Friday, July 24, 2009

Not your grandparents' liberalism

Newsflash: It's not 1968.

Nick over at "Conservative Dialysis" ("Removing Liberal Waste From The American Bloodstream"!) rebuts Mike's testimony about what it means to be a liberal:
The rest of the post talks about Mike and how he sees things, and I’m not going to argue about that. I believe he is sincere in his beliefs and so I leave it there. However, Mike needs to realize something — these stereotypes he complains about have become stereotypes because it is what the public sees everyday in the news and on the streets. Liberals have done nothing other than re-enforce these stereotypes with their actions and deeds at any one of hundreds of protests every year. If a war breaks out, you can count on several protest marches in Washington, D.C. with American flags burning, huge paper-mache puppets walking around, and several people shouting incredibly stupid-sounding slogans, and all of the people doing these things will be liberal. Did you spot some hippies sitting in the grass next to the picket signs? Yes, they’re liberals. Did you also see the protesters trashing the Marine Recruitment Station in the middle of downtown? Yeah, they were liberals too.
I love that part, "If a war breaks out" - all by itself, kinda like acne! - and "huge paper-mache puppets walking around". But seriously, will someone please chime in here and cite the last time "hippies" made the news by burning an American flag? I gotta tell you, I graduated from high school in 1971 and by then, even, the term "hippies" was already passe. If this is what The Public sees "every day in the news and on the streets" then I need to find out who The Public's dealer is so I can get me some o' that heavy duty shit he's smokin'.

This is followed up by:
Contrast this to Conservatives, who only seem to protest abortion clinics with any type of anger or malice. Also, most Conservatives are very vocal about denouncing the use of violence in protests, especially when it was other Conservatives doing the protesting! Quite a difference, if you ask me.
Yes indeed. While the DFH's are sullying our evening news with their flag burning and whatnot, back here in Real-Now-Time those peace-loving Conservatives "only" show "anger or malice" by gunning down the occasional abortion clinic doctor, blowing up federal buildings or shooting up churches. Yup, quite a difference.

2 comments:

Ruth said...

Those tea parties were all in your mind, I guess.

and I got a commenter at my post on the subject of Raving Right wing talkshowers saying ... we're just going to use them as an excuse for our librul violence. yep.

AnnPW said...

And Rush Limbaugh tells Greta Van Susteren that he gets his high ratings for being "positive, inspiring and motivational." These guys really do create their own reality, don't they?