasn't one of the People of the Valley - I was one of the slaughtered, peaceful People of the Mountain.

I'd believe the liberal mea culpas if they ever actually said, you know what? We're the bigots; we're the intolerant ones; we're the enablers. We need to stop doing this.

Kind of a liberal in high school? Is that like being kind of pregnant?

But all can change. Once the baby is born (except so sadly in many liberal instances,aborted) one is no longer pregnant.

And now that you are undoubtedly older, as has been said in the past:

"If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart and if you are not conservative at thirty, you have no brain."

 

[SamSpade]

Kind of a liberal in high school? Is that like being kind of pregnant?

Well, I've always been generally supportive of defense, coming from a military family, and I've always been basically conservative on many social issues.

But I had a lot of misconceptions - like I suspect many people do, I didn't quite get that the U.S. government really only had the money we gave to it. I was operating under the mistaken notion that Uncle Sam had his own, massive income stream. For instance, I thought we made scads of money selling arms abroad, and the U.S. government pocketed the cash. I thought the government had massive investments and sources of revenue outside of taxation.

So it was easy to believe - the government could well afford to do a lot more for the rest of us.

Couple weeks back, Rand Paul was having a meeting at Howard University, trying to sell the idea that we needed government off our backs. It wasn't received well. One student said “I don’t want to be left alone. I want the government to take care of me. In your ideal world I’d be on my own. I’d have to work for everything I want. I don’t see why I should prefer that to the world President Obama is creating where the good things of life are free for the taking.”

“I like the idea of cutting back on bullets and bombs,” said another student.
“This is money the government could be spending on people like me. They could buy me a house and a car with the kind of cash they’re wasting trying to conquer other countries.”



Imagine telling this kid - why don't you expect say, your church or your neighborhood to do this for you? And he would know, because they don't have the money - it comes from their pockets. He doesn't get that government money ALSO comes from our pockets.

 

[b23hqb]

No disagreement on what you just said. The Howard U student you cited was a typical example of the "it's all about me" attitude: Pay me to go to college and I'll still want to keep what I have, and the govt can still give me more from those who work and earn more than I do.

That response doesn't surprise me at all. From what I see on this graph:

Howard University Admissions, Application, Demographics | College Stats.org

The 3 or so % that are not black (about 72%, and about 25% Hispanic, would undoubtedly be vastly, if not all, for the big o.

We are what we are as a whole, and the time is so past that it needs to be stopped now, by any means.

 

[SamSpade]

No disagreement on what you just said. The Howard U student you cited was a typical example of the "it's all about me" attitude: Pay me to go to college and I'll still want to keep what I have, and the govt can still give me more from those who work and earn more than I do.

We are what we are as a whole, and the time is so past that it needs to be stopped now, by any means.

Honestly? If our youth see the government that way, the American dream has died. We will be raising a nation of peons who WANT to be peons.

 

[GURPS]

One student said “I don’t want to be left alone. I want the government to take care of me. In your ideal world I’d be on my own. I’d have to work for everything I want. I don’t see why I should prefer that to the world President Obama is creating where the good things of life are free for the taking.”

“I like the idea of cutting back on bullets and bombs,” said another student.
“This is money the government could be spending on people like me. They could buy me a house and a car with the kind of cash they’re wasting trying to conquer other countries.”

sure trade one plantation for another, only on this one, you do not get your ass whipped ...... but your fellow AA kill each other over drugs and drug money

 

[b23hqb]

Honestly? If our youth see the government that way, the American dream has died. We will be raising a nation of peons who WANT to be peons.

Yup. Not my youth, but I believe the American dream has been essentially killed by liberals who have destroyed that dream by pounding into the school system psyche that "you can't do it on your own no matter how hard you work; only the government can do it for you".

Read this article:

Common Core Curriculum: A Look Behind the Curtain of Hidden Language

Look at Common Core curriculum (in what, . Look at the attacks on Christianity and home schooling. Look at welfare, now well onto three to four generations in many places. look at liberal theology.

We have very little time to reverse things. Does twenty years seem like a long time to you? Twenty years is just over 10% of the existence of the American dream, but now, it is a heartbeat away from extinction.

Common Core is in nearly every state, save five or six. Those states will be punished by the feds.

Thanks to liberalism, socialism, PC, welfare, etc.

 

[SamSpade]

Yup. Not my youth, but I believe the American dream has been essentially killed by liberals who have destroyed that dream by pounding into the school system psyche that "you can't do it on your own no matter how hard you work; only the government can do it for you".

To me, TEACHING people to put all of their faith in the system of government - to take care of them - is no different than teaching that kings rule by divine right, or that Pharaoh or Caesar is a god.

It's just a new spin on an old tactic.