The left has their narrative, and no amount of facts and evidence will dissuade them from it. If pressed, they’ll admit the shooting had nothing to do with political rhetoric but they still have can’t help themselves from trying to link the shooting with it as to them it’s a truth that exists outside of evidence — a religious faith. They’ve repeated over and over that the right arguing politics is going to lead to violence and they’ll believe it no matter what.
That’s why so many on the left were so excited by the Giffords shooting. They were convinced here was finally the proof of their religious faith about the right’s “dangerous rhetoric” and they could hardly contain their glee at the tragedy. When the facts came out and they didn’t get the prize they hoped for, they just couldn’t let go of their narrative because to them it’s so true no matter what happens in reality.
And that’s what the left has now — this whole fictional world built up on narratives absent of fact. And they’re really angry that no one outside the left is buying into these fictions anymore. They exist outside of reality and wonder why they can’t connect with people. And the more things turn against them, the more disconnected they get in response.
It’s not just a religious faith, it’s a religious faith without any grounds.
My Lovely Ex Wife used to say it didn’t matter if something actually happened, as long as enough people believed it happened. If enough people believed it, that made it true.
Facts. don’t. matter. Don’t you know that yet, Frank? http://purelypolitics.blogspot.com/2011/01/neuro-atypical-person-uses-nondescript.html
Sounds just like a man that was in the news recently, somewhere around Tuscon, I believe…
The difference between an American and a leftist marxist democrat. An American mourns the victims and puts responsibility for the crime soley on the perpetraitor. A democrat gnashes their teeth and blames someone else.
And then Sarah Palin comes out with a video that makes all the left wingers look like dick-wads! Of course they will just dismiss her as crazy and stupid as they did Ronald Magnus but if you haven’t seen it it is super awesome!
The left is, and remains, as f**ked-up as a soup sandwich. There I said everything you said but did it in one sentence.
USSJimmy, that video was “Presidential”
I wonder how Sarah Palin and Fred Thompson get along…..
Christianity, properly executed, seems to make people happy. When has that ever been true for leftists?
I hate to be a wet blanket. No! Wait a minute. I love to be wet blanket. People aren’t always rational. No, wait a minute! Liberals are always not rational beings. Then, there are some fuzzy folks in the middle who only dabble in rationality. They are the target of this insanity. Not the rational. We might better reach the fuzzy by making them feel sorry for poor Sarah Palin.
But just to be a blanket that’s just come out of a blanket warmer (mmmm…toasty). Sarah Palin has never so much impressed me with Reagan like conservative wisdom as she did today.
Liberals seem to be relying on “the willful suspension of disbelief” for most of what they’re pushing these days.
You’d think they’d see that as a non-starter, but no….
Its funny how the left abandoned religion but kept all of its vices but none of its virtues.
“And the more things turn against them, the more disconnected they get in response.”
Gird yer loins and check yer ammo. The left is about to go Postal !!!
Marko: The leftists seem to think that Christians, properly executed, make people happy.
Never let a simple thing like the facts get in the way of a good story.
The self-destruction of the Left is taking waaay too long. It’s like watching a cockroach twitching after spraying it with Raid. No matter how dirty and disgusting you know it is, after a while you start to feel sorry for it.
(Moderation test) C*ckroach?
Yep, that worked. I learn something new everyday!