Liberals and Hendrix
I recently wrote a post in which I said, "...you will see the normal interplay between conservatives who know what they are talking about and liberals who do not = business as usual." This stirred things up a bit in the comment threads, but I want to clear a few things up.
Liberals are often very intelligent. Dan S, IAMB and Creeper are examples of liberal posters to this blog who are obviously intelligent and have a good amount of education under their belts. There is no lack of brainpower available on the left.
Yet, I still say that more often than not they do not seem to know what they are talking about, often because they refuse to see facts right before their eyes, or to let a dead idea go. I drive by on the highway of the blogosphere and see liberal after liberal by the side of the road beating dead horses.
I am beginning to think there is some kind of "get it" quotient involved that precludes a typical liberal from breaking free from the indoctrination of CBS/NBC/ABC/BBC/CNN/NYTimes/LATimes/Associated Press. The drumbeat of the left-leaning major news media have been indoctrinating people ardently for at least fifty years. The result is a generation of liberals who can think critically and brilliantly about almost any subject as long as the discussion stays on their side of the political line. Any facts that seem to agree with conservative positions are effectively filtered out so only liberal ideas remain.
It is kind of like listening to Jimi Hendrix. Jimi is Jimi, a shooting star on the popular music scene who died an untimely drug-and-alcohol related death in 1970 when he was at the zenith of his career. Some people believe that he is the greatest or at least the most creative guitarist of his generation or beyond.
The music of Jimi Hendrix is based in rock and blues and soul and lots of drugs. He was something of a neon-electric Bob Dylan, a psychedelic pioneer following up on the British Invasion with something a bit different.
But to some, he is a loud, cacophonous drug-addled purveyor of meaningless lyrics and music that was neither rock nor blues. Some just consider him loud and annoying noise. Those people undoubtably included many of the parents of my generation. My generation raced to the music store to get the latest Hendrix or Clapton offering and sat insulated in our rooms, often with friends, grooving to the newest thing while being buffeted by adults pounding on the door telling us to "turn that stuff down!"
Ah, the good old days!
In any event, I am certainly not going to say that conservatives love Hendrix and liberals hate him. The love or hate or even the bored dismissal of Hendrix cuts across political lines. So no one miss the point. No, I am just saying something that some of you may even dislike more: That liberals just don't get it!
In the world of the American liberal, Bush lied even though we know that he did not. Liberal politicians now turn 180 degrees from warlike statements they made before the Iraqi conflict and pretend they were never said. They conveniently forget the intelligence reports that proclaimed that Saddam definitely had weapons of mass destruction.
WMD's have been found in abundance in Iraq, plus the plans and facilities to begin manufacturing more once the UN got tired of rattling it's chains. We have pictures of all sorts of large trucks carrying big cargoes across the Syrian border before the Coalition forces arrived and probably Syria still has a good amount of the WMD's Saddam once owned. But liberals say that there were no WMD's.
Saddam provided training, monies and support for many terrorist groups, including Al Queda. Al Queda has a huge presence in Iraq today (the better to kill them, my dear) but liberals claim that 9/11 has no link to the War Against Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Liberals see Iraq and say "quagmire!" Conservatives see Iraq as a terrible price to pay for a democracy in the middle of our avowed enemies and yet the key to freedom not only for that region in the near future but for us down the road. Liberals want to duck their heads and their enemies until those enemies hit us here on our own soil. I for one don't want to be one of the last 2-3 countries standing that has not been conquered by Islamofascists. Why do you think terrorists from all parts of the world are congregating in Iraq? They realize that this particular front on the War Against Terror could be the most crucial of all. If 9/11 was the Pearl Harbor, then Iraq is the Midway, the El Alamein, the Stalingrad, the D-Day of the War Against Terror. If Iraq stands, then Islamofascism has failed on the big stage and the momentum towards freedom, begun in Afghanistan may then bring Iran and others out of the medieval, repressive rule of Sharia law and into a new world of democracy.
Liberals decry the NSA wiretapping that has helped us avoid another 9/11. They are angry about a conversation being monitored when one side is with a terrorist!
Liberals decry the "Republican scandal" involving people like Jack Abramoff. Yet right now the score of politicos being booted for intransigencies is Democrats 3, Republicans 2. Harry Reid, one of the biggest of big mouths, is one of the biggest beneficiaries of monies from Abramoff clients!
