When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to
advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, they’re doing so
for purely selfish reasons. It’s the human equivalent of a puppy dog’s face:
an evolutionary tool designed to enhance survival, reproductive value and
status. In short, liberalism is based on one central desire: to look cool in
front of others in order to get love. Preaching tolerance makes you look
cooler, than saying something like, “please lower my taxes” — Greg Gutfeld
From John Hawkins:
1) Most liberals are hateful people. Who are the most hateful people
you can think of off the top of your head? If you're not a liberal, the first people
that probably come to mind are the God hates f@gs lunatics from Fred Phelps'
Westboro Baptist Church. What type of human beings would do sick protests at
funerals? Well, liberals have their own version of this. Whenever a prominent
conservative gets sick or dies, there's an orgy of celebratory hatred on the Left.
It happened with Reagan, Breitbart and every other big name conservative in
between.
Bill Maher, Barney Frank, Michael Moore, Keith Olbermann, Amanda Marcotte,
Ed Schultz, Dan Savage, Ted Rall, Al Sharpton, etc., etc. are some of the most
hate-filled people you'll ever run into outside of a maximum security prison, but
liberals consider it to be okay because their hate is aimed at conservatives, who
are acceptable targets. This is why liberals felt perfectly comfortable attacking
Sarah Palin's children, harassing Michelle
Malkin's family until they had to move, and publicly posting the
addresses of ordinary citizens who opposed Prop 8. They're hate-filled people
who are constantly accusing EVERYONE ELSE of behaving the way they do on a
daily basis. So, if you want to find the most hate-filled people in America, look for
a liberal lecturing other people about how important it is not to hate people and
you're practically guaranteed to be looking at a hate-filled person.
2) Liberals do more than any other group to encourage race-based hatred. It's amazing how much we still hear about Nazis and the KKK, even though
they're both marginalized, nearly powerless groups of misfits and losers. On the
other hand, how marginalized are the hatemongers on the Left? MEChA is allowed in public schools, Al Sharpton is on
TV every night, and Democratic congressmen are still willing to appear on stage
with Louis Farrakhan.
But that's no surprise because promoting racial strife at every opportunity is
an actual Democratic campaign strategy. Almost the entire message of the
Democratic Party to large swathes of the electorate is, "Everybody who doesn't
look like you hates you except us." There are plenty of liberals who have jobs
almost solely because they're willing to incessantly shout "racism" to help the
Democratic Party. We even have groups of professional grievance mongers like
CAIR, La Raza, and the New Black Panther Party that work incessantly to stir up
race hatred because it's good for fund raising and gives them a reason to justify
their existence. If the Nazi Party or the KKK had tried to come up with a system
to keep people hating each other based on skin color, they couldn't have ever
created anything as effective as the one liberals have now implemented.
3) Most liberals are less moral than other people. You won't see liberals
being accused of being hypocritical if it turns out that they don't have "good
family values," commit adultery, or don't live up to their Christian beliefs because
they don't really buy into any of those things. Liberals incessantly attack the
church and they seldom talk about morals because if they have no morals, then
no one can ever accuse them of being hypocrites. This is also why liberals feel so
comfortable lying about conservatives. The standard with liberal blogs, papers,
and cable news outlets isn't accuracy; it is doing damage to conservatives. It's
considered perfectly acceptable amongst liberals to lie about conservatives,
Christians, and anybody else who gets in the way of liberalism. The problem
for liberals is that you can't smear and mock people for believing in morals,
traditions, and family values while simultaneously credibly claiming to have them
yourself.
4) Most liberals don't care if the policies they advocate work or not. This
may seem like an alien concept to a lot of people, but liberals don't push policies
based on whether they improve people's lives or not. To the contrary, liberals
support policies that make them feel good about themselves or alternately, help
cement liberals in power. This is why liberals don't care whether tax revenues go
up after a tax cut, whether high taxes on the rich kill jobs, or how high your gas
prices go because they don't want to drill. To liberals, a policy that kills millions
but makes them feel good about themselves is a win, not a loss. See the Left's cut-
off of military aid to South Vietnam for one example of that and their opposition
to the use of DDT, which is needlessly killing 1.5
million people a year in Africa. Conservatives would be happy to reverse
that ban, but it makes liberals falsely feel like they're good environmentalists
to keep it in place; so all those poor people in Africa have to die for no reason
other than to prop up the fragile self esteem of pampered left-wingers here in the
United States.
