Saturday, May 16, 2015

Dealing With Conservative Wrath

IF YOU'RE A LIBERAL, pay close attention to conservatives. If you get angry, ask yourself why. Do not look for ways to disagree with them. Try to find ways to agree with them. Conservative talk radio is a good place to start. They spend a lot of time talking about liberals and liberalism, which they describe as "the left". By listening to their explanations of liberals, you can ask yourself whether what they say applies to you, is true about you personally. Such as: as a liberal, do you really want to disarm everyone except criminals, and do you really want to kill babies? You'll be accused of these things, and worse, if you identify yourself as a "liberal". They appear for all the world to be looking for ways to disparage liberals, and to be avoiding opportunities to speak of liberals in a positive way, or to present liberalism as complimentary to conservative or even remotely valid. All these conservative talk radio voices seem angry, and filled with hatred. Also, you cannot avoid hearing the arrogance, the condescending attitude, as if someone dispensing truth and wisdom from on high, and being very full of himself. You want to ask yourself if you deserve all the anger directed, apparently, at you. There seems to be a high level of anger in American discourse these days. Higher anger level, and much higher level of arrogance. Flipping through all five thousand television channels on a normal American television set reveals a steady stream of beautiful, arrogant, angry, stressed out people. Then too, there's the denial. Denial of environmental destruction, of evolution and science, of the holocaust, of whatever. Simply state the truth, and if we Americans (humans) don't like it, by golly, we'll deny it.

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