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I’d like to solve the puzzle, but the liberals-left’s wheel of liberal obfuscation and inane argument goes round and round and round and it never ever stops…
So says Pat Sajak (using different words, since he’s a word man in couple of ways these days), of Wheel of Fortune fame …and also a conservative commentator in his editorial “Why I’ve Stopped Arguing with Liberals”.
Finding myself agreeing with a game-show host was at first a little disconcerting. But read this and tell me you don’t agree (unless you’re a liberal, in which case you’re still lecturing anyone who will listen about “Halliburton” or how “Bush sucks” or “how is gay marriage gonna affect me me me personally me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me?”).
Every time I argue with a Liberal, I’m reminded of quarrels I used to have with my parents. The battles never seemed fair because my folks decided what the rules were and what was out of bounds. In addition, because they were parents, they could threaten me in ways I couldn’t threaten them, and they could say things I could never say.
Recently, for example, I was discussing the United Sates Supreme Court with one of my many Liberal friends out in Los Angeles when she said, without any discernable embarrassment, that Justice Anton Scalia was “worse than Hitler.” Realizing she wasn’t alive during World War II and perhaps she may have been absent on those days when her schoolmates were studying Nazism, I reminded her of some of Hitler’s more egregious crimes against humanity, suggesting she may have overstated the case. She had not; Scalia was worse. As I often did when my parents threatened to send me to my room, I let the conversation die.
Aside from being rhetorically hysterical—and demeaning to the memory of those who suffered so terribly as a result of Hitler and the Nazis—it served to remind me of how difficult it is to have serious discussions about politics or social issues with committed members of the Left. They tend to do things like accusing members of the Right of sowing the seeds of hatred while, at the same time, comparing them to mass murderers. And they do this while completely missing the irony.
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