Why Does an Epidemic
Bring Out the Worst In Liberals?
Power Line,
by
John Hinderaker
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
4/21/2020 4:45:44 AM
Over the last month or two, as the coronavirus has burst into public consciousness, we have witnessed a long-running show called Liberals Behaving Badly. Liberals like Nancy Pelosi initially pooh-poohed the virus and criticized President Trump for taking meaningful action against it by blocking travel from China. But once it became apparent that the virus would be a significant problem, they did a 180 and began to accuse Trump of not doing enough. We have all seen this ad nauseam, and there is no need to catalog thousands of instances. For an effective push-back against a ritual recitation of fake Democratic Party talking points, check out this colloquy
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/21/2020 5:04:23 AM (No. 386173)
Because big problems like a pandemic separate them from the promised utopia that got beat into their heads in college and by the msm.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
coldoc 4/21/2020 5:52:32 AM (No. 386181)
Breathing does the same thing. These are not good people.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 4/21/2020 6:16:30 AM (No. 386185)
Why? Because a crisis tests and exposes people. It brings to the surface people's inner thinking and weaknesses and strengths. Liberals are incompetent, their philosophy and ideas don't work. Liberals are intolerant because the weakness of their ideas and positions cannot stand up to questioning so those who disagree with them are excluded and attacked. Rational thinking reveals their foolishness so they appeal to emotion, but emotion cannot solve critical problems. In fact, in crisis, emotion can become a severe handicap.
A crisis also sharpens people's perception of others. Things that someone might do and be ignored are sharply perceived in a crisis. For example, dems blocking important legislation to play political games. They do it all the time. Now people think, "What the HECK are they doing?".
"Many liberals are simply hateful people" Yes, and stupid and Socialists and anti American and and exploitive and vicious and grossly incompetent and so many other things that have been pointed out over the years. It is all true and we see it now because it matters and they are desperate.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/21/2020 6:23:12 AM (No. 386190)
What doesnt bring out the worst in democrats?
They are never prepared for an actual crisis except to throw blame and the race card. When not faced with an actual crisis, they are masters at creating fake crises.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MSUDoc 4/21/2020 6:31:32 AM (No. 386199)
#3 wins “Post of the Day.”
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 4/21/2020 8:07:39 AM (No. 386233)
It's because of what St. Augustine called libido dominandi — the lust to dominate. can't make it in the private sector so you go into politics (or you work for government as a bureaucrat) with the smug satisfaction of knowing you can dominate others or you'll never be fired from your government job.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/21/2020 8:13:10 AM (No. 386239)
It's a crisis and they can't resist using it to do bad things. These people are mentally sick and personally pathetic, it's that simple! Nothing is too low for them to pull, including MURDER if they don't get their way!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 4/21/2020 8:27:56 AM (No. 386256)
Because they are the enemy at the gate and a crisis such as an epidemic is a momentary opening to sneak in under the cover of distraction. They really don't want to continue the experiment in individual liberty. That experiment deprives them of the opportunity to lord over others and confronts the vast masses of followers the comfort in the delusion that they need not take any risks or take responsibility for their own livelihood because government will take over as soon as they break from mommy's teat.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JONVIL 4/21/2020 8:36:31 AM (No. 386269)
"Why Does an Epidemic Bring Out the Worst In Liberals?"
Because there is nothing else to be found!
They are void of logic, reason, common sense and truth.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
gone2pot 4/21/2020 8:39:01 AM (No. 386272)
The lesson, though, is clear. In the past, conservatives were much too willing to give liberals a pass with regard to motivation.
No they weren't. Only RINO's and the Lincoln chalice slurping fake conservatives like Bill Kristol, the NRO and Weekly Standard crowd were and still are. "Conservative" elected Republicans still fall down, roll over and soil themselves whenever a liberal whispers boo in their ears but simply wear more Depends to try and hide it.
Trump is the first and so far the ONLY elected Republican conservative who pulls no punches and goes right to the Marxist's motivation. All other Republican "conservative" leaders, dress in pink tutu's, and with furrowed brows, still throw left handed girl pitches at Marxists, and pretend to support the president.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/21/2020 8:51:41 AM (No. 386287)
Very truthful article. We have watched liberals crying, screaming, imploding and saying crazy things since Donald Trump & The Deplorables stunned them so badly in 2016. They still haven't gotten over it and are being faced with another body slam in 2020 that will very likely reduce the democrat party to the level of the average garden snake. Many of those who cried for Hillary's humiliation now see them all as weak, pathetic and helpless. NO trick will be effective enough to restore them to power.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TCloud 4/21/2020 9:11:19 AM (No. 386316)
Eternal battle between Capitalism versus Socialism. Easy Stuff!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/21/2020 9:25:30 AM (No. 386341)
In this ongoing virus situation the leftist and liberal Democrats have no problem destroying the US economy by keeping the country shutdown indefinitely, using all sorts of complicated but bogus excuses, believing that once the economy is destroyed they will be able to invent and transform a new National economy controlled by them, into a socialist model, and political system. Today that’s what the Democrats are all about, all you have to do is listen to what the Democrats are saying to figure that out.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/21/2020 9:45:53 AM (No. 386387)
Why Does an Epidemic Bring Out the Worst In Liberals? That depends on if you want the truth or just a tactful answer. Truth: Liberals are the embodiment of evil. Tact: They are power mad.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 4/21/2020 9:47:57 AM (No. 386391)
They are hateful, angry people - it shows better under stress. And TDS makes you even stupider than you were to begin with, and since you have to be pretty stupid to buy Marx's idiot story, the extra TDS damage takes them way over the edge.
