Oh, Those Silly Liberals and Their Sad Double-Think
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating. Liberals are a silly lot. They never, ever fail to amuse. One of their most bufuddling and frustrating traits is their ability to hold two opposing ideas in their mind, all the while maintaining that they are both true.
Often times, the same people who march in a pro-abortion rallies can be seen attending midnight vigils protesting the execution of someone who has raped and murdered a child. The same people who decry “special interest groups” turn around and put a “Vote Union” sticker on their Prius (their TOYOTA Prius, LOL). They credit Bill Clinton with an economic recovery that started six months before he took office, and then blame George Bush for a recession that started six months before his presidency. They applaud calls for tax breaks for companies that keep jobs in America when those calls comes from Democrats, but let a Republican float the same idea and it is shot down as “corporate welfare.” They believe sending tax rebate checks to people will help the economy, but if you tell them that people should just be allowed to keep more of their money up front, they act like it’s a ridiculous idea. When Don Imus makes one admittedly tasteless remark about the Rutgers women’s basketball team they insist that he is fired immediately, but when confronted with Jeremiah Wright’s anti-white, anti-American tirades they tell us that we should “get to know the man” and “don’t judge him on just a few comments, but rather his life’s work as a whole.” They believe that handing out condoms to 11 year-olds does not encourage sexual behavior, but allowing law-abiding adults to carry firearms would somehow encourage those adults to suddenly commit crimes. I could go on.
In his book 1984, George Orwell called this “double-think.” It is double-something, for sure, but “thinking” it is not.