“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

Before we get into today’s topic, let me set up some background on myself. I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life. I had never voted for a Republican for national office in my life until the midterm elections in 2010. I have no problem with gay marriage and while not a fan of abortion, I do not find it in my power to dictate whether or not a woman should or should not get an abortion. I am against foreign military entanglements. Thus, no one could consider me a conservative, neo con, Republican, etc.

However, that does not mean I condone vile and vicious political speech, no matter who is spouting it. Today’s topic focuses on that type of political dialog that constantly comes from the Democrats/liberal/left side of the political spectrum. 

It seems to me that the level and intensity of political hate and hateful speech has accelerated over the past few years. And in my observations, the majority, if not vast majority of that increased hatred and hate speech, has come from the liberal side of politics.

We first approached this subject with a couple of posts from our past, posts that documented how the left side of the spectrum had called those that disagreed with their views a whole slew of disgusting and hurtful names: whores, sluts, a__h____s, terrorists, racists, KKK members, Neanderthals, hate rape opportunities, etc. It becomes very difficult as a human being to have constructive political dialog when the other side is slinging these types of vile names at you. Those discussions can be viewed at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/03/ignorance-of-rush-limbaugh-hypocrisy-of.html

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-slime-sleaze-immorality-and_17.html

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/04/wasserman-schultzs-and-obamas-silence.html

And the political class and the current set of politicians within it have done nothing to inhibit such speech and hatred since then. In fact, it is obvious that they encourage such name calling to “energize their base,” get their supporters hyped up to get themselves reelected over and over again. This type of divisive talk and silence is not leadership, it is not statesmenship, it is cheap, thug politics. 

As a result of their encouragement of this type of hate speech and their silence in the face of it, in reality condoning it, the country’s major issues never get a rational and adult conversation and thus, never get resolved. William F. Buckley once observed: “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

See if that is not the case as we do an update on what the left side of the political spectrum are calling those that disagree with their views and positions on issues.

1) Dana Loesch is a well-known conservative writer and thinker. Pascal Robert is a left leaning blogger and contributor to the left leaning Huffington Post. In a Twitter debate over gun rights and gun control, rather than stick to the points of the argument, Loesch went vile with the following Tweet: 






When all else fails, threaten anal rape. Classy (not).
2) The Hill reported on September 13, 2013 that Vice President Joe Biden called some House of Representatives members “this sort of Neanderthal crowd” when the House did not pass a piece of legislation as quickly as he wanted it passed. The legislation did eventually get passed but rather than discuss the one sticking point that delayed passage, the Vice President, the second in line of succession to leading the country, would rather just call people names. Pathetic lack of leadership. 

3) Allan Brauer is the communications chair for the Democratic Party of California. Amanda Carpenter is an aide to Republican Senator Ted Cruz. Carpenter sent out a tweet expressing her and her boss’s political opinions back in September:  “GOP beat gun control, changed Obama’s mind on Syria, is holding the line on amnesty. We can defund Obamacare, too!”

Rather than engage in constructive discussion with Carpenter and put forth the Democrats’ view and reasoning on gun control, Syria, amnesty, and Obama Care, Brauer went to Twitter and directed a message back towards Carpenter: “May your children all die from debilitating, painful and incurable diseases.”











Wishing that a fellow American’s kids would die a horrible, painful death. Is there any doubt why nothing ever gets resolved in this country today, in light of people wanting other people’s kids to die?

4) Bill O’Reilly is a very successful talk show host on the right leaning Fox news channel and author of many best selling books including “Killing Lincoln” and “Killing Kennedy,” books that examine the assassinations of these two Presidents. Chris Matthews is a talk show host on MSNBC, one of the most hard left leaning news entities in the world.

While being interviewed on the Colbert Show and O’Reilly’s name came up, Matthews replied: “When are we going to have the book we’ve really been waiting for? –’Killing O’Reilly.’” There it is again: let’s just kill off those that agree with us rather than embrace diversity and dialog.

