With the right perspective, almost anything can be understood as it really is. It’s just a matter of finding the right perspective.
Take this list of what it takes to be a liberal….
18 WAYS TO BE A GOOD LIBERAL
1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.
2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.
3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists.
4. You have to believe that there was no art before federal funding.
5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical changes in the earth’s climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV’s.
6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial, but being homosexual is natural.
7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.
8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can’t teach 4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
9. You have to believe that hunters don’t care about nature, but PETA activists do.
10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make “The Passion of the Christ” for financial gain only.
12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Edison. (I had to google the first two names. The last three I’d be amazed if any American did NOT know.)
15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.
16. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn’t worked anywhere it’s been tried is because the right people haven’t been in charge.
17. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag queens and transvestites should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
18. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right-wing conspiracy.
Perspective. Quod erat demonstratum.
When taken as a whole like this, liberalism seems fairly stupid on it’s face. The task of liberals then, is to constantly dissect it down to where each of these 18 standard points of liberalism is broken down into several indistinct parts, so that if the liberal brings up a sliver of liberalism, and gets roundly defeated, the whole of liberalism is not then brought into doubt.
Keep this list. It stands as solid proof that the sum equals it’s parts, and the equation can of course, always be stated backwards, so the parts equal the sum.
Liberalism is irrational.
You’ve been taught, now YOU are the master. Go forth and teach others.