The Anger Of The Left

[Le Jacquelope]

Oh boy.

Silence.

I hope Zitman is wearing a helmet or else he's going to have QWERTYUIOP inscribed in his forehead for weeks...

 

[zipman]

You know, Tinky Winky, the problem is one needs a little help to see things as you see it, such as:
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/crack-5.jpg

Let me help you. I'll boil it down to two easy steps in the cycle:

1) You keep calling me a liar.

2) I keep proving you are the one who is actually lying.


So keep deflecting away all you want, everyone else can see that you're the liar.

Oh, and a Pwned Bitch.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

Let me help you.

*spew*

 

[RightField]

What was the topic again?

The Anger Of The Left
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

That people on the political left have a certain set of opinions, just as people do in other parts of the ideological spectrum, is not surprising. What is surprising, however, is how often the opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred.

Particular issues can arouse passions here and there for anyone with any political views. But, for many on the left, indignation is not a sometime thing. It is a way of life.

How often have you seen conservatives or libertarians take to the streets, shouting angry slogans? How often have conservative students on campus shouted down a visiting speaker or rioted to prevent the visitor from speaking at all?

The source of the anger of liberals, "progressives" or radicals is by no means readily apparent. The targets of their anger have included people who are non-confrontational or even genial, such as Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

It is hard to think of a time when Karl Rove or Dick Cheney has even raised his voice but they are hated like the devil incarnate.

There doesn't even have to be any identifiable individual to arouse the ire of the left. "Tax cuts for the rich" is more than a political slogan. It is incitement to anger.

All sorts of people can have all sorts of beliefs about what tax rates are best from various points of view. But how can people work themselves into a lather over the fact that some taxpayers are able to keep more of the money they earned, instead of turning it over to politicians to dispense in ways calculated to get themselves re-elected?

The angry left has no time to spend even considering the argument that what they call "tax cuts for the rich" are in fact tax cuts for the economy.

Nor is the idea new that tax cuts can sometimes spur economic growth, resulting in more jobs for workers and higher earnings for business, leading to more tax revenue for the government.

A highly regarded economist once observed that "taxation may be so high as to defeat its object," so that sometimes "a reduction of taxation will run a better chance, than an increase, of balancing the Budget."

Who said that? Milton Friedman? Arthur Laffer? No. It was said in 1933 by John Maynard Keynes, a liberal icon.

Lower tax rates have led to higher tax revenues many times, both before and since Keynes' statement -- the Kennedy tax cuts in the 1960s, the Reagan tax cuts in the 1980s, and the recent Bush tax cuts that have led to record high tax revenues this April.

Budget deficits have often resulted from runaway spending but seldom from reduced tax rates.

Those on the other side may have different arguments. However, the question here is not why the left has different arguments, but why there is such anger.

Often it is an exercise in futility even to seek to find a principle behind the anger. For example, the left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high -- or higher -- incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

If the reason for the anger is a feeling that corporate CEOs are overpaid for their contributions, then there should be even more anger at people who get even more money for doing absolutely nothing, because they have inherited fortunes.

Yet how often has the left gotten worked up into high dudgeon over those who inherited the Rockefeller, Roosevelt or Kennedy fortunes? Even spoiled heirs like Paris Hilton don't really seem to set them off.

If it is hard to find a principle behind what angers the left, it is not equally hard to find an attitude.

Their greatest anger seems to be directed at people and things that thwart or undermine the social vision of the left, the political melodrama starring the left as saviors of the poor, the environment, and other busybody tasks that they have taken on.

It seems to be the threat to their egos that they hate. And nothing is more of a threat to their desire to run other people's lives than the free market and its defenders.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

The Anger Of The Left
By Thomas Sowell

The tolerance and love from the Right:

http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/29/bombing.update/bombing.lg.jpg
1 dead, 1 critical in clinic bombing
charred building
FBI looks for links between Birmingham, Atlanta blasts

 

[Le Jacquelope]

"How often have you seen conservatives or libertarians take to the streets, shouting angry slogans? How often have conservative students on campus shouted down a visiting speaker or rioted to prevent the visitor from speaking at all?"

http://www.lifeadvocate.org/11_98/graphics/kans1.jpg
http://blogs.indiewire.com/twhalliii/hill%20protest.jpg
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/LAW/02/26/abortion.protests/story.abortion.protest.jpg

 

[RightField]

Yep. That's nice. Have a good day.

 

[Ishmael]

OMG LT. such "factual" news. Give us the links to the NEWS that accompanies those 'damning' pics.

Ishmael

 

[RightField]

OMG LT. such "factual" news. Give us the links to the NEWS that accompanies those 'damning' pics.

