Liberals are never scared to speak
up. Why are conservatives?
Washington Examiner,
by
Eddie Scarry
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/26/2020 5:03:54 PM
A handful of friends and I have spoken privately about the crippling anxiety apparently only experienced by independents and right-leaners when politics comes up in a social setting. Right up until now, it was just a theory.A new study confirms what we suspected all along: Liberals really do feel like they can spew their thoughts freely, while everyone else quivers with fear that anything they say might offend.The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, published a study this week showing that overall, 62% of people in the United States believe that the current “political climate” keeps them from sharing their political opinions. Broken down by ideology, however, self-identified liberals and
Reply 1 - Posted by:
marbles 7/26/2020 5:10:00 PM (No. 491319)
Because the left has no rules, not about behavior, or language or tactics or ethics. Not that the conservatives are pure, far from it. They seem to have a fear of not being liked. The left will never like the people they want to obliterate.They don't even like their base BUT they always stand with the elected members of their party.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Catherine 7/26/2020 5:19:42 PM (No. 491324)
The left are like feral animals. No limits or boundaries. They are animals. Conservatives did have a better upbringing, we were taught rules to live by and we have accepted them. I could no more stand in the street and start a fire or scream epithets or riot, yet it's nothing to the paid rioters from the left. Maybe our sense of behavior will be our downfall.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/26/2020 5:20:32 PM (No. 491326)
Liberals are deranged lunatics. If you offend one nowadays they will track you down and Molotov your house and kill your dog. Sooner or later we will have to roll the dice and start shooting them. Once somebody breaks the ice, others will do the same.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 7/26/2020 5:21:17 PM (No. 491328)
I do not quiver in fear. I am a conservative woman in Massachusetts. I speak my mind. Then I tell them not to make me feel threatened as a political minority and to celebrate my diversity.
I also relish flipping off protesters and their stupid signs. They are stunned. I tell them my middle fingers are mobile protest signs.
By saying nothing you allow them to be live you agree with them. They think you are one of them. Your silence condemns you.
Stand up, speak out and fight back. It's invigorating. Do it for the cause.
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JayD 7/26/2020 5:22:21 PM (No. 491329)
Let's see... I don't want my tires slashed, my car keyed, my house burned down... I don't want myself or my friends to be physically assaulted, I don't want people screaming at me. There are too many leftists that have no inhibitions about acting out on their delusions. Is that reason enough? Just asking.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 7/26/2020 5:24:05 PM (No. 491333)
because the Left Wing MSM has the goods on them..
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
OhioNick 7/26/2020 5:29:42 PM (No. 491339)
The headline reminds me a comment a liberal made at the Daily Mail a month ago. He was complaining that there's riots, violence and unrest only when we have a Republican president. He couldn't fathom the notion that Republicans don't riot when they're out of power -- that's a Democratic thing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 7/26/2020 5:30:01 PM (No. 491340)
"You have made enemies? Good, it means you have stood up for something at sometime in your life".
Winston Churchill
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Trump, the prototypical “Zero F’s Given!” individual, should be our template in life. F Liberals, or those who wish to denigrate us. I was always taught to kick a bully in the proverbial nards....HARD!
Trump never lays down like the effete Dubya and the triply-gay Pierre Delecto and takes it, lubeless, from the Left. He hammers the F out of them, so like the puzzies these bullies are, they revert to victim hood status.
So should we.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
starboard 7/26/2020 5:36:34 PM (No. 491346)
Most liberals I know are Godless.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TXknitter 7/26/2020 5:48:09 PM (No. 491356)
Unfortunately, #5, in super red parts of my state, there were no tire slashings or keying Republican cars yet people STILL hesitated to put out many Trump/Pence 2016 signs or say much publicly about the election. I was really stunned at the cowardice - so imagine what its like this election. Democrat businesses were in your face voting for Hillary. Republican businesses so worried they might lose a democrat sale they were muzzled. Whatever the reason, young conservatives are not fooled. They know whatever reason their GOP elders use, its plain old fear. We tell them to stand up for right and they see pastors and good citizens in their town fall silent in the face of evil. Not a very good example. Its part of the reason we are in this mess.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
judy 7/26/2020 5:54:29 PM (No. 491366)
The left has abccbsnbccnnmsnbc, newspapers, magazines. Hollywood, NY Times, WP, sports...soooo the conservatives are lead to believe no one likes Trump......wrong....20% do not rule the country
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chumley 7/26/2020 6:04:31 PM (No. 491369)
By all means denigrate those who value their property, their jobs, their homes and their lives. After all, their lives must mean nothing because you dont value them. An effective counter attack would be unlikely because your government would arrest anyone on our side who might survive.
