{"id":1711,"date":"2013-11-03T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/11\/enders-game-and-the-end-of-liberalism.html"},"modified":"2013-11-03T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T14:09:00","slug":"enders-game-and-the-end-of-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/11\/enders-game-and-the-end-of-liberalism.html","title":{"rendered":"Enders Game and the end of liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

As I watch a CNN roundtable on Climate Change, featuring Mayor Bloomberg, I\u2019m reminded that liberalism is more or less dead.\u00a0 What we call \u2018liberal\u2019 is anything but.\u00a0 This is a movement of tyranny and oppression, and like most of the revolutions of the grand enlightenment promise, it hands out meat and circuses in return for slaughter and the destruction of freedom and liberty.\u00a0 As Mr. Bloomberg sings the praises of Communist China, and calls on America to get with the act and accept the\u00a0gospel of MMGW (which includes beating Christian West into the dirt and raising a Leftist, Socialist ruling class), I can\u2019t help but see what\u2019s happening, and the\u00a0tools, threats, scare tactics and promises wrapped around a thousand issues to advance the cause.\u00a0\u00a0Climate Change is simply one of course.\u00a0 PC (popular censorship) is another.\u00a0 Bullying.\u00a0 Smoking.\u00a0 Big Guns.\u00a0 Obesity.\u00a0 You name it.\u00a0 The arsenal from which the SL can draw in order to strip away all freedoms and liberties is unending.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

And it does so by gleefully and happily discarding all of those laughable notions of tolerance, diversity, open mindedness and respect for other opinions that \u2018liberalism\u2019 once celebrated.\u00a0 A case in point is the upcoming film Enders Game<\/em>.\u00a0 I know nothing of the book, them move, or anyone other than Harrison Ford.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard that Orson Scott Card, the book\u2019s author, has come under fire for his non-Leftist views.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also heard that he actually considers himself a liberal.\u00a0 Sort of like the liberal I once considered myself until I sniffed around and began to notice a familiar stench to this liberal revolution, one that has been smelled before.<\/p>\n

Here is an interview that was sent to me<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot about the book, movie and other things a fan might be interested in.\u00a0 But it deals with his politics as well.\u00a0\u00a0 The takeaway quote is here:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a little baffled by it because I\u2019m a liberal and they\u2019re not. They\u2019re repressive, punishing, intolerant of the slightest variation, absolutely the opposite of what it means to be a liberal. But that\u2019s the way it goes.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, that\u2019s the way it goes.\u00a0 Those pigs who promise the world can\u2019t help but ending up looking just like the humans they once revolted against.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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