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2010-04-16 Home Front: Culture Wars

Narcissism, Power, Fear of Death, and Liberalism

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Posted by Mike 2010-04-16 10:56|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 I always thought many far-lefty's have a weird case of acute co-dependency issues - the need to be needed - hence their obsessions w/helping as many zero-liability voters as possible through gov't largesse and fiscal malfeasance.

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-04-16 11:53|| 2010-04-16 11:53|| Front Page Top

#2 It's not the helping, it's the BEING SEEN helping.

As anyone with a basic knowledge of economics knows government is a transfer agency so when it helps one it generally harms another.

The more the state helps one group, the more it harms another.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-04-16 11:57|| 2010-04-16 11:57|| Front Page Top

#3 this latest edition "puts the spotlight on the therapist's role and responsibility to promote issues of diversity, social justice...

'Social Justice' has become a code-phrase for a virulent system of command-equality that does not blush at the most outrageous tyrannies.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-04-16 15:20|| 2010-04-16 15:20|| Front Page Top

#4 This is an old phenom that goes back to the late 1800s/turn of the century and the original progressive movement's "social gospel." Educated, religious protestants fearing the loss of their faith and transferring their piety and good works instincts into political-social reform campaigns of one kind or another.

Funny how the class enemy of these types doesn't seem to change: rising numbers of politically assertive, less-educated urban Catholics in the early 1900s, and large numbers of conservative, politically powerful evangelicals today.

This is as much about class as about ideas or ideology.

Posted by lex 2010-04-16 15:23|| 2010-04-16 15:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Funny how the class enemy of these types doesn't seem to change:

That's certainly an amusing thought when coupled with the claim I heard on NPR this morning that as a group the Tea Partiers are more highly educated and better paid than the general population.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-16 22:29|| 2010-04-16 22:29|| Front Page Top

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