Tell a leftist that America is the greatest nation that’s ever existed, and it seems to send them off the deep end of irrational behavior. This from floppingaces.net.
Leftists become flustered and angry, and respond with a ‘But this’ or a ‘But that’ or an ‘If only’ as if they have the answer that’ll make everything “better.” But if you ask what nation is better or empire was better…nothing.
They immediately launch into a polemic about how America is racist, sexist, homophobic, ethnocentric, etc. It’s ripe with inequality, inequity and rich White men run it. And not to be forgotten, its Constitution is an outdated document that old White racist guys wrote and, as such, shouldn’t control our lives today.
Then if you pretend to accept their premise that America is the hellscape they suggest and ask where we could go to escape it? Again, nothing.
Leftists can’t name a single place on earth superior to the United States, or that has had a more successful combination of prosperity and freedom.
The following is an example of the changes they have in mind for America:
- Bans on hate speech, which they define as anything that hurts anyone’s feelings,
- Defund the police,
- Pack the Supreme Court,
- Disband the INS,
- $15 minimum wage,
- Demonize the Founding Fathers,
- Eliminate the Electoral College,
- Cancel anyone who ever uttered an opinion that doesn’t comport with the currently favored position on any given subject,
- Eliminate bail requirements & sentencing minimums,
- Participation trophies,
- Eliminate academic requirements and standardized testing for entrance into college,
- Universal healthcare,
- Free college tuition,
- Green energy mandates and subsidies,
- Eliminate fossil fuels,
- Repeal the Second Amendment,
- Eliminate capitalism,
- Eliminate the binary gender construct,
- Make the Pentagon the bleeding edge for social experiments,
- Tax the rich,
- Forgive student debt, and
- Mandate vaccinations.
And the list goes on, and on, and on. It literally never stops. Griswold v. Connecticut begat Roe vs. Wade which begat partial-birth abortion. Gay rights turned into civil unions turned into gay marriage. Jimmy Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act turned into coerced lax lending standards which turned into the housing crash. And the Americans with Disabilities Act started out as compassion for the handicapped and mutated into a vehicle for extortion of small businesses by a cabal of pernicious lawyers. Removing the Confederate Battle Flag from state flags led to pulling down statues of Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglas to canceling Dr. Seuss and Aunt Jemima.
What the above outlines is a litany of “great”
half-baked liberal ideas. When first discussed over cocktails late on a Friday evening they sound like life-saving ideas. Come Monday morning, however, these drunken Friday night brainteasers should not be shown the light of day. They are, however, given room to grow and become democrat policy, which too quickly become laws which are later discovered for the loop-hole ridden problems they create. Then not long after that the harmful ramifications begin to amount. Always the democrat response: But our intentions were honorable.
The bottom line is the left knows how to do one thing well, and that is to destroy what someone else has built. We’ve seen that play out across America time and again. From the burnt husks of Detroit and Washington that rotted for decades following the riots of the 1960s to turning once-great American cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles into giant homeless camps strewn with needles and feces, to the economic devastation wrought in cities like Minneapolis and Portland and Seattle from a year of “mostly peaceful protests.”
Once great cities have seen their better days when the left assumes power. This is when the march to a real hellscape begins.
And it’s not just cities. The left broke the Boy Scouts, they destroyed the NFL as a truly national form of entertainment, they’ve ruined Disney and Marvel, and they are in the process of destroying women’s sports.
The left is capable of doing nothing more than taking advantage of the freedom and prosperity that others have created, and they then throw stones at it for its imperfections. Voltaire was prescient when he observed, “Perfect is the enemy of the good.”
Dennis Prager, an American conservative radio talk show host, often says, “The Left destroys everything it touches” and he’s right. The left has never built a nation that millions of people risk their lives to enter. The left has never built a society where freedom of thought, speech, and the press have thrived. The left has never built an economic juggernaut founded on free markets or anything else.
A great one liner from Dennis Prager:
Leftists Blame America. Decent People Blame Themselves.
A textbook definition of hate for one’s country may not be easily identified, “but everything the left does and says most certainly looks like it.” Which brings to mind the cliche, ‘If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and acts like a duck, it’s probably a duck.’
Could conservatism possibly form a union without the liberal element embedded in the makeup–without the cancer cells being buried deep within to emerge at some point in the future when the union is thriving? Or would conservatives more practically be able to outlaw liberalism in our existing republic? Either way seems to be a more viable alternative to allowing liberalism/socialism to overtake our nation.
