Convenience Store Liberals
Liberals are an Identity Group, not a political party.
Identity group? But blacks, women, gay and lesbians and so on are born that way. They don't have a choice. You aren't born to be a "liberal".
Liberals may or may not be "born that way" but implying they have a choice, implies the ability to think critically and independently. Liberals don't like to make choices-- they like to sit on the fence, trying to fit in with the people around them. They just love that word "moderate", which inevitably implies compromise, which just as inevitably means "compromised".
Both Liberals and Conservatives have a Convenience Store mentality. They don't think - they shop for ideas that fit their biases. They want convenient ideas that fit psychologies which determined by a combination of genetics and upbringing and social circumstances. Both shop in what you might call the Media Convenience store -- which packages ideas and information that sate hunger for a palatable, predigested munchies to fit your tastes for junk.
Liberals go to WaPo, the NYT, CNN, MSNBC. You know, the microwaveable spaghetti and pizzas. Conservatives to to Fox News, microwaveable hamburgers and chittos.
The Packaging may be different, as with junk foods. But it is still junk food. Still loaded with sugar, salt and various additives.
Conservatives are a bit like fat people who eat crappy fattening food and say. "It's crappy but it's American!"
Liberals try to sound "intelligent". So they quote some idiot at WaPo, who was been consistently on the wrong side of history for the last 10 or 20 years, and whose opinions when you come right down to it are actually conservative. The conservative part is like GMOs that you know are carcinogenic but, hey, it hasn't been really proven, has it? Anyway, spaghetti is Italian, right?
This approach is a lot easier than trying to find out the truth. The truth is like healthy organic tomatoes. Hard to find.
Also, the truth requires action, just as good food requires time and skill to prepare.
We are lazy.
We know that neoliberal capitalism is destroying lives worldwide and contributing to a global environmental collapse that will kill billions, including our children. Liberals could stop that by voting for people like Jill Stein and by Yellow Vests type protests, civil insurrection. But that would disrupt your TV watching schedule. Yeah, yeah, the kids will die but you're standing in front of the TV.
The answer? the Media Convenience Store. Think about that the next time you read Google News or watch CNN or MSNBC or the BBC or read an article in WaPo or the NYT or the Guardian. Babykiller.
Identity group? But blacks, women, gay and lesbians and so on are born that way. They don't have a choice. You aren't born to be a "liberal".
Liberals may or may not be "born that way" but implying they have a choice, implies the ability to think critically and independently. Liberals don't like to make choices-- they like to sit on the fence, trying to fit in with the people around them. They just love that word "moderate", which inevitably implies compromise, which just as inevitably means "compromised".
Both Liberals and Conservatives have a Convenience Store mentality. They don't think - they shop for ideas that fit their biases. They want convenient ideas that fit psychologies which determined by a combination of genetics and upbringing and social circumstances. Both shop in what you might call the Media Convenience store -- which packages ideas and information that sate hunger for a palatable, predigested munchies to fit your tastes for junk.
Liberals go to WaPo, the NYT, CNN, MSNBC. You know, the microwaveable spaghetti and pizzas. Conservatives to to Fox News, microwaveable hamburgers and chittos.
The Packaging may be different, as with junk foods. But it is still junk food. Still loaded with sugar, salt and various additives.
Conservatives are a bit like fat people who eat crappy fattening food and say. "It's crappy but it's American!"
Liberals try to sound "intelligent". So they quote some idiot at WaPo, who was been consistently on the wrong side of history for the last 10 or 20 years, and whose opinions when you come right down to it are actually conservative. The conservative part is like GMOs that you know are carcinogenic but, hey, it hasn't been really proven, has it? Anyway, spaghetti is Italian, right?
This approach is a lot easier than trying to find out the truth. The truth is like healthy organic tomatoes. Hard to find.
Also, the truth requires action, just as good food requires time and skill to prepare.
We are lazy.
We know that neoliberal capitalism is destroying lives worldwide and contributing to a global environmental collapse that will kill billions, including our children. Liberals could stop that by voting for people like Jill Stein and by Yellow Vests type protests, civil insurrection. But that would disrupt your TV watching schedule. Yeah, yeah, the kids will die but you're standing in front of the TV.
The answer? the Media Convenience Store. Think about that the next time you read Google News or watch CNN or MSNBC or the BBC or read an article in WaPo or the NYT or the Guardian. Babykiller.
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