I've been going around (mostly in my head) trying to remember why I was once a liberal, why (most) of my friends are liberal and why liberalism's bankrupt concepts dominate our culture? I think it's obvious now. It's all about the word NICE. Liberals are nice; conservatives are not. End of story. True, many liberals (like my fierce brother) like to think of themselves as "not nice", i.e. fighting for the poor, fighting against the rich, fighting inertia against global warming, etc. To be sure, many are not "nice" and indeed quite fierce, but that's all secondary to the righteous stance that motivates most liberals. It's like those inane bumper stickers: "Coexist", or "War is Not Healthy...", or simply, "Peace". Liberals are for peace, against pollution, against unfairness, against discrimination. But does that make their "opponents" FOR war, pollution, unfairness and discrimination. Well, according to them, yes. If you are not with me you are against me. The positive (words) of their opponents like freedom (and responsibility, and honor, and property rights) all come across as "not-nice". How can someone value freedom (and look at them, the churchgoers, what do they mean by "free"?) over equality? The language leans in the direction of liberalism. It's easy to be a liberal, hard to be a conservative. A conservative is embattled (outside of their groups)... they are always assumed to be wrong, selfish, and immoral. Their call to connect with the origins of our country are largely laughed at my by the "nice" left. It's easier to be a comedian of the left because the "false right" (if you will) makes such an easy target. They are rich (well, so are liberals but they care). They are selfish (well..., etc.) They dislike "people of color", etc. And for all their talk about freedom, they want to invade your bedroom and make it illegal to decide if you want a child or not. How free is that? Plus, they don't like fun, like rock music and pot... why are all musicians (outside of the country genre) liberals? They rest their case.
Many if not most liberals I know don't really like to read history. A few do. And if they do, like Howard Zinn, they get it all mucked up as an exercise in application of their 60's Marxism to the template of robber barrons, etc. Mostly they don't read history because it's old, boring and written largely by dead white men. So why would they have to? History starts with the 60's, granted their version of the 60's that excludes the Southern Democrats resistance to Civil Rights. But no mind. Nice rules. That was before the Democrats discovered how inherently nice they were. They loved education, integration, peace, the earth, community, vegetables (see: Stuff White People Like). The liberal left in fact likes so many things they haven't left much for the other side to like. Besides freedom what does the other side like? Capitalism (read: unfairness and Big Business). God (read: look at the damage established religions have done). Self Reliance (read: a reason to ignore the poor). Plus the conservatives question global warming, how mean-spirited is that?
So it's not a mystery. That's why the judges of the Miss America pageant can ask the contestants to condemn the Arizona immigration law. Of course, they haven't read it, they don't need to. It's racist; everyone says so. So anyone "nice" enough to want to be Miss America has to be tolerant -- of abortion, gay marriage, illegal immigration (I mean, immigrant rights), even medical marijuana. If she's not she's not nice. End of story.
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