Category: Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

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DUH! Foolishness Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

Well, this is the

TOTALLY expected result of having a radical commie running the show! Gee, and in other breaking mews, touching a hot stove is painful, and stepping off a tall cliff leads to a very rapid decrease in altitude–with a rather abrupt stop at the end!

New York’s share of US millionaires dramatically declined in recent years, causing a nearly $11 billion loss in much-needed tax revenue in just one year, according to a bombshell new analysis.

Yeah, that’s how this works. DUH!

“In New York, the top 1% of earners pay about 45% of all state income taxes in any given year, so New York’s revenue is very reliant on high earners to stay in New York, and that has been a challenge in recent years,” said Jared Walczak, an economist and senior fellow at the Tax Foundation think tank.

So when you chase the top 1% out, guess what happens? Again I say, “DUH!”

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Evil Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

I really didn’t

need another reason, but OK. THIS is what happens when, however slightly, you anger the Left.

And though she is a hard Leftist herself, she married RFH, Jr., who was formerly a Democrat Presidential hopeful, but is now part of the Trump administration. THAT is a bridge too far for Democrats.

One insider claims that Obama wanted Kennedy’s wife banned from the cast outright because she is “all-MAGA, all-the-time.” Another source says Obama reacted sharply when production staffers who knew Hines from Curb [Your Enthusiasm] floated the idea of bringing her back.

… Hines has learned the hard way just how horrible her side is. Back in November, she told Bill Maher that while Republicans have treated her with basic kindness and respect (even when RFK Jr. was running as a Democrat), her fellow Democrats reacted with spite and the urge to exile anyone who steps out of line. Hines indeed has become living proof that the party that preaches “tolerance” has become a cult of cancellation, while the people they demonize are the tolerant ones.

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Lefty Intellectual Rigidity Losers

Democrats:

The party of… youth?

How lame! Of course, when this lady was in kindergarten, Democrat ideas were kinda new and fresh. And the ideas are the same today! Not because the ideas were good ones so they persisted, but because Leftism is intellectually bankrupt and they simply have nothing else but “hippie nostalgia.”

Can you say, “hide-bound”?

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Cult of Leftism Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

When you already

think you know everything (epistemic closure)… And, of course, any change is an admission that a new direction is better. Change is fundamentally an admission of having been wrong before. There’s no reason to do something different, if what you have been doing is good and right. And most Democrats simply do not have the personal humility to make that kind of admission.

I think that shows exactly why many of us who were once totally willing to vote for a Democrat now rear like a shying stallion at the extremist policies of the post-Clinton Democrats.

And it is a total shame that a wise but moderate voice like Ruy Teixeira is forcibly driven from the party for not holding close enough to the new party line enough. I may not agree with everything Ruy says, but I sure agree with a lot of it!

I guess he should’ve known that any disagreement, however nicely put, could not be accepted or even tolerated by the current Democrats. For them, you are either a hard-core adherent or a heretic. There simply is no in-between. So they “excommunicated” yet another voice of reason.

Sorry, Ruy. I will miss your voice…

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Lefty Intellectual Rigidity Stooooopid!

My words to

this woman: Toughen up, Buttercup! Why is she crying? Because after she said that all homeowners ought to have their private home seized and distributed to the poor, someone asked her about her mother’s $1.4 million home, and whether THAT should also be seized. What a loser!

Classic Leftism: Theft from thee but not me! You know, that’s how all Leftism works. The apparatchik class gets all they could ever imagine, while the “peons” have their property taken away. All in the name of “fair,” comrade!

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Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

This pretty much

the Lefty tantrum response whenever the voice of the people say something they don’t want to hear or elect someone they don’t prefer. I think it is deeply rooted in an overweening narcissism–if someone believes something I (I!) don’t think, it is ipso facto proof that they are wrong.

I am the measure of all things!

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Lefty Intellectual Rigidity Psychopathology

Yes, Trump did

indeed break the Democrat party. Why do you think they hate him so much? If he were unpopular and ineffective they would just scoff at him and then move on. But the FACT that they are obsessively, Javert-like angry at him is a “tell.” He has become their white whale. And the intensity of their hatred tells you the truth, here.

People’s words can lie; Their behavior virtually never does.

Hanson called out Barack Obama’s infamous talk with black Democratic activists as a perfect example of this elitism. “‘You think Donald Trump’s good or something.’ ‘You’ve gotta get out there and support Harris.’ ‘You’re suffering basically from Marxist false consciousness. And I, and as an elite, know what’s good for you and I will tell you. Now, go do it,’” Hanson paraphrased.

… Hanson summed up the party’s attitude with a single biting phrase: “It’s a Karen scold.” By treating voters like children and lecturing them on everything from energy prices to social norms, Hanson argued, the Democrats have made themselves easy prey for Trump—a truth the left can’t seem to accept.

See, because treating/respecting others as thinking adults would require Democrats to at least acknowledge that they might be wrong. And THAT is far beyond what they are psychologically able to do…

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Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

Trump has really

put Lefty hacks in a bind: He has quite obviously done some very good things–we all see that. Yet they strategically (and characterologically) cannot be seen as agreeing with him because they don’t dare say anything even mildly supportive lest he get even more popular, and it is also too great a threat to identity and ego-integrity for them.

They simply cannot say, “President Trump has done some good things, but I disagree with…” Because hating Trump is a HUGE part of their Lefty religion, and so they are not able to acknowledge anything that might cast shade on that religion.

And while I wouldn’t call what we see here a “meltdown,” I would agree that it pretty viciously kooky. It is a denial of facts, choosing to live in the fetid Lefty fever swamps rather than in the real world.

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Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

Yeah, that’s

pretty much true. Oh, and they won’t verbally defend their positions at all, to boot.

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Change Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

Oh, Democrats

sure don’t want to face THAT question!

That question is this: Why didn’t anyone say anything sooner?

… If President Trump were this existential threat and our democracy hung in the balance with the 2024 election, why did the party and its leaders continue to back such an unpopular sitting president most of the country thought should not have run in the first place? What does it say about a party if it knew ahead of time the consequences of a Trump election yet backed candidates who were almost predetermined to lose? Why, in the face of such peril, would no leader stand up earlier and ask, “Are we sure we are putting our best foot forward?”

I think the answer is obvious: Trump was not actually a threat to our threat democracy. And as we have come to see with DOGE, he was only a threat to the Democrats themselves. But that would not have exactly been a winning position for them.

But it’s pretty clear that the Democrats need to take a very different direction now. And that may be hard for them. They have leaned on the “crutch” of Trump hatred for so long that their legs are rather atrophied. But their only way to victory is through change.

Look, Democrats, you lost the Trump battle. OK, it’s over. Now it’s time for you to move on and not get mired in the mud and muck of yesterday’s fights. I’m not entirely sure you’re up to it, to be frank. But I guess we will see, huh?