Thursday, October 8, 2009

The Difference

If a conservative doesn't like guns, they don't buy one. If a liberal doesn't like guns, then no one should have one.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, they don't eat meat. If a liberal is vegetarian, they want to ban all meat products for everyone.

If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy. A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.

If a conservative is homosexual, they quietly enjoy their life. If a liberal is homosexual, they loudly demand legislated respect.

If a black man or Hispanic is conservative, they see themselves as independently successful. Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. A liberal wants all churches to be silenced and God removed from public view.

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. A liberal demands that his neighbors pay for his.
 
~ sent to me by Monte

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Editors Note:
Each of these is a colorful way of saying that the Conservative's view of the world is:
  • What's Mine is Mine - Not Yours

and that the Collectivists view of the world is:
  • What's Mine is Mine - What's Yours is Mine, Too.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

seems to me that you need to switch colors on this one

Publius said...

Good Eye. As it was being written I intentionally used "Red" as symbolic of the collective - which is nowadays the mantra of the liberal.

I had not caught the connection to red state - blue state. Your comment gives me pause to wonder why red was chosen for the Republican and the blue for the Democrat - and if it was "chosen" for similar, yet inverted,reasons.

While those on the "other side" of an issue have that other view, it does not mean that they are dolts,and thus it is that I wonder if in some liberal/collectivist newsroom a few years ago, a deliberate decision was made to use the color red, not for the Democrats, but to pin that color on the Republicans, and so prevent people like me from using the red color and its association with the collective against the Democrats/liberals - which indeed nowadays do seem to represent "the collective".