5) The Roll Call website reported on October 13, 2014 that California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer compared Republicans to wife beaters in the midst of the Federal government shutdown (which really wasn’t a shutdown at all since we have previously cited two experts that estimated about 85% of the Federal government did NOT shut down): 

“It’s a self-inflicted wound. I never questioned, never questioned the fact that Republicans, Democrats, and independents love this country. Love this country. I never questioned it. But I have to say, when you start acting like you’re committing domestic abuse, you’ve got a problem. ‘I love you dear, but you know, I’m shutting down your entire government. I love you dear, but I’m going to default and you’re going to be weak.’ Something is dreadfully wrong.”

Well, at least she did not  hope that someone died.

6) The same thing cannot be said of Dan Savage, a liberal writer, speaker, and author who recently went the “hope they die route” when discussing Sarah Palin via the following tweet: 

Woke up to Sarah Palin’s voice. She’s taken up chewing tobacco now cuz LIBRULS or Bloomberg or something. Now seeing upside of oral cancers.
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) May 4, 2013

Don’t debate, don’t constructively discuss, just wish death, this time via cancer. 

7) Sarah Pain is an especially favorite target of hate spewing leftists. Martin Bashier, recently speaking from prepared remarks on his former MSNBC show, suggested that someone defecate into Sarah Palin’s mouth, simply because she holds different opinions from Bashier and the left, left leaning MSNBC news channel. 

Bashier was eventually forced to resign but should have immediately been fired along with his producers and writers for the most vile thing I have ever heard in the political arena. This is the same “journalist” and news channel that put together a video montage of buses exploding, killing all inside in a fiery death, during the last Presidential election. This hideous video was positioned as something they would like see happen to the Romney campaign. Disgusting.

8) Former Montana Lieutenant Governor  John Bohlinger announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from Montana in early November. No big news there, another American trying to get elected to office.

But rather than focus on his abilities and skills to get things accomplished, he degenerated his announcement into yet another opportunity to slander Americans with a different view than his. During his announcement, Bohlinger disgustingly compared Tea Party Republicans to the Taliban, those religious extremists that once ran the Afghanistan government and who murder people without trials for violating the Koran and whose disdain for women’s rights, gay rights, and non-Islam rights is well known: “We need to challenge the Tea Party representatives who like the Taliban shut our country down,” Bohlinger said on Wednesday, according to the Billings Gazette, which covered the announcement. 

The paper also noted that the Montana Democrat also compared the shutdown to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Pathetic attempt at politics. 

Again, we know that the country did not shut down. More than 85% of the Federal government stayed in operation at all times. No one missed a Social Security check, no one failed to get Medicare coverage, our national defense was never threatened, etc. But rather than deal with facts, this Democrat would rather falsely persecute Americans with different ideas of what government should and should not be doing.

9) I could go on and on, left leaning political operatives and sitting politicians hurling insults and slurs at Americans who simply have a different view on issues than themselves.

Rather than engage in constructive dialog, which is much more likely to lead to constructive solutions, they would rather call others Nazis, racists, simpletons, and heartless individuals, as illustrated in this compilation of political hate speech from the left that was cataloged by the Independent Journal Review earlier this year:

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/08/72646-20-most-divisive-democrat-quotes-of-the-obama-era/24/

And it is not just Republicans and Tea Party supporters that get slandered and verbally abused. The following post, also from the Independent Journal review, points out that Democrats also bully African Americans, journalists, women, and others that dare to disagree with this administration or other Democratic Party positions:

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/03/39675-bullied-10-people-intimidated-by-the-democrat-party/7/

Through all of the insults and slander, one person has remained silent. President Obama, who is supposed to represent ALL Americans, who originally campaigned on a promise to unite the country, has stood silently by as the hate words and hatred from the liberal side of the political spectrum, his side, flew by. He has actually contributed to the vitriol, calling large segments of Americans bitter as “they cling to their guns and religion.” He has insulted large segments of Americans who happen to be global warming doubters, degrading them as flat earth believers.

And then he whines when he does not get his way from Congress. Could it be that as fellow human beings, people in Congress cannot help but get a little defensive and mad when the President of the United States allows his political operatives and Party cohorts to call Americans such a wide range of nasty, hateful names? 

I am sure that the President has endured a wide range of equally hurtful names and insults. I am sure that these names were likely racist and uncalled for. But great leaders rise above the petty and mundane and the “small” people that walk among us. They unite people despite the name calling. 

