Liberals Immersed in Night Logic

Published on November 7, 2004 By stevendedalus In Politics

Conservative pundits are notorious for attacking liberals for their elitism that’s way beyond the mainstream. Liberals don’t understand the dynamic of the “heart” of America by their ignorance of cultural values. Liberals have the effrontery to think good paying jobs and democratized health care are cultural values; nothing could be further from the truth since these are but a growing list of non-spiritual values — in a nutshell arrant materialism. Go to church every Sunday and God will take care of the downtrodden, who, until this enlightenment, will forever be shiftless laborers, and carefree with their bodies in lieu of rediscovering their lost souls.

Liberals are out of the mainstream because they smugly presume what’s best for the masses requiring benevolent governance to give balance to the general welfare when in truth this is a culture of dog-eat-dog competitive capitalism. To paraphrase freely a prominent conservative on JU: liberals are idled do-gooders because they don’t have to take on the tough pragmatic assignments of the entrepreneurs and skilled workers to build an economy. In their ivory towers they are disdainful of sinister, calculated profiteering and plan how best to redistribute the wealth in behalf of the shiftless. Liberals have the gall to empathize with the fate of a Christopher Reeve or a Ronald Reagan rather than have a semblance of concern for the fate of frozen embryonic cells. Despite the label of do-nothings, they are frustrated in pondering why rural America has abandoned them when liberal and pragmatic programs made it comfortable and prosperous — no longer fated to read next to the kerosene lamp, now gleefully outhouses are but rustic landmarks, and kitchen sink pump relegated to the barn —liberals pathetically fail to reckon with human nature’s tendency to distance the dust bowl past when feeling independently well-fixed in the idyllic present.

Discrimination now means selective, discriminating exclusion: it is unpatriotic to criticize a war; unfashionable to remedy excessive unemployment of young blacks; unwarranted bleeding heart over the initial torment of a closeted gay and to wish them well in an open society; it is pretentious to place oneself in the excruciating situation of a fourteen year old pregnant ghetto child without judging her a whore; or disingenuous to have concern for the plight of a single mother and the future of her child. To be mainstream means: “don’t give a damn.”

Liberals, despite the socio-political pressure to awake to the new dawn of what’s in it for me, will never change: they will go on with their frayed contemplations of the dark night of balanced justice and goodness for all.

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Comments

Dr Guy

on Nov 07, 2004

You condescendingly hit the nail on the head. Then you go off and repeat the mistake you accuse conservatives of accusing liberals of.

But in reality, the above quote says it all. Conservatives do not presume, they listen. Liberals asssume, so they must always be right.

You would figure after so many years of losing, that you would finally figure it out. You would figure, and you would be wrong.

messybuu

on Nov 07, 2004

4 more years of Republican dominance in 2008!

Deference

on Nov 07, 2004

Somehow, I think somebody missed the point...

Good article, steve.

Myrrander

on Nov 07, 2004

steven -- once again, you've delivered a wonderful article. Being that rarest of rare birds -- the rural atheist liberal -- I wonder sometimes if the people I live around don't realize that much of the electrical and telephone infrastructure around here got its start with New Deal programs. And that doesn't even take into account the plethora of CCC parks and facilities that are still used every day.

Daiwa

on Nov 07, 2004

Ah, recognition that maybe some deficit spending is good, after all. Good point, Myrrander.

And it may be a "wonderful" article, but only in the sense of being poetic & romantic in the process of setting up a bunch of straw men & knocking them down, presuming motives unknown and beliefs unprofessed while making sweeping generalizations which don't add up.

It reads like the final scene in a tear-jerker Hollywood script. Sounds great, but it's just fiction.

Cheers,
Daiwa

Mitch21

on Nov 07, 2004

"dog eat dog" competitiveness is what our country is, we are competitive. As a result, we produce the best in what we do.

Liberals have the effrontery to think good paying jobs and democratized health care are cultural values

good paying jobs, and much less of them. Oh but when this happens:

excessive unemployment of young blacks

lets blame it on the president.

Maybe you should add this to the bottom of your article-

Disclaimer: This article doesn't take cause and effect into account, and therefore is a bunch of sentimental crap

cactoblasta

on Nov 07, 2004

"dog eat dog" competitiveness is what our country is, we are competitive. As a result, we produce the best in what we do.

