ILC, erase all distinctions? It seems today’s left-liberals want to exaggerate them.

OK, I see what you’re saying so I have to rephrase a little. They want to erase all distinctions that matter. They want to erase the idea that anybody is ever better than anybody else in reality, or that anything ever matters in life more than anything else.

So, for example, they take an authentic hero like McCain and insist that he’s only “the privileged son of admirals”; that he called his wife names; that he had an affair that he never had; that his service meant nothing and his endurance in Hanoi meant nothing; that he must be kooky; blah blah blah. Their goal is beyond defeating him politically. It’s emotional, moral and spiritual: they’re trying to persuade themselves and the world that there are no authentic heroes and no values worth suffering or dying for.

Now, it’s a complicated game and one of their many (and best) strategems is to raise up *false* values and heroes, muddying the waters. So, you will see times when leftists *are* making certain distinctions and raising up their own alleged heroes. For example, as you imply, they’re endlessly raising distinctions of race or other forms of identity. Notice, however, that (1) they invariably raise false and stupid distinctions, and (2) their doing so serves to *take away* from distinctions that should matter – or that matter in reality.

So, for example, leftists’ distinctions take away from such meaningful and important distinctions as honest vs. dishonest (think the Clintons, or rich Fannie Mae executives); productive vs. lazy; earned vs. unearned; courageous (think of our veterans again) vs. cowardly; admirable vs. worthless (think multiculturalism); etc. Leftists want to destroy all valid and positive rules and distinctions, substituting invalid ones that will (a) muddy the waters, and (b) give them power.

All I want for Christmas is a Caribou Barbie, with the hunting rifle and the gutting knife accessories.

Thank you,
Julie

The goal is not to get people things without going by the rules, the goal is to destroy the rules

Well said. The original liberals (classical liberals) who had founded our country wanted to erase artificial / permanent / unjust class distinctions. But today’s left-liberals want to erase all distinctions, because they are fundamentally opposed to “growing up” and to the whole concept of exercising moral judgment.

Google “Evan Sayet”; he gave a great talk on it that people should review annually, just to remind themselves.

the qualities that make Solmonese regard this as a cutting insult are qualities I like and admire.

Soooo….you dig pompous, overpaid, over rated assholes? Whatever creams your twinkie dude. I doubt you have the credit worthiness for him to give you the time of day.

Republicans are bigots.

Who was it that has passed all the anti-gay laws the last few years? Which party keeps blacks crushed under the heal of grinding poverty? Which party calls the other “racist” and “bigots” to make DAMN sure the blacks stay on the plantation? Who pretends to love gays, but toss them under the bus as soon as it’s politically advantageous? Who pretends to love blacks for votes and cash, but tosses them under the bus as soon as it’s politically advantageous? Who teaches the blacks that they’ll NEVER get into schools or jobs based on their own merits, but instead on the color of their skin or gender? Who was it that worried if Comrade Obama was “black enough”? Who was it that put forth the idea that Comrade Obama was a drug dealer?

I could go on, but I think you should understand by now that I know douchebags like you. And even if it were true, that I am a bigot, I’d much rather be a bigot than a radical Socialist traitor lower than a snake’s ass in a wagon rut.

Thanks for the laugh.

Solmonese made this comment at HRC’s Annual National Dinner this past weekend.

Hey, it’s their biggest accomplishment of the year. God knows they haven’t done anything else other than their cocktail parties.

And how much does this guy pull down as a gay event organizer? Somewhere north of $300K? That would be “rich” in Comrade Obama’s book, right?

Here in California, voters are going to enthusiastically give Barry its 55 electoral votes… Cali has “given” the nation Senators Boxer and Feinstein; Pelosi, Waxman, and so on.

And Cali’s oh-so enlightened electorate is likely to pass Prop 8 (some will vote for prop 8 for for noble reasons; others just because they don’t like gays).

I’m with VtK: insulating Sarah is insulting me. She may not be “eloquent” and would probably be a little out of place in the salons of Georgetown but I think she’s probably a lot smarter than the blowhards, poltroons, and scoundrels that infest DC.

Erik, 1991 called. It wants its foolish, wide-eyed, misplaced faith in heterosexual, liberal Democrats back.

Comment by Sean A — October 9, 2008 @ 2:11 pm – October 9, 2008

Quoted for truth.

Can’t believe I really thought Bill Clinton was going to integrate the military.

2. Better Caribou Barbie than Community Organizer Ken anyday!

3. “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”
– Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.

F–cking hilarious! …and probably true.

nya nya

Convinced that all whites were born tainted with the original sin of “skin privilege,” the fighting brigade of the New Left internalized racialist thinking as hatred of their own whiteness. “All white babies are pigs,” declared one Weatherman. On one occasion the feminist poet Robin Morgan was breast-feeding her son at the offices of the radical journal Rat. A Weatherwoman saw this and told her, “You have no right to have that pig male baby.” “How can you say that?” Morgan asked. “What should I do?” “Put it in the garbage,” the Weatherwoman answered.

Do you support that, torrentprime? Because Barack Obama does.

“the voices in my head tell me your evil”

but hey, let’s not be here just to judge. I think that one was supposed to be left to the BIG GUY, unless St Peter asks you when you stand at the gates
‘to come back another time.’

Nope, you aren’t. Figures. Not surprising, though, given what Barack Obama and his supporters are doing.