Baby Steps for Liberals
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I’ve always wondered how it happens. How does a person become a liberal? Or a progressive? Or a Democratic Socialist?
The easy answer is that his parents dropped him at an early age, or maybe she just wasn’t right to begin with. Whatever the cause, liberalism has failed more times than Wile E. Coyote. It makes no sense, but I remain convinced there is a cure.
You have to start with baby steps.
First, you must admit to yourself that you are a liberal. Second, acknowledge that liberalism always fails. Research it if you must, but say it out loud and believe it. Third, and most important, make a promise to yourself that you can change. And that you will. Those are the baby steps, and after that come the harder, adult steps. And before long, you’ll be able to scream: I’m liberal free!
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Of course, it’s not quite that easy.
Contrary to common sense, liberalism is almost a default position for a lot of people. It may start at home, and if so, that’s sad. But it most likely starts in school, K-12, and then picks up steam in college. In my day, secondary school wasn’t so bad. We learned boring stuff like math and history, and to be proud of being an American and a Texan. Today, of course, kids in Austin are loaded up early with left-wing garbage and, as they say, garbage in, garbage out. Remember that while your kid is being bussed to the gay pride parade.
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Even if dear old golden school days were politically neutral, left-wing college indoctrination goes back a long way. When Ronald Reagan was governor of California, the numbskulls at Berkeley were trying to take over the administration building. The Gipper was asked if he planned to negotiate with them. Reagan was miffed at the stupidity of the question. Negotiate with who? He was right.
Video: Ronald Reagan Lays Down The Law at Berkeley
However, it was not Ronald Reagan, though he remains my favorite president other than George Washington, that turned me around from my left-wing (read: stupid) college-era proclivities. No, sir! That president was James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, the peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia.
I had just graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and had spent my junior and senior years with a blend of actual studying, and playing guitar and performing folk music at Dobie (a UT dorm) and other venues around the campus. The Vietnam War was raging and I was draft age and had a medium draft number. My roommate and I played at a fundraiser for Frances “Sissy” Farenthold, a woman (God rest her soul) who was iconic to the pro-abortion community and whose political slogan was “That Lady Running for Governor.”
Video: 1972 – That Lady Running for Governor
Today, I would consider her a loon. But not then.
After UT, I moved to Dallas, married my girlfriend and worked for WFAA, KRLD, and KAAM. Dallas was then, as now, a very large city and lot of people passed through – especially in election years. I had the chance to interview Jesse Jackson, Mohammad Ali, Ted Cassidy (“Lurch”), several of the Star Trek cast, Lloyd Bentsen, John Tower, and John Connally. If you’re under forty, you can look up these people on Wikipedia.
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I never got a chance to directly interview Jimmy Carter, but I covered his campaign and a lot of his surrogates came through Dallas. I was well aware of Carter’s platform. I was just starting to vote on a regular basis, and I became a staunch Republican voter – unlike many of the people I worked with in the newsrooms of Dallas.
One of Reagan’s surrogates made a statement that Jimmy Carter’s only foreign policy experience came from breakfasting at the International House of Pancakes. I thought that was funny and it turned out to be true. Carter got into office and stood by while the Shah was deposed and the exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came into power. Iran became the Islamic theocracy that President Trump is fighting 47 years later. Carter was a nice man, but a political dunce.
There’s a great example of a colossal liberal failure. Another one is Joe Biden’s abomination known as the Afghanistan Withdrawal that made the Republican’s January 6th riot look pale by comparison.
I had Jimmy Carter to turn me around, but you may not have such a vivid example of lunacy. (Hell, you have Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Richard Blumenthal, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth “Papoose” Warren, Maxine Waters, Jamie Raskin, Al Gore, and a host of other blithering loons. Pick any of them.) And get the baby steps done. It’s time to move on.
Adult steps for liberals.
This where you look at specific issues – the ones that make a liberal a liberal. And you admit that they are illogical. And dumb. And that they NEVER work. As you might expect, there are too many nutcase liberal ideas for one column, but here are a few:
TAX AND SPEND: This is the core of what make a person a liberal. You have to tell yourself that the people can spend their own money better than the fraud-filled and wasteful federal government. Liberals don’t care. They want a bloated, all-powerful government. Keep this figure in mind: $40,000,000,000,000. That’s where the National Debt is hovering right now. To use a left-wing word, that’s not sustainable. Make yourself believe that, because it’s true.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Quick! Become a Methodist. It’s a better denomination than Climate Change and makes more sense. Tell yourself two things every morning when you get up. First, their silly record warming years of 1/1000000 of a degree are meaningless. Second, not much of good old Al Gore’s predictions ever came true. Say it to the mirror until you get it right.
TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY: Three things are impossible. (1) Faster than light speed (2) Time travel and (3) taking an already ugly male and changing him magically into an even uglier female. Did I mention this is impossible? This God that the Left doesn’t much believe in makes the rules on this one. Understand and move to the next step.
ABORTION ON DEMAND: If you’re a liberal, ask yourself what disturbs you more: murders committed by illegal aliens or the deaths of thousands of innocent human beings not yet born. If you answered the former, please see a psychiatrist no later than this afternoon. Human babies are not disposable. Not a single left-winger who supports abortion has ever been aborted. Get this straight and move to the next step.
THE WARMTH OF COLLECTIVISM: This phrase, used by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani at his inauguration is a classic of stupidity. Your assignment is to read Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, John Locke, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. If you must, read John Maynard Keynes first. No, read him last. Never mind reading Keynes; your job is to avoid dumbass economic theories.
Video: 1959 – Mike Wallace interviews Ayn Rand on Objectivism.
DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION: Ah, yes; the new racism. What matters to the modern liberal is skin color and identity – concepts virtually created to tear a country apart. DEI, while it was hot, made a lot of money for a lot of diversity pimps, but that trend is old-school now, and lots of people are stuck with useless degrees. If you have any thought that DEI is unifying rather than divisive, go see an exorcist. Never has a country or the world been caught up in so destructive a concept. Purge it from your system like you would a disease.
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You’re almost ready to teach others.
If you believe in the logic of conservative thought; the uniqueness of the American Way (taught to me at an early by a Kryptonian); the wonders of the capitalist system; the magic of compound interest; the resiliency of nature; the indomitable spirit of man and woman; and the pursuit of happiness that comes with freedom, then go ye into the cities and preach the word.
Have you completed the baby steps?
Have you done your research? Have you looked back at your own life and influences to see how you became whatever you became? Did you have role models like Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, Paul Harvey, and Rush Limbaugh? Or were you a product of Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Frances Farenthold, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Chuck Schumer?
Video: Rush Limbaugh: Why liberalism is so seductive
You CAN cast off liberalism.
We’ve demonstrated here how it can be done. So do it! Start working on it. Even the most dedicated, self-deceived and blindly obedient progressive can be cured – but only if he/she starts with those three baby steps and then moves forward with a concentrated program of facts and logic. You can do it. And when you do – when you have finally made yourself free from the miserable shackles of liberalism – I WANT TO HEAR YOU SCREAM!
Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter. Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us. Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley.
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