Why Liberals Are Selfish

[Chris]

Don't fall for liberal doublespeak.

Why Liberals Are Selfish (http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/why_liberals_are_selfish.html)
It is a constant refrain on the left that conservatives are "selfish." Those who want to work and keep the fruits of their own labor are castigated as self-centered and greedy, while progressives are held out to be all-compassionate and kind for supporting government-run programs for every malady under the sun.

...The term "selfish" in various contexts implies that someone wrongfully holds onto or gains something at the expense of another. While conservatives and most political moderates uses the term "selfish" to deride those who take things that do not belong to them -- in other words, what that person did not produce or receive voluntarily from another -- the modern left uses the term "selfish" to upbraid those who want to hold onto something of their own that is demanded by another.

The left therefore seems to assume that the life, labor, and property of any individual are the possession of "society." This is a tribal, mystical, and frankly demeaning notion that is anything but concordant with civilized peoples....

[Goldie Locks]

Socialism is for the people, not the socialist.

[Trinnity]

Oh yeah. Everything belongs to everyone. So no one really owns anything. Sounds a lot like Marxism. Oh yeah, that's cuz it is Marxism.

[patrickt]

A critic who reviewed Barack Obama's Dreams of my Father --and I use all those terms loosely--cited Barack Obama's penchant for stealing ice cream from his employer and giving it to friends as an example of her tendency to be generous at an early age. That's part of the problem. For liberals, generosity involves giving away your assets, not theres. There was no hint in the book that when Obama got his paycheck, from his victims, that he gave any of that to his friends. Lordy, no.

So the problem is in a flawed definiition of generous for liberals. Taking from Paul to give to Peter is an example of Bill's generosity. Bill, giving his stuff to Peter is, for liberals, unthinkable.

Where I live, in Mexico, liberal gringos sit around saying, "Someone should do something." Not them. Someone else.

[Chris]

Exactly, patrickt, exactly, well said.

[Goldie Locks]

A critic who reviewed Barack Obama's Dreams of my Father --and I use all those terms loosely--cited Barack Obama's penchant for stealing ice cream from his employer and giving it to friends as an example of her tendency to be generous at an early age. That's part of the problem. For liberals, generosity involves giving away your assets, not theres. There was no hint in the book that when Obama got his paycheck, from his victims, that he gave any of that to his friends. Lordy, no.

So the problem is in a flawed definiition of generous for liberals. Taking from Paul to give to Peter is an example of Bill's generosity. Bill, giving his stuff to Peter is, for liberals, unthinkable.

Where I live, in Mexico, liberal gringos sit around saying, "Someone should do something." Not them. Someone else.


It's called redistribution of wealth and not his.

[Chris]

Socialism = central planning + redistribution of wealth by coercion.

[roadmaster]

Oh yeah. Everything belongs to everyone. So no one really owns anything. Sounds a lot like Marxism. Oh yeah, that's cuz it is Marxism.

I agree