There are some themes I cannot repeat often enough on this blog, on being the basic operating assumptions of all too many (but fortunately not all) modern American liberals, that is, that all conservatives are whackjobs and that any deviation from their party line reeks of heresy and must be punished. If we dare oppose a liberal leader, well, then, we’re guilty of “treason.”
Andrew Breitbart is the latest to see the Whole Foods boycott as a defining moment for the American left:
But Mr. Mackey missed the key ingredient of modern liberalism: intolerance to the ideas of nonliberals. And this miscalculation may prove to be devastating to his multibillion-dollar business.
Everywhere one looks these days, the intolerance of self-avowed liberals is on display. Especially since Mr. Obama came to power.
The purportedly open-minded and empathic among us who now run everything – save for NASCAR and Nashville – openly wage war against those who dare disagree.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the President of the United States dared criticize those who display such intolerance by misrepresenting the ideas of their ideological adversaries and using hateful epithets to describe them? Perhaps, he could ask that the health care debate becoming a “teaching moment” on the value of civil discourse as we learn to respect the opinions of those with whom we disagree on issues so important.
Their intolerance is always on display. I think you’d have to be a miserable, intolerant wretch to be a liberal in the first place.
They also hate it when they are exposed for the whackjobs that they are. Obama’s nutjob science czar has a paper trail that documents his support of population-control, mandatory sterilization, and forced abortions. The HuffPo rises to his defense not by disputing the record, which is indisputable, but by attacking the people who brought it to light.
Yes, the liberals are VERY intolerant of the opinions of non-liberals, but they’re intolerant-to-a-lesser-degree of the non-liberal opinions of liberals, too. The blue-dog Democrats are subject to all kinds of abuse, but it’s a bit quieter and more behind the scenes. It cannot be known to the general public that ANY Democrat disagrees with the takeover plans of Nancy and Harry. It’s only the Republicans, the “party of NO,” that are holding up the advent of utopia in America.
Oh, yes, and the Republicans have NO plans of their own but want to keep the status quo. Nasty, nasty Republicans don’t care about YOU.
Interestingly, this time around, the Democrats have been unable to somehow claim that the Republicans are out to hurt Medicare. It’s not the Republicans who want to cut half a trillion dollars from Medicare, it’s The O.
But…but…but…if you want to keep your doctor, you can (unless he decides to join the growing number of doctors who decide not to accept Medicare patients anymore, of course). That’s the beauty of a single-payer system: doctors who don’t want to work for the wages of a fry-cook at McDonalds will have nowhere to go, they’ll have to work for less–or retire.
You said: “Wouldn’t it be nice if the President of the United States dared criticize those who display such intolerance by misrepresenting the ideas of their ideological adversaries and using hateful epithets to describe them?”
How can he? He beleives the same way they do.