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10/12/13, "The Grand Old Punching Bag Party," Legal Insurrection, William A. Jacobson
"Start applying Broken Windows Theory to liberal intolerance.
We’ve all encountered that. Usually, it’s in a situation where the insult is just tossed into the
flow of a conversation — almost always in a group setting where the
perp feels emboldened – and then the conversation moves in other
directions. The rude barb just becomes part of the landscape.
We’ve gone too long allowing a perjorative landscape.
It’s why the most Senior Democrats feel free to call us the worst possible names and taunt us in a demeaning manner.
They receive no pushback from our Senior politicians for the venom
spewing from their mouths. We’ve become The Grand Old Punching Bag
Party.
Compare the rude, vicious terms from Obama and his spokespeople, and
Senior Democrats such as Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Nancy
Pelosi and others, with the gentlemanly behavior of John Boehner and
Mitch McConnell.
There is plenty of push back and name-calling on both sides at lower
levels and on the blogosphere, but it’s qualitatively different when it
comes from The White House and the Democratic Party House and Senate
leadership.
When the leadership of the Republican Party does not push back
against the leadership of the Democratic Party for the name-calling and
taunts, it’s an invitation to more attacks, and it sets a national tone.
We’ve become punching bags. At dinner and at the highest political levels.
We need to do what Rudy Giuliani did to graffiti artists and squeegee guys, apply broken windows theory:
"Social psychologists and police officers tend to agree
that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the
rest of the windows will soon be broken. This is as true in nice
neighborhoods as in rundown ones. Window-breaking does not necessarily
occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined
window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather,
one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so
breaking more windows costs nothing."
My resolution for this 6th year
of Legal Insurrection is to confront liberal intolerance on the spot.
No more broken windows at dinners. Senior Republican politicians should
do the same, in Congress."
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10/8/13, "Liberal Intolerance: You Believe What?" Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart
"I was at a dinner recently where I happened to be seated at a table with new acquaintances of the liberal political persuasion.
We went around the table introducing ourselves. As I said that I work
for a "conservative website," a man at the far end of the table made
his displeasure known by booing. He wasn't kidding.
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These were professional, accomplished, senior members of the
community. They had never met a conservative before. Their first
reaction was hostile. No one chided the man who booed, or apologized on
his behalf for his rudeness, or laughed to break the tension.
Instead, I began to face questions: you really support what Boehner is doing?
Yes, I replied. He's doing the right thing by standing up to the president. Gasps.
Look, I said, trying to be diplomatic. I understand how Democrats see
this. Democrats believe that these extremists have taken over the
Republican Party, and they don't like government much anyway, and--
"They can't stand the fact that a black man is in the White House!" someone interjected.
That's not true, I said. Oh, yes it is, they said.
Ok. Why don't we put that thought in a box for now--we'll come back
to it, I offered. Let me finish. From a conservative Republican
perspective, it's necessary to stand up to Obama because he is doing
things that no president should do, not just in policy terms but also in
violating the constitutional separation of powers.
That stunned them. "What? You really believe that? Like what?"
Delaying the employer mandate under Obamacare, for instance, without statutory authority.
Oh, you Republicans and your business friends should like that.
No, actually, I don't. And it's just the start...
The conversation was cut short by the sound of a glass tapping at the
next table, for a toast. We never did come back to the question of
whether I was a racist who could not stand a black man as president.
I doubt these folks thought of themselves as mean people. But I am
certain many other conservatives have had similar interactions among
liberals in elite, polite society. Worldly as they are, they have no
clue." via Legal Insurrection
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Comment: Gangs are powerful. And sick. "Liberalism is a mental disorder," as Dr. Savage says. Try as one might, it's impossible to reach any other conclusion.
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