[Why Liberals Are So
Obsessed With Racism, Homosexuality and Transsexualism]
Once you understand those basics, it’s very easy to see why both
sides hold the positions they do on most issues and to comprehend why
there’s so little middle ground. Once you get the mentalities, you can
predict where each side will come down on issues.
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because it’s not about the specifics; it’s about an arms race between
liberals trying to signal their virtue by being willing to go further
than other people in being conspicuously compassionate while getting in
some cheap shots on their political opponents at the same time.
An extremely expensive program designed to help disadvantaged minority
children read better that has been proven not to work? Liberals will
support it and conservatives will oppose.
A program that cuts the deficit by cutting people off the welfare and
disability rolls who don’t belong there in the first place?
Conservatives will support it and liberals will oppose.
A program called “Puppies for Orphans” that hands out “therapy dogs” to
poor children at $100,000 per year in cost? Liberals will support it
and conservatives will oppose.
The problem with all of this is that most of what passes for
“compassion” with liberals isn’t real compassion. There’s a cost to
real compassion and thus, a limit to it.
[...]
It’s cost-free for someone to talk about how much he hates racism
because racism is almost universally despised in America. There is no
price to be paid for attacking a zoo that made the difficult decision
to shoot a gorilla because a boy had fallen into his pen. If you’re not
a Christian and have no moral qualms about gay marriage, it’s easy to
call for the law to crack down on bakers or wedding photographers who
refuse to participate because they find it morally repulsive.
The problem with all this pointless virtue signaling is that because
there is no real cost to it, there are no limits to it. As long as
liberals lose nothing by advocating a position, but get credit for
being compassionate for taking it, why not go for it?
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Liberals care about how supporting a program makes them feel. as long as you and I, not them, pay for it. That's if they will even admit it costs something, never mind double or three times the original estimate.
ReplyDelete...this pointless virtue signaling is that because there is no real cost to it... to them.
What every Prog needs is a dose of up close, very personal, hard, painful, long lasting consequences of their behavior; e.g., California state and local government employees deserve losing their pensions because of the financial negligence of under funding, over promising and raiding; lawbreaking IRS rats like Lois Lerner forfeiting their pensions, etc.
Until the last decade or so, our society's design safety margin provided by productive citizens' hard work and creativity has allowed the Progs the luxury of postponed consequences. That is gone. They need to feel consequences, now.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick
From Jim Geraghty:
ReplyDeleteBoth conservatives and progressives look at America and see problems, but they see completely different problems. They dismiss with a shrug the problems that worry us most.
What’s the Democratic solution to the national debt? It’s not really a problem.
What’s the Democratic solution to Putin’s aggression? It’s not really a problem.
What’s the Democratic solution to the Islamic State? It’s not really a problem, we’re handling it fine through airstrikes.
What’s the Democratic solution to illegal immigration and an insecure border? It’s not really a problem, let’s pass an amnesty.
What’s the Democratic solution to children being raised without fathers? To the extent they address this, they insist it reflects low wages and economic factors.
Meanwhile, they turn to us and ask, “What’s your plan for dealing with the temperature rising a century from now? Why aren’t you concerned about micro-aggressions? What’s your plan to ensure every woman in America has access to affordable birth control? What are you going to do to stop people from being able to buy guns?”
Luigi
It could be that progressives are perverts to start with and are just seeking power to get the human toys they desire.
ReplyDeleteI always figured it was because they're amoral degenerates.
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