Liberal Contradictions

June 9, 2002

by Charles E. Perry

Over my many years of following politics and commenting thereon, I have noted some contradictions inherent in liberal philosophical thought. I don’t think liberals even notice them. That may be due to some sort of survival reflex in the liberal mindset, or maybe they’re just doing drugs and not sharing. In any case, I thought I’d share these contradictions with you folks, and see if any of you could explain them.

We will not let a teenage girl get her ears pierced without parental consent, because she is a minor and not mature enough to make such a decision by herself, but if this same teenage girl wants an abortion, her parents can just go to hell. Being a teenager, she is more than mature enough to decide to end a life and have major surgery. I’m sorry, but that just seems contradictory to me. If teenage girls are really that mature, we should emancipate all of them at age 13. But we won’t do that, because we know they aren’t mature enough really.

Liberals hold life sacred. They hold life so sacred that they believe we shouldn’t execute a serial killer who raped and tortured to death hundreds of young women. He might still be able to contribute something to society, and killing him for his crimes is just plain wrong. On the other hand, killing a completely innocent baby in the womb is moral and right. It’s so moral and right that we ought to pay for it with tax dollars, and have an abortion clinic on every street corner so the poor girl doesn’t have to travel far. I’ve never understood the logic behind these liberal positions, and I don’t think anyone can.

Hollywood liberals are a mass of contradictions. They will tell us, for instance, that we have to drive less to save our precious oil and to make the air we breathe cleaner. You might think because of that that Hollywood liberals all use mass transit. Nope, they drive big, gas guzzling cars. I guess the irony of themselves driving SUVs to a Save the Planet rally is lost on them, but the rest of us find it pretty funny. Well, maybe expecting sense out of a bunch of actors is asking too much.

Liberals in online chatrooms probably have the funniest contradictions. They’ll tell you that Bill Clinton having sex in the Oval Office is a private matter and not our concern, but the fact that Laura Bush was involved in a car accident where someone died, and this was years before she even met George, disqualifies Bush from holding office at all. That’s a funny one. It makes me laugh every time I hear it. Another good one I’ve seen in chatrooms is that Bush letting Enron go under is somehow proof that they had him in their back pocket, but the Clinton administration pushing India into a billion dollar deal with Enron isn’t proof they owned Clinton.

Liberals will tell you that minorities are perfectly capable of making it on their own, that they are intelligent and highly motivated. That’s why, of course, they can’t make it without government help. Does anyone else see the contradiction there? Liberals sure don’t. I know, because I’ve asked them. I guess liberals are just people who never quite grew up for one reason or another. Maybe they even serve a useful purpose, though for the life of me I can’t see what that might be. In any case, they’re here to stay, and we can have some fun pointing out their contradictions to them and watching them spit and sputter about it.

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Charles E. Perry is a freelance writer living in Michigan. He has done a variety of things in his life, including Ward Supervisor at the State of Michigan's Maximum Security Mental Facility. His degree is in accounting, but he discovered writing and now spends his time hunched over a keyboard, hollow-eyed, looking for just the right word. Perry is the author of "How Government Should Work: A Look at the Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States," currently pending publication.

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