Quote:Liberalism is a disease!


But Conservatism is as well.

 

Any political affiliation can become a disease if followed like a religion, put above all else in one's existence - when you get to the point of wanting to exterminate all other viewpoints and opinions than your own. Alex Jones and Rachel Maddow are excellent examples of this.

 

It's not that either don't have points.  It's the rejection of all things opposite, and taking their points beyond the extreme (and pretending those extremes to be "normal.")  Waging societal war based on politics, and making every single facet of life a political crusade.  In a phrase, political activism.  It's hard to find a single activism initiative that isn't over the top from any point in the spectrum.

 

To recruit for war, you must recruit and create soldiers who will die for the cause.  Unfortunately too many people in today's society have sold their souls for their religion of politics and have dedicated themselves to destroying their perceived enemy by any means necessary.

 

Alinsky wrote the book teaching the left how to do this.  How to disrupt by recruiting and engaging mobs.  But the problem is, your intended audience isn't the only that reads such manuals.  The right is now fighting fire with fire, after realizing the rules of engagement had changed (that there are no longer rules, civilized discourse and common sense is dead - the squeakiest wheel, not the brightest ideas, can rule by brute force.)

 

People will have to choose civility and real, honest debate again before things will change for the good.  Otherwise... mob rule.  Idiocracy.

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