In 2005
Michael Savage wrote a bestselling book entitled “Liberalism is a Mental
Disorder.” A lot of people probably
dismissed it as right-wing hyperbole, just a bit of mean-spirited name calling
to attract attention for the book; but anyone who’s listened to Savage even
once understands that there was no facetious intent in the title
whatsoever. He was dead serious and furthermore,
he was dead right.
Though I
have never read the book, the title struck home with me because it finally
answered the question that conservatives have been asking each other for as
long as I can remember: Why?
Why do
liberals do the things they do? Why do
they hate the U.S. but love Cuba? Why do
they encourage behaviors that create dependency? Why do they deprive themselves of critical
water for the sake of an inconsequential fish? Why were they outraged by
accusations of sexist jokes by Clarence Thomas but unmoved by allegations of
rape and molestation against Bill Clinton?
The inconsistencies and
self-destructive positions have left us scratching our heads for decades, but it
all makes sense when you understand that liberalism is a mental disorder. Then the question becomes, what is the nature
of this disorder and how did they get it?
I don’t know what Mr. Savage ascribed it to in his book but I have my
own theory and to understand it we need to go back to grade school.
There is
probably not a day that goes by when I don’t witness the misbehaviors of
liberals and I am transported back in time to my grade school days where
memories of similar behaviors by long lost classmates evoke disturbing
parallels. As I watched the recent riots
in Baltimore and Ferguson, for instance, I remembered the senseless - albeit
less viciously destructive - vandalism that was the plague of every school when
I was growing up. It seems the ability
to destroy what others have built gives some children a sense of power and that
mentality carries through to adulthood.
I recall the
physical and psychological bullying that went on in school. Now I see leftists hang Sarah Palin in
effigy, I see shop owners chased out of business when they won’t bend to the
Left’s will, I see leftwing news editors posting the home addresses of
law-abiding gun owners in their newspapers to intimidate them, and I see a supposedly
good-hearted liberal (Joy Behar) taunting conservative Sharron Angle with the
words, “Come here, bitch! Come to New York and do it!" on national TV. Yet it is conservatives, we are always told,
who are the bullies. As a student I
watched with dismay as the teachers and administrators - all liberals - ignored
bullying while giving phony lip-service to how “bullying won’t be tolerated;” And
as an adult it’s Déjà vu
all over again as the leftwing media pays no attention whatsoever to an endless
parade of liberal bullying even while they wring their hands and wrinkle their
brows over bullying in our schools.
Today, when
I see gaudy gay pride parades, “environmentalists” protesting to save the Delta
smelt or Dennis Rodman flying his entourage to North Korea to show us he can make
nice with tyrants, I remember my school days when some kids would do just about
anything for attention.
When I hear liberals
like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton loudly proclaiming that they “accept full responsibility”
for failures occurring on their watch but then they subsequently bristle at any
suggestion of actually accepting blame
or consequences, I am reminded of
school kids who were quick to embrace the more rewarding aspects of adulthood (dressing,
smoking, swearing, sex, etc.) but disinclined to accept the responsibilities
that go with it. Children often know how
to say things to sound like adults,
but rarely do they know how to actually be
the adults.
When Barbara
Streisand swooned to Oprah about how “swell” Bill Clinton was and when record
millions of Democrats converged on D.C. for the privilege of witnessing the
coronation of the “first black president,” I recalled my school days when elections
rewarded personal popularity and outer image over substance and achievement.
When I
recall the cruel peer pressure in grade school and the punishment of non-conforming
kids who were labeled “geeks” and “nerds,”
I am immediately reminded of today’s battle over “climate change,” and
how scientists and others who won’t conform to the Left’s agenda are ridiculed
and stigmatized as “deniers.”
I remember
how some kids would receive poor grades, and rather than take an honest assessment
of their own failures, would declare that their teachers “hate them.” Fast forward to the adult world where liberals
blame their failures and bad behaviors on racism, homophobia, sexism or partisanship.
I recall how
in grade school teachers had to continually monitor the halls, the cafeteria
and the playground because too many kids still lacked the maturity to be
trusted to follow the rules. Now I see
that the rules still don’t apply to liberals
like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
In school I
remember being puzzled by the kids who were mean and rejecting to many of their
classmates but who would anxiously raise their hands to give smiling, text-book
perfect answers on how to ‘make the world a better place.’ The teacher would pat their little heads and
give them their gold stars, after which these same kids would go to recess and
resume their mean-girl (or mean-boy) ways, oblivious to the gross contradiction. Fast forward to adulthood, and I see the very
same behavior acted out over and over by the Left, who are always given the
presumption of being kindly, big-hearted, open-minded supporters of free speech
despite the reality of their behaviors. Actress
Julia Roberts sneeringly quipped that, “Republican comes in the dictionary just
after reptile and just above repugnant,” and yet a drooling reporter from The Washington Post tells us, “…there's just something
about Roberts's infectious enthusiasm and spirit that defies dislike.” Isn’t that special? Martin Bashir called Sarah Palin "America's
resident dunce" and a "world-class idiot" and suggested she
should have to eat feces because she had the audacity to compare saddling our
children with massive debt to slavery, but if you ask him why he’s a liberal he
will tell you it’s because he believes in free speech and conservatives are
mean. Oh, and we should see no irony in
kindhearted, feminist-supporter Ed Schultz calling Laura Ingraham a “right-wing
slut,” or in how much his insult amused those righteously liberal ladies of
“The View.” The inability to see the disconnect
between what they say and what they do is a trait some liberals just never outgrow.
Back in
school we rebelled against our parents, dismissing their experience and advice
in the mistaken belief that defiance equals independence; but when we played
with matches and were burned, had sex and became pregnant or drove recklessly and
hurt others, we learned the value of their experience and guidance. Now, conservatives are the adults and liberals
are the rebellious children who balk at the traditions and rules that evolved from
generations of experience and hard-learned lessons. Like children, they insist on being burned
before they will believe that playing with fire is dangerous, only now we all
get to feel the pain.
Liberalism
is the absence of mental maturity. It
requires that one’s ego be gratified at any cost. A century ago the disease of liberalism had
difficulty spreading because there were natural deterrents in the form of logical
consequences to liberal behaviors and because Americans believed in their
rights and wouldn’t allow those consequences to spill over onto them. Over time, however, little by little, liberals
have managed to change that, and the disease has spread like any other disease
that thrives when it learns how to get past the body’s natural defenses. The cure is the same as it is for the spoiled
child who has become a brat. You stop
spoiling him and make him suffer the consequences of his actions as nature
intended. The question is, are we too
late to stop the epidemic?
~CW
