More wisdom from LGF

Charles is great for digging up good quotes. This is one that I find applies particularly well to the left:

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.

— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

A great deal of leftist sophistry is founded upon faulty, yet unexamined, assumptions. If a leftist can trick someone into buying into certain assumptions, then the erroneous conclusions that follow from those assumptions are a simple matter of logic. This is part of what makes their nonsense so pernicious. The vast majority of people are simply not perceptive enough to see through to those assumptions and realize that they are bunk. Some will intuitively sense that they are being had, but there are many who will not, especially if they are surrounded by it every day. It is unfortunate that too few people really try to understand things.

Obama's candidacy explained

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
-- Lin Yutang

DOJ Prosecuting Those Who Enunciate the Law

http://proteinwisdom.com/pub/?p=2074

At what point is the political process in America so compromised that it ceases to have any validity? When the power of the government is no longer derived from the consent of the governed, the result is tyranny. Why should I, or anyone else, submit to the will of a state that has no legitimate authority?

Back in 2000 when the lefties were going into hysterics over the non-existent fraud they claimed gave Bush in the white house, I thought they were simply engaging in theatrics as usual. But as time has gone by I've come to realize that what I thought was calculated manipulation was in fact what psychologists call projection.

What the left sees when it looks to the center is a reflection. When they scream about racism it is because they are racist. When they scream about oppression it is because they are oppressors. When they scream about voting fraud, it is because they wrote the book on it.

They learned long ago that the American people would never knowingly vote them into power. Therefore they engage in various deceptions in order to trick voters. The first of these is to obscure their agenda, or to describe it in the most oblique terms. Obama is a poster-child for this tactic. This deception is able to fool some of the people all of the time. But by itself it is not sufficient to give them a ruling majority, no matter how hard they spin or how complicit the media is in their deception.

Because they cannot sell the American people on their ideology and the policies that derive from it, they have sought to, as Bertrand Russell put it, "elect a new people." Illegal aliens, dead people,, fraudulent registrations, multiple registrations in different districts, all serve to undermine the will of the American people and replace it with the will of leftist operatives and the alien invaders who are drinking from their trough. At one point the left might have been subtle in going about this, but in recent years they have become far more blatant. I don't know whether this smacks of confidence or desperation.

What I do know is that if they are allowed to get away with this, the US will cease to exist. The left will have succeeded in doing what no foreign power has ever come close to accomplishing: the destruction of our republic. These people are traitors and enemies of the worst kind, and should be treated accordingly.

Any state agency that seeks to persecute a citizen for informing the public of the law as it is written is an instrument of evil and tyranny. There really isn't any other way to put it.

Choose the form of the destroyer

http://dirtyharrysplace.com/?p=4382

GOZER: CHOOSE THE FORM OF THE DESTROYER

HOWARD DEAN: Okay people, what ever you do, don’t think of anything! Keep your mind completely blank!

GOZER: THE CHOICE HAS BEEN MADE!

NANCY PELOSI: Uh-oh.

DEAN: WHAT DID YOU DO, NANCY??

PELOSI: I tried to think of the most harmless thing possible. The kind of person I learned to make fun of after my rich husband married me for my giant tits.

DEAN: NANCY!! WHAT DID YOU DO??

PELOSI: A broad from some nowhere place like Alaska… with five kids, one of them retarded. A working-class husband. Old-fashioned glasses!

DEAN: NANCY!!

A giant cone of flame engulfs the tip of the Trans-America building. A mighty roar shakes the buildings

PELOSI: It’s Sarah Palin.

DEAN: Oh God.

BARACK OBAMA: SARAH PALIN?!?

PELOSI: I’m sorry, Barry….

OBAMA: FUCKING SARAH PALIN?? YOU STUPID BITCH. Do you realize racecard 1.0 is COMPLETELY USELESS AGAINST UNENTITLED WOMEN YOU GODDAMNED IDIOT?

PELOSI: Jesus, I….

OBAMA: THIS FUCKING UNLICENSED DYSTOPIA ACCELERATOR ON MY BACK DOESN’T DO JACK SHIT AGAINST CONSERVATIVE WOMEN YOU DUMB WHORE! WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DO AGAINST HER, COMPARE OUR FUCKING RESUMES??? TALK ABOUT HER PRIVILEGED UPBRINGING?? I’M A FUCKING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POSTER CHILD OVER HERE AND THIS WOMAN OWNED THE OLD BOYS NETWORK OF HER STATE WITH A DEGREE FROM A NOWHERE UNIVERSITY AND FOUR GODDAMNED KIDS! I’M GOING TO HAVE MY ASSHOLE OPENED UP WIDER THAN THE HOLLAND TUNNEL!

BIDEN: Settle down, Barry..

OBAMA: FUCK YOU TOO, you goddamned clownshoe! So now what? I oughta…

Entire entourage engulfed in flames

Racism and misandry still a problem for vaginated Americans

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/08/huge-20-point-shift-towards-mccain-among-white-women-since-last-month-in-new-abc-poll/

Pink skinned females have abandoned The One just when he needed them most. How dare they choose a vaginated American over this man of color whose racial constitution affords him absolute moral authority and the vision to lead America forward.

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Power corrupts, especially those who are corrupt to begin with.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2696031/Anti-terrorism-laws-used-to-spy-on-noisy-children.html

This is what happens when the power and reach of the state is not held firmly in check.

In America, the left blames Bush for giving law enforcement and intelligence agencies powers that have the potential to be used as tools of tyranny. Such powers are dangerous. They should not be conferred without strong cause and never on a permanent basis. To be sure, there have been...problems... here in the states with the FBI and other agencies using their new powers in ways that are questionable in some cases. But so far at least these powers have been mostly used for the purpose they were intended.

Meanwhile across the pond in a country where the left is so entrenched that its citizens are unaware of any other philosophy (I'm being generous today), the government is blatantly abusing powers that it has granted itself in the name of fighting terrorism.

In America the left screams about abuses that aren't happening while the leftist government in the UK actively and grossly engages in precisely those sorts of abuses.

I suspect that the biggest issue that the lefties have when it comes to the patriot act is that they're not the ones in control of the state yet. Were they in power you can be quite certain that they would not only be fully in favor of it, but they would expand it greatly.

The difference between a leftist and a liberal

Calling a nihilistic leftist a "liberal" is the kind of thing that would have Jefferson spinning in his grave.

These are not people who believe in liberty. They are not advocates for freedom. They do not believe in individual rights. They do believe that the world can be made a better place by placing it firmly under the heel of their boot. They feel that restricting freedom and denying liberty are the keys to making the world a better place. As sick and evil as that is, it is what they truly believe. They are would-be tyrants and should rightly be identified as such.

When you call a leftist a liberal, you're allowing them to define the language that is used to identify them. This hands them the advantage, if not a victory.

The left loves to play word games. They are masters of manipulating language to obscure their own intentions and malign the intentions of their ideological foes.

If you allow them to choose the language in which the debate will be framed, you are going to lose. Don't fall for that trap.

There are many choice words that I could use to describe these people. I could call them crypto-marxist gramscian whores, but that would only serve to confuse people. Instead I generally stick with just calling them leftists. I choose this term because it does not cast them in a positive light, yet its meaning is still understood by the vast majority of people.

As a libertarian (small L), these people are my existential enemies. They are the enemies of anyone who believes that freedom is both a moral good and a practical necessity for a free and just society.