5) Most liberals are extremely intolerant. Liberals talk incessantly about
tolerance and yet they lash out whenever anyone dares to present a view that
doesn't toe the liberal line. Conservative college speakers usually need extra
security because budding liberal fascists often try to shout them down or assault them. Liberals desperately try to
censor talk radio, which they don't even listen to, because they can't stand the
idea that someone else is allowed to have a contrary opinion. Why do you think
liberals get so upset about a conservative-leaning news station like Fox News,
when ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN all lean to the left? It's because liberals
don't think people should be allowed to have an opinion that differs from their
own.
Amazingly, if you listen to liberals, you'll find that they don't even understand
what tolerance is in the first place. Actual tolerance means that you realize
people have different practices and views and even if you don't agree, you
understand that they should have the ability to live as they choose, just as you
should have the leeway to live as you choose. On the other hand, liberals have
a fascistic view of tolerance, which really isn't surprising since liberalism and fascism are merely different branches
of the same tree. To liberals, tolerance is, by definition, whatever their
opinion happens to be. So, to be tolerant, you have to agree with them. People
who don't even know what tolerance is shouldn't be lecturing everyone else on
the subject.
The ghoulish Left-wing tactic of screeching about banning guns - even within minutes of the breaking news - is a way to put those who disagree with that idea on the defensive and equate a defense of the Second Amendment with a lack of grief for the victims. The point of it is to make it seem as though all defenders of the Second Amendment, all those who own guns legally, are in effect guilty of the crimes committed by Adam Lanza. Which means that our horror and sorrow is illegitimate in the eyes of self-aggrandizing foreigners such as Piers Morgan.
Calling for a gun ban represents no sacrifice for people like him so it's an easy call to make, with the added bonus of providing some scant evidence that they actually give a damn about society in general. Guns are viewed as a "right-wing" phenomenon and so going after the guns is essentially an assault on the "right-wing" itself. It's not about curbing gun deaths or mass shootings because they know that criminals and madmen will not observe any laws prohibiting gun ownership. It's about scoring points against the political enemy, pure and simple, with no cost to their side.
The only real result of a gun ban would be to leave law-abiding citizens unprotected in their homes. That works just fine for limousine liberals and clueless celebrities who rely on handlers to do their thinking for them and armed bodyguards to protect them. The rest of us are on our own.
It's also why very few on the Left are motivated to talk about the problem of mental health in this country. Guns don't make people become murderers. Criminality does that. And so does mental illness, which is something that a significant number of mass murderers have in common. But there is no political capital to be gained in pushing that agenda. Much more satisfying for the Left to go after the guns and in doing so weaken that pesky Constitution that so often obstructs the path to the kind of totalitarianism they crave.
On the subject of our national mental health crisis, here's an article by Mona Charen that she wrote back in July after the shootings in Aurora, Colorado:
For years, mental-health authorities assured us that the mentally ill
were no more dangerous than the average person. That’s true of most, but
not all. As Dr. E. Fuller Torrey documents in his essential book, The Insanity Offense,
rates of violence among the untreated mentally ill are significantly
higher than among the general population and also much higher than among
those receiving medication. Between 5 and 10 percent of the untreated
seriously mentally ill will commit violent crimes in any given year,
accounting for at least 5 percent of homicides in the United States (a
huge number in a nation of more than 300 million). For rampage crimes
such as the Aurora attack, the percentage of mentally ill perpetrators
is much greater, as high as 50 percent.
Since the 1960s, when deinstitutionalization became intellectually
fashionable and fiscally alluring to states looking to save money, the
mentally ill have been dumped onto the streets. Today, 95 percent of the
inpatient beds that were available for psychiatric patients in 1955 are
gone. The Treatment Advocacy Center explains that “the consequences of
the severe shortage of public psychiatric beds include increased
homelessness; the incarceration of mentally ill individuals in jails and
prisons; emergency rooms being overrun with patients waiting for a
psychiatric bed; and an increase in violent behavior, including
homicides, in communities across the nation.” Imagine if we treated the
mentally retarded this way.