Ishmael

Brother Ish, nice to see you.

 

[Ishmael]

Brother Ish, nice to see you.

How's things in the nations capital brother ltgr?

Oh, I love Pellosis' latest ploy. How is that goiung to play in Paducah?

Ishmael

 

[Le Jacquelope]

OMG LT. such "factual" news. Give us the links to the NEWS that accompanies those 'damning' pics.

Ishmael

Wow, that was the quickest god damned year that I've ever been in the void.

I just went to friggin piss for God's sake. That must have been one of those really really near relativistic speed pisses or something.

Are there any Republicans left in Congress? Are Zitman and Vetteman still insisting Vetteman didn't issue a terroristic threat against liberals? Is the Iraqi insurgency defeated yet?



Anyways, I digress. You issued a challenge, and again, I shall answer, and you shall dance and give that penny I put into Lit in 2003 even more mileage.

The first pic I posted:
http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/29/bombing.update/bombing.lg.jpg
was accompanied by this news story:

http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/29/bombing.update/index.html

1 dead, 1 critical in clinic bombing
charred building
FBI looks for links between Birmingham, Atlanta blasts
January 29, 1998
Web posted at: 5:13 p.m. EST (2213 GMT)

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (CNN) -- A security guard was killed and a nurse was severely injured Thursday morning when a bomb exploded at a Birmingham women's clinic. It was believed to be the first fatal clinic bombing in U.S. history.

Using a robot, authorities searched for a possible second device but, by mid-afternoon, had not found another bomb.

Investigators from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were dispatched from Atlanta to investigate the blast and determine if it might be linked to a series of bombings in Atlanta during the last 18 months, one of which was aimed at a women's clinic....

Now that, Ishmael, is an example of the RIGHT WING engaging in acts of TERRORISM against those who disagree with them. And, in the process, murdering someone. Which brings to utter ruin Sowell's argument about liberals being the party of hate.


As for the second picture:
http://www.lifeadvocate.org/11_98/graphics/kans1.jpg

That came from a RIGHT WING group known for taking to the streets, shouting angry slogans.

This is a direct refutation of "How often have you seen conservatives or libertarians take to the streets, shouting angry slogans?" which was written by, if you can recall, Thomas Sowell.


And then there was this picture of another ANGRY slogan, albeit written:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/twhalliii/hill%20protest.jpg

The source:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/twhalliii/archives/011289.html


You were saying?

 

[Ishmael]

woof

shut up ginger

Ishmael

 

[Le Jacquelope]

And now, let us play

http://www.imghut.net/images/49235.jpg

The following people:

Dr. David Gunn of Pensacola, Florida

Dr. John Britton and James Barrett (a clinic escort)

abortion clinic receptionists Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols

Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama

Dr. Barnett Slepian of Amherst, New York


were killed by members of THIS particular side of the political spectrum...

 

[Ishmael]

When ya can't dazzle'em with briliiance, baffle'em with bull shit.

Ishmael

 

[Le Jacquelope]

When ya can't dazzle'em with briliiance, baffle'em with bull shit.

Ishmael

Name one thing I posted above that was bullshit.

Oops. I guess you're going to ignore me for another year now, eh?

 

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[Ishmael]

I don't have to LT. The rest of the board is doing that for me. Haven't you figured that out yet?

Ishmael

 

[Le Jacquelope]

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g79/jbravo688/stalin.jpg

This guy alone beats anything you've got, hands down, and he's dead!!!

 

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[Le Jacquelope]

I don't have to LT. The rest of the board is doing that for me. Haven't you figured that out yet?

Ishmael

No, they're not. That's why you are on a campaign of messaging people over Yahoo about me.

You won't dare continue your fight here on Lit because your ass now resembles something too much like used bubblegum.

Now go back to your IM chat and try and sucker more people into believing what you say about me. Your credibility has a half life measured in seconds.

 

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[Le Jacquelope]

Blah, blah, blah...

Blah blah this, cowardly threat mongering bitch.

 

[Ishmael]

Ahhh, I have a campaign going. Care to mention names or is this one of those 'unamed sources' thing?

You're a lying piece of shit. *said casually*

I am out to get you though.

Ishmael

 

[Le Jacquelope]

Ahhh, I have a campaign going. Care to mention names or is this one of those 'unamed sources' thing?

You're a lying piece of shit. *said casually*

I am out to get you though.

Ishmael

Oh man, slapping Ishmael around is too easy.

https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=518055

"LT's in the barrel again boys. Watch your PM's."

Edit: Assmeal is a friggin nutcase...

 

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