{"id":9240,"date":"2012-11-05T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/05\/ten-reasons-not-to-be-a-liberal\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:12:12","slug":"ten-reasons-not-to-be-a-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/05\/ten-reasons-not-to-be-a-liberal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Reasons Not to Vote Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dems are the left-wing party in the U. S. Almost all Dems nowadays are leftists or liberals — there is no practical difference at present.  It's not 1960 any more and you geezers out there with your sentimental attachment to the 'Democrat' label need to wise up.  So any reason to oppose liberals is a reason to oppose Dems.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Liberals lack common sense. As witness their lunatic stand on photo ID at polling places.  I have written several posts on this topic.  Here<\/a> is one.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Liberals play the race card every chance they get.  Evidence here<\/a>, but see also my Race<\/a> and Leftism<\/a> categories for plenty more.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Liberals are anti-liberty.  As witness Obamacare's  individual mandate, to give just one example.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Liberals have a casual attitude toward crime.  See Britain and the Barbarians<\/a> and other posts in the Crime and Punishment<\/a> Category.  Liberals are opposed to  capital punishment even though this is exactly what justice demands in certain cases.  With their unhealthy love of underdogs as underdogs, liberals will champion the scum of the earth with shoddy arguments while ignoring the concerns of decent citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Liberals smear their opponents and then issue hypocritical calls for 'civility.'  What passes for argument among liberals is the hurling of SIXHRB epithets: sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, racist, bigoted. (acronym via Dennis Prager)  For example, if you oppose illegal immigration then you are a xenophobe; if you carefully argue against Obamacare then you a racist; if you give reasons why marriage is between a man a woman you are dismissed as a bigot.  If you oppose the slaughter of innocent human beings which is abortion you are waging war against women and interfering with their 'health' and 'reproductive rights.'   If you point out the very real threat of radical Islam, then you are dismissed as an  'Islamaphobe' with a mental illness.<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Liberals are weak on national defense and naive about foreign policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Liberals are fiscally irresponsible.  Unlike his predecessor, Obama made no attempt to put the existing entitlements on a sound fiscal basis.  Instead, he started up a new one!<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Liberals are anti-religion.  <\/span><\/p>\n

9. Liberals have  no proper appreciation for the Second Amendment.<\/span><\/p>\n

10. Liberals have no proper appreciation of the Tenth Amendment and the notion of federalism<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Addendum<\/strong> (6 Nov):  Tony H. writes to say that I forgot one:<\/span><\/p>\n

11. Liberals are economic illiterates.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703561604575282190930932412.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop<\/a>
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True.  Of course, I wasn't trying to give a complete list of reasons to oppose Obama and his gang.  There are a lot more reasons than ten.  How about this one:<\/span><\/p>\n

12. Liberals are linguistic hijackers.  They routinely distort the English language for their ideological purposes.  This is actually worse than lying.  To lie successfully one must use language properly, in accordance with the going conventions.  Misuse of language  is a subversion of the rules of the communicative game.  There are examples in my Language Matters<\/a> category.<\/span><\/p>\n

One particularly egregious example is the use of 'voter suppression' to refer to common-sense demands for proper ID procedures at polling places.  This shows that the scumbags of the Left will do anything to win.  <\/span><\/p>\n

For even more reasons, see the Constructive Curmudgeon who has worked himself into a fine, and justified, lather over Obama's abominations.  See here<\/a>, for example.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dems are the left-wing party in the U. S. Almost all Dems nowadays are leftists or liberals — there is no practical difference at present.  It's not 1960 any more and you geezers out there with your sentimental attachment to the 'Democrat' label need to wise up.  So any reason to oppose liberals is a … Continue reading “Ten Reasons Not to Vote Democrat”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}