Steve700 wrote:
I think everything that I have said (plus the additional ones the readers are giving me) quite clearly implies that fact. As I mentioned, I am writing a book and need to keep this intellectually clean. Although the book is not completed yet, initial indications promise that I have found a publisher who will publish it. It will be called "From The Debate Forum (with subtitle) Understanding The Left And Dismantling Their Nonsense"
Liberal and Progressive Attitudes, Traits and Beliefs
While I have observed a number of liberals and progressives that display quite a few of the following attributes, I do not mean to say that all of them practice all of the very negative traits I have listed. But being a liberal or progressive necessitates having many of these more obnoxious traits.
It must be pointed out that most liberals and progressives are well trained in the techniques of false argumentation—some 50 or so dishonest maneuvers in debates one must be prepared to counter—see
http://www.johntreed.com/debate.html.
Indiscrimination on All Things
A Child’s Mind in an Adult’s Body
Thinking is Bad for the Masses
Good is Evil; Bad is Victimhood
Right is Wrong; Wrong is Victimhood
All Societies are Equal
All Behavior is Permissible
Talk is Preferable to Work; Idleness is Bliss
Cannot Choose Between Alternatives
Utopianists and Collectivists
Seeks Impossible Ideals
Giveaway Artists for Other People's Money
Moral Relativity
Consummate Liars
Smugness to the Extreme
Superiority Complex (Inferior in Fact!)
Ivory Tower Complex, Especially Professors
Self-Satisfied for No Known Cause
Egoistic
Never Wrong, Never Admits Being Wrong
Social Tyrants; Kultur Aficionados
No Common Sense
Ad Hominem Attacks
Uses Highly Derogatory Words against Others
Does not Like America and Wants Vast Changes
Supercritical of Others
Shortsighted, and Incurs the Rule of Unintended Consequences Often
Demands Perfection of Others; Picky; Will Use Their Slightest Error
Elite Intellectual and Status Snobs
Vicious When Cornered
Disingenuous in Arguments
Is Always on the Wrong Side
Political Correctness and Multicultural Diversity
Avoids Personal Responsibility
G****l W*****g is Their Key to Everlasting Power
Believes in Reapportionment of Your Money: Tax the Rich!
Woman's Free Choice for A******n; A Fetus or Embryo is Not Human
Feels Guilt for Their Lifestyle, History; Bleeding Hearts
Feels Entitled for Their Contributions to Society
Uses the Victimhood Syndrome; Nanny State Approach
America is a R****t Society; Corrective Laws Needed!
Rejects the Death Penalty
Narcissistic
Believes in Heavy Regulation by Government of All Activities
Believes in Gun Control; Only M*****as Authorized by the 2nd Amendment
Believes in Euthanasia
Believes in Free Health Care
Believes That Profiling is Wrong
Supports Amnesty for I*****l I*******ts
Wants to Rewrite the Constitution
Believes in Takings for Private Use
Believes in Same Sex Marriage
Supports Social Security as it Stands
Wants Large Government and Greater Taxes
Supports the UN; World Government
GWOT is Wrong; it is a Criminal Matter
Supports Greater Welfare
Believes That Conservatives are Nuts
Your Sources are Always Wrong!
My Way or the Highway
Government Must Fund A******ns
Coal Industry Must be Regulated out of Existence
I*****l I*******ts Have the Right to Government Benefits
Thinking is a H**e Crime
Objectivity is undesirable
The Liberal Manifesto
Paraphrased from "The Liberal Mind"--Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr. MD
1. We are all children of a parental government...
2. Self-reliance and the role of individual responsibility should be diminished in this society in favor of collective caretaking administered by the state.
3. The individual cannot exist without the state.
4. Because most citizens are not competent to run their own lives, they need government guidance to do what is good for them.
5. Collectivism is the proper political philosophy for an ordered society.
6. A good life is a government entitlement owed to each citizen regardless of the nature and quality of his acts and their usefulness to others.
7. In respect to economic and social situations, prior binding contracts or agreements based on tradition may be invalidated by the authority of the government.
8. A large government regulatory apparatus is needed to exercise control over the citizenry and to ensure that social justice is assured.
9. Massive welfare programs that are administered by the state at taxpayer expense are necessary to meet the needs of the disadvantaged.
10. Men should not be held responsible for their bad actions, but rather such actions should be viewed as the collective fault of the society.
11. Traditional ideas about the separateness and sovereignty of the individual are invalid.
12. Material subsidies are to be paid to persons designated by the state based on need, suffering, or ine******y, not on merit or desert.
13. Human nature is highly malleable.
14. Descriptions of how to act and how not to act should not be based on the distilled ethical and moral wisdom of the centuries, but through canons of political correctness or evolved through the creation of alternative lifestyles in a spirit of cultural correctness.
15. Established traditions of decency, courtesy, and sexual repression are unduly restrictive and should be rejected because they support class distinctions that oppose the liberal ideal of social e******y. Pornography is good.
16. Rules governing human interactions that have evolved over centuries deserve no respect. Traditional Judeo-Christian moral and ethical codes such as the Golden Rule must be rewritten to reflect modern ideals of moral relativity and multicultural correctness.
17. E******y before the law is a fiction.
18. An individual who commits a bad act should not be held personally responsible for what he does even if he does it with malicious intent.
19. US foreign policy makers should assume the American imperialism and capitalist exploitation have been major factors in provoking aggressive acts by other nations and by religious or ethnic groups.
20. It is the duty of the state to determine which groups or classes of persons suffer from deficits in material security and in social and political status and to cure these deficits through government action.
21. Time-honored conceptions of justice as reflected in common sense, ethical philosophy, judicial practice and the history of political thought are invalid.
22. Traditional ideal of self-determination, self-responsibility and self-reliance are invalid.
23. Economic activity should be carefully controlled by the government.
24. An adult citizen's time, work effort and ability must be largely apportioned to the state.
25. The primary purpose of politics is the creation of an ideal collective society run by a liberal elite committed to a just redistribution of economic, social and political goods.
26. The traditional social institutions of marriage and family are not very important and should yield to progressive alternative lifestyles that emphasize the satisfaction of sexual and relational needs.