Strumming through the GuideLive section of last Friday’s Dallas Morning News, I stumbled across a piece about Joy Behar speaking at a local charity event. Normally, I would have skipped over the article, but the first sentence caught my attention.
“For Joy Behar, visiting Texas feels like a daring adventure.”
The writer then jumped to a quote from Behar lambasting Texas’ perceived conservative reputation. Evidently, Behar believes that some gun loving Texan will accost her for her liberal views. While a majority of Texans probably have no clue who Behar is, let alone her political ideology, the few that do could probably care less that she was visiting our fair city. However, Behar’s statement does illustrate a major difference in the way conservatives and liberals think.
It’s true; a conservative would be subject to both physical and verbal abuse if he or she chose to mingle in a liberal environment. Indeed, George W. Bush was greeted with a chorus of “boos” from forty thousand boisterous fans as he threw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Washington Nationals last month. The liberals vitriol is not limited to sporting events. I read a blog entry last night from a United Methodist pastor upset that President Bush had been invited to speak at the 2008 General Conference of the United Methodist Church to be held in Fort Worth later this month. The pastor resorted to using all the names liberals use to belittle Bush and encouraged other liberal Methodist pastors to make his appearance uneasy. And just imagine how the Marxists at the Daily Kos would treat anyone to the right of Barrry Obama.
None of this is new, nor is any of it surprising.
You see, liberals think that everyone thinks like them, and if not they should think like them. In other words, the liberal believes that we should all be of one mindset, and the dissenter is to be whipped until he or she conforms to the status quo. There are countless examples, but let’s take global warming. The liberal thinks that everyone should believe every word out of Al Gore’s mouth and that we should all drive hybrids (or use ethanol), use mercury laden light bulbs and shop at Whole Foods, if we don’t the government should force us to do these things and we should be chided.
Liberals, especially the Hollywood and East Coast elite, think that we all want to be like them. Of course, we all want to give birth to children out of wedlock, have loose morals, have multiple failed marriages and multiple failed therapists, walk around this world constantly medicated, check in and out of rehab, and, if we’re lucky, die of a drug over dose before we turn 30.
Yes, this is the life that I want. Sign me up. Let’s start today.
The liberal automatically assumes that conservatives operate in the same abusive manner. Conservatives, true conservatives, understand and accept the fact that half of the country disagrees with their policies, but hold no bitterness towards those who hold differing views. If you want to use solar power, drive a hybrid and use toilet paper that chafes your ass, by all means go ahead, but don’t expect the government to force the rest of us to be miserable with you.
Notice, I did say “true conservative.” The neo-conservatives and the Rapture Rightists are just as annoying as the liberals, trying to legislate their “values”. We don’t need a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and we sure as hell don’t need global warming legislation.
Personally, I could care less if Behar, Rosie, Whoopi, Alec Baldwin or any other Hollywood fascist lives my life. I do think Alec Baldwin would be a little less angry and Rosie a little less fat, but that’s beside the point. Conservatives in the mold of William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan don’t seek to control the lives of those with whom they disagree, nor do we wish them any harm.
Are they ignorant? Yes.
Is it their fault? No. Many of the liberal elite are co-dependants (see drug abuse, drug addiction, failed marriages, etc.) who cannot think for themselves and need a parental figure in their lives. Since many of them have dysfunctional families, they cannot turn to them for help, so they seek solace and help from the government. It is our job as conservatives to teach them all the value of personal responsibility and wean them off the public teat.
As for Ms. Behar, she can rest easy when visiting Texas. Conservatives are a gentle, docile creature and will allow socialists to mingle with us, but if she stays too long she many learn about an honest day’s work, how to care for herself and soon learn that big government is really not that great after all.
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