{"id":2811,"date":"2012-03-12T12:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T19:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/12\/misconceptions\/"},"modified":"2012-03-12T18:20:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T01:20:21","slug":"misconceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/misconceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"misconceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Message to New-Plains leftists, and all leftists for that matter: You are way over-thinking the problem in your <a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/elco-gop-hosts-annual-lincoln-dinner-fundraiser.pdf\" title=\"Lincoln Day Dinner Opinion\">Lincoln Day Dinner Opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s <em>your<\/em> politics that depend on conspiracy, elaborate design, subterfuge, underground networking, militancy, belief structures without supporting cause and effect, collective force, and activist imposition.\u00a0 You, evidently, think your politics are worth breaking a few eggs to make your utopian omelet.<\/p>\n<p>Of course all that misspent energy begs questions about what on earth led you to such methods because they\u2019ve never led to anything but poverty, misery and death.\u00a0 But then you dissemble about the poverty, misery and death that come from your totalitarian methods by saying, \u201cOh that\u2019s the natural condition of things before we arrived and we just haven\u2019t done enough yet.\u00a0 Give us more time and we\u2019ll get it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The problem here is that after you first claim that the natural state of things is horribly wrong in some way, your solutions invariably attempt to return us to conditions that you leftists always use to justify more intervention!\u00a0 If things were so bad, why in the name of progress do you always try to return us to conditions when things were worse?\u00a0 Apparently progression is really regression in the leftist skew.<\/p>\n<p>And though you don\u2019t know where your regression\/progression is really going, you believe that whenever and wherever you arrive, the end will justify the means.\u00a0 Your terrible tenacity that spawned so much poverty, misery and death will be forgiven by the few who survive to cross the threshold to walk hand in hand through the gates of utopia.\u00a0 The awe of the perfectly sustainable, fair and clean human society will wipe their memories clean of all the horror spawned from your mythology.<\/p>\n<p>Now pay attention.\u00a0 You really should <em>learn to stop projecting this sort of thing on to conservatives<\/em>.\u00a0 We\u2019re not like you.\u00a0 We don\u2019t use these techniques, these conspiracies, these impositions, or these forces.\u00a0 Look around you at one of these Elbert County Republican gatherings.\u00a0 The conservatives are the ones in the room not doing any of that stuff.\u00a0 You look really stupid when you paint us with those brushes.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, the only time we even think about such devices is when we\u2019re forced to describe you.\u00a0 Think about this if you dare.\u00a0 Liberty is like a ship without a captain.\u00a0 It\u2019s a massive rudderless force that takes no direction whatsoever to find the correct path.\u00a0 And only when you attempt to steer the ship does it go off course and crash into something.<\/p>\n<p>You leftists have crashed the ship so many times in history that you\u2019ve lost sight of how the whole thing operates.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t imagine how to fix your conceptual framework.\u00a0\u00a0 You are so broken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/chinese-fortune-cookie-says.jpg\" title=\"Chinese Fortune Cookie Says\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/chinese-fortune-cookie-says.jpg\" title=\"Chinese Fortune Cookie Says\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/chinese-fortune-cookie-says.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Fortune Cookie Says\" height=\"112\" width=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message to New-Plains leftists, and all leftists for that matter: You are way over-thinking the problem in your Lincoln Day Dinner Opinion. It\u2019s your politics that depend on conspiracy, elaborate design, subterfuge, underground networking, militancy, belief structures without supporting cause and effect, collective force, and activist imposition.\u00a0 You, evidently, think your politics are worth breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85,65,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-leftism","7":"category-progressivism","8":"category-totalitarianism","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}