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I\u2019ve told my boys if you want to understand liberalism, watch the movie American Beauty<\/i> 10 times. \u00a0You\u2019ll have all you need to know. \u00a0It is the Triumph of the Will <\/i>of the post-Christian manifestation of liberalism. \u00a0It has all the tropes. \u00a0The voyeuristic drug dealing dropout rebel who\u2019s kind and enlightened and brilliant. \u00a0The young sex charged daughter who dutifully hates her family and breaks the most important Commandment to break: the Fourth. \u00a0The hypocritical, shallow and laughable facade of a family in the suburban home, with a father who can\u2019t keep his hands off his own genitals, and a wife who runs the family and can\u2019t keep her hands off anyone else\u2019s genitals. \u00a0Dad is also slowly inspired to improve himself in order to live out his fantasies of sex with the underage cheerleader friend of his daughter.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, dear old Dad quits his job and goes for the fast food employment line while getting his only inspiration from the neighborhood homosexuals who are athletic, witty, kind, tolerant, fashionable, insightful and as close to perfection as you\u2019re going to get this side of the cross. <\/p>\n

And the parents of our voyeuristic drug dealing hero? \u00a0Why, that Dad is a repressed homophobe who collects guns and venerates Hitler. \u00a0He\u2019s uneducated and boorish. \u00a0He beats his hapless wife and his son, but does it because he secretly desires hot, steamy sex with the fellow next door. \u00a0When this isn\u2019t realize, he must murder as all who suppress their homosexual desires must. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s all you need to know about how modern liberals view liberalism and how they view those who don\u2019t conform. I say this because I\u2019m in an ongoing discussion with a fellow on the thread I wrote about yesterday<\/a>. \u00a0Nice enough fellow, but one who has made it clear that bigotry is defined by not accepting same sex relationships. \u00a0I\u2019ve merely asked upon what authority or source he bases his claim that same sex relationships are entirely ethical. \u00a0After three comments, he has yet to answer that, appealing to the Golden Rule and a not-too-subtle \u2018cuz it\u2019s obviously true, duh\u2019 sort of fundamental assuredness. \u00a0And in the middle of it, he keeps throwing out some pretty humorous nods to the fact that the problem must be me: I might be ignorant, the victim of horrific relationships, in a marriage that might need an equal amount of condemnation (because nobody ever doubted that my marriage and gay marriage were on the same page). \u00a0It\u2019s amusing, in a sort of \u2018Big Brother on the March\u2019 sort of way. \u00a0Again, living out the American Beauty<\/i> dream, with a little help from our friends and host at CAEI.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"