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Joan Swirsky
Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003
A bully beats up your friend’s child in the schoolyard. You feel terrible for the kid who got the black eye and call his parents to encourage them to give their kid lessons in self-defense and insist that the principal punish the offender. But to your astonishment, the parents are not mad at the bully!
They actually seem to feel more empathy with him than they do with their own child. “He shouldn’t be punished,” they say. “You have to ask yourself what made him do it? Besides, if the principal punishes him, it might make him more angry!”
This is the thinking of liberals, particularly “bleeding heart” liberals whose identification with and empathy for the doers of bad deeds is a hopeless muddle of self-congratulatory “understanding” and hatred of authority.
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To Liberals, ‘Accountability’ and ‘Character’ Are Anathema
Liberals hate accountability, which is why they are so famous for defending people who are completely unaccountable. They hated welfare reform until a Republican Congress passed it into law in the mid-1990s and succeeded in getting millions of people off the dole and into productive work, effectively breaking the liberal welfare system that enslaved mostly black people from their seemingly unending fates of dependency and broken families, limited education and statistically premature deaths.
They still hate education reform because it insists on the accountability of teachers. And they hate the war against terrorism because killing bad guys contradicts the central tenet of their philosophy: No one is accountable for his or her behavior because only poverty or neglect or any other number of “bad breaks” explains bad behavior and who are they to judge?
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Old Liberals vs. New Liberals
But problems remained. While the old liberals (at least those who weren’t Communists or Socialists) believed in the overarching wisdom and power of God in determining one’s destiny, their children were too stoned to contemplate anything more influential than LSD, too “evolved” to consider anyone wiser than the Maharishi, and too narcissistic to consider anything more powerful than themselves. Nevertheless, the old liberals were thrilled that their children (who they could even smoke pot with!) were with them.
But not for long! The new species, it turned out, was not content to vilify political enemies. Having found that protest and intimidation were so effective, they turned their rage against their parents, joining cults that extracted both their allegiance and money and entering `“psychotherapy,” the theories of which taught them that their memories, from age 3, and their all-powerful feelings were all that were necessary to indict their progenitors.
The new liberals had learned their parents’ theories well: Blame those in power!
Thus, they leveled their rage at the people who had given them life. I’m not happy because of you. I’m not successful because of you. I wet my bed because of you. I’m not having a good relationship because of you. Such is not only the venom but also the misguided thinking of liberals who, to this day, believe that they are not responsible for their lives – other people are!
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Understanding the Liberal Mindset
What accounts for liberal thinking? My “guess” is that most liberals have two personality disorders, most expansively described in psychiatric literature.
The first is narcissism, in which people feel they are special and therefore entitled to the things they want at the exact moment they want them.
When crossed, narcissists become virulently angry and lash out with personal attacks on anyone who disagrees with their opinions. But because they crave adulation, they can become irresistibly charming in the very next minute, almost defying their audience to give them some slack. Sound familiar?
Narcissism, in fact, is at the root of liberals’ embrace of abortion. While “power to the powerless” is their anthem, no legislation has ever been more passionately embraced than the abortion-on-demand law of 1973 that allowed all “caring” liberals to kill the most powerless among us. To this day, they overrule any reservations they may have by invoking the most important aspect of their existences: their feelings! “This is a bad time for me and I would feel terrible, inconvenienced, pressured” (fill in the excuse).
Of course, this does not conflict with their horror at “civilian” deaths, especially if they result inadvertently from American military force. Nor does it conflict with their horror at the deaths of minks, the rodents out of whose pelts those nasty coats are made. After all, civilians and minks are already here, while in the minds of liberals, developing embryos (with heartbeats and nervous systems, eyes and ears) are simply “tissue.”
The second mental malady that characterizes liberals is borderline personality disorder, in which the afflicted are totally unable to tolerate the gray complexion of either life or of politics, always casting those who disagree with them in stark shades of black and white and often resorting to defamatory “scorched earth” strategies. These are people who struggle to hide the fact that they have no consciences, no remorse and no feelings. In fact, they appear disconcertingly similar, and at times identical, to sociopaths. Sound familiar?
Many modern liberals, remnants of the hippie “all you need is love” era, are now graying at the temples and lining up for Botox shots but they’re still angry with their parents. It is only logical that President Bush is their target – a man who loves his parents and believes in God (which many of them don’t), got his act together (which many of them still have not), and demands that they, as Americans, join the fight against terrorism (which many of them find impossible to do, given their sympathies for the “victims” of any kind of power, in this case the power of the United States).
