MSNBC wrote a piece that gives us astonishing insight into how D.C.’s conservative elite — and therefore, most conservatives everywhere — views liberals and liberalism. Here’s a snapshot, from the Heritage Foundation. Spoiler alert: it’s sex. All sex, all the time.
?Give up your economic freedom, give up your political freedom, and you will be rewarded with license,? said Heritage’s David Azerrad, describing the reigning philosophy of the left. ?It’s all sex all the time. It’s not just the sex itself?it’s the permission to indulge.?
“Where is Liberalism Going” was an event was held by the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. Described appropriately by CrassTalk.com as “a circle jerk,” Heritage said this in its announcement of the event:
?Twenty-five years ago, marriage meant what it had always meant, Madonna was considered risqu?, and liberals worried about mass immigration, threats to religious liberty and the vulgarity of pop music. The times, they have a-changed. And they will continue to change as the Left presses on.?
The bizarre focus seemed to be, according to MSNBC, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Gawker. Gawker earned a spot on the agenda because of its desire to punish climate change deniers. Other focus points:
- Senate Democrats, for wanting to undo Citizens United
- Matt Yglesias, a writer who advocates eliminating summer vacations
- The term “mansplaining,” called by them a symptom of politically correct extremism
- Rolling Stone magazine for being ?the most frivolous consumer product in the history of frivolous consumer products”
And this.
?The left is intellectually dead, and where it’s heading towards is authoritarianism,? said said the National Review’s Kevin Williamson. citing a Gawker blog post making the case for arresting climate change deniers and a ?hate-filled angry crowd, screaming in rage? attending the People’s Climate Rally in New York City, as among the signs of oppression. (?As you know from history, the kind of thing that has ?the people?s? appended in front of it, genocide is just around the corner,? he quipped earlier.)
And also this.
“I fear the next great frontier for the left will be trying to lower the age of consent,? said Azerrad, head of Heritage’s center for principles and politics.
Some of the key takeaways:
- Liberalism is an idea, and a deadly one at that.
- Liberals have lulled the masses into complacency using technology-driven pop culture.
- Some of the evils that liberals are using to make society vulnerable: iPhones, Google Glass, multi-player online video games, year-round sports.
- Liberals see human beings as “too psychologically frail to maintain their self-esteem when faced with harsh criticism,” said Voegeli.
- Apparently, according to Voegeli, liberals are determined to protect against “not only sticks and stones, but against names, dirty looks, inappropriate laughter, white privilege, and ?mansplaining? that could generate a feeling of the inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect people’s hearts and minds in a way unlikely to ever be undone.”
- The liberal outlook is ?the luxury of a bored, prosperous and safe people.? (Azerrad)
- The Democratic party has changed, Azerrad pointed out. ?Woodrow Wilson and FDR were not fighting for gender-neutral bathrooms,? he said.
Oh and Bill de Blasio is only mayor of New York City because Giuliani and Bloomberg were so awesome, said Voegeli.
?Once you had 20 years, under Giuliani and Bloomberg, where the garbage picked up, and the bills were paid, and the streets were safe, New York felt safe to go back to someone like de Blasio.?
You can read more at MSNBC, you heathen hedonist liberals! Shame on you. All of you. I’m just going to go now and look for the “all sex, all the time” that I’m supposedly having!
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