http://townhall.com/…/12-unspoken-rules-for-being-a-liberal…
1) You justify your beliefs about yourself by your status as a liberal,
not your deeds. The most sexist liberal can think of himself as a
feminist while the greediest liberal can think of himself as generous.
This is because liberals define themselves as being compassionate, open
minded, kind, pro-science and intelligent not based on their actions or
achievements, but based on their ideology. This is one of the most
psychologically appealing aspects of liberalism because it allows you to
be an awful person while still thinking of yourself as better than
everyone else.
2) You exempt yourself from your attacks on
America: Ever notice that liberals don't include themselves in their
attacks on America? When they say, "This is a racist country," or ",This
is a mean country," they certainly aren't referring to themselves or
people who hold their views. Even though liberals supported the KKK,
slaughtering the Indians, and putting the Japanese in internment camps,
when they criticize those things, it's meant as an attack on everyone
else EXCEPT LIBERALS. The only thing a liberal believes he can truly do
wrong is to be insufficiently liberal.
3) What liberals like
should be mandatory and what they don't like should be banned: There's
an almost instinctual form of fascism that runs through most liberals.
It's not enough for liberals to love gay marriage; everyone must be
forced to love gay marriage. It's not enough for liberals to be afraid
of guns; guns have to be banned. It's not enough for liberals to want to
use energy-saving light bulbs; incandescent light bulbs must be banned.
It's not enough for liberals to make sure most speakers on campuses are
left-wing; conservative speakers must be shouted down or blocked from
speaking.
4) The past is always inferior to the present: Liberals
tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as
arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because of
this, liberals don't pay much attention to why traditions developed or
wonder about possible ramifications of their social engineering. It’s
like an architect ripping out the foundation of a house without
questioning the consequences and if the living room falls in on itself
as a result, he concludes that means he needs to make even more changes.
5) Liberalism is a jealous god and no other God may come before it: A
liberal "Christian" or "Jew" is almost an oxymoron because liberalism
trumps faith for liberals. Taking your religious beliefs seriously means
drawing hard lines about right and wrong and that's simply not allowed.
Liberals demand that even God bow down on the altar of liberalism.
6) Liberals believe in indiscriminateness for thought: This one was so
good that I stole it from my buddy, Evan Sayet: " Indiscriminateness of
thought does not lead to indiscriminateness of policy. It leads the
modern liberal to invariably side with evil over good, wrong over right
and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.
Why? Very simply if nothing is to be recognized as better or worse than
anything else then success is de facto unjust. There is no explanation
for success if nothing is better than anything else and the greater the
success the greater the injustice. Conversely and for the same reason,
failure is de facto proof of victimization and the greater the failure,
the greater the proof of the victim is, or the greater the
victimization."
7) Intentions are much more important than
results: Liberals decide what programs to support based on whether they
make them feel good or bad about themselves, not because they work or
don't work. A DDT ban that has killed millions is judged a success by
liberals because it makes them feel as if they care about the
environment. A government program that wastes billions and doesn't work
is a stunning triumph to the Left if it has a compassionate sounding
name. It would be easier to convince a liberal to support a program by
calling it the “Saving Women And Puppies Bill" than showing that it
would save 100,000 lives.
8) The only real sins are helping
conservatism or harming liberalism: Conservatives often marvel at the
fact that liberals will happily elect every sort of pervert, deviant,
and criminal you can imagine without a second thought. That's because
right and wrong don't come into the picture for liberals. They have one
standard: Does this politician help or hurt liberalism? If a politician
helps liberalism, he has a free pass to do almost anything and many of
them do just that.
9) All solutions must be government-oriented:
Liberals may not be as down on government as conservatives are, but on
some level, even they recognize that it doesn't work very well. So, why
are liberals so hell bent on centralizing as much power as possible in
government? Simple, because they believe that they are better and
smarter than everyone else by virtue of being liberals and centralized
power gives them the opportunity to control more people's lives. There's
nothing scarier to liberals than free people living their lives as they
please without wanting or needing the government to nanny them.
10) You must be absolutely close minded: One of the key reasons liberals
spend so much time vilifying people they don't like and questioning
their motivations is to protect themselves from having to consider their
arguments. This helps create a completely closed system for liberals.
Conservative arguments are considered wrong by default since they're
conservative and not worth hearing. On the other hand, liberals aren't
going to make conservative arguments. So, a liberal goes to a liberal
school, watches liberal news, listens to liberal politicians, has
liberal friends, and then convinces himself that conservatives are all
hateful, evil, racist Nazis so that any stray conservatism he hears
should be ignored. It makes liberal minds into perfectly closed loops
that are impervious to anything other than liberal doctrine.
11)
Feelings are more important than logic: Liberals base their positions on
emotions, not facts and logic and then they work backwards to shore up
their position. This is why it's a waste of time to try to convince a
liberal of anything based on logic. You don't "logic" someone out of a
position that he didn't use "logic" to come up with in the first place.
12) Tribal affiliation is more important than individual action:
There's one set of rules for members of the tribe and one set of rules
for everyone else. Lying, breaking the rules, or fomenting hatred
against a liberal in good standing may be out of bounds, but there are
no rules when dealing with outsiders, who are viewed either as potential
recruits, dupes to be tricked, or foes to be defeated. This is the same
backwards mentality you see in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, except
it's based on ideology, not religion.