12 Unspoken Rules for Being a Liberal

12 Unspoken Rules for Being a Liberal
John Hawkins

There may be no official rule book for being a liberal, but that doesn't mean there aren't rules. There are actually quite a few rules liberals go by and the more politically active liberals become, the more rigidly they tend to stick to their own code of behavior. These rules, most of which are unspoken, are passed along culturally on the Left and viciously enforced. Ironically, many liberals could not explain these rules to you and don't even consciously know they're following them. So, by reading this article, not only will you gain a better understanding of liberals, you'll know them better than they know themselves in some ways.

1) You justify your beliefs about yourself by your status as a liberal, not your deeds. The most sexist liberal can think of himself as a feminist while the greediest liberal can think of himself as generous. This is because liberals define themselves as being compassionate, open minded, kind, pro-science and intelligent not based on their actions or achievements, but based on their ideology. This is one of the most psychologically appealing aspects of liberalism because it allows you to be an awful person while still thinking of yourself as better than everyone else.

2) You exempt yourself from your attacks on America: Ever notice that liberals don't include themselves in their attacks on America? When they say, "This is a racist country," or ",This is a mean country," they certainly aren't referring to themselves or people who hold their views. Even though liberals supported the KKK, slaughtering the Indians, and putting the Japanese in internment camps, when they criticize those things, it's meant as an attack on everyone else EXCEPT LIBERALS. The only thing a liberal believes he can truly do wrong is to be insufficiently liberal.

3) What liberals like should be mandatory and what they don't like should be banned: There's an almost instinctual form of fascism that runs through most liberals. It's not enough for liberals to love gay marriage; everyone must be forced to love gay marriage. It's not enough for liberals to be afraid of guns; guns have to be banned. It's not enough for liberals to want to use energy-saving light bulbs; incandescent light bulbs must be banned. It's not enough for liberals to make sure most speakers on campuses are left-wing; conservative speakers must be shouted down or blocked from speaking.

4) The past is always inferior to the present: Liberals tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because of this, liberals don't pay much attention to why traditions developed or wonder about possible ramifications of their social engineering. It’s like an architect ripping out the foundation of a house without questioning the consequences and if the living room falls in on itself as a result, he concludes that means he needs to make even more changes.

5) Liberalism is a jealous god and no other God may come before it: A liberal "Christian" or "Jew" is almost an oxymoron because liberalism trumps faith for liberals. Taking your religious beliefs seriously means drawing hard lines about right and wrong and that's simply not allowed. Liberals demand that even God bow down on the altar of liberalism.

6) Liberals believe in indiscriminateness for thought: This one was so good that I stole it from my buddy, Evan Sayet: " Indiscriminateness of thought does not lead to indiscriminateness of policy. It leads the modern liberal to invariably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. Why? Very simply if nothing is to be recognized as better or worse than anything else then success is de facto unjust. There is no explanation for success if nothing is better than anything else and the greater the success the greater the injustice. Conversely and for the same reason, failure is de facto proof of victimization and the greater the failure, the greater the proof of the victim is, or the greater the victimization."

7) Intentions are much more important than results: Liberals decide what programs to support based on whether they make them feel good or bad about themselves, not because they work or don't work. A DDT ban that has killed millions is judged a success by liberals because it makes them feel as if they care about the environment. A government program that wastes billions and doesn't work is a stunning triumph to the Left if it has a compassionate sounding name. It would be easier to convince a liberal to support a program by calling it the “Saving Women And Puppies Bill" than showing that it would save 100,000 lives.

The only real sins are helping conservatism or harming liberalism: Conservatives often marvel at the fact that liberals will happily elect every sort of pervert, deviant, and criminal you can imagine without a second thought. That's because right and wrong don't come into the picture for liberals. They have one standard: Does this politician help or hurt liberalism? If a politician helps liberalism, he has a free pass to do almost anything and many of them do just that.

9) All solutions must be government-oriented: Liberals may not be as down on government as conservatives are, but on some level, even they recognize that it doesn't work very well. So, why are liberals so hell bent on centralizing as much power as possible in government? Simple, because they believe that they are better and smarter than everyone else by virtue of being liberals and centralized power gives them the opportunity to control more people's lives. There's nothing scarier to liberals than free people living their lives as they please without wanting or needing the government to nanny them.

10) You must be absolutely close minded: One of the key reasons liberals spend so much time vilifying people they don't like and questioning their motivations is to protect themselves from having to consider their arguments. This helps create a completely closed system for liberals. Conservative arguments are considered wrong by default since they're conservative and not worth hearing. On the other hand, liberals aren't going to make conservative arguments. So, a liberal goes to a liberal school, watches liberal news, listens to liberal politicians, has liberal friends, and then convinces himself that conservatives are all hateful, evil, racist Nazis so that any stray conservatism he hears should be ignored. It makes liberal minds into perfectly closed loops that are impervious to anything other than liberal doctrine.

