Wanted: A Vaccine for Liberalism
by Burt PrelutskyWhenever I have suggested that left-wingers aren’t normal human beings, and have wondered if perhaps they’re some weird interplanetary life form like the pods in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” the liberals accuse me of indulging in ad hominem attacks, and I suppose I am. But I am honestly bewildered. It just doesn’t seem plausible that Americans could find good things to say about tyrants like Castro, Chavez and Ahmadinejad, while at the same time reviling the likes of Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh and General Petraeus.
Left-wingers side with the so-called Palestinians and insist that their country was stolen from them by the Jews, but when you ask them just exactly where the country was located, what their flag looked like and who their president was, they huff and they puff and they denounce you as a tool of the Jewish lobby.
Liberals argue for the sanctity of the 1st Amendment as if they had personally invented free speech, but they’re the same people who’d like to use the Fairness Doctrine to turn off the microphones of conservative talk show hosts. Furthermore, they are so terrified of hearing or letting other people hear the words of those who disagree with them that they boo their opponents into silence on those rare occasions when conservatives are invited to speak on college campuses.
When George W. Bush and the GOP were in control from 2000-2006, the Democrats complained, generally without cause, that they didn’t have enough influence, that the Republicans didn’t reach out to them, even though John McCain, to name one, spent so much time reaching out that Cindy McCain began to worry that she’d lost her husband to Russ Feingold or Ted Kennedy. These days, those same Democrats are so eager to disenfranchise Republicans that they’re ready to do anything up to and including sending the entire stimulus package to Minnesota if only they’ll make Al Franken a senator.
Speaking of senators, what’s the idea of Republicans Martinez, Bunning, Hutchinson and Brownback, announcing that this is their last term? If I could suck it up and vote for McCain last November, the least these four can do is sign on for another six years. It’s not as if being a U.S. Senator calls for any heavy lifting. Heck, if Robert Byrd can do it, Sam Brownback certainly can. This is simply no time for Republicans to go AWOL.
I admit that I’ve been delighted to see Nancy Pelosi catching some heat for lying about not knowing that water boarding was taking place. Initially, I think she claimed she was confused by the term, believing it meant that the prisoners at Gitmo were learning to surf. But things didn’t get a lot better when it came out that she had only bothered attending one of about 70 congressional meetings where the subject was discussed. I suppose she was busy getting Botox injections. But that doesn’t mean I want to see the Democrats replace her. I mean, it’s not as if they’d give the job to Eric Cantor or John Boehner. I’m sure they’d simply replace the incompetent Speaker of the House with someone like Barney Frank, the embarrassing lisper of the House.
Left-wingers are always wringing their hands over separation of church and state. What we should all be arguing for is separation of communication and state. What right does the federal government have supporting NPR, PBS and the NEA? Frankly, I’d be opposed to the feds spending taxpayer dollars to fund public radio, public TV and the arts, even if they weren’t all run by left-wingers. I’m sure liberals think I’m lying, but I’m not. Nowhere in the Constitution is the government given the authority to meddle in these matters, and once it does, it opens itself up to charges of censorship or collusion. Is there anyone who believes that NPR or PBS will ever question anything President Obama says or does? Of course not. Liberals in the media claim they speak truth to power, which sounds good, but would sound a lot better if they ever spoke truth when their own darlings were the ones in power.
It’s bad enough when NBC goes into the tank for the president, but NBC is not subsidized by the American taxpayer. If the liberals want to disseminate left-wing propaganda, I say let them do it the old-fashioned way. Let Howard Dean and the entire DNC crawl to George Soros and ask him to pay for it.
Finally, whenever someone gripes about the pay raises, perks, health care and pensions, that politicians provide for themselves, we’re told how much more money these “public servants” could make in the private sector, and I have to laugh. These egotistical dunderheads would have to be running major corporations — assuming there will be any of those left by the time Obama gets done — to have the kind of fiefdoms that come with being in Congress. Can you seriously imagine Barbara Boxer, Arlen Specter or John Murtha, running a store, let alone a major corporation? For that matter, can you even imagine Barbara Boxer, Arlen Specter or John Murtha, being hired to sweep out a store?
