Friday, March 30, 2012
You have to give liberalism a certain amount of credit.
It doesn’t work, destroys lives, and pits people against each other, but that's
not to say that there are no advantages to being a liberal. Sure, you may end
up sleeping in a tent in Zuccotti Park, reading Noam Chomsky's laughably
ignorant books, or having to watch Rachel Maddow babble incoherent nonsense on
MSNBC, but the fringe benefits cannot be beaten!
1) If you're a politician, no matter how dumb you are or
how poor your decision-making is, the press will still never question your
intelligence.
2) You can claim to personally speak for everyone in your
gender or racial group, like you're their leader, and the press will take you
seriously.
3) You can feel completely superior to people who are
more admired, more influential, richer, happier, more successful, and just
generally better than you in almost every way (like Sarah Palin) because
they’re conservatives.
4) You can declare that other people should have their
money taken away and given to the government and still get credit for being
"compassionate" even if you give nothing yourself.
5) You can leave a woman to die at the bottom of a tidal
pool, use crack, or have a gay prostitution ring run out of your apartment and
other liberals will STILL vote for you.
6) You can suggest that black Americans are too
incompetent to handle something as simple as getting a photo ID without being
called racist.
7) You can use capitalism to make huge piles of money and
then turn right around and score brownie points with your fellow liberals by
ripping an economic system that made it possible for you to actually become
filthy rich writing, making music, or acting for a living.
8) No matter how many insults you lob at people you
disagree with or how determined you are to refuse to listen to their arguments,
you will never feel as if you're being uncivil or close minded.
9) You can be a white man who calls himself the first
black President without getting in trouble with Al Sharpton and be a serial adulterer
who even cheats with an intern without getting in trouble with NOW.
10) You can go an entire lifetime without having a single
kind thing to say about America and still consider yourself to be patriotic.
11) Similarly, you can disregard the Bible, ignore slurs
aimed at Christianity, and mock people who take their religious beliefs
seriously and still consider yourself to be a Christian.
12) You can be perfectly fine with cheating on your own
taxes while you call other people "greedy" for not wanting to pay
higher taxes themselves.
13) If you're a minority, you can actually hold a
prominent media job centered around regularly accusing other people of being
racists.
14) You'll be considered "courageous" by your
left-wing friends when you get up in front of a group of liberals and say
things that all of you believe to be true.
15) If you run for office, you'll get questions like,
"(Do you think your opponents are) uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible?"
from the media while your opponents will be getting asked questions that start
with the presumption that they hate half the country or their economic policies
couldn't possibly work.
16) You can be a former KKK member who drops the N-bomb
on TV and people will still deny you're a racist.
17) You can ride around in an SUV, fly on a private jet,
and have a mansion while you lecture other people about the importance of
having a small environmental footprint and other liberals won't have a problem
with it at all.
18) You can claim to hold the exact same position as
conservatives on gay marriage and you won't be called a homophobe.
19) You can regularly call conservative women sluts,
whores, tw_ts, and even the C-word and still call yourself a feminist without
other people laughing out loud.
20) You get to feel comfortable with lying to other
people because you know what's in their own best interests better than they do
and if they were a little more enlightened -- like you -- they'd thank you for misleading
them into doing the right thing!
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