At 5/17/07 09:48 PM, SmilezRoyale wrote:
Why do they fawn over it?
Answer... the motherfucking question
Calm down skippy...
Well it was more put out as another example of greatness being in the eyes of the beholders but still....
There are various reasons why people fawn over these tyrants. There is no one simple reason, and many people fall into multiple groups...
Well, for a lot of people...it's sheer stupidity or ignorance. Socialism sounds frigging awesome on paper. Everybody does the exact share of the work that they are able, and everyone gets free health care, housing, food, etc.
This is what I call the "stupid but good liberal." They are dumb as a brick (usually because they're young and have been force fed this crap since birth), but they're not malicious. They truly believe these policies will benefit everyone. That it's never worked once is irrelevant, because the wrong people have been in charge.
My mentor, Evan Sayet, goes into this pretty hardcore.
www.evansayet.com/evanmov.html
These are the majority of liberals, and almost the entirety of the grunts.
There's the beneficiary, or the minority liberal, who want the liberals in power because they like handouts, special status, and the dhimmi status they get from the leaders (more into this with the last group). They are teh product of generations of liberalism. They believe they deserve all this because they've been wronged by a society that hates them. These are not generally good people, and they're angry as hell...
There's the guilt liberal. "I'm doing so well while others aren't" is their motto. Because of their parents, grandparents, etc, society is racist and they need to fix it to equal everyone out. They feel personally responsible for the plight of the poor. These tend to be middle class, and while good intentioned, turn truly volatile, because if you disagree with them...you must be evil. In their worldview, no good human being can be against welfare because to be anti-welfare is to hate blacks. To be against hate laws is to smile at the deaths of minorities, etc.
The hate America liberal.
America is evil, it has wronged them. Therefore, whoever is least like America is good. Or whoever we hate is good. See: Fonda, Sheehan.
And finally, there's the evil liberal.
This is the political class liberal. The Nancy Pelosis and Harry Reids and Hillary Clintons. These are exceptionally intelligent people who know that their policies fail. But damn it, those policies keep them in power. Calling the President a liar and demanding he withdraw the troops increases terrorist bombings, killing soldiers AND civilians...but damned if it didn't get them control of Congress again. Pulling out will cause a massacre, but Michael Moore and Teddy Kennedy say "Who cares" and demand the pullout anyways. Abortion kills children, but it keeps the money coming in from NOW, NARAL, and the ACLU. Welfare may encourage dependency and lead to generations of the same family living in poverty...but damn it, it's what Al Sharpton points to to keep the blacks voting for them. Etc.