In many cases of mental illness, a belief that one is not in need of
treatment is part of the sickness. Yet most studies show that the
majority of those who are medicated against their wishes retroactively
approve and believe it should be done again if necessary. In New York,
62 percent reported that being ordered by a court into treatment was a
good thing for them.
And a failure in dealing effectively with mental illness is only part of a larger issue: the moral decay of society:
It should come as no surprise that the rate of mass shootings at schools and in other public places is increasing.
The surge has nothing to do with guns, which have been widely available
in the U.S. for years. Gun control laws have been increasing. Instead,
there is a direct correlation between the increase in violence and the
gradual degradation of morals, ethics and parenting. We are cultivating
mental illness in our society.
Parents are allowing television and video games to increasingly babysit their children, even though both have become full of gratuitous violence. A New York Times study of rampage killers found that six of them were into violent video games. Research shows that violent video games and television desensitize people and promote aggressive behavior, despite claims to the contrary. A research scientist at the University of Michigan found
that television was responsible for 10% of youth violence. Parents
today are neglecting their children, and when things don't go well,
rushing to get divorced instead of trying to work things out first.
Children suffer emotionally when their parents fight or split up.
Parents are ignoring their children so much they don't even see the
warning signs that something might be wrong. The New York Times study found that 63 of 100 rampage killers had made threats of violence before the event.
Parents are no longer taking their children to church, where they would learn stability and morals. Fewer than 20% of Americans now regularly attend church. Every year there are 3000 fewer
churches across the U.S, even though the population is growing. God and
morality have been taken out of the public schools and replaced with
political correctness and non-judgmentalism. “Public virtues” are no
longer taught in today's schools. People who do not attend church are more likely
than churchgoers to have stress and to be less optimistic about the
future. When parents split up and there is no father to take the
children regularly to church, the children are much less likely to become regular churchgoers than if their mother regularly takes them.
The New York Times study found that at least half the killers
in 100 rampage attacks showed signs of serious mental health problems.
48 killers were formally diagnosed with mental illness, often
schizophrenia. The mentally ill used to be kept in hospitals, where they
were not a danger to others. Beginning in the 1950s in California, the
ACLU successfully filed lawsuits to take the mentally ill out of
hospitals, known as “deinstitutionalization.” By the 1980s, most
state-run mental health hospitals had closed.
Now, most of the mentally ill are out on the streets or in prison. The laws have been changed to state
that the mentally ill cannot be hospitalized until they've already
attacked someone. As a result, more mentally ill people are incarcerated
than in hospitals, with the seriously mentally ill three times more
likely to end up behind bars than hospitalized. More than half of all
people in prison report that they have mental health problems, and more
than 40 percent of the seriously mentally ill have been in jail or
prison. A study at the University of South Florida found that the
highest users of criminal justice and mental health services were 97
people who had been arrested 2,200 times. It is ludicrous that those 97
people are not contained for their safety and others in mental health
hospitals.
The 22-year old Oregon shopping mall gunman who killed two people
earlier this week is sadly typical of the rampage murderers the decay of
society has spawned. He had this
written on his Facebook page, "I'm the conductor of my choo choo train.
I may be young but I have lived one crazy life so far." One of his
friends said he raised himself; his mother died at childbirth, he never
met his father, and he left his aunt's home at age 14.
The left will use the high level of emotion stirred up by this past
week's two rampage killings to push through new gun control laws.
Liberal New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg called
upon President Obama to enact tougher gun control laws immediately
after Friday's mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut. Yet
demanding more gun control laws will not solve anything. Gun control
advocates have already increased the number of laws around the country
requiring background checks, waiting periods for purchases, and tracking
of firearms. Many of the rampage killers obtained guns illegally. If
they can't obtain guns, deranged individuals will find other ways to
commit mass murders – by setting fires, making bombs or running people
over with vehicles. One day after the shootings in Connecticut, a man in
Beijing stabbed 22 primary school students with a knife.
The left should not be allowed to dominate the dialogue after these
tragic events with a red herring argument for gun control, in order to
sneakily distract Americans from blaming them for what they have
wrought. Americans who believe in traditional values must speak up and
denounce the degradation of society's morals as the root of the problem
behind these rampages, or the tragedies will continue to escalate.
