This post will certainly disappoint my narrow minded liberal friends, but as most of them have known for a very long time disappointing others has never been a problem for me when first they disappoint me! That is what they have been doing in recent years with their soft on crime attitudes, their zeal for attention getting and all of those guilt trips they have been inviting me go on with them that I refused to book.
It is no secret (if anyone was paying attention) that our teachers in the middle 20th century were liberal minded people that encouraged their young flocks to listen to them, to our parents, and to abide by the golden rule. Those liberals also led us to believe that it was wrong to either burn or otherwise desecrate the American flag but instead led us to pledge allegiance to it every morning with one hand held against our heart. They encouraged if not insisted that we love and honor our country instead of speaking out against it or flat trashing what it stands for every time our government becomes new people that don't always hold with the same truths as the one it replaces in each election cycle or when it isn't focusing only on us.
My teachers even led us in morning prayer before the start of class although that too ended before I finished elementary school. But I know they were all mostly liberals because education in America seems to attract mostly liberal thinkers especially in public schools systems. If you know a teacher or someone that sits on a school board I would wager heavily that person uses mostly the left side of their brain when they speak.
(More now than ever before!)
Liberal thinking in the 21st century has totally redefined an entire national political party and changed how it defines democracy. I hold to what I was taught and what made sense to me when I was learning from them a half century ago and I reject most if not all of their redesigned platforms that only make life easier for boxes of people instead of everyone.
My liberal friends that don't understand how I stayed in the middle when they kept tilting further and further to the left do understand something they and I can agree on; a population in America that has more than doubled in size since then, thus twice as many hineys to kiss to remain popular and that many more to persuade if that is what you want. It is what liberals do; it doesn't make them bad people, it only makes them an angry and rarely satisfied lot. So they take out their frustrations on people that don't understand them or anyone that refuses to allow them to be the only voice in a room by orchestrating and participating in demonstrations and heaving insults at everyone who doesn't subscribe to the literature they read.
It is the central reason they failed so poorly in the 2016 national elections; they simply misjudged too many by labeling them incorrectly and believing no one would put up a fuss like they were doing. Words like homophobes, sexists, racists, misogynists and other unflattering names for anyone that doesn't share their thinking became their cadence; their candidates repeated them in every media interview and public rally before their adorers until it became normal to add them to their own lexicon because it made them feel smarter or part of something bigger than them.
Name-calling became their pass, or code words to belong to what they believed was a majority; a place they believed they would be surrounded by people that would coddle them when things weren't going their way and make them feel safe if someone that could do it were to come along and hold them responsible for something.
They staged loud rallies and the media cheered them on with guarantees that if they stayed loud enough there was no possible way they wouldn't win. They came to rely on surrogates operating away from schools and classrooms acting as TV teachers; people like Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper, Whoopie Goldberg and an endless faculty of famous others fed them more and more reasons to believe it until calling someone on the other side deplorable morphed from just being trendy to a full blown battle cry!
But then, like a bolt of lightening from the Heavens realty slapped them across the face with such great force many were sent reeling or just to their knees sobbing, some so in disbelief they threatened to disrupt everything the new president had in mind; to disrupt the country itself if necessary and draw deeper lines of division in the sands that separate them from other Americans whose biggest faults were not agreeing with them.
He is not my president! They continue to shout it as if believing those of us that are eager for a new direction in America will join them in their protest and discard our own concerns and give up our own hopes to accommodate them. None of us will of course and about all we can really do for them from here forward is tell them where they can buy Play Doh, or where they can go to get some donated to them and who serves free hot chocolate.
All that can be promised to them for the next few years is what they already received as a payoff for their other demonstrations; more blow back in their faces as the result of what they caused to happen; a new president that stands for everything they were against and will likely never understand.
We move the clocks forward again on January 20th. My liberal friends who are disappointed and unwilling to adjust theirs can stay behind and think up new demands or more clever ways to insult people, or they could just pinch their noses and drink the Castor Oil.
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