Too Liberal For You

I’d like to disclaim this post by saying that I’m aware that there are quite a few liberal extremists out there, ranting and raving even though no one is really listening.

I read an editorial the other day by Michael Barone. I don’t know if you’ve heard of him, or if you should have heard of him. He is one of the guys whose op-ed piece I sometimes read in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (I grew up in St. Louis and it’s the only paper I’ve ever read. I like it, I probably shouldn’t, but I do). I read the guys piece and immediately felt the need to go on a rant of my own. Why is it that every time I pick up the paper there is something written in it that makes me think all conservatives are nut jobs. I know it’s not true. Maybe it is just the guys who end up writing newspapers that are nuts, I don’t know. Either way, I can count on a reasonably well written leftist editorial by the staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and then three or four conservative extremist views almost completely devoid of logic or rational. He says of our overt enemies (read: terrorists) “Their motives are clear: they hate our society because of its freedoms and liberties and want to make us submit to their totalitarian form of Islam.” Says who? I’ve never heard of terrorists spouting off about freedom and liberty. Also, I’m not sure what Barone means when he says that they’re trying to make us submit to their religion. I’m inclined to think that he means their goal is to convert us all, which seems kind of ridiculous to me. Do they really think they can convert us by killing our people? I know they’re nuts but that shows a distinct absence of logic that even conservative op-ed writers can’t compete with. Honestly, I don’t know why Americans are hated but I’d bet it’s for a seemingly legitimate reason and not some bullshit about hating freedom or liberty. I’m not saying what they do is right…Here’s my thing: America is clearly the biggest kid on the block, but we got these much smaller kids taking cheap shots at us. We don’t know why they don’t like us, but they don’t. My personal belief is that we’re not going to make these kids like us by beating them up. That’s only going to piss them off more. So how does that translate to real life? What do we do? I don’t know. But I don’t think invading their countries is going to make them like us. This is not to say we shouldn’t do anything or that it’s all on us to make them like us. I’m just saying it would be easier to come to some sort of peaceful resolution if we stopped saying they hate us for our freedom and actually found out why they hate us.

Barone takes some time to babble on about the covert enemies of America (translation: liberals). First of all, he’s drawing a line in the sand and saying terrorists and liberals are on same side. Then he does the same thing as before and assumes to know what liberals are thinking. He says that they want America to lose the war against the Islamo-fascists of the world. He says that by default they hold the belief that the West can only do wrong. I’m not even liberal (not that there’s anything wrong with that) and I find this offensive. Much of my family is liberal and some of my close friends are liberal, and every time we gather together be it bar or barbecue, we always end up talking politics. Never have I ever heard anything from liberals that would make me think they would want to lose any kind of war. I think they would like to avoid war, with everyone, until it can’t be avoided any longer, and quite frankly, I don’t blame them. War sucks.

-Hogan

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