A Liberal Dose of Conservative Ire
Okay, the world is up to its eyeballs in blogs. Touché, I concede the point with an open heart. So what makes mine better than the rest? While I'm not going to say that mine is better --- that kind of arrogance is best left to Liberals --- but a claim of being different from most might actually have some merit.
So let's Cut to the Chase:
Is it just me, or has a hidden far-left agenda seeped into the roots of nearly everything we see nowadays?
As if I had to say it, arch-Liberalism has long ago bound and gagged the movie and television industries, as well as most of their actors and writers. The film Lethal Weapon 4 comes to mind, having taken one cheap shot after another at the National Rifle Association and gun rights in general, while the stars Gibson & Glover blasted much of the surrounding state to Kingdom Come, mostly with----you guessed it --- guns. Not that Liberal rhetoric and bald-faced hypocrisy are strange bedfellows by any means, nor is "LW-4" an isolated example --- but once in awhile a particular example really takes the cake. Or in this case, more like the whole darn bakery!
I'm also reminded of actress Sharon Stone, who after the Columbine shootings made quite a production out of surrendering a boxed handgun to authorities while proclaiming, "I'm giving up my right to Keep and Bear Arms." Oh, puh-leeeeeaaase! While it's unclear if this shameless exploitation of a then-recent tragedy actually bolstered her career, I can tell you this: after that (publicity) stunt, a team of wild stallions couldn't drag me toward any DVD that Ms. Stone even handled, let alone stars in. Besides, do you believe she ever actually owned a firearm in her name? Neither do I.
Not to be outdone by the entertainment realm, college academia has for some years been tumbling down a perilous slope toward self-indulgent lunacy, with useful education being secondary if it's still considered at all.
There...I've said it. If you don't like it, log onto ebay and buy yourself a another fake Tiffany lampshade; maybe it will distract you for awhile. Here...I'll even give you their link:
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But there's some truth to my statement just the same. Although I'm sure there are exceptions, many a college kid's only discernible talent is the ability to ingest Liberal ideologies and projectile-vomit them at weary bystanders faster than Wyatt Earp could sling his trusty Remington...or Colt...well, whatever the hell he actually carried.
As the manager of a retail specialty store for more than a decade, I've had the mind-numbing experience of employing some of these wing-nuts who were attending, or had recently graduated from, local colleges. With only slight variation, most were pretty much the same:
They could spew Liberal politics 'till they're blue in the face but couldn't count change. They could bend your ear six-ways-to-Sunday about organic food, social injustice or that the moon landings were staged on a New York alfalfa farm; but when it came to work ethics and viable skills, they were virtually clueless. And as salespeople? --- honestly, a box of rocks could have done just as well. Maybe even a little better, and with a lot less back-talk.
In a nutshell, most of them could be described as intellectual and articulate, but functionally useless. Moreover, they were consumed by a kind of stand off-ish demeanor bordering on outright smugness, which their actual performance rarely lived up to. I can only assume they learned this in college. Trust me, it isn't helping.
My father had been an associate professor at a large Ohio university starting in the early 1960's. A little over 30 years and a full professorship later, he retired --- and to this day maintains that it wasn't a moment too soon. In his three decades at the university, he watched it decline from a stately institution of higher learning to an over-stimulated welfare state and spawning ground for left-wing political correctness. The latter element was usually enforced by full-blown coercion or worse, among faculty and students alike.
And speaking of students, beginning in the early 1980's, an eerie metamorphasis began to affect them as well. According to my father, their collective attitude could be expressed something like this: Behold my work, call it brilliant, and get out of my way.
Mentally, they were sharp as carpet nails when it came to their rights and expectations, but concepts like responsibility and accountability were light years beyond their grasp. They also displayed an uncanny instinct to gravitate toward like-minded disciples while dismissing the rest of us as second-class citizens --- at best. Worse yet, as leaders in government they would do the same to anyone who dissents, on the grandest scale since pre-World War II Europe. Or more to the point, Germany.
Truth be known, I blame the Liberals for a most of what plagues America these days, and may soon finish us altogether. I blame them for the shocking decline in our moral values and the impotence of our children's public schools. I blame them for the virtual ruin of the traditional family unit, what had been a vital part of our country's strength (while we still had it.) And I blame Liberals for the steady erosion of America's identity and sovereignty, in the wake of the far-left's ambition to subject American rights and liberties to the discretion of the United Nations --- an act of unspeakable outrage that President Clinton had nearly completed as one of his last official acts in office. An act that President Bush had thankfully nixed, as one of his first.
Different from most, isn't that what I had said at the outset --- about my blog, I mean? Yes, I believe it was. And the difference is that mine has a boldly conservative agenda, as if you haven't noticed, and there's nothing "hidden" about it.
In the coming weeks, I'll be laying it on the line, from one hotbed issue to the another, as they come to my attention, or simply come to mind. Once in awhile, I might even side with a Liberal --- though I wouldn't count on it. But one thing you can count on is that whether you love it, or just love to hate it, Cut to the Chase is here to stay!
rs
