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The Conservative Facts of Life

THE IDEOLOGY OF ADOLESCENCE
Re: Jeffrey Lord's The Real Van Jones Scandal: Why Glenn Beck Is Right:

I remember when George W. was inaugurated how relieved I was that the grown-ups had returned to take charge of our affairs. The sense of a mature seriousness and purpose were palpable and quite a relief after the eight years of Clintonian histrionics, sloganeering and the myriad other neuroses of liberalism. Gone overnight were the childish responsibility avoidance, blame shifting, name calling and "he made me do it" finger pointing. It was as if the adults had reentered the room to still the chaos. As Mr. Lord aptly recounts, the same palpable sense of serious leadership obtained during the Reagan presidency from day one after the mad tea-party antics of the Carter years. It is not for nothing the Iranians released the embassy hostages on that day. Even they sensed serious men were now in charge. Is there a pattern here?

I think so. I have said for 25 years that Liberalism is the ideology of adolescence. A perpetual, preserved-under-glass adolescence. Talk to any liberal, even an ostensibly grown up one, and it's like talking to a teenager. Or examine any of their Big Ideas and they are all, at bottom, founded on a "life isn't fair" complaint and determination to make the unfairness go away by any means necessary, if necessary. And it always is because life's realities don't go away, all of the whining and complaining notwithstanding. As Margaret Thatcher said, "the facts of life are conservative." Contemporary Liberalism itself is the outgrowth of the emotional and intellectual immaturity of approximately half the '60 baby boomers, the spoiled half, who began by trashing their own college refuges from the war and just about every other American institution and then went on their long march to seize and remake them. For our liberal boomers it is ever the Summer of Love or Days of Rage, depending on who's ascendant in the government. Either way the country is subjected to their childish drive to have chocolate cake and ice cream every day and nobody has to do chores or go to school or inflicted on the body politic are the crying fits of spoiled brats demanding they be taken seriously and run the show again. But no matter what, for at least 30 years or so, about half our electorate and their leaders alternately promise pie in the sky or stamp their feet and hold their breath.

Like the duality of any enthusiastic adolescent given a little power and authority our little liberal rascals are quick to abuse the power while neglecting their rightful duties. Again, take your average modern 17-year-old, please. He expects to use the family car at will but must yet be told twice weekly, as he has had to be told for years, to take out the garbage lest he "forget" and the garbage pile up. So the fulfillment of his duties becomes the responsibility of someone else. And then he indignantly demands his own car on his parents' dime because, after all, it's demeaning for a 17 year old in this day and age to have to ask for permission. Should he be given a car that will only instill a greater sense of self-importance and nullify, in his mind, the now unreasonable demand he take out the garbage at all. Because, after all, is he not now more grown up? And so it goes and how it is we have an administration who alternately elevates ranting loons, tax cheats and other poseurs to newly created political offices building the New Utopia while roughly half the positions in the workaday offices that actually attempt to get something done go unfilled.
-- Mark Shepler
Jupiter, Florida

Of course, the White House knew about Jones’s past and ideology. They recruited him. They swooned over him.

He had the creds Obama wanted: Marxist, anti-American, anti-Republican, anti-Bush, anti-conservative, anti-capitalist, economic reconstructionist, eco-religionist, racist and race-baiter, liar, demagogue, community organizer, know-it-all and arrogance.

But to me, the real scandal is that 69 million or so of the electorate, through ignorance and/or hatred of George W. Bush, installed a Marxist who would hire someone like Jones and who, it seems, has no respect for the Office of the Presidency he holds and our country that he’s supposed to represent.

Obama and his troupe continue to reveal the real color of their brand of change. For example, Sunday morning, Obama’s mouthpieces David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs were on, respectively, "Meet the Press" and "This Week." They offered no criticism and/or condemnation of Jones. That shouldn’t be news, given how, during this flap, Obama never did.

And Barack Hussein Obama continues to reveal that he wasn’t, isn’t and won’t remotely be a centrist, regardless of how many times he claims to be, or how much the state-controlled media insists he is.
-- C. Kenna Amos Jr.
Princeton , West Virginia

I was going to read your article then I saw the obscene hate pop-up and left. Now I know you guys are partisan hacks without the common sense to employ reason over ignorant hype.

At some point you and everyone else on BOTH extremes (yes, you are an extremist if you use antagonistic anti-left rhetoric) is either going to have to take a breath and try to act like adults.
-- Jesse Putnam

Has it occurred to anyone that the powers that be in this particular White House want Van Jones precisely because of his police record?
-- Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia

OUR CULTURE IMPERIALISM
Re: Doug Bandow's  Killing Girls Is Bad, Killing Boys Is Okay:

"Obviously, there's work to be done in both India and China, because the infanticide rate of girl babies is still overwhelmingly high...."

More cultural imperialism from the white-skinned she-devil!

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Appleby| 9.8.09 @ 6:43AM

Maggie Laird, kindly speak for yourself, please. *We here in Canada*, much as you would like to believe it, are not a monobloc of lumpen proletariat marching with noses scraping the sidewalk and shoulders slumped toward an endless gray life.

A good many of us, especially us expats, know there is very little difference between Teddy Kennedy and Pierre Trudeau, and we can see in both instances where the country got off the rails.

After nearly 12 years in Kanukistan, I may say with perfect truth that you in the faceless gray mass of the proletariat are the scary people, because you are trudging right into a NA$CAR type smash and you will never now what hit you even when it does.

Crabby Apple Mick Lee| 9.8.09 @ 7:42AM

Maggie Laird: Canadians are free to admire American politicians if it so pleases them. Lord knows, Neil Young does so right up there with the best of them. But doesn't it bother you just a little bit that most Americans don't know the name of one Canadian politician and don't care they don't ; yet, Canadians such as yourself love a trust-fund multi-millionare who: 1.) Rode in on the coattails of not one but two older brothers, 2.) Bought himself out of a manslaughter charge, 3.) Drank himself into oblivion on a very regular basis, 4.) Had a large and impressive collection of panties from all the young women he knew in a Biblical way, 5.) slandered much better men than himself, and 6.) dedicated himself to serving his fellow man with other people's money.

Just wondering.

Trotters - defeeted pigs| 9.8.09 @ 10:04AM

Someone toss Maggie a biscuit. She is very well trained, and should be rewarded for her obedience.

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sanjuro| 9.8.09 @ 12:29PM

My admiration to Mark Shepler, Excellent synopsis of the liberal mindset. One that I'll mentally refer to next time I'm confronted .
Beautifully done.

Grzmlyk| 9.8.09 @ 12:41PM

Hey Maggie:

If Palin hooks up with some young man and kills him, would that make her a stateswoman?

If you ever want to visit us here in the US, Maggie dear, do me a favor: Don't.

Go to Venezuela instead. There's a statesman there who no doubt would appreciate your minstrations.

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