Here we see Hillary Clinton issuing the order to put all conservatives in internment camps,
where they will only know oppression and year-round sports.
This. Is. Awesome.
What do conservatives think of liberals today?
Here’s the view from the Heritage Foundation: Liberalism creates self-indulgent, licentious hedonists willing to cede every other kind of freedom to an increasingly authoritarian government.
It's an actual Heritage Foundation event in which they try to parse out what liberalism is and where it's headed. Because it is the Heritage Foundation, they manage to combine pure ignorance of the subject matter with wild-eyed suppositions about what the truth
probably is, if they could ever work up the nerve to peek out from the little forts they have made under their desks.
“Give up your economic freedom, give up your political freedom, and you will be rewarded with license,” said Heritage’s David Azerrad, describing the reigning philosophy of the left. “It’s all sex all the time. It’s not just the sex itself—it’s the permission to indulge.”
Well, of course. When liberals demand the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, it is about The Sex. When liberals opine that perhaps the United States economy would be vastly improved by modernizing our transportation and utility infrastructures, it is really because we want to be able to travel faster to The Sex. When we suggest that perhaps we ought to do something more substantive about child poverty than suggesting the little tykes get factory jobs, it is because we are trying to impress potential mates with our elegant hooting vis-a-vis our child-rearing potential, aka The Sex. No doubt.
Oh, but there's so much more (below the fold):
[Liberals] think that those who disagree with them ought “to imprisoned—not to be debated, to be locked up on criminal charges and imprisoned,” said the National Review’s Kevin Williamson, citing stray calls from the left to “arrest climate change deniers.”
That's not fair, we only
really want to imprison National Review writers, and really only the ones that write those terrible movie reviews. Is that National Review? I forget.
Technology-driven popular culture helped liberals lull the masses into complacency, Azerrad continued, citing iPhones, Google Glass, massive multi-player online video games, and “year-round sports” as among the distractions that have left society vulnerable to political and economic servitude.
You had me until "year-round sports." I get the iPhones and the online video games, but if "year-round sports" is truly a sign of the upcoming dystopia, I for one will be very surprised.
“The left is intellectually dead, and where it’s heading towards is authoritarianism,” said Williamson, citing a Gawker blog post making the case for arresting climate change deniers and a “hate-filled angry crowd, screaming in rage” attending the People’s Climate Rally in New York City, as among the signs of oppression. (“As you know from history, the kind of thing that has ‘the people’s’ appended in front of it, genocide is just around the corner,” he quipped earlier.)
The People's Climate Rally is evidence of the authoritative oppression of conservatives? The group that showed up with flowers, multicolored signs, a guy in a polar bear outfit and a 10-foot tall puppet in order to demand that the nations of the world pay attention to rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns—they represent the face of the new genocide? You poor dear. Show me where the giant puppet touched you, Kevin. (As for Gawker's role in the upcoming Purging of The True Political Faith, I'll give you that one. When future history books are written, entire chapters will be devoted to the impact of various Gawker articles on world affairs.
The day Gawker wrote a mean story about Bill O'Reilly, one chapter will be titled, and it will include graphic images of bodies burning in the streets.)
Azerrad equated liberalism with the dystopian future of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” “The dictator will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile the subject to their servitude which is their fate,” he said, quoting Huxley. “What a luminous description of the inner logic of liberalism,” he continued.
Liberals are also notorious book-burners, so I'm surprised this fellow could get his hands on a tract as dangerous as
Brave New World. He must have tucked it under his coat while the rest of us were off engaged in year-round sports.
I believe what we see here is that when you gather a collection of conservative think-tank experts in a room and ask them to share their hard-won expertise on something, you will end up with (1) a gaggle of people so uninformed and intellectually incurious that they cannot be bothered to learn the first things about the actual subject matter they are supposedly expressing expertise on and who simultaneously (2) suffer from a collection of paranoias so severe that every web article, hobby and public event is considered harbinger of imminent oppression and yet (3) get paid in accordance to how loudly they can make pronouncements on both, so they're going to keep talking, damn it.
Oh, but the Heritage Foundation are no doubt crackerjack policy experts when it comes to fossil fuel depletion or climate change or How to Totally Not Bankrupt Kansas. (Now if you'll excuse me I think I sprained both eyes, they were rolling so hard. Thank God for Obamacare, am I right?)