2aguy
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This link shows exactly what deficiencies you must have in order to be a lefty.......and we see it here everyday on U.S.message.....
Articles: How to Be a Liberal
It’s easy to be an American liberal. All that is required are hypocrisy and ignorance.
Ignorance is an absolute must, but especially ignorance of three things: economics, human nature and all of recorded history.
One has to be truly economically illiterate to believe that high taxes encourages productivity, that union-imposed labor regulations don't dis-incentivize hiring, that energy regulations don't raise prices on the poor and working class.
Likewise, to be a liberal you must pretend that men and women are exactly alike in every respect and that communism produces the most happiness for the most people.
Of course you can search the history books in vain for a communist society that did not produce poverty, misery and/or death on vast scales. But American liberals don’t read history books – just note the vast throngs who came out to support Bernie Sanders for President of the United States.
And though Sanders lost his bid to become the Democratic nominee for President, his ideas - derived almost entirely from superficial readings from Marx and Engels - proved so popular with the base that he successfully pulled Hillary Clinton far to the left.
Now the Democratic Party proudly boasts the “most progressive platform” in its history.
To be an American liberal one must also positively revel and rejoice in hypocrisy. You must act enraged over the alleged privacy violations in the Patriot Act, which liberals raved could possibly allow a government agent to know what books you checked out at the public library (Never mind that books publicly owned and publicly housed are by definition public).
But you must simultaneously ignore or be silent on union bosses being granted permission to take workers' money, or ignore the fact that unions can be exempt from stalking and identity theft laws, because, you know, solidarity.
Articles: How to Be a Liberal
It’s easy to be an American liberal. All that is required are hypocrisy and ignorance.
Ignorance is an absolute must, but especially ignorance of three things: economics, human nature and all of recorded history.
One has to be truly economically illiterate to believe that high taxes encourages productivity, that union-imposed labor regulations don't dis-incentivize hiring, that energy regulations don't raise prices on the poor and working class.
Likewise, to be a liberal you must pretend that men and women are exactly alike in every respect and that communism produces the most happiness for the most people.
Of course you can search the history books in vain for a communist society that did not produce poverty, misery and/or death on vast scales. But American liberals don’t read history books – just note the vast throngs who came out to support Bernie Sanders for President of the United States.
And though Sanders lost his bid to become the Democratic nominee for President, his ideas - derived almost entirely from superficial readings from Marx and Engels - proved so popular with the base that he successfully pulled Hillary Clinton far to the left.
Now the Democratic Party proudly boasts the “most progressive platform” in its history.
To be an American liberal one must also positively revel and rejoice in hypocrisy. You must act enraged over the alleged privacy violations in the Patriot Act, which liberals raved could possibly allow a government agent to know what books you checked out at the public library (Never mind that books publicly owned and publicly housed are by definition public).
But you must simultaneously ignore or be silent on union bosses being granted permission to take workers' money, or ignore the fact that unions can be exempt from stalking and identity theft laws, because, you know, solidarity.