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No, I can't imagine Boxer and Murtha and Obama running a store, but we're about to see it happen live. . .
Government Motors is proud to announce the "Obama." Zero to 60 in two budge cycles. Gets 100 mpg (estimated) 0.5 mpg (actual). Cost: $1,200,000,000,000, but Chris Dodd can get you good financing.
Sorry, but we are here to stay and our power will only increase as our society becomes more educated and information flows more freely. The future looks bleak for conservatism.
Wow. Do they pay you for such nonsensical drivel? You take creating straw men to new heights.
Lovely article. You make great (and obvious) points that lefties should listen to (if they had any brains). And I wouldn't hire Barbara Boxer, Arlen Specter or John Murtha to mow my lawn (I don't think they could even figure out how to turn on the lawn mower).
[...] Wanted: A Vaccine for Liberalism by Burt Prelutsky [...]
"our intelligence will only decrease as our society becomes more indoctrinated and misinformation flows more freely"
There I fixed it for you.
Boy are you in for a surprise.
A store? None of those yutzes could run a Canadian lemonade stand in January…
"they huff and they puff and they denounce you as a tool of the Jewish lobby.
Now who would get that idea?
If you insist on hitting youself in the head, Bert, let me help you.
information flows more freely? hmmmm… better talk to your lefty pals at the FCC because they want to RESTRICT the flow of information both on radio and internet. Then again, that wouldn't slow down the leftist propaganda- and that's really what this is all about, isn't it? As long as free men are free there will always be logic- which is, of course, conservative in nature. To paraphrase Will Rogers, rumors of our demise are greatly exaggerated…
we knew liberalism was always either rooted in ignorance, naivite, or worse- a mental disorder. We were sure of it when the champion of all losers, Janeane Garofalo, she of the bad hair, posture, skin tone and slovenly of dress said conservatism was a 'mental disorder'. It was at that moment that all became clear. Look at her. Look at Carrie Prejean.
Who has the 'mental disorder'?
Just for once id like a magic wand to wave over grossly-out-of-human-kindness nitwits like antifascists, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, and others like them to actually go live in the vaporous world they proclaim will be so good for the rest of us. I mean EXACTLY following the rules theyve set for us "proletariat". I cant decide if their sin is of just wanting to smell their own fart-fumes or if they really are missing some kind of connection between their brain and their mouths…or heart, if they had one. I think they are missing parts of their brains for one, but Im no doctor. Just someone whom theyve determined is a threat to their power, little old homeschool housewife that I am. They'd march me into the cattle cars of the train and off to Auschwitz if they had half a chance…and why? Because I happen to think differently than they do.
If I could wave my magic wand…
Putting liberals in charge of things for a fixed period of time is usually the best vaccine, but,of course,its not with adverse side effects. Carter cured the public of liberal pablum for more than a generation and four years of Obama will too
they DO have a vaccine for liberalism, burt – unfortunately it's only used on death row inmates right now…*8]
they DO have a vaccine for liberalism, burt – unfortunately it's only used on death row inmates right now…*8]
j/k…
j/k…
You seem shocked to find out that Dems will support any position that pays them.
I'm not.
Repeating failure is, by definition, illogical.
there are prominent Jewish people on BOTH sides of this divide, nitwit…
liberals seem to lack the will and the means to reproduce themselves. the only way the ideology survives is by indoctrinating other people's children in the public schools.
So why do you do it?
Right, because education is a liberal conspiracy.
i'm watching moderates in the national party follow the path established by the california republicans. here they seem content with minority status. as long as they have their safe gerrymandered districts they seem content to just get along.
anyone pushing for conservative values, or even just basic fiscal restraint is seen as a pest.