This President, and many in the Democratic/left/liberal wing of the political spectrum have refused to do so, proving again that fifty years ago that William F. Buckley was right: “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”

Unfortunately, until this President and those around him are NOT shocked and offended, until the hatred and insults stop, the ability to come together and resolve the major issues of our times will continue to be elusive.

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Retro 26 - "We Have Less and Less Say About The Shape Of Events Which Shape Our Future"

The following post was originally posted about a year and a half ago. However, all of a sudden, it has rocketed up our tracking processes to become the most popular post over the past month or so. I really do not know why but can hypothesize why it has found a new popularity: as we get further and further into this vicious, never ending, lie-infested political cycle, we realize that as people who are supposedly living in a free country, we have less and less control over our personal destinies.

Corporate, union, PAC, and lobbyist money overwhelms our political processes. Those in positions of power turn out to not be leaders but simply greedy, selfish, small individuals who happened into politics as a career rather than a calling. Adulterers, liars, incompetents, and non-problem solvers seem to be their profile rather than integrity, leaders, and problem solvers. In the entire process, we are treated not as individuals, appreciated for our diversity, but merely voters to be cajoled or destroyed, depending on our political ideas and positions.

As a result, we seem to have less and less say about our futures and our destinies, as we reviewed about 18 months ago.

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Monday, February 14, 2011

"We Have Less and Less Say About the Shape Of Events Which Shape Our Future."

The title of this post comes from a longer quote that reads as follows:

"Every year, whether the Republican or Democratic Party is in office, more and more power drains away from the individual to feed vast reservoirs in far off places; and we have less and less say about the shape of events which shape our future."

Fascinating observation and how appropriate for life in America today. Many of us have an uneasy, gnawing feeling that we are no longer the land of the free, free to do as we please and to shape our future and the future of our families as we see fit. For a nation built on the principles of freedom, liberty, and personal responsibility, this is not a healthy condition.

Many times we have pointed out the numbing fact that American government, at all levels, confiscates over 40% of our earnings every year through taxes and fees, a confiscation level that:

1.Restricts our ability to seek out and pay for the best education for our kids.

2.Restricts our ability to expand or start our own business.

3.Restricts our ability to contribute to our favorite charities.

4.Restricts our ability to live and work where we would like.

5.Restricts our ability to spend our hard earned wealth any way we would like.

6.Restricts our freedom to live our lives as we see fit, not as some politician sees fit.

You cannot have personal freedom without economic freedom. Any type of restriction is a hit to our freedom and by taking so much or our spending power in the form of taxes and fees, liberty is restricted to unheard of levels. And what do we get for these restrictions, what "vast reservoirs in faraway places" are the beneficiaries of our restricted freedom? These reservoirs are now deep, diverse, wide spread, and largely ineffective:

•Why do we still spend billions of dollars a year to garrison tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Europe, over twenty years since the Iron Curtain fell?

•Why do we still spend billions of dollars a year to garrison tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Japan, sixty six years after Japan surrendered in World War II and who has been a solid democratic country, a friendly ally, with a strong economy for decades?

•Why do we still spend billions of dollars a year to garrison tens of thousands of U.S. troops in South Korea, a country with one of the strongest economies in the world and which requires mandatory military duty, thus, having more than enough assets to protect itself from North Korea?

•Why do we still spend billions of dollars a year to garrison troops in Iraq, especially since our current President promised, but failed, during his campaign to wind down our military presence in that country?

•Why do we still give away billions of dollars every year to the agriculture industry in this country, the vast majority of which does not go to "family farmers" but ends up in the coffers of the major agricultural corporations, most of which are now enjoying recording breaking profits as world wide demand for American food products increases?

•Why did we spend billions of dollars to bailout auto companies and financial institutions whose sloppy, stupid, short sighted management was punished by the market forces and who deserved the same fate as ill performing companies received in the past: termination.

•Why do we continue to spend billions of dollars a year for various "corporate welfare" political cronyism initiatives, initiatives that are little more than a re-election campaign donation source for incumbent politicians?

•Why do we continue to spend billions of dollars a year for a mammoth government bureaucracy that is redundant, wasteful, inefficient, and largely ineffective?

