When Liberals Get Comfortable

“Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized yesterday to U.S. military veterans who took offense at being mentioned in a domestic intelligence report that concluded that a declining economy and the nation's political climate could fuel a resurgence of right-wing extremism, saying any slight was unintended.” – Washington Post, April 17, 2009
Of course she meant no slight. She was just revealing how good liberals see the military. Is she sorry said it? Probably. Does that means she disagrees with the statement? Are you kidding? Every once in a while liberals get comfortable and some of their less tenable values slip out. It’s not just tax-and-spend that makes up their core. Here are three other quintessential liberal values.
1: The US military is a source of evil in the modern world.
President Clinton summed it up best: “I loathe the military.” People who serve in the military are not patriots, but victims of Bush’s “Worst economy in 80 years.” Having no economic opportunity they go into the military. There they are disillusioned by war and so become vulnerable to more manipulation. The military should never be deployed in war anyway because Ahmadinejad and Chavez are just misunderstood. A couple of glasses of Champaign and some nice dinner conversation ought to turn the whole thing around. Hey, it seems to work on a lot of Republicans in Washington. Let’s save the vitriol for real enemies like Rush Limbaugh.
2: Liberals are smarter than everyone else.
When gasoline was over $4 per gallon, Republicans proposed relaxing off-shore drilling restrictions. Pelosi was worried that this would increase gasoline consumption. Rather than let the vote come to the floor, she said “I have a planet to save.” Rather than present evidence that you are harming the planet with your lifestyle and convincing you to stop, she knows you are too stupid to get it. Car manufactures, now driven to the brink of extinction, have been forced to make cars you would not otherwise buy because, like a little child, you do not know what is good for you. You don’t want universal health care or cap-and-trade. Tough, we could never explain it to you because you are just too stupid to understand. Bush is despised for being too plain spoken, while Kerry is lauded for speaking in sentence so long that you got lost before finally hitting a punctuation mark. And President Obama can read from a teleprompter like nobody’s business. The measure of your intelligence is based on your aptitude for sciolistic rhetoric even if it lacks inculcation of substance. Take that!
3: Keep racism alive.
The Voting Rights Act of the 1960s was the last major piece of legislation to help minorities. This was passed with a majority of Democrats voting against it. Yet minorities in general, and blacks in particular, continue to complain about the same things for the last 40 or 50 years in spite of voting overwhelmingly for Democrats. Liberal papers publish cartoons depicting Secretary Rice as a mammy while the leader of the democrat party jokes about how 7-11 stores are overrun by Indians. Even Biden was shocked when Obama emerged as an “articulate black man.” Boy, that’s something you don’t see every day. (Maybe someone should introduce Biden to Professor Sole. That would really blow his mind.) But finally we have a black president. But why this black president? We have Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton with a ton more experience who have tried for years to win the office. And lack of experience is precisely the reason. An experienced black man could not be manipulated so easily. Do you think those white liberals on the Hill are actually going to let Obama run the government? How giddy Pelosi must have felt to realize the first major bill of the Obama administration was hers to write while Obama’s only role was to ram it through before it could be read. When Obama leaves office, the economy may be in shambles and terrorist attacks may have wiped a few more liberals off the planet but at least minority citizens will finally be happy, right?