Liberals just love macroevolution and are unwilling to admit that it is an unproven hypothesis. They want it to be "accepted truth" and turn a blind eye to any evidences that point a different direction.
Liberals try to rip the Bible to pieces or add strange texts that were rejected back in the days of the early church fathers. They look to discount the Bible by calling into question authorships that were accepted back in the days the actual texts were available for perusal. Yeah, they are going to be pretty accurate 2,000 years or so later, with no originals or even copies of originals available to them.
Liberals deny the Biblical influences involved in the making of the United States. They try diligently to remove religion from society, which is not the intent of the framers of the Constitution.
Liberals try to destroy the mores of our society by pushing the murder of babies but protesting the execution of serial killers. They work hard to change the nature of marriage by including homosexuals and in doing so bring about the marriage of children to adults and who knows what else.
Liberals want illegal aliens to pour into our country unchecked and make full use of all social services and facilities at taxpayer expense. They even want to change the country to be more like the country or countries the aliens have come from.
Liberals, in fact, seem to hate the USA and want to turn us into Sweden, or The Netherlands or a similar society. They want lots of expensive social programs, the breakdown of sexual barriers, preeminence of a World Court and of course, the dominance of the UN (Ungodly Nitwits).
Liberals love the UN. This is one of the most unbelievable of stances to me. The UN was exposed in the "Oil For Food Scandal" as an inept and corrupt organization. Saddam was using the UN to help him pay off UN officials, the officials of other countries and the other countries as an entity to avoid being invaded and keep on keeping on with his oppressive regime. The UN establishes a committee to watch over Human Rights and puts some of the worst violators in charge. They put wacko countries arming themselves to the teeth in charge of disarmament. The UN rattles their collective saber at countries like Iraq and then accomplish absolutely nothing. Notice how much good they are doing in Darfur? Wonder how much money Sudan is lining people's pockets with right now?
To me, it seems as if liberals are unable to understand the realities of today's world. They just don't get it! Conversely, I just don't get them. I consider it my duty to come against the things they believe and defend the things I believe in, for I fear that my society and my nation will be destroyed if all good men and women do not work hard to preserve it, just as so many liberals truly believe they must work just as hard in the attempt to change it.
That's how I see it, this day in 2006. If you are going away for a long weekend, have a great time and remember those who have served and died to keep you free and safe!
Liberals are often very intelligent. Dan S, IAMB and Creeper are examples of liberal posters to this blog who are obviously intelligent and have a good amount of education under their belts. There is no lack of brainpower available on the left.
Yet, I still say that more often than not they do not seem to know what they are talking about, often because they refuse to see facts right before their eyes, or to let a dead idea go. I drive by on the highway of the blogosphere and see liberal after liberal by the side of the road beating dead horses.
I am beginning to think there is some kind of "get it" quotient involved that precludes a typical liberal from breaking free from the indoctrination of CBS/NBC/ABC/BBC/CNN/NYTimes/LATimes/Associated Press. The drumbeat of the left-leaning major news media have been indoctrinating people ardently for at least fifty years. The result is a generation of liberals who can think critically and brilliantly about almost any subject as long as the discussion stays on their side of the political line. Any facts that seem to agree with conservative positions are effectively filtered out so only liberal ideas remain.
It is kind of like listening to Jimi Hendrix. Jimi is Jimi, a shooting star on the popular music scene who died an untimely drug-and-alcohol related death in 1970 when he was at the zenith of his career. Some people believe that he is the greatest or at least the most creative guitarist of his generation or beyond.
The music of Jimi Hendrix is based in rock and blues and soul and lots of drugs. He was something of a neon-electric Bob Dylan, a psychedelic pioneer following up on the British Invasion with something a bit different.
But to some, he is a loud, cacophonous drug-addled purveyor of meaningless lyrics and music that was neither rock nor blues. Some just consider him loud and annoying noise. Those people undoubtably included many of the parents of my generation. My generation raced to the music store to get the latest Hendrix or Clapton offering and sat insulated in our rooms, often with friends, grooving to the newest thing while being buffeted by adults pounding on the door telling us to "turn that stuff down!"
Ah, the good old days!
In any event, I am certainly not going to say that conservatives love Hendrix and liberals hate him. The love or hate or even the bored dismissal of Hendrix cuts across political lines. So no one miss the point. No, I am just saying something that some of you may even dislike more: That liberals just don't get it!
