{"id":1287,"date":"2006-12-04T17:16:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T21:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2006-12-04T17:16:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T21:16:40","slug":"my-strawman-is-craaaaazzzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1287","title":{"rendered":"My Strawman Is Craaaaazzzy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/itsalive.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Watch and marvel, as <strike>Dr Frankenstein<\/strike> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/LyleHRossiterJrMD\/2006\/12\/04\/the_liberal_mind_the_psychological_causes_of_political_madness\">Lyle Rossiter, Jr, MD<\/a>, an actual doctor (or so he claims), fashions, with his own hands and sizzling imagination, a horrible and terrifying creature:<\/p>\n<ul>Like all other human beings, the modern liberal reveals his true character, including his madness, in what he values and devalues, in what he articulates with passion. Of special interest, however, are the many values about which the modern liberal mind is not passionate: his agenda does not insist that the individual is the ultimate economic, social and political unit; it does not idealize individual liberty and the structure of law and order essential to it; it does not defend the basic rights of property and contract; it does not aspire to ideals of authentic autonomy and mutuality; it does not preach an ethic of self-reliance and self-determination; it does not praise courage, forbearance or resilience; it does not celebrate the ethics of consent or the blessings of voluntary cooperation. It does not advocate moral rectitude or understand the critical role of morality in human relating. The liberal agenda does not comprehend an identity of competence, appreciate its importance, or analyze the developmental conditions and social institutions that promote its achievement. The liberal agenda does not understand or recognize personal sovereignty or impose strict limits on coercion by the state. It does not celebrate the genuine altruism of private charity. It does not learn history's lessons on the evils of collectivism.<\/ul>\n<p>This creature must be made of pure evil! Do you dare read on? Are you brave enough to learn more about this abomination, this so-called <i>\"liberal\"<\/i> ?<\/p>\n<ul>The liberal cure for this endless malaise is a very large authoritarian government that regulates and manages society through a cradle to grave agenda of redistributive caretaking. It is a government everywhere doing everything for everyone. The liberal motto is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In Government We Trust.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d To rescue the people from their troubled lives, the agenda recommends denial of personal responsibility, encourages self-pity and other-pity, fosters government dependency, promotes sexual indulgence, rationalizes violence, excuses financial obligation, justifies theft, ignores rudeness, prescribes complaining and blaming, denigrates marriage and the family, legalizes all abortion, defies religious and social tradition, declares inequality unjust, and rebels against the duties of citizenship. <\/ul>\n<p>The StrawLiberal! It's allliiiiivvvve!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/young frankenstein.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Horrible!!! And it gets worse! This hideous monster has made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boutell.com\/frankenstein\/chapter17.html\">demands<\/a> of its creator, the amazing Dr. Rossiter! A part of which I shall excerpt here:<\/p>\n<ul>\nI intended to reason. This passion is detrimental to me, for you do not reflect that you are the cause of its excess. If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundredfold; for that one creature's sake I would make peace with the whole kind! But I now indulge in dreams of bliss that cannot be realized. What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me. It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel. Oh! My creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you for one benefit! Let me see that I excite the sympathy of some existing thing; do not deny me my request!<\/ul>\n<p>Sure, cut off from the world - I can get behind that. But, it wants... to... <i>mate<\/i>?<\/p>\n<ul>If you consent, neither you nor any other human being shall ever see us again: I will go to the vast wilds of South America. My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. My companion will be of the same nature as myself, and will be content with the same fare. We shall make our bed of dried leaves; the sun will shine on us as on man, and will ripen our food. The picture I present to you is peaceful and human, and you must feel that you could deny it only in the wantonness of power and cruelty. Pitiless as you have been towards me, I now see compassion in your eyes; me seize the favourable moment, and persuade you to promise what. I so ardently desire.<\/ul>\n<p>Dirty fucking pacifist vegan hippy liberal <strong><em>monsters<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You know, when I started this post, I was going to cleverly put links to counter-examples on each of his assertions. But then I realized that I'd have to put links on <i>every single word larger than five letters<\/i>, and I just ain't got that much jam. So, I'll just go for a <a href=\"http:\/\/tbogg.blogspot.com\">TBogg<\/a>&trade;-style funny-picture post.<\/p>\n<p>P.S., Hopefully this clown's a better psychiatrist than he is an analyst of human motivations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch and marvel, as Dr Frankenstein Lyle Rossiter, Jr, MD, an actual doctor (or so he claims), fashions, with his own hands and sizzling imagination, a horrible and terrifying creature: Like all other human beings, the modern liberal reveals his true character, including his madness, in what he values and devalues, in what he articulates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}