•Why have we allowed so much of our wealth and freedom to migrate to far away Washington D.C., a metro area that is now home to seven of the wealthiest counties in the country?

•Why do we continue to spend billions of dollars a year to support dictatorial regimes in faraway places who are faithful to us for as long as we pay for their loyalty, at the expense of freedom and liberty within their own borders?

Why, why, why? In total, the average American receives absolutely no benefit from sending their wealth to "feed vast reservoirs in far off places," whether these places are in the Far East, the Middle East, Europe, corporate and union boardrooms, or wherever. The only Americans who benefit are the politicians that control how and how much these reservoirs receive, usually in return for some help in funding their perpetual re-election campaigns.

Thus, our freedom gets a double hit when you think about it. By using our tax dollars to feed these reservoirs, we are less able to live our lives as we see fit to to our reduced economic independence.

Second, we are usually stuck with the same, non-performing politicians since they always have a head start on campaign funding, given their reciprocal arrangements with unions, auto companies, financial institutions, agricultural corporations, etc.: they pay out taxpayer money via budget processes and earmarks to the reservoirs and the reservoir recipients are more than willing, as proven by campaign fund raising tracking, to return the favor in the form of campaign donations. This reduces our freedom of choice when it comes to our elected representatives.

That is why the fifty steps to freedom outlined in "Love My Country, Loathe My Government" are so important if we are to drain these vast reservoirs of waste and start to shape events so that we can shape our own futures as we see fit, not as the political class sees fit. This is totally consistent with the insights embedded in the above quote.

By the way, who actually penned the quote above? Was it a member of the Tea Party who realized that government was draining our wealth and our liberty at the same time? Was it a contemporary journalist who recognized what is happening in this country today? Was it a courageous and current politician who understands first hand how wasteful government is today? No, the quote actually comes from William F. Buckley, Jr., and appeared in the November 21, 2010 issue of the Washington Post, but was written ALMOST FIFTY YEARS AGO.

Even back then, the political class and the government it runs was already creating vast reservoirs and diverting our wealth and freedom to those reservoirs. Let us hope that their fifty year head start can still be overcome. If the Egyptian people, with no tradition or history of freedom, can overcome thirty years of oppression where their freedom was diverted into a vast reservoirs of a secret police state, I am sure that with our over two hundred year tradition of freedom we can eliminate our reservoirs that Buckley writes so elegantly about.

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They're Rioting In Africa...

The current upheaval throughout Africa, particularly the rioting and protests that have rocked the northern Africa nations of Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt over the past few months, have brought to mind  some old song lyrics and some old, wise sayings that are listed below. Read each of them and then try to guess who made each of the entries famous and when did they make them famous:

They're rioting in Africa, they're starving in Spain.
There's hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't like anybody very much!


But we can be tranquil, and thankful, and proud,
For mans' been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day
Someone will set the spark off, and we will all be blown away.


They're rioting in Africa, there's strife in Iran.
What nature doesn't do to us, will be done by our fellow man.


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An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth
Vote for me, and I'll set you free
Rap on brother, rap on
Well, the only person talkin'
'Bout love thy brother is the preacher.

And it seems, Nobody is interested in learnin'
But the teacher.
Segregation, determination, demonstration,
Integration, aggravation,
Humiliation, obligation to our nation.


That's what the world is today.
The sale of pills are at an all time high
Young folks walk around with
Their heads in the sky, Cities aflame in the summer time.
And, the beat goes on


Air pollution, revolution, gun control,
Sound of soul. Shootin' rockets to the moon
Kids growin' up too soon,
Politicians say more taxes will solve everything.


And the band played on
So round 'n' round 'n' round we go
Where the world's headed, nobody knows,
Oh yea, that's what the world is today.

Fear in the air, tension everywhere,
Unemployment rising fast,

And the band played on
Eve of destruction, tax deduction
City inspectors, bill collectors
Mod clothes in demand,
Population out of hand
Suicide, too many bills, hippies movin'
To the hills.


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“Every year, whether the Republican or the Democratic Party is in office, more and more power drains away from the individual to feed vast reservoirs in far-off places; and we have less and less say about the shape of events which shape our future.”

