Most people move from left to right throughout life, away from feel-good idealism toward coherent thought. But if one wants to be a liberal, one must use pure emotion to resist this process, known as “maturing.”
Odd though it is, liberals lay claim to broad-mindedness. But blindly accepting this contention is a mistake, for nothing could be further from the truth about liberals, who come in four basic types.
First, we have the straight-up feel-good “progressive,” whose mission in life to to cling to warm fuzzies. This type of liberal filters out realities which the less evolved see as reason not to ride the imaginary love train. Former Presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich would “enable the goddess of peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and… of the world,” and “make war a thing of the past…” For more substance, we turn to Barack Obama, who will use the power of his Christian messianic personality to convince Iran’s sworn haters of Christians and Jews to renounce a 1400-year-old desire to kill Jews and obliterate all religions but their own.
Second, there are angry progressives. Energetic, manic, and only tenuously attuned to the real world, these critters formulate ultra-liberal concepts and Marxist tactics. With an anything-but-warm fuzzy logic as guidance, their humanity sulks beneath a mist of vaporized venom. Are you rage-driven? This one’s for you. The non-religious are Angry Secular Progressives. Because Pharaohs used asps to represent power over life and death, the three-letter acronym for Angry Secular Progressives is a point of pride. Yet some people refer to ASPs as Secular Angry Progressives, yielding another and rather unfortunate acronym.
Lovingly motivated and yet stunningly disturbed, the third and most frenetic liberal is the hybrid. In this case, motivation randomly wobbles between anger and kindness. Understandably, people generally fear the unpredictable hybrids. To be one, you must parade a glassy-eyed contempt for reality, personally savaging anyone who offers facts which threaten your flimsy feel-good. Hybrids wield the vainest illogic imaginable in order to draw attention to themselves. Witness Hillary Clinton’s 2007 universal health care proposal which would have made it illegal to be employed without insurance. Illegal aliens should work unfettered, but legal citizens become criminals if they work without health coverage.
Inspirational.
Fourth, we have logical, sensible, and nearly extinct classical liberals, who want human progress through compassionate action. But they commit the ultimate progressive sin by engaging in careful thought, analyzing their impulses, and avoiding emotionality in their judgment. Because this more aptly describes today’s conservatives, modern liberals don’t waste their time with such behaviors.
Historically, the term “left” denoted people associated with variants of socialism, anarchism, communism, or social democracy. “Liberal” indicated progressive thinkers in social, economic, and political arenas, stopping short of leftism. But since the 1960s, these distinctions have eroded. The erosion has been so staggering since the Supreme Court settled the 2000 Presidential Election that scores of liberals now manifest fundamentally leftist attributes.
Pushing socialism dominates the behavior of many liberal politicians—especially this year as politicos charm their victim groups for the votes needed to keep doing what they’re doing. Which is, of course, charming their victim groups so that they can keep doing what they’re doing.
The modern-day sociopolitical term, “progressive,” describes that which comforts people while defying rationality. “Progressives” are the elite, bristling with ideas on how to run government and society. Affirmations reinforce a sense of superiority and show off their holiness. “Give peace a chance. War is not the answer. You can roller skate in a buffalo herd.”
Reality can only distract. The liberal’s job is to do whatever it takes to feel good inside. (Playbook, page 1.)