That's why it's so handy to live in a republic. To see what happens when liberals run things for too long, you just have to look at California.
Blah blah blah. Pie?
You can say that after 8 years of Bush? It's going to take a long time for the Republican party to bounce back from that.
Awesome! Applying the staple of the progressive's argument style – projection of one's own faulty beliefs onto the enemy – this is great news for us conservatives. Thank you Auntie for admitting it. Yes, the future does look bleak for statists/neolibs/progressives, as information flows more freely.
Burt, I agree with everything here except for what you say about the retiring senators.
I'm not sure I disagree there, but my gut tells me it's time for some new blood in the GOP.
wow! a non-sequitur from auntie. How nice. Failure is collectivism which has been roundly rejected from every corner of the planet. Except for the dictators and oligarchs you favor. Freedom- free minds, free markets, free men is the explosive wave of the future.
That is not illogical.
Great points all Burt. I live in NY so when the vaccine comes out ship me a railroad car full and I'll open up a free clinic. And hearing all those liberals say "OW!" when the needle goes in will give me a sadistic thrill, but I'll know I'll be helping mankind.
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no, just the NEA and it's marxist adherents… we are very well educated, yet not a lefty. So yet another wrongheaded assertion…
Jimmy Carter, Part II
The only known cure for liberalism is a good dose of reality. However, some are more deeply infected with the illness are require a larger dose.
Ronald Reagan, Charlton Heston, Dennis Miller, Ron Silver, and Michelle Malkin are all good examples of ones who've been cured. From what I've read, Duh One is helping some rich liberal people to be cured.
Is the important point who wrote the letter, or the letter's content?
It's like the controversy over anthropogenic global warming. One side gets funding from oil companies, the other gets funded by "green" companies, like Al Gore's, and the government. To choose between these positions, do you make your decision based upon the data and the way they are used, or based upon which side you like better?
There's a right answer and a wrong answer to this question, by the way.
There is a vaccine for modern liberalism, it's called The Rush Limbaugh show. Prescription: 3 hours Monday – Friday. Nothing make my heart swell like hearing my 16 year old daughter refer to Katie Couric as 'The Perky One,' and happily employing the term "feminzais."
Term limits to the Senators And Representatives in the total of TWO terms and all are then tossed out WITHOUT that little lifetime yearly cash stipend given because they went into office to SERVE -Not themselves- the United States of America.
That may be the only way to correct this FUBAR government now.
"The future looks bleak for conservatism."
Just like 1964 and 1976?
The left has already over-reached itself; just today we learned that high un-employment will persist through at least 2010. By then, the inflation that is an inevitable result of Obama's statist fiscal philosophy will have put the economy further in the tank.
Polls shows that a majority of American voters oppose more government intervention in the economy. The results of Obama and the left doing just that will rebound against the Democrats in 2010 and 2012. The bluster and idol-worship that put the Dear Leader in the White House will not stand against diminishing job opportunities, lower wages, and shrinking 401Ks.
Education? Yes. The left is about to get a lesson in economic determinism. Enjoy your majority status while it lasts.
If it's either you or me, it's going to be you.
This should be required reading for liberal's who… (pause) one sec… wait, my bad, silly me… for a second there I gave in to the thought that liberals are capable of critical, intellectual thought…. never mind, please disregard my comments.
I bullet sounds good to me.
You are incredibly bitter. This can't be good for your health!
Relax, let it go, and acknowledge that the Democrats won the election fair & square. Now get behind our president whether you voted for him or not. This is, if you love your country.
We'll be back and thanks to Obama and his ilk We'll be Ten's of Millions. See you in 2010.
Let the RINOs leave, nobody wants Democrat Light when they can have the original.
