Saturday, June 30, 2018

Being Democratically Intolerant

AT MY LOCAL small southern town senior center, about which I have written much, if you happen to mention that, for instance, you are a liberal democrat, you are at risk of being verbally attacked, or worse. This is not surprising, or shouldn't be, among people who deny climate change and human evolution, accuse Barack Obama of being a "Muslim", and who supported a self proclaimed sex offender for president. The one who attacked me is a Catholic who at the time was proudly wearing a large cross. May the lord bless our conservative Christian colleagues for their capacity to progress. My attempted tormentor, who actually accidentally, incompetently complimented me by accusing all democrats of being "intolerant". Perhaps by this she meant intolerant of people who disagree with them, or something like that. And indeed she is quite correct. Indeed we are. Why argue? We are intolerant of people who knowingly help a self proclaimed sex offender become president, and who consider it a sacred right to discriminate against gay people because on religious grounds. We democrats tend to be intolerant of people who blame poor people for being poor, and who believe that the government has no business legislating against racism, and has no business enforcing racial equality. We democrats tend to be very intolerant of those who practice or espouse unbridled, unregulated capitalism during the week, but swear allegiance to the teachings of Jesus on Sunday morning, claiming that He was a capitalist, and that Christianity and capitalism are complimentary, embodying the highest virtues. Indeed, we liberal democrats are intolerant of many things. Tolerance of the intolerable is no virtue. Not all viewpoints and ideas and beliefs are created equal. We must never tolerate the intolerable. According to liberal democrats, homosexuality is not intolerable, but racism is. Conservative Christian Republicans perhaps disagree. In short, liberal democrats tend to strongly disagree with and to therefore be highly intolerant of many of the basic beliefs of conservative republicans, but, as they say, it takes all kinds.

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