While Leftists always claim the moral high ground as theirs by right, arguing that what they do is for the betterment of the “ordinary working people,” they are actually what I call “trans-moral.” By this I mean that there is no means too low for them to use. The True Believers among them are happy to use any means, no matter how dishonest or vicious, because they see themselves as doing holy work. The populist opportunists among them don’t care what they do or say simply because they have no moral constraints at all. So we are left dealing with fools, on the one hand, who believe themselves licensed by their high calling to lie and cheat, and criminals, on the other, who really don’t feel the need to justify their lying and cheating at all (it is simply what they do).
Our only defense against the fools and the criminals is to learn to detect their activities, to become sensitized to the methods of the Left.
Here is a partial list of those methods:
1) Denying the obvious and claiming only stupid, stupid people believe the obvious: Muslims do NOT hate all Christians and Jews (it just seems that way); the whole thing is MUCH more complicated than you think, and much too complicated for YOU to understand (you uneducated, poor, simple boob!).
2) Distraction, e.g. but look what X, Y, or Z did, and HE’S a CONSERVATIVE!
3) Character assassination by teams of surrogates, attacking the person, not what they say. The ad hominem argument on an organized, huge mechanized scale.
4) Playing the victim: oooh, oooh, he called me a bad name, he said I LIED (Well, did you? Doesn’t matter, he made me feel bad!). RA-A-A-A-CISM!
5) Selective Moral Perception: Oh, oh, oh
6) Cultural Relativity, a version of the double standard. When WE defend ourselves, we are horrible, horrible war-mongers. When others attack US, they are merely expressing the values of their own unique (and even quite beautiful) cultures.
7) Moral equivalence: Yeah, but the Israelis once attacked the Lebanese.
8) Ignoring relevant differences: So what if they were defending themselves?
9) Denying the differences even exist: Yeah, well, what IS “defending” any way, if not just an excuse for attacking, eh?
10) Faking scenes of victimization on film, a favorite of the Arabs and their European enablers.
11) Brainwashing the young, e.g. Palestinian children’s books and University Social Science courses, and primary and secondary school textbooks.
12) Political “theory”: It is ALWAYS immoral and counter-productive to retaliate against aggression. There are ALWAYS non-violent conflict resolution possibilities available. War is NEVER justified, no matter what the other side does.
13) Blame the victim: it’s all our own fault, if we hadn’t done X, Y, or Z, they wouldn’t have attacked us. THEY are just acting reasonably, but WE were EVIL. We just have to stop our wicked, wicked ways and everything will be OK.
14) Outright lying: e.g. there were twenty people at the rally (when there were 20,000), they were violent and crazy (when they were middle aged cheerful people expressing themselves); illegal immigrant will NOT be covered by the government healthcare plan (when there is nothing in it to prevent it); there will be no new taxes (when there will).
15) Charging Critics with Using the Left's Own Tactics. The "right" is "mean-spirited" (was there ever a more infantile charge?); the "right" is "partisan"; the "right" is "divisive"; the "right" attacks individuals, rather than "ideas" (Clinton's phrase, the "politics of personal destruction", a technique he developed into an art form). For the Left, any statement of an inconvenient truth is an "attack".
16) Taking over the mass media, e.g. the Times, CNN, MSNBC, etc. and marketing a totally one-sided value laden vision of events.
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