Dinner With A Genocidal Liberal

The other night I sat down for dinner in the heart of liberal darkness (NYC) with an extremely well educated guest and found genocide to be the subject of conversation. In the course of a long conversation I asked my guest how he felt about imposing 19th Century American religious, marital values on Africa. He got very sullen as if I were crazy. He said, "I wouldn't think of imposing a probably outdated American institution on Africa." I responded, "then your position is, by default, the status quo which will result in about 30 million dead people over the next 30 years." He had no further response except what appeared to be extreme frustration.

He was such a committed American liberal feminist that when confronted with the theoretical choice between liberalism and genocide he elected genocide. It was a scary example of how hard it is to fight the brain dead bigotry of liberalism. Their position is not based on logic and so it is not possible to dislodge it with logic.

Years ago William Buckley Jr. was asked about why Ted Kennedy never appeared on his show. Buckley replied, "why does meat avoid a grinder". You hear the same sentiment from Republicans of all stripes. Liberals don't come out to think because they don't believe in thinking. They are genuine bigots who believe in nothing more than the superiority of their own feelings. Rush Limbaugh, for example, to pick a vastly different kind of conservative, notices the same phenomenon. He says he doesn't talk to liberals much because liberals don't call his show to defeat his positions with logic. It doesn't occur to them. Instead, a half million of them go to The Daily Kos where they spout off to each other like bigots at a Klu Klux Klan rally. Debate, deliberation, and democracy don't occur to them. A famous liberal philosopher(actually the actor George Cloony) once said liberals don't need the word "compassionate" in front of the their name to let people know that they care about people. Sadly, Mr. Cloony and the liberals are unable to understand that caring (didn't Marx and Mao care?) only matters if you learn to think about what you care about.

Nevertheless, I persisted with my dinner quest but this time from another tack. I asked him if he could wave a magic wand that would make every male in Africa want, as his primary goal in life, to love one woman, marry her, and raise their kids until death did they part, would he, or would he do nothing? He again said, "I would not even think of it." Again, he did not say of what he would think.

Indeed, he very neatly represented why America hasn't been able to help Africa: because of thoughtless, caring liberals. They have successfully divided America from its traditional conservative values and rendered us impotent on the world stage, even in the face of genocide. We can't promote family values that would save millions of lives because Democrats don't have family values. We can't intervene intellectually or militarily because Democratic pride compels Democrats to watch people die by the millions rather than impose the America values they hate so much. We can't have allies around the world to promote civilized values because liberal imperialism has rendered our would be allies impotent too. The American Republican religious right, then, remains as the primary and lone outpost of civilization on earth.

Out of guilt we at least do what the liberals will allow, but even then only by stealth. We give Africans medicine and mosquito nets (even liberals can't object to that) but certainly not values. For centuries, though, the world has done just that and it has never worked except to exacerbate the problems. Medicine and mosquito nets are merely the product of values, which means that Africans will always need a perpetually greater supply from us in the absence of their own maturing values. Interestingly, at the moment, the liberals are led by the rock star Bono of U2 fame who passionately believes that if only we will give 1% of our income to Africa it will finally solve their problem. But how do you explain to a perfectly uneducated liberal rock star and the politically correct liberal millions who follow him that money does not create American family values?

It must be the single greatest irony in all of human history that we have achieved true greatness relative to Africa in the most obvious way imaginable, and yet the liberals hate America so much they have made it politically incorrect and rude to say so, let alone to act so, even in the face of their ethnocentric genocide. The central role of Bono is perhaps testimony to the liberal need not to think about anything at all under any circumstances.

Betty Friedan, who died last week, is perhaps the one most responsible for the liberal feminist destruction of American values which has led to so many of our problems at home, and to our amoral liberal imperialism. In all the guilty praise heaped upon her last week, in the end there is one line most associated with justifying what she has done, i.e., "no one wants to go back". It was a way to acknowledge that going back was now a legitimate issue to consider despite how obvious going forward once seemed. Her main contribution to human evolution was to help women understand that to be be whole, authentic human beings, they had to establish an identity outside of their husbands, marriages and children. She claimed that women who existed merely within their families were compelled to soulfully ask, "is that all there is?"

Somehow the idea clicked for a lot of women who were somehow convinced that a superior identity could be had from modern widgets rather than from modern children. It was a new and better liberal value. So women, never married, divorced men and /or went to work. The kids were left behind to raise themselves or given loveless baby-sitters. Being abandoned was obviously not a great deal for kids. Oddly though, men got unintended messages from Betty too. Not only were they not important enough to be loved the old fashioned way, but kids weren't either. It was a double whammy for kids from the sensitive caring liberals, but at least Mom had some nice new clothes, a new job, and some widgets with which to round out her new, superior liberal identity, albeit at the expense of her meaningless children. Betty's public relations at the end included a defensive statement about what a loving mother and grandmother she really was. All the broken homes, child neglect, and virtual genocide in Africa that Betty left in her wake did not mean Betty wasn't a loving women it just meant that she loved widgets and kids equally, no matter what the liberal consequences. My dinner quest was proof positive of how deeply and unconsciously liberalism is now a tragic and integral part of our lives.


Ted Baiamonte
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