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| 2007-03-13 |
| Sooner or later it happens. You are talking with someone on a subject of mutual interest, a subject thought to have no controversial dimension whatever. The conversation follows its natural course through relevant points, then, suddenly, this person you are conversing with blurts out some insane liberal shibboleth and looks at you as if you must agree with his declaration, which follows from nothing. You have two choices: a) advise him that he is a jackass, or b) spend the rest of your life knowing that you are a useless pussy. But more often this does not happen in a personal conversation (although I have experienced it), rather it occurs on the Internet where people seem always to be microseconds away from losing their grip on their personal demons. This is the great frustration with being conservative-minded. You would just as soon that politics not be brought into every single discussion, that it be possible to discuss literature, science, music, or rebate coupons without having to react to some tediously stupid received liberal wisdom. I realize this is a gross generalization, but it happens to be true: a liberal can never hold it until he gets home, he must at some point whiz all over his slacks the knowledge that he didn't vote for Bush, sees capitalist conspiracies everywhere, and believes he is living in a police state rivaling the Stasi. . . . There seems a substantial portion of our population that is sliding into casual insanity. They are capable (barely) of navigating the confusing and frightening adult world as adults, but are subject to frequent attacks of dementia and panic regarding vast areas of mundane life. Credit card terms, laundry soap instructions, food additives – they're all part of a scary, complicated world in which fat white businessmen conspire to murder them or read their junk mail. One wonders with some apprehension where this is all leading. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #7 Oprah. Must see Oprah. Talk to Oprah. Oprah!!!!!!!!! |
| Posted by: john 2007-03-13 22:54 |
| #6 I thought the article nailed it. I think the reason it occurs is that for many on the Left these views are somewhere between a fashion statement and support for their self worth, and that is why they have to advertise them. It is nothing like as prevalent on the Right, where people are much more likely to hold their views for rational and cogent reasons (which of course doesn't mean they are right, but it does mean they are amenable to persuation). I'm not the first to notice that the Left is largely immune to rational argument and rarely deals in facts or even logical argument. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2007-03-13 19:46 |
| #5 Or just Mac fanciers, financed by church secretaries who watch the X-files with their kids, waiting for the guy in the attic to croak. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-03-13 19:35 |
| #4 Get 'em Angie! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-03-13 19:32 |
| #3 I'm afraid that I cannot agree with the commentators choice of choices. A sane, grown up, meaning someone who has come of legal drinking age and who has a modicum of education and tolerance quickly must learn a couple things in order to survive in this world, 1) You can't fight everybody, not even everybody who wants to fight you, 2) You must become confident enough in your own clothes that it simply does not matter when some moonbat disagrees with you or wants to start a fight about it, 3) You must be so self-confident that most other people regard you as a psychotic egomaniac wth delusions of grandeur simply because you don't feel the need to argue your positions and fight it out with them. 4) You must become so self-confident and sure of yourself and your opinions that you are able to shrug off moonbattery as if the person spouting it were speaking in tongues at a snake-handler's evangelical convention and simply ignore the fool or walk away shaking your head in disgust. Option 3 is rarely seen and even more rarely worn on one's sleeve as a badge of honor or discerned by those we know (not even I, with an ego that can barely fit through the door most days, can say I am always displaying Option 3 though most people probably wouldn't know the difference since they think I'm an insufferable asshole anyway. |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-03-13 18:21 |
| #2 You have two choices: a) advise him that he is a jackass, or b) spend the rest of your life knowing that you are a useless pussy. I long ago learned to be comfortable with Option b). The alternative is to get into constant battles with:
In fact, reading the whole of the linked article, I see that the sort of stuff he's commenting on is not confined to liberals. Virtually every linked phrase (save for the Coulter one) is an obsession of right-wing loonies as well as left (I didn't actually follow the links, so I don't know which angle these come from). And you don't need to be a liberal to gas on about "consumerism"; I'll bet Pat Robertson does it too. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2007-03-13 17:06 |
| #1 The author asks, "Am I alone in noticing this phenomenon?" Of course not. "I realize this is a gross generalization, but it happens to be true: a liberal can never hold it until he gets home, he must at some point whiz all over his slacks the knowledge that he didn't vote for Bush, sees capitalist conspiracies everywhere, and believes he is living in a police state rivaling the Stasi...." No, it isn't a gross generalization; that's actually the way it is. I've become damn weary of these tiresome liberal idiots who just can't hold their water and simply MUST blurt out their stupid opinions (as if it doesn't occur to them at all that others might find them offensive). So weary I don't even try to be civil to them, except at work. I don't give a candy-coated crap if these morons fuck up their own grandchildrens' futures, but I'm damned if I'm going to sit idly by and let them fuck up **MY** grandchildrens' futures. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-03-13 09:17 |