The Right Wing and The Unabomber
Here's your turn to guess whether I'm quoting a right wing politician or the Unabomber.
Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of
groups that have an image
of being weak (women), defeated (American
Indians), repellent
(homosexuals), or otherwise inferior. The leftists
themselves feel that
these groups are inferior. They would never admit
it to themselves that
they have such feelings, but it is precisely
because they do see these
groups as inferior that they identify with
their problems. (We do
not suggest that women, Indians, etc., ARE
inferior; we are only
making a point about leftist psychology).
Here's round two:
Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong,
good and successful. They
hate America, they hate Western
civilization, they hate
white males, they hate rationality. The
reasons that leftists
give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not
correspond with their
real motives. They SAY they hate the West
because it is warlike,
imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so
forth, but where these
same faults appear in socialist countries or in
primitive cultures, the
leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he
GRUDGINGLY admits that
they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points
out (and often greatly
exaggerates) these faults where they appear in
Western civilization.
Thus it is clear that these faults are not the
leftist's real motive for
hating America and the West. He hates
America and the West
because they are strong and successful.
Bonus round!
Words like "self-confidence," "self-reliance,"
"initiative",
"enterprise,"
"optimism," etc. play little role in the liberal and
leftist vocabulary. The
leftist is anti-individualistic,
pro-collectivist. He
wants society to solve everyone's needs for them,
take care of them. He is
not the sort of person who has an inner sense
of confidence in his own
ability to solve his own problems and satisfy
his own needs. The
leftist is antagonistic to the concept of
competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.
Ok. They were all the Unabomber.
Labels: Obama hates America, Rudy Giuliani