H/T: Townhall
H/T Bookworm via AoSHQ ONT
I eventually realized that the reason I was struggling was because my Leftist friends don’t have moral standards; instead, they have victim standards. This isn’t to say that they’re not good people. It’s just that they don’t have a sense of abstract morality. In its place is an up/down sense of victim status (something I’ve written about at length before, at American Thinker). This viewpoint comes straight from Marx himself:
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
This Marxist view says that, if you ally yourself with the oppressed, you’re always in the right. You’re not necessarily moral, but you’re definitely taking the correct side in every debate. That arc of history will eventually bend your way. (Incidentally, isn’t there an Orwellian beauty to the fact that the Left acts oppressively and justifies its conduct by characterizing itself as the oppressed?) This distinction, between the Judeo-Christian abstract morality and the Leftist habit of saying you’re right because you’ve designated yourself as one of the good guys, makes it very difficult for people committed to morality to argue with people committed to Leftism.
That pic shows what big babies college students are. When I was in first grade, we acted more mature than today’s college students.
Socialism and it’s more tightly defined ideologies, Communism and Marxism, are based on jealousy and resentment, and as such, are doomed to fail, eventually. The question is, how many people must suffer at the hands of the willfully blind before they collapse economically?
Its a complete flip of how Christ talks to the “underdogs” of civilization.
Christ empowered them to not seek their reward on earth, but to look to their heavenly home where they would be blessed. He encouraged them to forgive their opressors and serve them in such a capacity as to share the kingdom of God with them.
This is my main gripe with Christian SJWs. They encourage and feed the bitterness and anger, that does nothing but corrupt the soul. It does not bring peace, grace, or forgiveness… and it has proven to do nothing in making their time on earth more pleasant, but everything to make their eternal reward a literal hell hole.
The fellow would have an easier time opposing/arguing with his Lefties if he realized that morality doesn’t originate from religion, but from established human interaction down through the millenia & just plain commonsense. Plus an adherence to accepted standards. I never have a problem with Leftists, because I live in reality & understand it.
Apparently Hanover has never studied Cultural Anthropology and History. If he had, he would realize how clueless he is about the human condition. The morals of the rights of the individual come from the Enlightenment 350 odd years ago and were based on Christian beliefs. This idea of morality is rare in the world and history. Few other cultures even come close to the rights of the individual. Most use the tyranny of the tribe.
You know, I’m honestly not sure I agree with this guy’s first point. Maybe, with considering to the sorts of things they support… his friends are not good people. People who subscribe to totalitarian viewpoints seldom are.
As long as one man in a wig is barred from the little girls bathroom the leftist fight against the 1% can wait.
I work in a business considered a “leading indicator” and from what I’m seeing, there’s stormy weather ahead.
Mass layoffs are increasing and “boom states” (e.g. Texas and other oil patch states that think oil prices are always going to be high) are looking at budget worsening shortfalls.
Central banks have no ammo left (and what they had just made the rolling snowball bigger).
We have the sorriest field of POTUS candidates in history and the Big Things roiling the nation is whether or not people can select a restroom based on their feelings that day and whether or not some mam & pop bakery can be forced, at the point of a gun, to bake a damn cake.
As a nation, we deserve what’s coming. Too bad lots of fine and decent people (and me) will likely be collateral damage.
I’m a pessimist but geez:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-11/problems-are-unfixable
As an aside – I heard on the radio that Big Business was headed to Jefferson City, MO to lobby against a religious freedom bill.
So, apparently, Big Business doesn’t have a problem with gov’t forcing people to perform absolutely non-essential services with any number of alternate willing providers. If gov’t can make someone make a cake, there’s is no limit to gov’t power.
I don’t want to hear any Big Business CEO whine about gov’t regulations ever again.