Sure, the way Democrats respected George W. Bush for sticking to his beliefs rather than flip-flop— wait, no…
They were wanting him to fail before the planes hit the towers on September 11, 2001. No, I think we'll continue the way we have bee. Thanks for the advice though, hypocrite.
liberals are masters at positive reinforcement. they love to call each other smart. this makes it very attractive to people insecure about their own intelligence. all an idiot has to do is spout leftist banalities, and he will be called brilliant in the new republic.
it is possible for them to go quite far in life, even to the presidency, without ever having accomplished anything. just so long as they say what the leftists want to hear.
standard operating procedure on most campuses. but does this qualify as a conspiracy? it's hardly a secret. though most liberals will fly into a rage when it is exposed.
I didn't realize Fox News was issuing degrees.
There, there Auntie, you're a good little communist.
That's a good one … considering the appalling disrespect and lack of support shown by democrats while Bush was in office.
How convenient that now that The One is president, dissent is no longer considered patriotic. Blind allegiance seems to be the order of the day.
And I do love my country. I don't want to see our Republic supplanted by socialism.
"Relax, let it go, and acknowledge that the Democrats won the election fair & square. Now get behind our president whether you voted for him or not. This is, if you love your country. "
Just like you were behind Bush, because you "love your country" right? If we followed that example I am pretty sure we would have all egged the white house at least 3 times, accused BHO of terrorism, tried to kill his dog, etc. All in the name of pseudo-patriotism A.K.A. nincompoopery.
Yeaaaaah, just like your side did during the last eight years. So you won one presidential election in a row. Congratulations. Enjoy your time. It won't last.
Really, that many terms?
With a Republican President, dissent is Patriotism.
With a looney, leftwing liberal democrat President, he's your President, so support him.
No, I will not get behind efforts to socialize medicine, nationalize banks and car companies, triple out national debt, close the prison where captured terrorists are held, gut our military, and raise my taxes.
What's your deal with this "more educated society" bit? I always run my mouth on being a schoolteacher, but it's because you make the same stupid assertions every time you post. Let me explain something, Auntie, real slow:
Being educated is not the same as being intelligent. But one might easily confuse one for the other. Let's explain:
You're obviously either educated or intelligent. I would say "educated" because of your penchant for pointing out how the intellectually elite always vote liberal and therefore society is becoming more liberal. However, the simple assertion you made about what a Fascist "is" demonstrates to me that you've not been properly educated on the subject.
The important thing to note, Auntie, is that while the prevailing education system in America teaches students what to think (which heavily favors your point of view), it is failing in terms of teaching them how to think. What does this mean? It means that attempting to forge a correlation between intelligence and the education system is impossible on its face and by its nature. No matter what the evidence seemed to suggest, you would end up refuting it on the basis of the stuff you CHOOSE to believe, standing firmly on whatever books by Chomsky or Vonnegut you've read recently. Your views are destined to be tainted perpetually by your own confirmation bias.
You are the epitome of the ill-informed polemicist.
Liberalism (aka "progressive politics") is like ebola. There is no vaccine, and there is no known cure except the fortuitous intervention of the passage of time and the gathering of knowledge for the few lucky enough to survive the initial onset of the disease. Unfortunately, most liberals don't live long enough to be "cured" by the passage of time, let alone the gathering of knowledge.
You just gave voice to one of my worst nightmares. Barney Frank as Speaker of the House. ((shudder shudder shudder))
Antifacist,
Actually, you're right. That's what the Bible tells us about the end-days, your power will increase.
2 Timothy:
1 THIS know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the ctruth.
I think new blood in the GOP is exactly what's required right now. I hope more senators decide to "retire" and people with true conservative values who are willing to stand up for what is right instead of caving to greed will be elected.
Implying that you aren't shuddering now? Hmm, I want whatever you're on, or maybe it's just me being insulted because Pelosi always checks the female box…like anyone is gonna check.
Hahaha!
Yeah, I'd go along with the two terms and no more. I think the potential to be corrupted and become further entrenched in D.C. politics only grows after two terms.
Okay, so his post was ad hominem. But where are the straw men?
