In this political climate, bashing people with opposing ideologies is the standard. Conservatives bash liberals and liberals bash conservatives. Actually, I take that back. Although conservatives bash liberals, all liberals are always polite and we are all accepting of people with opposing views. You see, if you want to be arrogant, all you have to do is bash a group, play up every negative stereotype you can think of, assign those negative traits to every single person in the group, and then voice your superiority by claiming that you have all the favorable human traits that they lack. Conservatives do this to liberals. Liberals
allegedly do this to conservatives. Libertarians do this to both liberals and conservatives. That's why libertarians are twice as arrogant. Now why would I think libertarians are arrogant? Take a guess:
John Stossel
libertarian, professional whiner
You see, here's how you play the game. You find one person the group, assert that he or she has a certain negative characteristic, and imply that everyone in the group must therefore have the same negative characteristic. By the way, that's not Magnum in the picture above. I'm just saying that because a lot of people get them confused.
Since libertarians bash liberals and conservatives, it is imperative that liberals and conservatives join forces to hurl invective at libertarians. It's only fair.
The first thing we have to do is attack these people who identify themselves as libertarians, but don't know a damn thing about libertarianism. These are people who think Ron Paul is a libertarian. Reality: The "R" at the end of Ron Paul's name (as in "Ron Paul-R") does not stand for "Libertarian." These folks tend to speak in talking points. "Less government!" "Government is the problem!" "America is becoming a nanny state." "It's not the government's job to provide you with highways and bridges!" But when you ask the about specifics, "What is the Libertarian Party's view on...?" they usually answer with, "Uh...." They can't tell you the names of any of the Libertarian candidates they have voted for. What's the deal?
These posers only claim to be libertarians because they think it's cool. Unbelievable. Yes, it's so unbelievable that they actually think that being a libertarian is cool. They want to be part of what they perceive is a counterculture. They think it will make them seem more interesting to others. That's unbelievable, too.
Then, there are your real libertarians...and this brings us back to arrogance. Now why would I think that libertarians are arrogant? Well, let's see. They think they are the only ones who truly understand and respect the Constitution. They think they have been enlightened with esoteric knowledge that most of us are too narrow minded to understand. You see, the rest have bought into an ideology and we can't think for ourselves. Although they agree with everything in the Libertarian Party's platform without exception, they're not ideologues. They make up their own minds and, wow, what a coincidence, their opinions just happen to match up perfectly with those of the Libertarian Party. Then again, these are the libertarians who think that 60 percent of our tax money goes to people who are too lazy to work and 39 percent goes to government employees. But, then again, don't they also think that government employees fall into the same category as people who are too lazy to work?
And have you ever noticed how often libertarians use the words "I" and "my"? "I don't want the government to take my money and give it to lazy people." "I don't want the government to pass laws that take away my rights." Okay. So. When a law is passed, it impacts libertarians worse than it does other people. We mustn't let libertarians know our little secret, which is, they are the only ones who pay taxes. Every time April 15 rolls around, the rest of us stay inside parked cars outside post offices around the United States, drink beer, and laugh at those silly libertarians rushing to get their tax returns mailed out before midnight.
I doubt that this blog will earn me any new enemies. Even though they will take this blog entry way too seriously and get offended, Libertarians already hate me. When someone on Facebook blocks me, it's always some tight-ass libertarian who doesn't understand my sense of humor. That's the problem. Libertarians have no sense of humor. "Oh yeah? What about Drew Carey?" you might ask. Like I said, libertarians have no sense of humor. And I think I've promoted enough negative stereotypes for one day. But there's always tomorrow.
Love and Light,
Lorenzo
