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Ram Rants
I am often asked, “So Ram, what’s wrong with Liberalism?” Well, maybe not as often as I’d like to be, but I do get asked. I may not be the best person to ask such a question, but I think I know enough about liberals that I can speak to some of the issues. Here’s a short list.
Liberalism is reactive. Liberal policies are most likely established during some type of crisis, whether real or imagined. Man-made global warming, which recent studies show to be a farce, is fostering policies including Cap and Trade, the “Cash for Clunkers” process that pays you to buy a “greener” car, and the CAFE standards, which force auto makers to make cars that buyers won’t buy. There are massive lists of “unexpected impacts” of all of these policies, and all of those “impacts” might have been avoided if someone had stopped to think the issue through. No one thought about the impact of CAFE standards on the safety of automobiles. That is the problem with Liberalism. These reactive policies, where solutions are offered before problems are understood, always result in some type of unexpected crisis that must then be addressed by another reactive policy.
Liberalism makes “feeling” decisions. Most of us use our heads to think about what needs to be done. Liberals make their decisions because they “care”. They care about the plight of the poor, then create a dependent class of poor people. They care about the uninsured, then take health insurance away from 90% of the people in this country. You can’t argue the facts with them, because they are not concerned with facts. They are concerned about how they feel, and make no mistake, it is about how THEY feel. It’s not about how you feel. It is about how Cap and Trade will help the environment so that they can feel good about driving their SUV’s.
Liberalism is class-based. One need look no further than Noam Chomsky to understand that without a class system, Liberalism can not survive. Liberals see the poor, the middle class, and the rich, and varying degrees of each. They characterize the rich as the “evil” industrialists that steal from the middle class and the poor to build their massive, bloated empires. They ignore the fact that many of these rich people started out as middle class or poor. It’s mostly rich Liberals that come from rich families, like Kennedy, Rockefeller, or Heinz-Kerry. Yet Liberals declare war on the rich with taxes and policies that drive them out of cities like New York and Los Angeles. They set these policies because they believe it draws favor from the other two classes, the middle and the poor. This becomes the basis for their political campaigns and policies. A class system, whether existent or not, is necessary to the Liberal ideology to create the enemy needed to run against in elections, and to punish for the failures of Liberal policies.
On a related subject, Liberalism is also focused on victimhood. Not in a way that would help victims, though they do sometimes state that as their cause. Rather in a way that uses victims as props and center pieces for displaying Liberal causes. Because victims play such a key role in Liberal theatrics, Liberals are always in search of, or creating, new victims. There are the minorities, victims of perpetual persecution. There’s the children, victims of everything, including their families, and always hardest hit by any crisis. Don’t forget the endless parade of new victims who suffer from newly discovered syndromes, diseases, or maladies that are inevitably the result of evil “man”. Victims are a sub-class of the middle class or the poor, and are NEVER rich. You will find them on display at nearly every Liberal press conference, particularly if they think they are losing a political battle (see recent health care press conferences).
Liberalism is a belief system. Try having an intellectual discussion with a Liberal and begin presenting facts. Once they realize that you know more on the subject than they do, usually near the beginning of the discussion, they will take one of three evasive tactics. First, they will try fallacy, creating false arguments in an effort to deflect the discussion. Second comes the diversion, where they will try to shift the discussion off topic. Finally, when these first two have failed, they will resort to name calling. The most recent example of this last and final tactic is, “It’s all Bush’s fault and Bush is an idiot”. Liberals take these steps because they know that in a fact-based discussion, their beliefs will not survive. But, Liberalism is a belief system so they must defend it to the end, because to do otherwise would to be without their faith.
The last thing on this list of things wrong with Liberalism is that it is racist. This may come as a shock to many of you, but it is a fact. They are not the overtly racist caricature that they use to paint others. Liberals are closet racists. They hide behind their claims of equality while destroying minorities with policies like welfare, which ruined the black family, or amnesty and sanctuary for illegal aliens, which is creating criminals and slaves out of hard-working hispanics. Liberals create policies with the described intention of helping these minority victims, but the real purpose is to enslave them to their Liberal ideology. Ask a Liberal about amnesty and they will tell you it is to help those who have entered this country to get a new start. But push them just a bit and they will tell you that we need to have people in this country who will do the jobs that “Americans won’t do”. In other words, Liberals believe we need slaves. If you know your history, you know that this is not an unusual position for Liberals. After all, it was the Liberals who fought to keep slaves in the civil war. It was the Liberals who filibustered the Civil Rights act of 1964. And it was a Liberal who stood on the steps of the schools in Alabama to keep the young minorities segregated. Liberalism has a long history of racism, including the 2008 election where time and again Liberals brought race into the campaign. Bill Clinton did not accuse John McCain of bringing race into the Democrat primaries, he accused B. Hussein.
So, to summarize what is wrong with Liberalism. It is a reactive, purely emotional, class-based, victim-based, racist belief system. While they hide behind a mask of intellectualism, they focus their arguments on crisis and emotion. It is not wrong to feel, and it is not wrong to care for victims. We as Americans are some of the most compassionate and giving people on the planet. But, when all of these factors become part of a political power structure, you have a recipe for disaster, and that is what makes everything that is Liberalism, well, wrong.
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