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Believe it or not, the first entry is the lyrics from a Kingston Trio hit from about five decades ago. Even back then, they were rioting in Africa, we were worried about Iran, we were worried about atomic weapons (with a primary difference we are now worried about Iran having atomic weapons), and we were worried about nature doing us in, similar to what many think will happen with global warming. Seems the more things change, the more they stay the same, fifty years later.

The second entry is a hit song from the Temptations, "Ball Of Confusion," which is over forty years old. Even back then we were arguing over taxes, gun control, drug abuse, lack of civility between fellow Americans, false promises from politicians, unemployment, failing  public schools, and kids growing up too soon. These topics could have been ripped form today's headlines and fit right in to what is happening in our country today. Seems the more things change, the more they stay the same, over forty years later.

The third entry is not a song lyric but a quote from William F. Buckley, Jr. and was written about 50 years ago. In a sense, his insight so many years ago is a link back in time to today's Tea Party Movement, a movement that is fighting to get both the rule of government and the oversized budgets of government under control, which will hopefully result in Americans getting their freedoms and liberty back. With the returned freedom, Americans can fulfill the original promise of the Constitution and be free to shape their lives as they see fit. Seems the more things change, the more they stay the same, fifty years later.

Two songs, one quote, all of which prove that the political class in this country have not really moved forward in too many ways if drug abuse, failing public schools, riots in Africa, problems with Iran, ebbing freedom, empty political promises, and lack of civility are still with us. If you look at some of the tenures of those currently serving in Washington, it is not surprising nothing has changed much since the same people that should have fixed the problems decades ago are still holding power in D.C.:

• John Dingell - 55 years of Congressional service
• Daniel Inouye - 51 Years
• John Conyers - 51 Years
• Charles Rangel - 40 Years
• Bill Young - 40 Years
• Thad Cochran - 38 years
• Pete Stark - 38 Years
• Don Young - 38 Years
• Patrick leahy - 36 Years
• Max Baucus - 36 years
• Chuck Grassley - 36 Years
• Tom Harkin - 36 Years
• George Miller - 36 Years
• Henry Waxman - 36 Years

This list does not include Robert Byrd (57 years) and Ted Kennedy (46 years), both of whom recently passed away. This does not include the countless politicians that have been in office for decades but less than 36 years. If these long serving seat holders have not solved the problems identified 40 and 50 years ago, what makes us think they will solve them in the future? Isn't it time to try some new approaches with some new folks that are not mired in the old ways operating the government?

Several steps from "Love My Country, Loathe My Government" might be a good start to flushing out the old, ineffective and trying some new, and hopefully, effective ideas and people:

1. Step 39 would install term limits so that there is a reasonable turnover of people in D.C., bringing new ideas and probably people that are better in touch with reality out in the country, outside of the Beltway.
2. Step 6 would allow only individual Americans to contribute to election campaign funds. Now, these campaign funds from individual Americans are overwhelmed with funding from corporations, unions, PACS, etc., most of whom have a vested interest in seeing incumbents re-elected and the status quo maintained. This type of money perversion results in the above dilemma where problems go unsolved for decades.
3. Step 34 would remove sitting politicians from their valued committee seats and posts when the part of the government their committee is responsible for fails at executing its duties by either wasting taxpayer funds, not delivering the mandated services, or places American lives  in danger.

These are just three of the steps needed to get a whole new mentality into our political processes so that in 50 years in the future, we as a nation are still not faced with riots in Africa, problems with Iran and the same issues quoted and sung about above from decades before.

Consider two more quotes, one prophetic from the past and one prophetic from today:

"Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana, Spanish writer and novelist, 1863 - 1952.

"It can't get any worse." - Brazilian professional clown, Tirirca, who was recently elected to the Brazilian parliament based on the above quote that was also his campaign slogan and platform.

Well, Mr. Santayana was obviously right in predicting that we in America have not learned enough to prevent the past from repeating, just ask the Kingston Trio, The Temptations, and William F. Buckley. And maybe Tirirca is on to something. How much worse could it be to get some new people into the political process and into seats of power in Washington?



Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at http://www.loathemygovernment.com/. It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.


Please visit the following sites for freedom:

http://www.cato.org/
http://www.robertringer.com
http://realpolichick.blogspot.com
http://www.flipcongress2010.com/
http://www.reason.com/
http://www.repealamendment