Logical Conclusions
Because liberals lie about everything and everyone, it is difficult to figure out what makes them tick.
Because liberals lie about everything and everyone, it is difficult to figure out what makes them tick. For instance, what motivates someone to condemn Donald Trump for a few too many foolish tweets and for meeting with Vladimir Putin at a G20 summit, when such meetings are the rationale of the summits, after giving a pass to Obama, who vowed to be more accommodating to Putin after his second election, and to Hillary Clinton, who pressed a re-set button with Moscow and then handed over a fifth of our uranium deposits to the Russkies?
By whatever measure one chooses to employ, it’s obvious that the nature of left-wing collusion with Russia has dwarfed anything that Trump has done or would ever consider doing.
When I refer to Democrats, liberals, left-wingers or progressives, I’m not talking about those in Congress. It’s easy to figure out why the likes of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren, Mark Warner and Richard Blumenthal, spout the lies and engage in the fear-mongering they do. They want to be back in power, trying to re-create the glory days of Obama’s administration. Sure, it’s fun to obstruct Trump’s agenda, but that doesn’t compare to chairing the committees, getting the corner offices and having their mugs on TV every night.
But what’s in it for the dopes who march in anti-Trump parades, and riot on college campuses and devote their empty lives to slandering Republicans? They’re not the ones whose lives will change for the better if Schumer replaces McConnell or Pelosi replaces Ryan.
What’s more, the nature of their lies makes them hypocrites. Lying because you’re mistaken about the facts is one thing, but lying when you know you’re lying, and pretending that you subscribe to values that you abhor, often having something to do with racial and religious tolerance or the U.S. Constitution, is a whole different matter.
Why, for instance, do so many college students bother siding with the Palestinians against Israel when the truth is they couldn’t find the Middle East on a map? Why do so many on the Left feel obliged to parrot the endless demands of transgenders when even the idea of transformative surgery creeps them out?
Apparently, the hypocrisy gene is just something in the DNA of leftists. Until I read an article by Selwyn Duke in the New American, I had been unaware that in an attempt to thwart Ronald Reagan’s re-election bid, Ted Kennedy offered the Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, a hand in creating Russian anti-Reagan propaganda and the chance to be interviewed on American TV in exchange for his help in defeating the man who called the Soviet Union the evil empire.
Not too many years later, Bill Clinton reclassified U.S. missile-launching secrets, making them non-secret, so they could be sold to China in exchange for China’s contributing to his re-election campaign.
Mr. Duke went on to list seven items compiled by an anonymous source that illustrate the hypocrisy of the Left:
You have to believe that law-abiding Americans with guns are more of a threat than Kim Jong-un with nukes.
You have to believe that sex roles are artificial, but homosexuality is natural.
You have to be against capital punishment, but in favor of prenatal infanticide on demand.
You have to believe that businesses create oppression, but governments create prosperity.
You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas are not.
You have to preach tolerance while quashing dissent in its name.
I made my own point about this state of mind when, early on in his administration, I suggested that when President Obama paid his annual visit to Bethesda Hospital, the doctors should be certain to conduct a brain scan. That was because there had to be something seriously amiss with a man who was apparently more concerned with Israelis building apartment houses than with Iranians building nuclear bombs.
It has often occurred to me, as it has to others, that one of the problems with a great many young Americans is that they take this country for granted because they have no idea how awful most others are.
Just recently, it occurred to me that the same holds true for the tots when it comes to their parents. Because they haven’t suffered at the hands of truly villainous mothers and fathers, they have no idea how blessed they are if the worst things they have to complain about are curfews, daily chores and access to the family car.
I have mentioned in the past that I wound up being a member of Mensa because I was challenged by a girlfriend in college, but dropped my membership after attending a few social events because I had rarely met a more boring, embittered, group of people in my life.
For no other reason than they were the kinds of people who did well on IQ tests, they had this over-inflated sense of themselves. All they did was stand around, bad-mouthing their employers and other figures of authority, insisting that in a well-ordered society, they would be the ones running things. God forbid! If you think things are bad now, I can assure you they would be even worse if these folks, who wear their IQs as if they were a combination of a royal crown and a halo, were in charge.
That is why I was so tickled when I had lunch with my friend, Mike Camorlinga, at Lulu’s, the splendid restaurant he and his brother own here in the San Fernando Valley, and he broke the news that in Spanish, “mensa” means dumb.
Another friend let me know that if she were just starting out, she would pursue a career with the government. “That way they couldn’t fire me.”
“On the other hand,” I, the ever-cynical realist, pointed out, “you’d have to put up every day with all those other people they couldn’t fire.”
One of my readers claimed he was visiting his daughter recently and asked if he could borrow her newspaper. “This is the 21st century,” she replied. “We don’t waste money on newspapers. Here, use my iPad.”
“I can tell you this,” he wrote, “that fly never knew what hit him.”
I think he was kidding.
For not being able to agree on a bill with which to replace ObamaCare, some Republican senators, including Rand Paul, Jerry Moran, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Lee and Susan Collins, deserve to lose their next elections. As everyone knows, the original 10,000-page piece of legislation was studded with landmines set to explode the second the Republicans tried to dispose of it.
But that was a given. The fact that so many holier-than-thou Republicans couldn’t bring themselves to agree on a compromise bill proves once again that they don’t know the first thing about governing or supporting their president so that he can proceed with his agenda to lower taxes, build a wall and renew the nation’s infrastructure.
I understand these hold-outs like to think that they’re principled and therefore above the fray. However, if their dream is to hover above the common herd and remain squeaky clean, I suggest they leave Washington and pursue a career in the ministry.
As I see it, if you’re afraid of getting a little muck on yourself, you are clearly unsuited to work in the slaughterhouse we call the U.S. Senate.