In the world of the American liberal, Bush lied even though we know that he did not. Liberal politicians now turn 180 degrees from warlike statements they made before the Iraqi conflict and pretend they were never said. They conveniently forget the intelligence reports that proclaimed that Saddam definitely had weapons of mass destruction.
WMD's have been found in abundance in Iraq, plus the plans and facilities to begin manufacturing more once the UN got tired of rattling it's chains. We have pictures of all sorts of large trucks carrying big cargoes across the Syrian border before the Coalition forces arrived and probably Syria still has a good amount of the WMD's Saddam once owned. But liberals say that there were no WMD's.
Saddam provided training, monies and support for many terrorist groups, including Al Queda. Al Queda has a huge presence in Iraq today (the better to kill them, my dear) but liberals claim that 9/11 has no link to the War Against Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Liberals see Iraq and say "quagmire!" Conservatives see Iraq as a terrible price to pay for a democracy in the middle of our avowed enemies and yet the key to freedom not only for that region in the near future but for us down the road. Liberals want to duck their heads and their enemies until those enemies hit us here on our own soil. I for one don't want to be one of the last 2-3 countries standing that has not been conquered by Islamofascists. Why do you think terrorists from all parts of the world are congregating in Iraq? They realize that this particular front on the War Against Terror could be the most crucial of all. If 9/11 was the Pearl Harbor, then Iraq is the Midway, the El Alamein, the Stalingrad, the D-Day of the War Against Terror. If Iraq stands, then Islamofascism has failed on the big stage and the momentum towards freedom, begun in Afghanistan may then bring Iran and others out of the medieval, repressive rule of Sharia law and into a new world of democracy.
Liberals decry the NSA wiretapping that has helped us avoid another 9/11. They are angry about a conversation being monitored when one side is with a terrorist!
Liberals decry the "Republican scandal" involving people like Jack Abramoff. Yet right now the score of politicos being booted for intransigencies is Democrats 3, Republicans 2. Harry Reid, one of the biggest of big mouths, is one of the biggest beneficiaries of monies from Abramoff clients!
Liberals just love macroevolution and are unwilling to admit that it is an unproven hypothesis. They want it to be "accepted truth" and turn a blind eye to any evidences that point a different direction.
Liberals try to rip the Bible to pieces or add strange texts that were rejected back in the days of the early church fathers. They look to discount the Bible by calling into question authorships that were accepted back in the days the actual texts were available for perusal. Yeah, they are going to be pretty accurate 2,000 years or so later, with no originals or even copies of originals available to them.
Liberals deny the Biblical influences involved in the making of the United States. They try diligently to remove religion from society, which is not the intent of the framers of the Constitution.
Liberals try to destroy the mores of our society by pushing the murder of babies but protesting the execution of serial killers. They work hard to change the nature of marriage by including homosexuals and in doing so bring about the marriage of children to adults and who knows what else.
Liberals want illegal aliens to pour into our country unchecked and make full use of all social services and facilities at taxpayer expense. They even want to change the country to be more like the country or countries the aliens have come from.
Liberals, in fact, seem to hate the USA and want to turn us into Sweden, or The Netherlands or a similar society. They want lots of expensive social programs, the breakdown of sexual barriers, preeminence of a World Court and of course, the dominance of the UN (Ungodly Nitwits).
Liberals love the UN. This is one of the most unbelievable of stances to me. The UN was exposed in the "Oil For Food Scandal" as an inept and corrupt organization. Saddam was using the UN to help him pay off UN officials, the officials of other countries and the other countries as an entity to avoid being invaded and keep on keeping on with his oppressive regime. The UN establishes a committee to watch over Human Rights and puts some of the worst violators in charge. They put wacko countries arming themselves to the teeth in charge of disarmament. The UN rattles their collective saber at countries like Iraq and then accomplish absolutely nothing. Notice how much good they are doing in Darfur? Wonder how much money Sudan is lining people's pockets with right now?
To me, it seems as if liberals are unable to understand the realities of today's world. They just don't get it! Conversely, I just don't get them. I consider it my duty to come against the things they believe and defend the things I believe in, for I fear that my society and my nation will be destroyed if all good men and women do not work hard to preserve it, just as so many liberals truly believe they must work just as hard in the attempt to change it.
That's how I see it, this day in 2006. If you are going away for a long weekend, have a great time and remember those who have served and died to keep you free and safe!