Child-hating diseasemonger!

Right. On.

Seems like each like-minded person I speak to about the state of the country has a different main concern about this administration and liberalism in general. Some have strong feelings about the economy, some abortion, some the Second Amendment, etc. What the “progressives” have done to warp our everyday language distresses me the most. So much of a culture is its language, a basic thing you learn in human anthropology classes. Just giving a bill or a political movement an emotive name can influence the course of a nation, and stifle debate. Even the use of “liberal” and “progressive” as labels is Orwellian in nature, because all the while they are standing in the way of freedom and progress.

True that. I apologize for slighting the Libertarians.

If you go out and speak with the average person you’ll find that the majority of them are conservative though.

Heres my point: What we have now is a de facto ruling class that has views far afield from the majority of the people. That’s why, in order to get elected, they find out what they should say to convince the people to vote for them, no matter if it has anything to do with their version of reality or not. After being elected, they rule (rather than represent) in whatever way they want to rule, paying only lip service to the general populace by a few well-placed buzzwords in public proclamations and by naming voluminous laws that shackle personal freedoms with euphemistic titles that have nothing to do with the slavery contained within.

Or if I should quote Rush, Ann Coulter, Malkin, etc. I get some quip about “hate” or “ratings”. Our strongest voices are relegated to the irrelevant status of entertainers. That nobody should really “think” like that unless they’re trying to sell books or Zicam. Only talk radio and blogs question whether the TV media, who do all of the “thinking” for the masses, are simply empty headed, teleprompter-reading entertainers themselves.

What’s fascinating about the Rush incident is that he put that out there for the media to take out of context. He said it would happen right before he said the four words. That has always been my defense when in a “debate” with someone. “I know you will distort this, but I’ll say it anyway…” It’s child psychology. But the child knows this is true, but he has the megaphone and he’s simply going to drown out reason with it and the masses will not question him.

But I really do hope Obama fails. Any capitalist would agree. There’s absolutely nothing incendiary about the phrase. But get a critic to pick it apart and you can make it so. We just love eggheads telling us what to think about language, all for the purpose of shutting us up.

We rarely get around to a substantive and fair adult debate of ideas because it’s all about being funny or getting a jab in.

To paraphrase Alan Keyes, it’s not about being funny anymore. It’s way too serious.

However, this is not that. Limbaugh is getting pilloried for a political disagreement over whether Liberalism should succeed. Not exactly a newsflash there.
Find me a Liberal who wanted to Bush to succeed.

To me the greater issue has always been the jelly-spined GOPers who want to be first in the “I condemned someone on my side’s questionable comments” contest. I hate you guys. Seriously.