David

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May 19, 2008

The Liberal Journey: From Detached from Reality to Unlimited Power

This last week was a veritable cornucopia of liberal insanity, from Democrats' absurd over-reaction to President Bush's spot-on remarks to the Israeli Knesset, to the California Supreme Court forcing gay marriage on its constituents, to the polar bear being declared an at-risk species when it's not.

Each one of these actions is completely disconnected from logic and reality, and taken together I think are very revealing when it comes to what really drives liberals. And given that it appears that we are about to hand over total, uncontested power to a Democrat president and congressional supermajority, it behooves us to figure this out sooner rather than later.

President Bush said:

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: “Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.” We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

Naturally, this plain-spoken truth borne out by experience sent liberals into crazed rages. Sen. Joe Biden arrogantly spewed expletives, Sen. John Kerry was his usual pompous and condescending self. Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it “beneath the dignity of the office.” Pelosi, of course, should know a lot about what's beneath the dignity of an office, having trashed her political opponents on foreign soil by going to Syria against the State Department's express wishes at the same time that regime was building a nuclear reactor with North Korean help, which Israel subsequently had to bomb into oblivion.

The fact is that Bush was speaking generally – hence the word “some.” That liberals would jump to the conclusion that he was speaking specifically of them and/or Sen. Obama shows that he hit upon, well, an inconvenient truth. This is that liberals and Obama are appeasers (and self-centered). Thinking you can reason with psychotic terrorists who live to die so long as they can kill you too is delusional. And the price of this extreme naiveté is bloodshed. Most of us learned that lesson on 9/11, but it apparently still hasn't sunk in for “some.”

As the Bard said, “Methinks thou doth protest too much.” And the point of all this bluster is simply to distract from the dead-on-target substance.

Next, we have the California Supreme Court inventing a right to marriage in that state's constitution. Straight or gay isn't the point; there is simply no such thing as a “right to marry.” (If so, then some lucky lady will have to become my wife whether she wants to or not, because refusing is denying my “right.”) To the extent “equal protection” applies, it's already provided for: One person, opposite sex. That government policy applies the same to everyone, and is the textbook definition of a law that passes equal protection muster.

Now, you may not want to marry someone of the opposite sex. Or you may want to marry more than one person. But that isn't the point. The point is that every individual is treated identically – one person, opposite sex. If you find that improper, then go to the Legislature and get it changed. But the idea that this violates “equal protection” is a complete bastardization of the term, the Constitution and the English language itself.

Last, we have the polar bear designation. Never mind that the population has more than doubled since the late 1970s, or that none of the land and Arctic Sea habitat has changed. No, a computer model indicates that loss of sea ice will occur due to global warming, so the bears are “at risk.”

This whole thing is based on absolutely no substance whatsoever, and in defiance of the facts on the ground. A legitimate justification doesn't exist, so liberals will invent one from their overactive imaginations. And all for the purpose of playing Whack-a-Well, so no matter where oil might be found (and how expensive gasoline gets), the Sierra Club can make damn sure it stays underground and America never obtains or uses any of its own natural resources. 

Put it all together, and what do you have? Whether you're talking about reasoning with terrorists who can't be reasoned with, bastardizing language into meaning what it clearly doesn't, or banning energy based on conditions that don't exist, you have a group of people who are living in a world that's not the real one you and I inhabit. As such, their attempts to forcibly remake it as they think it ought to be can only have disastrous consequences.

These are the folks who appear destined to get almost total control come next January: completely disconnected from reality, megalomaniacal, yet sly and vicious. Somehow, I can't help but think of the Emperor (or should I say Senator Palpatine, as we're about to elect one president no matter what) in Star Wars Episode III, orgasmically screaming as he lightning-blasts Mace Windu to death: POWER!!! UNLIMITED POWWWWERRRR!!!!!

And the danger mounts . . . 

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