Reply #4: It's BS [View All]

[wryter2000]

When they encountered resistance to black civil rights among poor and working class whites—some of it racially motivated some of it not—rather than dealing with the resistance politically, liberal elites sought to impose solutions from above by taking advantage of their privileged access to judicial and executive power.

Sounds a lot like Robert Bork's answer to why he opposed civil rights laws. "At the time I was working on a free market theory of how race relations should be addressed. If you left the problem alone, the market would fix itself." Barbara Jordan's response to how she felt when she heard that was "My eyes glaze over." Of course, you "impose" solutions to injustice when people don't want to fix the injustice themselves.

Then, rather than telling Americans honestly about the likely costs and consequences of a military intervention in Southeast Asia and trust them to make the correct decisions, they used lies and deception to trick voters into supporting an unwinnable war

Liberals proposed getting us into Viet Nam? Excuse me. What planet is this idiot on? And don't tell me "Democrats did." Liberal and Democrat are not the same thing. Liberals were the ones protesting LBJ's war.

This is yet another example of pseudo-intellectual bullshit blaming liberals for the ills brought on us by "conservatives." Laying it on our supposed incompetence just adds insult to injury.

And, furthermore, there's nothing new or original with this piece of crap. We hear it all the time. And, unfortunately, too many liberals sit down and consider whether or not they might be guilty of some of this when they ought to just shout "Bullshit!"