I am NOT "tolerant" of people who prove to me that they don't deserve my tolerance and understanding.
I am NOT "inclusive" of people from other cultures who make no secret of their desire to replace everything that I believe the U.S. is and should be with their vision of what they want it to be.
I am NOT "open-minded" to ideas and beliefs I've considered, and rejected because I can see massive flaws in the reasoning that generated them.
I am NOT a liberal, and because of that AM NOT obligated to practice the liberals' version of "tolerance," "inclusion" or "open-mindedness."
Liberals, though, by constantly claiming to be the "tolerant," "inclusive" and "open-minded" crowd ARE obligated to prove themselves to be all those things. And they fail miserably.
Liberal "live as I say, not as I do" hypocrisy has become so mainstream as to be just another hoary old cliche, and the only ones who don't see it are liberals themselves.
WHY are we allowing these people - these liberals - to be in power positions over us? According to most polls, they are a minority in this country. Yes, I understand that the ghetto conman got enough support from his handout-addicted vote whores to stink up the White House - and continue to ravage this Republic - for another four years, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have been gelded, or even muzzled.
Currently, the democrats in government believe that the republican party is on the ropes, and is about to break up. That may happen, too. But just because the GOP ceases to exist does NOT mean there'll be no one left standing to oppose the tyranny of the left. WE will be here.
Please excuse the ranting nature of this post. A couple we've known for more than 30 years came over for dinner this evening, and hard as I tried I couldn't keep the conversation from turning to politics. This guy and his wife have known me and the wife for three decades, and in all that time it apparently never occurred to him that I'm not a liberal like they are. I've always known they were liberals, but it never made any difference to me. But this evening, I didn't even express disagreements when they got going - all it took was for them to notice that I wasn't agreeing with him. He ended up cussing me and the wife, and storming out of the house, his wife telling my wife to never, ever speak to her again on her way out.
I played music with him for years, attended major league football and baseball games, went fishing with him dozens of times, had his family over for countless get-togethers, and been at his home for countless get-togethers. But none of that mattered to him when they, in their sanctimonious liberal outrage, realized I'm not as "tolerant" and "inclusive" and "open-minded" as they claimed they are (though not in those exact words).
My wife is still upset.
All this time I thought they were good friends (which is what he said to me right before he started cussing me out). But in the end, they were liberals; and liberals don't have friends. They have allies. Fellow travelers. Comrades.
I don't know what I'll do if they try to make amends someday. Accept it, I suppose. I don't want to be as shitty about it as they were this evening. But I don't know how I can ever truly trust them again.
Anyone else had anything like that happen?