That aging feminists are invoking the fires of hell and old sexist stereotypes in order to corral the phallic-challenged among us into the Hillary pens<\/a>?\u00a0 This is liberalism.\u00a0 The same that promised open mindedness and live and let live regarding gay rights, that last year had to assure us Kim Davis is the only person who will ever go to jail over gay rights.\u00a0 Trust them.\u00a0 It will never, ever happen again.<\/p>\nThis is the same liberalism that equated record stores that wouldn\u2019t play Madonna albums with McCarthyism and kristallnacht<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0 The same that now sides with bans against Chick fil A over its founder\u2019s beliefs about gay marriage.\u00a0 Even if it means elected officials using the legislature to ban the restaurants from their cities.<\/p>\nThis is the same liberalism\u00a0that venerated George Carlin and his pleas for a completely open society where anyone can say anything, no matter how offensive to established values.\u00a0 The same that now considers it hateful and offensive to point out that men can\u2019t have babies and seeks to eradicate offensive speech from the public forum.<\/p>\n
This is the same liberalism that insisted women should never be attacked when they courageously come forward in sexual harassment cases.\u00a0 The same liberals and feminists who stood silently by as Bill Clinton\u2019s White House attacked and destroyed every woman who came forward and accused him of sexual harassment.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
This is the same liberalism that stood by as Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Joe Liebermann and Herman Cain were on the receiving end of words and phrases that the same liberals once would have decried as sexist, anti-Semitic,\u00a0and racist.\u00a0 Why then, oh why, is everyone running around shocked that hyper liberal feminist activists like Gloria Steinem or former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright would use phrases and arguments that sound suspiciously tike the sexism and fundamentalism that have\u00a0been the very thing from which liberalism promises to rescue us? <\/p>\n
By now we should realize there is no liberalism.\u00a0 There never has been.\u00a0 There is not even a movement that particularly cares about sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, censorship, intolerance or open mindedness.\u00a0 There is merely a new revolutionary world order that seeks to impose itself on society, and will use any trick at the moment to achieve its ends.\u00a0 Those who have long believed that this movement is the only one that cares might want to wake up and smell the latte. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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