So sit behind your keyboard and belittle me. Complain that not enough people are willing to die for you. Dont organize. Dont inspire. Just complain.
Meanwhile I am armed, trained, and prepared to react if forced to. But only if forced to.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TXknitter 7/26/2020 6:10:15 PM (No. 491377)
Nobody is trying to belittle anyone. We are all trying to figure things out. We are all locked, loaded and praying for the best.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
FunOne 7/26/2020 6:12:05 PM (No. 491378)
It is a total waste of time to attempt to debate a liberal. They can't except facts or historic record. Their only point is how they FEEL. When they realize that they are in over their head, they conclude the debate by calling you a "racist", which seems to make then feel superior.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/26/2020 6:15:43 PM (No. 491381)
Leftists are never scared to speak because they know that conservatives and independents are decent human beings who won’t assault them for their views.
I think the best response is to laugh at them and walk away. Alinsky said that ridicule is one of the most powerful weapons.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NancyD 7/26/2020 6:16:28 PM (No. 491383)
My Conservative friends tell me not to say anything because it will upset the lib friends. I do not listen to their advise, I speak my mind, I tell the truth and I can back up everything I say with facts. We have family that are flaming libs and I will not hold my tongue if they are spewing their BS, if they open their mouths, all bets are off.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
curious1 7/26/2020 6:17:38 PM (No. 491385)
#13, good position to take as an individual in polite society.
But our society as a whole, letting her mortal enemies (and yes, that's what these domestic enemies of the constitution are) pick the time and place, is both bad strategy and bad tactics, IMHO. They all need to be driven into the ground like a tent stake. Six feet under they can't overthrow our Republic.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
smsnod 7/26/2020 6:19:11 PM (No. 491386)
They are completely different kinds of people.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 7/26/2020 6:33:56 PM (No. 491398)
After some liberal crazie gets up in your face spitting with rage, ranting all kinds of lunatic beliefs that no amount of facts will convince them aren't true, you realize that there's no point in bothering. They don't want a discussion, they want to vent and have you agree with them. I just change the subject. One of the nice things is they're like toddlers and are easily distracted by something shiny.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Quigley 7/26/2020 6:36:31 PM (No. 491401)
Because liberals are unhinged psychotics. They’re burning cities nightly.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Mushroom 7/26/2020 6:45:50 PM (No. 491410)
#5 and #13 touched on my theory of why Conservatives don't speak up.
We aren't playing from the same rule book. Ours has limits on the physical nature of a disagreement. Apparently a substantial number of the socialist/communist camp do not UNLESS it is against them. They hold us to the rules that they ignore.
Some have posted that they are noted for accusing us of things they are or plan to do. Same thought process.
I am more than willing to have an honest, factual, discussion with the other side. But they just don't want to play by the same rule book. Much like the massive number of meetings between staffs prior to debates! I mean, come on, stand up, sit down...don't care, just talk facts. Let's get these platforms out for us to examine.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
janjan 7/26/2020 6:45:56 PM (No. 491412)
I mainly don’t talk to liberals and I certainly don’t argue with them. They make my head hurt. But if they want to get in my face I can be fairly skilled at verbal assault.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Faithfully 7/26/2020 6:51:55 PM (No. 491416)
If the police are on "stand down" orders not to protect the cities, what protected do conservatives have?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/26/2020 7:48:08 PM (No. 491443)
Is it because liberals do not care if they are right or wrong, since being loud is the point. Conservatives would rather be right than president.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Hard Nard 7/26/2020 7:53:29 PM (No. 491446)
Could be because if you express an opinion contrary to what lib/dim/prog/commies believe you are exposing yourself to, the very least. public ridicule and humiliation. At worst your life and the life of your loved ones may be in danger as would be your property. And since these animals have the blessing of the left you'd have no recourse.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
bubby 7/26/2020 8:27:53 PM (No. 491466)
Because conservatives don’t threaten liberals with violence when they speak up!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/26/2020 8:29:04 PM (No. 491467)
Because they don't believe in what they say and have no moral grounding.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 7/26/2020 8:37:42 PM (No. 491473)
Well, part of why the Dem/Left gets away with total license in their verbiage is that they never "get a taste of their own medicine." or rarely. And when they do, they squeal like pigs, and whine, and cry, and scream "racist. sexist...blah blah blah..." If they were shouted down, or their signs stolen or trashed or their vehicles keyed, perhaps they might not be so quick to use the old thuggish tactics the left uses IN THE BEGINNING before the iron fisted tactics are employed.
