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They Truly Hate Liberty

Posted on | October 17, 2011 | 23 Comments

by Smitty

Ladd Ehlinger links Zilla of the Resistance in support of Donald Douglas, who has come under real-world attack for supporting the truth.

It is increasingly hard to give anyone on the Left the benefit of the doubt. On political questions, I am nearly at the point of thinking anyone on the Left is guilty until proven innocent. And even the evidence of innocence may be rigged. They campaign on transparency, then do precisely the opposite. Not acutely, but chronically, as though the truth were their urinal, and any semblance of classically liberal thought merely an act.

What to do?

First, I think we avoid being drawn solely into the moment. In the death throes of Progressivism, they are wildly wrecking as much as they can. Fools that they are, they live only in the present tense. Stay calm and adult. Remember that, after this societal kidney stone is passed, we still have to live with our actions. We that have a conscience and moral compass, that is. Expect the Left to lack such.

Second, don’t lose sight of compassion. There may be a tiny fraction of the Left that are salvageable. While dispensing 99% tough love to the 99% idiot crowd, keep the eye peeled for the 1% whose reasoning faculties are not totally shot.

Thirdly, don’t expect it to end soon. Progressivism may be dying, but, like some vast serpent in a Lovecraft story, it’s got significant thrashing to do. The Left wants you to give up and join the Cthulhu worship. Then there is the dirty diaper of debt that Progress leaves. It really isn’t clear to me that anyone knows just how bad things are, financially. Remember: they want you to despair. Resist we much.

Fourth, yawn at these appeals to foolish authority. The people that claim they can fix it are the people who have been tubing it for decades. If they sound stupid, or speak in contradictions (you have to tell your life story to fly, but can’t show government ID to vote) it is quite likely that they are stupid. Touching on #3 above, I frequently cite the Book of Exodus in the context of how long it is going to take to un-trash the American mind. These #OWS people are slaves, and they will beget slaves, but perhaps by the third generation we can again be a land of promise.

Category: American Power, Blogging, Ladd Ehlinger, Zilla of the Resistance

Comments

23 Responses to “They Truly Hate Liberty”

  1. richard mcenroe
    October 17th, 2011 @ 5:10 pm

    “It is increasingly hard to give anyone on the Left the benefit of the doubt.”

    I passed that point during the Clinton scandals.  And I was a Democrat at the time.

  2. Bob Belvedere
    October 17th, 2011 @ 5:12 pm

    Get ready for forty years in the wilderness.  Also, it will be, I believe, as bad a The Wilderness Campaign.

  3. Joe
    October 17th, 2011 @ 5:12 pm

    They start them young on the cult of Cthulhu.

  4. Ten
    October 17th, 2011 @ 5:30 pm

    Progressivism is dying? 

  5. smitty
    October 17th, 2011 @ 5:55 pm

    Based upon this administration’s raiding of the till, I say Progressivism is dying, and aiming to take the U.S. with it.

  6. Anonymous
    October 17th, 2011 @ 5:57 pm

    Yes the only compassionate thing I can think of to help is smother it with a pillow. They shoot horses don’t they?

  7. Mark in Spokane
    October 17th, 2011 @ 6:23 pm

    Yes, it is dying, but its death throes will be long and dangerous and difficult. 

    Thanks for the link, too, Smitty!  Much appreciated!

  8. Wilbur Post
    October 17th, 2011 @ 6:25 pm

    The foulness of stupid progressivism is not strain’d,

    It droppeth as the miserable BS from media

    Upon the bitter clingers beneath. It is twice a mess:

    It messeth him that takes and him that was taken from.

  9. SOYLENT GREEN
    October 17th, 2011 @ 6:41 pm

    Slaves? They’ve been so since the Johnson administration…by design.
    So, another 50 years?
    No, probably 100. Have to wait for the current crop to die off.

    Thanks for letting me be of assistance, Smitty.

  10. Charles
    October 17th, 2011 @ 6:46 pm

    “The people that claim they can fix it are the people who have been tubing it for decades” is an equal opportunity employer.

  11. DaveO
    October 17th, 2011 @ 6:58 pm

    If Progressivism is dying, it will take the US of A with it. The Progs will turn to the PRC and Russia. In exchange for American power, the Progs will get a lifetime of welfare, free education, and skittles. The only drawback is meeting the monthly quota: reporting 1 counter-revolutionary to Snitch Central.

    It’s not Progressives that bother me. It’s their buddies with bigger and badder toys that bother me.

  12. Joe
    October 17th, 2011 @ 7:14 pm

    I am pretty sure The Call of Cthulhu is an animated kids show on PBS. 

  13. Anonymous
    October 17th, 2011 @ 8:46 pm

    Correct you are sir, they’ve almost run out of other peoples money and if they take the rest the whole show goes down.

  14. Zilla of the Resistance
    October 17th, 2011 @ 10:12 pm

    Thank you, Smitty!

  15. Anonymous
    October 17th, 2011 @ 10:14 pm

    If only. I’ll bet if it was, we could break a lot of these simpering “99%” early and avoid a lot of trouble later on.

  16. Anonymous
    October 17th, 2011 @ 10:15 pm

    And porn stars.

  17. Anonymous
    October 17th, 2011 @ 11:17 pm

    O, yes, they do…..

  18. Anonymous
    October 17th, 2011 @ 11:21 pm

    Smitty, my man, thanks.  Despair has been the order of the day for me.  Friends and family members constantly attack my views on this administration and Progressivism in general.  I try to explain and back up my opinions, but every source I quote is somehow “invalid”.  Theirs, of course (ThinkProgress, valid? Hah!) are unassailable.  More and more I believe these people in my life Just. Don’t. Get. It. I think they never will. 

    Thanks for reminding me I’m not alone.

  19. Anonymous
    October 17th, 2011 @ 11:21 pm

    We will also have to live with our inaction. “The best way to avoid spilling an ocean of blood eventually is prove you are willing to spill a lake of it instantly.”

    Why do you think we used the atom bomb on Japan?

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  22. Zilla of the Resistance
    October 18th, 2011 @ 9:17 am

    Linked in my new post here:
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