{"id":1018,"date":"2016-01-22T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/liberalism-in-a-nutshell-the-lennon-principle-in-action.html"},"modified":"2016-01-22T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T11:15:00","slug":"liberalism-in-a-nutshell-the-lennon-principle-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/01\/liberalism-in-a-nutshell-the-lennon-principle-in-action.html","title":{"rendered":"Liberalism in a nutshell: The Lennon Principle in action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

John Lennon\u2019s hymn for the Baby Boomer cultural revolution, Imagine<\/em>, gives a little insight into one of modern liberalism\u2019s biggest problems:<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine no possessions
I wonder if you<\/em> can\u201d<\/p>\n

The emphasis is mine, but it reflects the accent Lennon puts on it when he performs the song.\u00a0 You see, Lennon is already there in that secular liberal paradise.\u00a0 He is just beckoning the rest of us to join the happy land.\u00a0 But there is a problem.\u00a0 Observe:<\/p>\n

Did you notice that?\u00a0 That\u2019s the official \u2018promotional clip\u2019 (later known to us youngsters\u00a0as music videos) for the song.\u00a0 That\u2019s Lennon and Yoko.\u00a0 And that, dear children, is their home.\u00a0 A sprawling, multi-million dollar English estate.\u00a0 And that\u2019s his famous Steinway piano that was a birthday gift to Yoko in 1971.\u00a0 Not bad for a fellow bidding the rest of us to imagine no possessions.\u00a0 Personally, I have no problem imagining no possessions. The one struggling with the concept appears to be Lennon.<\/p>\n

It never hit me about the song until the weeks following the 9\/11 attacks.\u00a0 During one of the many concerts and come-together events trying to bring America back from the brink, some country artist performed the song.\u00a0 Forgive me, but I can\u2019t remember who, and not being a fan of country music, I wouldn\u2019t know where to begin.\u00a0 Anyhoo, during his performance, when he came to that part, he sang it thus:<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine no possessions
I wonder if we<\/em> can\u201d<\/p>\n

Again, emphasis mine, but based on his own.\u00a0 You see that?\u00a0 He caught the hypocrisy of Lennon\u2019s statement.\u00a0 And yet, so much of liberalism is just that.\u00a0 Speaking the words.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to believe it or even live it, just speak the words.\u00a0 You may not have a black friend in the world.\u00a0 You may not even like blacks.\u00a0 But if you accept the liberal narrative about Affirmative Action and other political ideals promoted by the modern Civil Rights Movement, that\u2019s all that matters.<\/p>\n

And global warming?\u00a0 Why, as long as you say you believe and are doing anything about it, that\u2019s OK.\u00a0 That\u2019s what allowed Al Gore to yell at the rest of us and tell us we have to get radical in slashing our standards of living to save the planet.\u00a0 Yet while he did so, he was able to wait around for his limo to take him to his private jet to fly back to his own multi-million dollar estate.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s the sort of thing that leads to this story.\u00a0 San Francisco, the closest thing to a Vatican that American liberalism has, and the starting point for some of the most zealous promotion\u00a0of liberal ideas and values, is moving\u00a0those pesky homeless people in preparation for the upcoming Super Bowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I know, there could be legitimate reasons.\u00a0But can you imagine some city in Texas or Montana doing the same for any reason at all, and not being blasted by the MSM and the liberal movement?\u00a0 How does San Francisco get away with it?\u00a0 Because, it speaks the words.\u00a0 It embraces the ideals.\u00a0 It says what is important to say and advocates that which is important.\u00a0 Whether it actually lives up to it, especially the part about dealing with the poor and homeless around those high rolling Super Bowl fans, is pretty much anyone\u2019s bet.\u00a0\u00a0And that\u2019s a major coup in the ideological grasping for control of our society because it almost makes how you actually live your life to be more or less irrelevant.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

With so much that defines modern and post-modern liberalism\u2019s hammerlock on the modern narrative, it\u2019s important to remember that sometimes those who aren\u2019t liberal are more liberal in their actions than the liberals who accuse them of hating the poor and babies.\u00a0 And those liberals who speak the words and are celebrated for it?\u00a0 Well, sometimes they may speak of a world with no possessions, but they do it with their nearly half million dollar Rolls Royce* in the driveway waiting to take them away.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

*The famous psychedelic paint job alone cost almost $30,000.00 in today\u2019s money.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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