The Liberal Mystery
First of all, they don’t even like the term “liberal”, preferring instead the term “progressive”, which, apparently, is much MORE progressive! And much more to their liking. None-the-less, no matter WHAT they call themselves, they remain a bit of a mystery.
To me, the essential liberal mystery is their amazing rigidity of thought. They simply do not alter or change their positions NO MATTER WHAT! No matter how many jihadi attacks take place across our nation and across the world, we see no move to reassess the liberal “welcoming” posture toward “refugee” immigration. No matter how bad our economy is under increasing taxation and government regulation and increasing left leaning policies, we do not see any push, on their part, to modify or alter these policies. No matter how bellicose Iran becomes, we see no demands to end our disastrous “Treaty” with Iran, or even enforce it. No mater how many criminals (not the majority, but, as the mathematicians would say: a non zero real number) sneak into our country and carry out nefarious acts, we don’t hear cries to abolish “sanctuary cities”! No matter how dramatic a rise in crime occurs, we see no liberal enthusiasm for police empowerment. And, there are many more examples. My point here is that they simply DO NOT change their “lofty” positions just because dastardly reality gets in the way. Now, liberals often try to tell us how “smart” they are, more educated they are, and how superior they are to those backward Neanderthals that just don’t seem to support them. I’m not certain this is true, but IF it is true, I wouldn’t be surprised. You HAVE to be smart to come up with the massive rationalizations, excuses, selective data acquisitions, questionable logic patterns and tenuous justifications they use to support their positions. The “lofty” positions they espouse are, apparently, so important to them that they will perform, literally, “mental gymnastics”, in order to hold these positions in the face of an increasingly uncooperative reality. They could, instead, use their intellects to analyze and engage the real world, to the betterment of all. That they don’t do this is, to me, quite sad, and is indeed, a mystery.