By no means does the US produce the best in what they do. US products are generally more expensive and less efficient than their rivals. The US merely has such an enormous market that others must accept US imports in order to gain access to the US market. In agriculture nations like Canada and Australia are vastly more efficient, in technologies Japan and South Korea are either already ahead or rapidly catching up. It is only in cultural and military exports that the US might claim to be 'the best'. Try not to let patriotism get in the way of reality.

Chemicalkinetics

on Nov 07, 2004

in technologies Japan and South Korea are either already ahead or rapidly catching up.

You can't be too narrow in your definition. It is very true that Japan and Korea has and probably supassed us in many technological industries such as automobile and TV and DVD. However, if you look closely they surpass USA not in term of technoligical more advanced. They surpassed us because they are more efficient. That said, USA has always been at the very very front of technolgy field. Sure Japan automobile industry is as good as ours, if not better. But no one will claim automobile industry or TV or DVD is at the forefront of technolgoy. 10-12 years ago during the Clinton adminstration, the tip of technological front is internet and internet related business (such as Amazon.com), and USA is still way ahead of every countries. In fact, USA internet related buiness surplus the rest of world combined. Now, the internet era has developed to a stable rate. It is predict that biotechnology and nanotechnolgy will be the next fronts. Again USA is way head in these field (especially nanotech) compare to the rest of the world. There isn't a comparsion if you look ath sciencific publications written from this country and compared that to the rest of the world.

I humbly disagree with your points.

Or by the way, I am a scienctist in biotech, so I am not just telling you something I watch from TV or some books.

stevendedalus

on Nov 08, 2004

It reads like the final scene in a tear-jerker Hollywood script. Sounds great, but it's just fiction.

Thanks for the literary review.

Disclaimer: This comment doesn't take cause and effect of the irony in the article, and therefore my reply is a bunch of partisan crap

And that doesn't even take into account the plethora of CCC parks and facilities that are still used every day.

Ah, the magnificent CCC!

Madine

on Nov 08, 2004

good paying jobs

democratized health care

Democrats did very well on these issues.

they are frustrated in pondering why rural America has abandoned them

1. The NRA.
2. Republicans support farm subisidies too.
3. What Democrats did 50-80 years ago isn't enough to vote on.

it is unpatriotic to criticize a war

I think the words "patriotic" and "unpatriotic" were used far more by Democrats than Republicans. Why is that?

stevendedalus

on Nov 09, 2004

3. What Democrats did 50-80 years ago isn't enough to vote on.

valid point, but enough not to forget the roots.

think the words "patriotic" and "unpatriotic" were used far more by Democrats than Republicans. Why is that?

Impossible to know; I gather you mean because Dems got the brunt of it, they cried more.

2. Republicans support farm subisidies too.

Mostly the big conglomerates.

T B

on Nov 09, 2004

By no means does the US produce the best in what they do

It is the nature of our capitalism that drives people to be the best and I beg to differ. It is those in the US (predominantly) that are the inventors of envelope pushing products.

Charles Paulson Ginsburg, born in San Fran - invented the VCR (introduced March 1956)
Percy L. Spencer, Raytheon - invented the Microwave Oven (first commercial version 1947)
David Paul Gregg, Gauss Electrophysics - invented DVD (originally called Videodisk, patented in 1961 and 1969)
James T. Russell, born Bremerton Wash - invented CD (invented the CD in 1965 and first record/playback system in 1970)
Dr. Raymond Damadian, born NY, FONAR corp - invented the MRI (first commercial MRI 1980)
Steve Wozniak, grew up in Sunnyvale CA - invented PC (Apple I in 1976)
Eli Whitney - invented Cotton gin
John Deere - invented cast steel plow
Jonas Salk - polio vaccine
Cyrus Hall McCormick - invented mechanical reaper
Not to mention Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, et. al.

in technologies Japan and South Korea are either already ahead or rapidly catching up

It was Dr. W. Edwards Deming (US) that taught the Japanese to produce innovative quality products after WW II, prior to that "made in japan" was a sign of a shoddy imitation. Dr. Deming is the father of the quality revolution with the "14 points" doctorine.

stevendedalus

on Nov 11, 2004

Most of these marvelous inventors did not intend to have their creations manufactured overseas.

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