Liberals won't be friends with "conservatives"?
And that, like everything else, is the fault of liberals?
Matt Huston at Politico has evinced surprise at the discovery that liberals can’t stand being around conservatives.
What, Huston thinks, could show up liberals more than disproving their long-standing claim to toleration?
Please, give me a break.
If you’ve been around for the past half-century, or if you read history and old newspapers, you aren’t surprised that liberals have lost their tolerance for “conservatism.”
The only thing that a tolerant person cannot abide is intolerance. And intolerance is a key trait of today’s “conservatives,” along with fearfulness, transgressiveness, and the insatiable desire for power.
Liberals have had it with “understanding” the “conservative mind set.” You can’t “understand” people who won’t treat you with respect—who, on the contrary, insist that you are Satan’s spawn.
The only thing you can do with them is treat them with the same disrespect they show for you—and then go out and prevent them from getting power over you.
Here’s an example. When Trump won the presidency in 2016, liberals spun themselves up into an orgy of self-criticism. How could we have been so insensitive to the concerns of “conservatives”? How could we have missed the legitimate despair of “heartlanders” whose way of life was disappearing, whose livelihoods were vanishing, whose lives were becoming ever more difficult?
Typical liberal tolerance. Don’t blame the people who bested you. Instead, look at what you contributed to the loss and try to do better. Usually a good rule for life. But not when those who bested you would just as soon kill you as look at you.
After a while, it became clear that Trump supporters did not put him over the top because of economic hardship. They did it because he played up to their grievances, to their white-supremacist leanings, to their faux-Christian sense of divine infallibility, to their love of ignorance, and to their hatred of everyone who is ethically superior to them.
I think it’s long past time for liberals to grasp that “conservatives” have no justifiable complaints and certainly do not deserve to be treated with respect as members of society. They would be happy to destroy society if it meant that they could rule over the ensuing chaos.
It is no doubt true that “conservatives” bear the scars of their psychological upbringing. This makes them pitiable. If they had grown up in more tolerant families in a society that cared more for its people, they might not have turned out to be so full of hatred and violent rage.
But there comes a point when society must put aside pity and take up punishment. People who will not be corrected and who despise the best impulses of the society that nourishes them must be prevented from preying on society. Perhaps in the future something can be done to help them become less anti-social. But first we must put the straight jackets on them before they blow up the asylum.
We must punish them by crushing their desire for power. We must take away their ability to impose their wills on others.
The only thing that’s left for liberals to “understand” is how to cut these fascistic, power-hungry, puerile, venomous, violent, hateful people off at the knees.
And we do understand. We understand we have only one more chance to stop them before it’s too late.
We understand that we must beat them this November. Not by a little, but by a lot. By so much that not even their reality-distorting lenses can hide their losses from them.
Some of them will get angry. They hate to lose. Some of them will commit acts of violence. They love to strike out.
But liberals no longer have a choice.
So don’t preach to us about how we’re not living up to our best inclinations to be tolerant.
We are tolerant.
But “conservatives” have abused our tolerance and brought the world to the brink of collapse.
We must destroy their power first. Then we can tolerantly try to help those that remain deluded return to decent society.
Now is not the time for more tolerance.
Now is the time to save the world.
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