Here’s a wonderful meme:
I have never understood a socialist who can walk into a grocery store and think, “Man, I hate capitalism.”
In a similar vein, I would add the following:
I have never understood how someone could applaud a picture of the President’s beheaded bloody head and then turn around and say, “I want a law against hate speech.”
I have never understood how someone could hear the countless news stories of shooters being stopped or shot by police and then say, “Guns are evil. I want a ban on guns. And police are all racist, too.”
I have never understood how someone could rave about their jet-fueled travel to France, the African desert, the Middle East or Russia, and then return to their comfy home in New York, Seattle, L.A., D.C. or San Francisco and declare to their cooing friends, “Fossil fuels are ruining the planet. Get rid of them now.”
I have never understood how someone could have a bumper sticker that states “Coexist” and then turn around and morally condemn anyone who disagrees with them on politics, morality or just about anything.
I have never understood how some people claim they so hate war and violence that a President should be impeached for using force against our country’s enemies, while condemnation and even legal action should be used against anyone who challenges the ideas, thinking or religious practices of those who repeatedly attack us.
I will never understand those who say they adore billionaires that support the politicians and “social justice” warriors they like, while despising the capitalist system enabling those billionaires to have billions in the first place.
I will never understand the self-righteous who claim to stand for “social justice” when the only social system ever devised that actually and factually elevates the standard of living for all — capitalism, private property, individual liberty — is the one system they most heatedly and hatefully protest.
The breathtaking levels of narcissism, evasion, and irrationally self-serving pompousness and denial required to create these widespread distortions — much less sustain and promote them over time — is not something I wish to understand. And yet it drives most of what passes for intellectual sophistication and moral righteousness in our media, political and academic culture today. And in their boneheaded and anti-intellectual arrogance, these elitists have no remote understanding why growing numbers of us are angrier than they can imagine.
If we’re to survive and flourish as individuals and a civilization, we will have to reject the ideas and attitudes of those established elites in corporate, academic and media America that too many of us have assumed to be our superiors. It’s time to stop letting blind people drive the car for us. If we don’t save ourselves, they will (before long) drive us over a cliff with their own ignorance, intellectual dishonesty and arrogance.
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