11) Feelings are more important than logic: Liberals base their positions on emotions, not facts and logic and then they work backwards to shore up their position. This is why it's a waste of time to try to convince a liberal of anything based on logic. You don't "logic" someone out of a position that he didn't use "logic" to come up with in the first place.

12) Tribal affiliation is more important than individual action: There's one set of rules for members of the tribe and one set of rules for everyone else. Lying, breaking the rules, or fomenting hatred against a liberal in good standing may be out of bounds, but there are no rules when dealing with outsiders, who are viewed either as potential recruits, dupes to be tricked, or foes to be defeated. This is the same backwards mentality you see in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, except it's based on ideology, not religion.


I have tried to figure out how a Liberal's mind works, but with no luck. I wondered if they actually thought that what they said or wrote made any sense at all. After reading this article, I have seen the same characteristics listed in the article in some of the Liberals on this board and why they all seem identical.

 

So who is John Hawkins? And what makes him an authority figure? And what article? No link. Righties don't seem to be very thorough with their arguments...which may explain the lack of understanding "real logic".

 

Well it's a load of codswallop. Just another hysterical right ad, made to be recited before the choir.

Your President is black, get over it.

 

In the same spirit as in the OP, here are 12 un-spoken rules about being a neo-conservative, by someone famous (no link):

1- Hate women, immigrants, blacks, arabs and everything that doesn't remotely ressemble a yokel.

2- Stay at home. Don't travel. The US has everything and in much better. The rest of the world is superfluous.

3- Give more money to the rich. They never will get enough. You can be poor and a neo-con as long as you admit that your own existance is owed to the rich. Give them your own money if needs be. They need one more car, stupid. Oh, and throw you own feces to those lazy sobs who work at minimum wage - they're just lazy and stupid. You don't need them.

4- Support any violence made in your name. People need to be scared of you. It doesn't matter who they are, fear works better than respect. If the Gummint can do it without your taxes, it double-plus good.

5- Hate Lib'ruls. It doesn't matter if its the weather, accidents or otherwise - it's their faults. You can easily do a mess and when the Lib'ruls come to clean it up, say that it's their fault.

6- You got to have at least one gun.

7- Don't accept homosexuality, abortion etc. It's not their buisness, it's yours. When a homo couple copulates, it is your arse that's on the line, not theirs. Fight abortion with all of your strength - only kill them when they're older! Much more fun.

8- Fight education! Education is stupid, makes you lazy. Stupid people are a lot happier. Be sure your news are entertainment rather than information. Information is like fluor, it's a commie machination! Keep you bodily fluids pure - listen to Fox whenever in doubt.

9- Don't support any politician that isn't in some corporate pocket: Money buys politicians for the right causes - never for nefarious ends - if they were evil, they wouldn't be rich!

10- Work like an ass all day without asking for syndication, security measure or vacations and you'll go to heaven on buisness class.

11- Cooperation is for the wusses and losers. Being a real American is about competitive individualism - not communism! Clean up your act.

12- Abuse nature and ressources; They have been put on the Earth to serve you, so go for broke. The next generations will have to fend for themselves in the devastation you'll leave them. Who cares about these losers? Let them eat cake (sorry for the cultural reference). Instant self-gratification is the goal. To do otherwise would be un-American.

 

Well it's a load of codswallop. Just another hysterical left ad, made to be recited before the choir.

Your President isn't black, get over it.

 

such a hateful thread.

 

Well, your first mistake is referring to Leftists as "liberals".

If you truly can't figure out the mysteries of the "progressive" mind, I suggest that you read The Politics of Bad Faith by former Leftist David Horowitz.

Incidentally, it's hard to argue with Rule #7 - Intentions are much more important than results. Barack Obama and the Babeuvian Illiterati around him have made that painfully clear for six years now...

 

Pretty stupid post. Rule #7 doesnt apply to the Obama administration. He has gotten results across the board in almost every area.

 

Why so much hate nowadays? I remember what it was like 4 years ago. This level of hate only existed on a few days out of the year. Now it seems like it's been nothing more then at least a solid month of hate. I have no idea what's happened but even the smart debates that used to exist are drying up. Now a day doesn't go by without at least one incredibly bad shot at Obama or the Democrats. What gives?

 

So now I'm not a liberal? It's so difficult to keep track.

 

Is that a pretty clueless or dishonest post?

For the most part, Obama has failed across the board and his awful approval ratings are a reflection of that failure. The Democrats trying to distance themselves from Obama during their election/re-election campaigns are also a reflection of his failure, or what one of his comrades on the Left described as his "relentless incompetence".

However, the root of Obama's problems is not his inability to manage the country's affairs competently. The root of his problems is the relentless incompetence of the Left's bad ideas. Being an ideologue, that only magnifies the problem...

 

Without critiquing or digesting the list thoroughly, I would say it describes what I've been coining as the "institutionalized liberal". It's one thing to be liberal mined, it's another to be indoctrinated into club lefty.

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Are you looking to counter with an ad hominem?