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/10/22/141511.shtml
Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003
A bully beats up your friend’s child in the schoolyard. You feel terrible for the kid who got the black eye and call his parents to encourage them to give their kid lessons in self-defense and insist that the principal punish the offender. But to your astonishment, the parents are not mad at the bully!
They actually seem to feel more empathy with him than they do with their own child. “He shouldn’t be punished,” they say. “You have to ask yourself what made him do it? Besides, if the principal punishes him, it might make him more angry!”
This is the thinking of liberals, particularly “bleeding heart” liberals whose identification with and empathy for the doers of bad deeds is a hopeless muddle of self-congratulatory “understanding” and hatred of authority.
…
To Liberals, ‘Accountability’ and ‘Character’ Are Anathema
Liberals hate accountability, which is why they are so famous for defending people who are completely unaccountable. They hated welfare reform until a Republican Congress passed it into law in the mid-1990s and succeeded in getting millions of people off the dole and into productive work, effectively breaking the liberal welfare system that enslaved mostly black people from their seemingly unending fates of dependency and broken families, limited education and statistically premature deaths.
They still hate education reform because it insists on the accountability of teachers. And they hate the war against terrorism because killing bad guys contradicts the central tenet of their philosophy: No one is accountable for his or her behavior because only poverty or neglect or any other number of “bad breaks” explains bad behavior and who are they to judge?
…
Old Liberals vs. New Liberals
But problems remained. While the old liberals (at least those who weren’t Communists or Socialists) believed in the overarching wisdom and power of God in determining one’s destiny, their children were too stoned to contemplate anything more influential than LSD, too “evolved” to consider anyone wiser than the Maharishi, and too narcissistic to consider anything more powerful than themselves. Nevertheless, the old liberals were thrilled that their children (who they could even smoke pot with!) were with them.
But not for long! The new species, it turned out, was not content to vilify political enemies. Having found that protest and intimidation were so effective, they turned their rage against their parents, joining cults that extracted both their allegiance and money and entering `“psychotherapy,” the theories of which taught them that their memories, from age 3, and their all-powerful feelings were all that were necessary to indict their progenitors.
The new liberals had learned their parents’ theories well: Blame those in power!
Thus, they leveled their rage at the people who had given them life. I’m not happy because of you. I’m not successful because of you. I wet my bed because of you. I’m not having a good relationship because of you. Such is not only the venom but also the misguided thinking of liberals who, to this day, believe that they are not responsible for their lives – other people are!
…
Understanding the Liberal Mindset
What accounts for liberal thinking? My “guess” is that most liberals have two personality disorders, most expansively described in psychiatric literature.
The first is narcissism, in which people feel they are special and therefore entitled to the things they want at the exact moment they want them.
When crossed, narcissists become virulently angry and lash out with personal attacks on anyone who disagrees with their opinions. But because they crave adulation, they can become irresistibly charming in the very next minute, almost defying their audience to give them some slack. Sound familiar?
Narcissism, in fact, is at the root of liberals’ embrace of abortion. While “power to the powerless” is their anthem, no legislation has ever been more passionately embraced than the abortion-on-demand law of 1973 that allowed all “caring” liberals to kill the most powerless among us. To this day, they overrule any reservations they may have by invoking the most important aspect of their existences: their feelings! “This is a bad time for me and I would feel terrible, inconvenienced, pressured” (fill in the excuse).
Of course, this does not conflict with their horror at “civilian” deaths, especially if they result inadvertently from American military force. Nor does it conflict with their horror at the deaths of minks, the rodents out of whose pelts those nasty coats are made. After all, civilians and minks are already here, while in the minds of liberals, developing embryos (with heartbeats and nervous systems, eyes and ears) are simply “tissue.”
The second mental malady that characterizes liberals is borderline personality disorder, in which the afflicted are totally unable to tolerate the gray complexion of either life or of politics, always casting those who disagree with them in stark shades of black and white and often resorting to defamatory “scorched earth” strategies. These are people who struggle to hide the fact that they have no consciences, no remorse and no feelings. In fact, they appear disconcertingly similar, and at times identical, to sociopaths. Sound familiar?
Many modern liberals, remnants of the hippie “all you need is love” era, are now graying at the temples and lining up for Botox shots but they’re still angry with their parents. It is only logical that President Bush is their target – a man who loves his parents and believes in God (which many of them don’t), got his act together (which many of them still have not), and demands that they, as Americans, join the fight against terrorism (which many of them find impossible to do, given their sympathies for the “victims” of any kind of power, in this case the power of the United States).
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/10/22/141511.shtml