I really like the big-people words you learned in your college debate course. Next, please use "a propos" and "non sequitur."
no, but SIU and Columbia have nice programs… how's the NPR/NEA training working out for you?
Once again, that backwoods hillbilly tobacco-tokin' cowboy hick Kriskey is right on the money.
Mike, everything you say is immensely humbling.
You forgot the "muwahahahaha" as you stroke your white cat. Does you underground lair have a machine that generates the cliches or do you actually write this yourself?
"information flows more freely"
heh!
Wow – after this column you're going to have to send out for more straw, Bort.
So much hate here… sad.
I love looking at Ms Prejean! What red blooded male doesn't? The other one (can't bring myself to name it), not so much without a healthy dose of dramamine and a barf bag handy. Oh wait um never mind. All I saw was the order to look.
I would bet "antifascist" is either an undergrad or at most a grad student in liberal arts, or possibly someone who just graduated with a liberal arts degree. (AF is certainly not out in the private sector earning a living.) AF is not a highly-educated liberal; PhDs and the like at least defend their belief system with more skill than AF has shown.
No, AF is a dilettante. He/she has just enough liberal arts education to trot out, over and over, the same one-trick ponies about southern Baptists, PC buzzwords like "homophobia" and "racism", and FOX News that are taught in many college classrooms.
As is usually the case in those same classrooms, AF was never taught critical thinking skills or independent thought, and instead can only regurgitate the slogans that no doubt earned them high grades in Cultural History and Gender Studies.
You can't forget Patty Murray making the observation that bin Laden has been good for Afghanistan because he has built roads and shopping centers there.
And these are the people in charge of our national security
The left is a bit narcissistic – when out of power, "bipartisanship" means letting them help set policy – when it power, well Burt hit it on the head. Free speech means not saying anything they disagree with.
You can't forget Patty Murray making the observation that bin Laden has been good for Afghanistan because he has built roads and shopping centers there.
And these are the people in charge of our national security
The left is a bit narcissistic – when out of power, "bipartisanship" means letting them help set policy – when it power, well Burt hit it on the head. Free speech means not saying anything they disagree with.
If I I ruled the world, if I were king of the forest, if I were appointed dictator, if the American public were but putty in my hands, if life were only like a video game,…blah blah blah…I would say who is bad, we would know who the bad guys are, the bad guys would be under my thumb…blah blah blah…
Yeah, I don't see how this is even structured in a "straw man" form. And as far as pay, are the three or four liberals that are ALWAYS here (AntiFascist, dssdnt, you) paid to do so. I see you even have a coordinated theme today. That's a little suspicious.
As much as I love Christmas, we need to dump Santa in the waste bin. Ditto the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny. This kind of nonsense seems to remain in the psyche for many years with liberals. When I was a liberal, I really thought the righ person would come along and save us all.
Ah, didn't happen. I got tired of waiting and looked at me to take care of me.
Best deal I ever made.
So, you liberals out there; JFK is really dead, ditto Elvis and Obama is neither one. Nor is he the Christ.
Get over it!
Good point. Many present day conversatives and libetarians came out of the Carter years, including me.
Gosh!
(I'd say you forgot "college-dropout," but that'd just be braggin'.)
Love your country and love your POTUS. That has a nice ring. Is that a new sentiment?
Dang, Burt, that was a good one!
Sure got Auntie's panties in a bunch, too. Bonus!
It's really too bad libs can't see their own reflections. They'd be laughing hysterically like we are.
Keep it up, Burt. It's good to see there's some sanity left in the world.
I'm not as optimistic about anyone not caving to greed. Best we can do is limit their power and put more authority (and responsibility) back on the state and local governments, where we can keep an eye on them.
But it would take new blood to do that. Make that a transfusion.
I'm not as optimistic about anyone not caving to greed. Best we can do is limit their power and put more authority (and responsibility) back on the state and local governments, where we can keep an eye on them.
But it would take new blood to do that. Make that a transfusion.
