Arthur D. Hlavaty

Another Ten

2017-10-10T11:17:19Z

Bertrand Russell’s ten commandments for liberals

Thanx to andrewducker

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Condescending

2016-06-24T12:58:24Z

Yesterday, while Brexit was winning, a friend posted a link to a screed about how condescending liberals are. Guilty as charged, your honor. One of my favorite things about being a liberal is that I don’t have to consider people my equals to want them treated decently. Everyone should have a living wage and a single-payer health system, even if they’d much rather be protected from queers marrying each other.

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Republicans get one right

2013-12-04T11:30:08Z

Amanda Marcotte on "'Happy Holidays' is what liberals say."

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Liberal propaganda

2012-05-09T15:01:13Z

50 quotes

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Yeah, I am one.

2011-10-22T18:30:49Z

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Great moments in liberal condescension

2011-06-04T13:06:22Z

Isn’t Sarah Palin a victim of our nation’s educational system? Isn’t she just a poor soul, more to be pitied than ridiculed? Shouldn’t we blame her teachers for passing her, grade after grade, when what she really needed was the kind of focused attention her clear deficits demand?

–Gina Barreca

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The American Plan

2009-08-22T12:27:25Z

A while back I recalled Huey Long's saying that if fascism or communism took over here, it would be called Americanism.* So I suggested we talk about "Americanized," rather than socialized, medicine. George Lakoff, who is better at this sort of thing than I am, proposes calling it "the American Plan" and offers other useful terminology with which we can get down on all fours and look at it from the average voter's point of view. That's one of the things I love about being a liberal: I don't have to consider people my equals to want them to be treated decently. Even people who want the government's hands off their Medicare and fear the Hawaiian foreigner Obama should get the medical treatments they need.

*I also like William Gass's suggestion that the Supreme Leader would be called Coach.

Found in Rebecca's Pocket

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