But being a 24/7 hater is the root cause of most of their problems.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
msjena 4/21/2020 9:50:43 AM (No. 386393)
Because they play to peoples' fears to get around inconvenient things like the Constitution. It was a Democrat, remember, who put US citizens in concentration camps in WWII.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/21/2020 10:00:11 AM (No. 386408)
To show you how low a liberal is when it comes to America and people who love and would defend it if the United States was attacked by Russian and China, one on each coast, (I mean physically armed land forces) the liberal left would cheer them on and then point out our military resistance. In summary liberals are cowards and natural haters of this country, it's patriots, Christians and most of all freedom and liberty. I can't say justice for all because that hasn't happened in years.
There is nothing a hating liberal won't do and a poster mentioned murder is one of them and that's a fact.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Arby 4/21/2020 10:20:34 AM (No. 386435)
Most of what liberals want to do would never pass muster with the voters. Hence they resort to all forms of chicanery to accomplish their goals. They attempt to appoint an activist judiciary; they bury their nonsense within other legislation; they use euphemisms for what they really want to do, and so on. When they're under stress (as with this epidemic) they act out and their acting out reveals who they were (and what they wanted to do) all along. A simple case in point: they identify hip and joint replacements as elective surgery, even though people might be in excruciating pain, but they exempt abortions. They invite fellow citizens to inform against one another. DiBlasio, e.g., is just doing what he's always wanted to do--control the populace, be a dictator and take them to his version of utopia, which, for most of us, would be a totalitarian hell. Liberal politics is the way in which little people can become noticed and control others.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
little guy 4/21/2020 11:05:59 AM (No. 386504)
A few good things will ultimately come out of this: a) there should be no questions from anyone on the Right --- even mildly Red Staters --- that the Left absolutely hates Trump and wishes the people who voted for him die because recent talk & behavior destroys all shadows of doubt about their hatred, b) we now see clearly how much the Left wants total control over everything. Don't give them any power ... ever ... on any level of government, c) never, ever buy anything from China again. I'll gladly pay more for clothes, television sets, tools, whatever. They should be punished in the pocketbook! and d) all "scientists" are now deeply flawed and they have proven their foolishness. They will not be able to sell "global warming", "climate change", "rising sea levels", etc. based on computer models. At least no sane person will follow them.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 4/21/2020 11:24:06 AM (No. 386538)
Maybe it's more like bringing out their true intentions?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Luckyx3 4/21/2020 11:32:11 AM (No. 386560)
the democrat platform: we're not happy till you're not happy
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Kafka2 4/21/2020 12:16:20 PM (No. 386623)
They view every crises as an opportunity obstruct all efforts to provide help so they can load up any bill with their socialist agenda that has nothing to do with helping to mitigate the crises. This is pure extortion.
Meanwhile, Pelosi is doing her "Marie Antoinette" imitation. As she refuses to help citizens who lack the means to buy food, she flaunts the them by gorging on gourmet ice cream. Deplorable!!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Watlines1 4/21/2020 4:24:23 PM (No. 386877)
Pandemic my butt. Read the 2017 stats and put things in proper perspective:
Number of deaths: 2,813,503
Death rate: 863.8 deaths per 100,000 population
Life expectancy: 78.6 years
Infant Mortality rate: 5.79 deaths per 1,000 live births
Number of deaths for leading causes of death in 2017
Heart disease: 647,457
Cancer: 599,108
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
Diabetes: 83,564
Influenza and Pneumonia: 55,672
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 50,633
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173
Deaths: Final Data for 2017, tables 1, 3, 13 pdf icon[PDF – 2 MB]
Almost three million people died in 2017 and we didn't shut down a darn thing. The top 10 causes of death are similar in 2018 and 2019. This is a Democrat-Media con job to get rid of our great president, Donald Trump. Stop buying it. Our country is dying.
Please, someone get these stats out in the public and let the sun shine on them.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Justcurious 4/21/2020 11:59:16 PM (No. 387212)
No. 9, exactly so. For RATs it's another day at the office.
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