Raalnan Five (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} raalnan5) wrote,@ 2008-04-16 23:55:00 |
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Bitter Americans
Bitter Americans:
Damned right I'm bitter. I can solve problems, but they always seem to pop up. It always happens when I think I have it all under control. I have two jobs. I work as a software developer, and I have a second job with my family's small company. the Family business is two hours away, and I only go in occasionally. For the most part I can do what needs to be done online. Occasionally, I stop to think about what I make, spend, and am taxed. This always seems to put a chill on my mood. When I think about what my taxes go to, It puts me in a bad mood. I have been studying Liberals and their thought patterns for a number of years now, and I have come up with a few notes.
A Liberal is a person who:
- Thinks that Mercury is a better alternative to Carbon, but still claims to want to save the enviornment
- Derides others for being "Patriotic"
- Whines that "their patriotism is being questioned" when others call them "unpatriotic"
- Claims to appreciate freedom
- Consistently backs America's enemies, even though America's enemies hate America precisely because of our freedom.
- Demands free health care for all, but shrinks away when confronted with the real costs.
We are all born Liberals.
Having a fundamental understanding of the nature of mankind, and of the nature of the world allows some of us to understand Conservatism. Conservatism is not the natural progression of things. For some, more time and experience simply serve to solidify their view of the world. More often than not, I find that a Conservative can understand where a Liberal is coming from. This is because we have all been there. We were all born as children, and children are all told the same things. Share, be still when you are told to, go out and play when you are allowed to, don't hit back. Liberals have no ability to understand Conservatives. This flaw is not a result of the inputs, but of the processing. When I talk politics, I don't do so with the intention of converting the unwashed masses. As a conservative, I have a tendency to accept that people will believe what they believe because that is what they believe. I try to stay away from what I would call "value assignments". To me, A value assignment means that someone might hear what you think, and rather than accept the conclusion and challenge the evidence, they have more of a tendency to just assign a value to the conclusion, and ignore the evidence. Because I am a Black Conservative, I often hear this come through as a charge that I have been "brainwashed". I find this charge particularly troubling, because it assumes first and foremost that all blacks are supposed to think alike. From there, I could go into any of the long number of logic flaws, but I think that anyone who would have read this far would have a basic understanding of my point.
