I’ve been listening to T.V. and reading blogs tonight and have found myself wondering what I often find myself wondering when I hear a liberal (sorry, it’s progressive now) rant on about everything that’s wrong with the U.S.A.

Where did the ability to reason get lost?

Are we wired up differently from the get-go? I mean, are some people just born with an inability to think logically? Do they understand they are making enormous leaps in logic to come to the conclusions they come to? Do they have a clue at all they are giving aid and comfort to an enemy that will cut their head off without a second thought?

I listened to a young woman tonight argue that the Battle Cry rally in San Francisco today was fascist. She hysterically claimed they were ‘brainwashing’, destroying gay rights, murderers, warmongers, etc., etc.

Video of the counter-demonstration showed a dozen or so people dressed up like cats or other such little outfits, holding signs asking, ‘Who would Jesus Bomb?’.

The poor girl in this ‘debate’ didn’t have anything to work with. Her only come back appeared to be on the line of, ‘Yeah, well, yo mama.’

She insisted that the Battle Cry group had no right to preach what they preach. I’m not that familiar with this group. But we do have free speech in this country - which is why SHE can say what SHE says. (that’s the part where the logic gets skewed somehow).

While she was ranting about how America doesn’t allow her to express herself as a lesbian - she is on national television expressing herself as a lesbian.

See what I mean? Illogical.

She said President Bush is a tyrant and doesn’t allow people to oppose him. She said he reigns over an oppressive regime that keeps women submissive and quiet. She says this while she’s opposing him on national television and as a woman was certainly not being submissive or quiet.

Illogical again.

Sigh….

Then a little later I heard the little tete-a-tete between Sean Hannity and Alec Baldwin. Chazz has a video clip and transcript of this little chat here.

More of the same. The reason part of the brain is somehow disconnected. Ranting and raving about being oppressed and how our personal liberties are being taken away.

They declare they are being denied liberties while exercising their liberties to the fullest extent. This with a very liberal sprinkling of personal and nasty insults.

A little lesson in diplomacy. These methods do not win people over. Vicious, hateful, nasty retorts do not make people stop and think to themselves, ‘Gee, I ought to stop and listen to this reasonable and rational person.’

It generally makes people mad and more aware of how out of whack the values and morality of this country have gotten. It makes most people think, ‘We have got to do something to get our country back under control’.

See, that sort of behavior backfires. The more you scream, the more people think straight-jackets are needed. And the more the country moves to the right.

A lesson in forms of government. We live in a Republic. That means that we have chosen a form of government that is ruled by the majority of the people.

I certainly don’t agree with everything that is done in this country. However, I understand that my views might not be the majority and the majority rules. So I have chosen to live in a country in which I may not always like whoever is governing at any given time.

But I understand that I can not force other people to think and behave as I think they should. Majority rules.

Right now, the majority is getting very tired of the irrational, unreasonable and very loud minority calling them names.

One last point. It’s such an easy shot. Anybody can criticise the U.S.A. with little or no consequence. Some people might get irritated at you. Some people might not go to your movies any more because all they can see is your personality rather than the character you are trying to pretend you are. But no one is going to make you wear a burka or saw off your head.

>If you are really so concerned about women’s rights, then help us fight this war. Help liberate the women of truly oppressive regimes!

If you are truly ready to get out and demonstrate and hold your fist up to the T.V. cameras, then have the guts to speak out in support of Denmark. DENMARK! A little nation that is standing alone in the face of enormous international pressure to submit to the will of Islam. Now THAT takes guts. They are standing up for Freedom in the eye of the storm, when there is real danger to them for doing so.

That is what will matter. That is courage.

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The Danes Unique Moral Courage

The End of Reason

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