They are bullies because the media allow them to go about their mayhem unmolested by the facts and truth: exposure.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 7/26/2020 9:17:42 PM (No. 491508)
I think the reasons are simple.
"Conservatives respect other human beings - "liberals respect no one or no thing." is reason number 1.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Safari Man 7/26/2020 9:45:09 PM (No. 491524)
Violent retribution. Tell a liberal your opinion, you're likely to suffer some violent reaction or at least the cancel culture. You have to do a cost-benefit analysis. Being quiet is a way to let the libs win, but there's always the hope that we can beat them at the ballot box and enjoy the look of surprise on their faces (see Nov 9, 2016).
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Shells 7/26/2020 10:01:03 PM (No. 491529)
As a conservative who, until a year ago, has only lived in deep blue states, I’ve never been afraid to speak up and challenge liberal idiocy. I don’t particularly care whether people I have no respect for like me or not.
But what used to be an exhausting exercise in futility (liberals are incapable of learning - they’re really, really stupid), has now become dangerous.
They’re lunatics. They’re enraged animals. I don’t want them living in my beloved country any more.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
chase9365 7/26/2020 10:12:01 PM (No. 491534)
Because leftys are psycos that will mace you or key your car or stab you or shoot you when you don't agree with them. That is why we don't speak up. We will speak up this November and the left will lose their minds.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/26/2020 10:22:16 PM (No. 491539)
Evil always screams the loudest. Right doesn't have to. However, we can no longer be quiet. We don't have to scream like banshees and act the fool, but it's past time to get crunk. At least have a response.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
NYbob 7/26/2020 11:41:02 PM (No. 491556)
Depends on the liberal. I haven't actually had to go toe to toe with a physical threat, but I'm all in on that if that is what they want. Most times I'm prepped for a 7 for 1 situation. You really kind of have to be these days, if you are a Polar Bear.
Other times when they stop to take a breath after they have spewed all the Trump is insane cliches, I say, 'yes, but what really alarms me and it should alarm you, is having an FBI and other Federal agencies with no oversight, fabricating evidence and railroading any citizen they don't like.' I point out that I have had a long repulsion to lifelong parasites in government who have never had a real job in their lives, but end up as multimillionaires on a government salary.' I point out that I am very happy with a Bull in the China shop of DC corruption and the fact that he donates his salary makes it sweeter. They always are at a lose for words after that.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Poliskeptic 7/27/2020 12:22:22 AM (No. 491572)
7/18 John Feehery,
The Trump voter knows the risks of being a Trump voter. They see what happens to people who wear MAGA hats or have Trump stickers on their cars. They know what happens when they say too much on social media and they know what can happen to people who say what they really believe.
So they keep their mouths shut. But they are going to vote this fall. They can’t wait to vote this fall.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
biffer 7/27/2020 9:50:01 AM (No. 491833)
#5, #22, #34. Their cause comes first.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Miss Lamb Chop 7/27/2020 10:30:24 AM (No. 491881)
Easy, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to keep my job for a few more years. (Family’s) been here since 1906). We’re all conservative and not leaving Reagan Country! There are more conservatives than you’d imagine. They Dems are great cheaters.
Fortunately we can afford to live here.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
DVC 7/27/2020 4:59:00 PM (No. 492287)
Because leftists will get you fired. Now that I am retired, I will not be silenced and I will say whatever it right and true.
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