LOL! If I'm not shuddering already it's only because I'm still in stunned shock. Frank is so shudder inducing that it's a wonder I'm not having seizures.
Liberals are so cute when they try to talk patriotic and pretend to love their country…kind of like when little kids dress up in Mommy and Daddy's clothes and pretend to be "grown-ups". The difference is that while kids are only playing make believe, liberals are being flat out dishonest.
Auntie, you are too funny. And encouraging, too. Whenever you puffed up libs get over-confident and start with the ominous "The future looks bleak…" nonsense, I can't help but feel the warm rays of hope beaming down. Can your downfall be very far? Nope.
I am firmly behind my President when I agree with him. For instance, I approve of the way he is sticking to President Bush's policies in the WoT. He can ignore what he said in the past and get a free ride in the media on that issue and I don't give a damn, because the policies are just and effective.
What would be a better thing to do, of course, is to admit he was wrong to denounce Bush over these issues. I won't hold my breath, though.
Finally, a conservative that agrees with me. Now excuse me while I lead your women away with divers lusts.
The conservatives sound tough when they are all congregated together, but they don't do so well when both sides get to debate. Just observing.
and here we have it.. the maliciousness of the malignant narcissist. Thanks for proving everything we conservatives believe about you statist/collectitivist types, auntie fascist.
You'd think a math guy would be able to construct a proper argument. You sound more like a journalism major.
San Francisco will never surrender to Boston. It's eyebrow pencils at high noon! No holds barred. No, really!
Which is exactly why equating opposition to AIPAC with antisemitism is intellectually dishonest.
Then being a liberal is by definition illogical. Liberal programs have made people's lives worse wherever they have been tried and are now driving states and even countries into bankruptcy. Countries that have swollowed the socialist poison pill have all been failures. Why repeat those "failed policies of the past" then? I know — who you can feel good about yourself; who cares that the consequence of your feelings are a disaster?
"it is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron, run through a university and decorated with a phd, will have thereby ceased to be a moron."
h.l. mencken
It’s called Thorazine Burt! My best recommendation for worthless liberals is a job or two or a business, work 60 to 80 hrs a week and join the ranks of the evil rich. This will limit their time looking in others pockets. Give’em hell Cheney, that’s wonderful stuff, giving Barry a tingle up his leg.
+1 for being hilarious. We conservatives still invite you, though, to come to the knowledge of the ctruth.
My apologies – I had no idea. I'll be sure to include that next time along with some piece of ribaldry about your beard.
Um Cranky, that's not a cat.
So let me get this straight, you are going to abandon your stated values (setting aside differences with the President in the interest of national unity) because Democrats called your bluff? Or is it really just because a Democrat is in the White House and before that was all just a bunch of talk? It looks to me like you dumped your alleged values like a sack of bricks. Put your money where your mouth is and live up to your word. Politics aren't a game, you either have values that you stick to, or you change the rules of the game so that you always have the easy win. Which is it?
Pelosi is female?
Is the important point who wrote the letter, or the letter's content?
Both.
Two representatives who were elected in this country to serve their constituents, are asked by a foreign government lobby to repeat (verbatim) their talking points, potentailly influencing policy. What if that country were Russia or China?
Lets go on with the letter says: "the US must be both a trusted mediator and a devoted friend to Israel"
Or what? You're the second leading recipient of direct economic and military assistance from the United States, nothing obejctionable about that?
Hunh? NBC isn't subsidized by the American taxpayer? Is Obama's bailout buddy, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt planning to spin them off?
All the loser, leftist, liberal, and loony politicians can do with any expertise is spend "OUR" money. Yeah, they've never run or done anything of merit, nothing of substance that promotes prosperity, nothing!!! Their soul purpose in life seems to be the perpetuation of their own tax payer funded existence that enables them to unconstitutionally lord over the people who provide their BOTOX. The leftist political class have never done a thing personally to justify their "piss ant" existence. Which reminds me they're not qualified to run an ant farm…..
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