False Hope: The Liberals are Coming!

I was watching “The Factor” last night, as I have most of this past week.  O’Reilly annoys me as a matter of course, mainly due to his opaque host manner and his unmoving opinion, which shuts down all who don’t agree with every detail of his opinions.  I have long suspected him of being a Rhino Conservative.  This week, his mantra has been: “I have spoken with several Liberals who say they ‘get it’ and are moving right.“  I am sorry, Bill, but I have trouble buying this altruistic self serving sentiment.  I say self serving because each time he says it, he is defending his opinion that the venomous anti-conservative-rhetoric attacks by the left have exposed the left for what they are and always have been: mealy-mouthed, bitter, malcontents with a poisonous, if not unrealistic, agenda.  I have real trouble believing that any staunch liberal is moving right even a hair. 

“Being liberal is an easy choice.”

You see, there is a fundamentally impossible change a liberal would have to make to move right.  He would have to stop making judgments based solely upon emotional stimuli.  Additionally, he would have to abandon the predominant liberal trait of taking the path of least resistance.  Being liberal is an easy choice.  Whatever makes you feel good, justified or better is a centerpiece to the liberal ideology.  They support environmentalism because it just makes sense that there are a limited number of trees and breathable air in the world so it stands to reason that man could destroy a finite resource.  They support abortion because one can always justify ones actions simply by comparing those actions to the more base actions of another person.  Liberals support hate crimes because the path to hell is paved with good intentions but so is assault on a person of color.  Liberals believe there are only victims with one common perpetrator: conservatives.  Is tolerance really a good thing?  Can you build a relationship with a person you only tolerate?

How do you feel about your wife?

I tolerate her.

You see, liberals are lacking a human component necessary to make a successful move to the right.  They lack the ability to judge based upon the weight of fact, as judged by a principled set of rules.  By definition, liberalism is a theology based in a devil’s advocate sense of things.  Cynicism is the basis for liberalism.  Why do you think that liberals get so worked up when they argue a point with or about a conservative?  Why is it so difficult to debate a liberal?  Why are liberals always so emotionally charged?  Why is the first reaction of a liberal to ridicule and minimalize?  Why do liberals exude a domineering air of mental and moral superiority over conservatives?

“The liberal person feels a calling to, what he perceives to be, a higher order of things.”

Liberals are not rational.  I didn’t say liberals are not convicted.  I didn’t vouchsafe ignorance on their part.  I truly believe many liberals are intellectually superior to most conservatives: in as much as a larger number attain higher levels of education than the majority of conservatives.  The liberal person feels a calling to, what he perceives to be, a higher order of things.  This calling makes it essential that a commitment to education be pursued in order to attain priesthood in the liberal faith.  By the way, all liberals attain clergy status.  There are no followers, only enlightened missionaries in a world rife with cultural heathens.

Conservatives tend to be the steak and taters class.  They are the bedrock upon which our economy and culture majorum are based.  Liberals make claim to the higher moral ground because they believe they are enlightened.  They are not required to be moral, much in the vein of a policeman having to speed in order to chase down a speeder.

Conservatives are the ‘great unwashed’, in their opinion.  To imagine that a liberal would move right would be to believe he were willing to whittle away about 30 IQ points and shed his college diploma as John Kerry shed his Vietnam war medals.

Nancy Pelosi: “…the terrible “accident” in Tuscon was a tragedy…”

The salve for any mistake a liberal would make is his sense of justification.  A liberal can justify any act or statement via his intent.  Words are a thin veil behind which the true intent of the concerned and motivated individual can plainly be seen.  Nancy Pelosi stated on the House floor that “…the terrible “accident” in Tuscon was a tragedy…”  Of course she knew it wasn’t an accident.  But, as so often with her, each sentence from her exalted person is merely an imperfect representation of a perfect intent, based upon perfect understanding, as inspired by unprecedented enlightenment.

Conservatives are individuals based in deliberateness.  To the left, the conservative is a plodding beast of burden. Liberals acknowledge that middle class America is the engine of our country’s economy.  They merely have to rein in that engine’s selfish tendencies to make all right and fair in the world.  They believe opportunity is not something you take from life.  It is something you share with others from whom opportunity presented itself first.  This ‘Borg’ mentality is pervasive with liberals.  The good of the collective above the good of the individual.

“Pro-activity, or a lack thereof, would require responsibility”

In history only 20 assassinations or assassination attempts have occurred when congress men and women were out and about with the populace.  The popular liberal response to the Tuscon shootings is to bolster security everywhere.  Of the hundreds of thousands of airplane flights each year, 4 hijacked airline flights changed American travel forever.  Continued reactionary policies by our idiotic federal government will ultimately have us flying, on commercial flights, in stasis, in armored cylinders, like pickled herring, before long.

Bill O’Reilly has made this belief his motto of the week.  “We need to expand the Federal Marshall service and make sure every Congressperson has at least one in attendance when they appear in public.”  By the way: liberals are always reactive.  Pro-activity, or a lack thereof, would require responsibility; to take ownership of one’s own actions.  As discussed earlier, liberals are victims.  Perpetrators are a combination of conservative falsehoods acted upon by the unrestrained.  Conservatism leaves the door open wide, through which malcontents and angry psychotics rush.  The libelous attacks on conservative populars like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, will pass into distant history.  Mob memory is short.  Bill O’Reilly’s optimism for liberal conversion is unrealistic and impossible.

“Conservatism is intellectually honest”

There are no moderates when it comes to conservatism.  By definition, conservatism demands adherence to a stringent code of values and a dogged commitment to selfless principles.  Conservatism is intellectually honest in ones acknowledgment that bad things happen to good people and sometimes that person is you.  Conservatism is a belief in responsibility for one’s words and actions.  There is no excuse for irresponsibility.  To moderate these principles is to abandon conservatism.

So Bill, I don’t buy your assertion that there are unnamed liberals, known only to you, who have “seen the light.”  That spectrum of light is not in the visual bandwidth of the ‘enlightened.’  Last night you inquired whether Glenn Beck had experienced the liberal conversion phenomena on his show.  He dismissed this out of hand with an immediate ‘I haven’t seen that’ response.

The factor is entertaining  but I suspect that as with Dick Morris, Ted Koppel and many other former liberals, a market is being tapped to the detriment of the true conservatives.  The media, and many Republicans, are attempting to ride a wave of fad conservatism which will break upon the rocks of truth soon enough.  Liberalism is dynamic: this ever changing nature of liberalism is the allure.  Conservatism is timeless and static.  Change is implemented through this immovable foundation not because of it.