Here’s a new accusation hurled by leftists against those with whom they disagree: “Your views are irresponsible.”
For example: “Failing to believe Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers is irresponsible.”
Not irrational. Not illogical. Not unsupported by facts…but “irresponsible”.
What does this mean?
I thought a lot about it. And then I realized, we have to look at this psychologically, not only ideologically.
Ideologically, leftists are always whining about how we are all each other’s keepers. Of course, leftists and Democrats are some of the most intolerant and unkind people on earth, as their treatment of Brett Kavanaugh—guilty until proven innocent, and even then still guilty—proves.
They could not care less about his children, or what they have to go through because of their totally unfounded claims against him. Kavanaugh’s children are just collateral damage on the road to utopia– which I suppose means a Hillary Clinton or a Bernie Sanders presidency, and a Supreme Court dominated by Communist-fascist-collectivists who hate capitalism and the Bill of Rights.
Psychologically, there’s another element. Leftists feel anxiety and rage about the fact others have different views from them. It frightens and angers them that people disagree with them on political or other ideological matters.
So when a leftist claims you’re being “irresponsible”, what they’re really saying is, “You’re not honoring your responsibility to your fellow man to shut up.”
Remember that “responsible” implies responsible TO something or someone. If you agree to take a job, then you’re responsible for promising to do what you said you would do, and what you’re paid to do. If you sign papers taking ownership of a house, then you’re responsible for making that monthly mortgage payment. Ditto for rent payments. If you sign a contract, you’re obliged to uphold what you promised in the contract. Your word should matter too—most of all, to yourself.
When a leftist whines that you’re being “irresponsible” for having any views he or she does not like, it’s like he’s saying, “You’re not being responsible, because you’re saying upsetting things.” Upsetting to whom? To the leftist.
But the leftist also insists that we are all each other’s keepers, that we all have a moral obligation to take care of one another, no matter what. “If you have more money than I do, then you are obliged to give me enough of that money so (ideally) we are equal.”
It’s similar with views and ideas. “If you have ideas that I don’t like, ideas that make me uncomfortable—ideas whose logic I cannot counter—then you are obliged to take care of me by toning down or, better yet, shutting up.”
It’s the responsible thing to do, according to their warped perspective.
Calling people “irresponsible” for believing Brett Kavanaugh, or for holding any other view or opinion a leftist dislikes, is yet another tactic of intimidation and manipulation. It’s the tactic of people who reason and “think” solely with emotions, and nothing else.
It fits with their ideology. “We are all each other’s keepers” is what they preach. Yet under such a philosophy, there will always be keepers and the KEPT. The KEPT selfishly benefit from the sacrifices or gifts of the keepers. That means the KEPT are violating the very ideology that entitles them to the freebies.
Think about that for a moment. Do you see the contradiction? If I GIVE my stuff to you because it’s selfish (and therefore bad) of me to keep it, then aren’t YOU being selfish by taking it?
Contradictions make people anxious, and in their anxiety they often become irrational, intolerant, hysterical and all the other things we now routinely see in Democrats and leftists. They will shriek to the end that it’s all Donald Trump’s fault for making them feel that way.
It has nothing to do with Donald Trump. It’s ALL due to their mistaken, contradictory and implausible ideas.
If you want to understand how half of the country has gone insane, this is a major reason why.
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