I sometimes have the need to purchase a small-town newspaper. They still exist, in part because each county needs an outlet in which to print legal ads. While most other ad revenue has dried up, there will always be the need to publish notices that are required by law. About a week ago, I bought one such newspaper. I generally avoid reading the opinion section; like so much of rural America, local print media skews heavily towards the conservative side.
But there, stretched more than halfway across the top of the opinion page, was this headline:
Liberalism is a mental disorder
I said to myself, “This is so over the top, that I should write a rebuttal.” Now, I’ve been incredibly busy for the past week, and have not written anything. What I’ve decided to do is to post excerpts of that article here, and let y’all come up with some ideas of your own. I’ll take your best ideas and add my own.
Here are parts of that editorial:
We’ve all seen signs at national parks telling us “Don’t feed the animals.”… (yet) liberals have no problem giving an endless supply of food stamps and welfare checks to fully capable and able bodied individuals.
Paragraph about gun control, how it’s not the gun’s fault that someone died, murder is already illegal, so liberals are mentally ill for wanting to control guns.
A current example of this brain dead, liberal mentality occurred two weeks ago. If you recall, the Dept of Homeland Security implemented an airline carry on ban of electronics above a certain size on flights originating from eight Muslim countries…(screed about how Muslims will replace the battery with a bomb)…However, in the infinite wisdom of liberals at Homeland Security, they chose not to focus on better screening or better vetting of Muslim travelers. No, they decided to screen the electronics of every traveler as though an 80 year old woman from Peoria is an equal threat to blow up the plane as a 25 year old male Muslim from Yemen or the Sudan.
(Note: The intelligence used by Homeland Security was reportedly gathered in the counterterrorism raid in Yemen…Many liberal media outlets called it a “botched” raid because…Owens and a number of civilians were killed along with 14 Islamic terrorists. Unless somebody leaked classified information to the media, they have no idea as to the success or failure of the raid)
The writer continues:
There is no logical explanation and no rational thought process to any liberal position.
Goes on to explain how the title of Michael Savage’s book Liberalism is a Mental Disorder made the light bulb come on in his head. He used to get upset when debating liberals, now he understands that they have a “warped thought process and they do not think the same way as do conservatives.”
To confirm that liberalism is a mental disease,, think of whom liberals hate. Liberals do not hate thuggie criminals…no, they disdain the very police who vow to protect society from thugs…And liberals do not hate Islamic extremists who throw gays off of buildings and enslave women;, they hate conservatives who point out the dangers that Muslim extremists pose to the world.
Okay, my fellow asylum inmates. How would you answer this? Yes, I understand the futility of it all. But I’d like to have a few paragraphs of liberal thought to help offset the endless drumbeat of conservative talking points.
After I’ve read your suggestions, I will post a comment with some of my thoughts. Oh, and this is an open thread. You will not be evicted from the asylum if you stray onto another topic.
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