{"id":30771,"date":"2015-04-08T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30771"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:35:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:35:40","slug":"qotd-top-10-reasons-not-to-be-a-leftist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/04\/08\/qotd-top-10-reasons-not-to-be-a-leftist\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Top 10 reasons not to be a leftist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Gun control. Liberals are completely wrong about this. A fair number of them know better, too, but they sponsor lies about it as a form of class warfare against conservative-leaning gun owners.<\/li>\n
  2. Nuclear power. They\u2019re wrong about this, too, and the cost in both dollars and human deaths by pollution and other fossil-fuel side-effects has been enormous.<\/li>\n
  3. Affirmative action. These programs couldn\u2019t be a more diabolical or effective plan for plan for entrenching racial prejudice if the Aryan Nations had designed them.<\/li>\n
  4. Abortion: The liberals\u2019 looney-toon feminist need to believe that a fetus one second before birth is a parasitic lump of tissue with no rights, but a fetus one second afterwards is a full human, has done half the job of making a reasoned debate on abortion nigh-impossible.<\/li>\n
  5. Communism. I haven\u2019t forgiven the Left for sucking up to the monstrous evil that was the Soviet Union. And I never will.<\/li>\n
  6. Socialism. Liberals have never met a tax, a government intervention, or a forcible redistribution of wealth they didn\u2019t like. Their economic program is Communism without the guts to admit it.<\/li>\n
  7. Junk science. No medical study is too bogus and no environmental scare too fraudalent for liberals. If it rationalizes bashing capitalism or slathering on another layer of regulatory bureaucracy, they\u2019ll take it. <\/li>\n
  8. Defining deviancy down. Liberals are in such a desperate rush to embrace the `victimized by society\u2019 and speak the language of compassion that they\u2019ve forgotten how to condemn harmful, self-destructive and other-destructive behavior.<\/li>\n
  9. William Jefferson Clinton. Sociopathic liar, perjurer, sexual predator. There was nothing but a sucking narcissistic vacuum where his principles should have been. Liberals worship him. <\/li>\n
  10. Liberals, by and large, are fools.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Eric S. Raymond, “Top Ten Reasons I’m Neither a Liberal Nor a Conservative”, Armed and Dangerous<\/em><\/a>, 2004-09-19.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Gun control. Liberals are completely wrong about this. A fair number of them know better, too, but they sponsor lies about it as a form of class warfare against conservative-leaning gun owners. Nuclear power. They\u2019re wrong about this, too, and the cost in both dollars and human deaths by pollution and other fossil-fuel side-effects has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,41,13],"tags":[601,669,780,1235,49,39,99],"class_list":["post-30771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-abortion","tag-billclinton","tag-communism","tag-esr","tag-guns","tag-junkscience","tag-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-80j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30772,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30771\/revisions\/30772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}