{"id":6934,"date":"2015-10-12T08:07:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T08:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/12\/a-liberals-ten-commandments\/"},"modified":"2015-10-12T08:07:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T08:07:08","slug":"a-liberals-ten-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/12\/a-liberals-ten-commandments\/","title":{"rendered":"A Liberal’s Ten Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2. Schools.<\/strong> Most liberals oppose charter schools, support teachers\u2019 unions, and encourage generous immigration, legal and illegal. To further diversity in the schools, create easier integration, and to nullify the insidiousness of white privilege, each liberal should pledge, \u201cI will put at least one of my children in an inner-city public school, or in a school where the white enrollment is in a minority.\u201d What better way to acculturate a young elite to the new world around him? Could not the Obama children attend a D.C. public school?<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Guns. <\/strong>Gun control is an iconic liberal issue, specifically limitations on handguns and concealed weapons. Too many guns in too many places supposedly encourage violent crime. Again, what better way to make a statement than by having all liberal celebrities, business people, and politicians take the following pledge: \u201cI will pledge that no one in my security detail will ever carry a concealed firearm of any sort\u201d? Surely the pope, of all people, did not need armed guards<\/a>, with lethal concealed weapons, surrounding his pope-mobile?<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Illegal Immigration.<\/strong> Liberals support the idea of unlimited immigration, legal or not. But the key for successful upward mobility for newly arrived immigrants, attested in nearly all studies, is integration and acculturation with American citizens. Therefore the following pledge seems ideal for any supporter of open borders: \u201cI will socialize weekly with at least one illegal immigrant, whether inviting him to a sporting event, dinner, or recreational activity.\u201d Were one upscale family to adopt an immigrant family from south of the border, the latter\u2019s health care, legal, education, economic, and culture challenges might be alleviated. There are plenty of empty and mostly unused guest houses behind estates in Malibu and Santa Monica, and very few shelters for new arrivals: why not combine need and idleness \u2014 and help the helpless?<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Sanctuary Cities. <\/strong>Most liberals support sanctuary cities and the idea of open borders, including the right of cities to nullify federal law. Why not pledge,  \u201cI will swear support for all<\/em> American cities that choose to nullify any federal laws that they find oppressive and somehow contrary to the idea of America\u201d? When a cattleman shoots a wolf, and a county sheriff guffaws and claims \u201cthat\u2019s a federal problem, not mine,\u201d then we will have come full circle to the sort of disasters that occur in San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Diversity. \u201c<\/strong>White privilege\u201d and \u201cblack lives matters\u201d are slogans that resonate with liberals. Both could be reified with a simple pledge: \u201cI will live in a neighborhood in which at least one of my immediate neighbors is a non-white household.\u201d In addition, why not eliminate the idea of a gated community altogether? Why send not-so-coded signals that the Other is not wanted? (Could not the Obama administration put a $1,000,000 luxury tax on each of a community\u2019s exclusionary gates?)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Having been accused by liberal scum of being a 'racist' for speaking the truth as I see it, let me point out that before moving to Arizona I bought and lived in a house in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, a community which at the time was about 60% white and 40% black.  What a 'racist' thing to do! If you want to know what people really think, you don't look to their words, but to their actions, in particular their actions regarding money<\/em>. The liberals Hanson excoriates are precisely those hypocrites who, while mouthing their bien pensant<\/em> feel-good rhetoric, hide in lily-white gated communities, send their children to elite private schools, and think that gun ownership is only for them and their guards.<\/span><\/p>\n

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7. Voting Laws.<\/strong> For liberals, driver\u2019s license IDs are unnecessary for registration or even showing up at the polls to vote. Why, then, not cement that pledge by sanctifying the uselessness of such IDs in everyday life? \u201cAs proof of solidarity, I pledge that I will not use my own driver\u2019s license ID either during any commercial purchase or at the airport security line \u2014 both being far more important than mere voting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

9. The University. <\/strong>The university is a bastion of liberalism and therefore must reflect such progressive values. \u201cI pledge to support no university whose rate of increase in annual tuition exceeds the rate of inflation<\/a> or that pays different wages to different categories of professor for the exact same class taught.\u201d Why not boycott Harvard or Berkeley, given that their part-time policies make Wal-Mart\u2019s look enlightened?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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