A Liberal Thanksgiving
Here’s an idea. Celebrate President Barack Obama. Yet another Nobel Peace Prize winner, the president can be celebrated for just wanting peace. Better, liberals can celebrate the triumph of lofty rhetoric over action, as personified by Obama. You see, actions can be measured, and liberals don’t fare very well in that department. The economy stinks, public schools in a lot of places stink, the government’s finances stink. Stick with high-blown rhetoric; it never stinks.
Better idea — health care. That’s it. Liberals can toast the president, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi for bullying through, at least to this point, a government-run health care scheme that a growing majority of Americans don’t want and a fair number despise. Yes, if Reid can just move a health care bill through the Senate to conference, then liberals will get what they’ve wanted for decades: Direct direct control over virtually every American’s life. Another dirty little secret is that health care reform is mainly about power and control.
Maybe liberals can just thank God for their blessings. Then again, no. Plenty of liberals either don’t believe in God. God is, after all, a construct of the primitive mind. Ancients needed to imagine God to make sense of events in the natural world, to come to grips with the finality of death. Many liberals appreciate that life is a random chance, a cosmic accident. Here today — poof! — gone tomorrow. Let’s forget about God.
Better to celebrate relativism and its endpoint, nihilism. This is something liberals can jump in with both feet and really celebrate.
The “anything goes, if it feels good, do it” ethos that rose in the mid-sixties is still with us, stronger than ever.
In music and movies and TV, sexuality has no higher value than doing it for pleasure — with anyone and, increasingly, anything. Women are objectified more today than in Marilyn Monroe’s heyday. Violence on the big screen, small screen, and particularly in gangsta rap is gratuitous and rampant. Life, you understand, now imitates (so-called) art. And all of this has spilled over into our communities and turned too many kids into wastes.
With every passing day and week and month and year, the cultural left delivers hammer blow after hammer blow to the mores, religion, conventions, and fundamental decency that has underpinned American society. But given that American society is corrupt, unfair, rapacious, exploitative, gluttonous, boastful, and self-righteous, knocking it down a bunch of pegs is quite a good thing. Creative destruction, liberals might call it.
The rest of us may think it’s about pushing the nation from the pinnacle into the pit. But that’s all relative, isn’t it? You celebrate Thanksgiving your way, and liberals celebrate it their way. A toast to that, anyone?
I thank the Powers of the Universe that allow me to send this message, and enjoy a beautiful autumn day with friends and family.
Happy Thanksgiving!
My guess is that a lot of liberals, especially those in the teaching profession, secretly give thanks for living in a country that rewards them well, very well, stupendously well, for spending their lives dispensing dangerous nonsense to those they are charged with educating.
I am thankful that given the fact that liberals and conservatives screw up endlessly, as do all humans, that we have a system that permits them to create a new mess out of the previous old mess.
Both are so earnest in decrying the other side as the source of most of the country’s problems, that one stands in awe of their respective passions, but if you look at the big picture, this too shall pass, and we have had far worse times.
By the way when Al Gore is fat AND overconsumes, he sucks too. He and Rush can pig out together. Obama and GWB are lean and mean; I’ll go with them.
i am thankful for the apricots that were in the C-ration cans, the oatmeal raisin cookies that i used to get in the care packages,back in the day when i was a young soldier. was a long time ago. that i have 2 out of 3 boys home, and that the third hasn’t deployed yet again.
I’m thankful 2 of my buddies in the M E received our care packages. God speed.
As well as being able to express views with like minded and differing perspectives. Variety is truly enlightening.
My wife, a heck of a baker. Ideal for days such as today.
Lastly, to watch my Broncos possibly lose 5 straight games in only 4 + weeks.. sigh.
Happy Turkey Day everyone.
Both are thankful that they have poor people to train as the new savages…Thus the need for more government for protection. Let them eat cake.
the near extinction of federal marijuana law enforcement
i’m thankful that the liberals don’t know the republicans or conservaties have anything to be grateful for…or they would find a way to tax it or take it away…
When did sulfates become an issue in winemaking? I’m pretty sure you mean sulfites.
Be thankful that the liberals are not forcing their idiotic ideas on us through stupid laws and regulations otherwise we all would be eating vegan puke paste instead of turkey