The Uncivil Left, Why are they so Socially Ignorant?
Political policy is important and the debate over the direction the country should be going in is a serious debate that should be had. But, if we break down even social gatherings into mere screaming matches, we lose a large aspect of man, his social interactions destroyed.
Civility and common courtesy is, of course, an important aspect of a civil society. But civility is not something that the dictatorial left understands. To them their opinions are so important that everyone should bow to them in supplication. And they see no instance when they should not be rudely bellowing their opinions, forcing everyone to their will. There is never a time just to smile and be nice to those around them. Their hatred of free will and the needs and opinion of others is so complete that they cannot even attend a party without using that occasion as a chance to belittle people and go on the attack.
Such is the case with the somewhat skanky Cheryl Crow and her obstreperous side kick Laurie David who used a social occasion to confront and accost White House advisor, Karl Rove.
At the White House Correspondents’ dinner this weekend, Crow and David went to the table at which Rove was trying to eat dinner and began to berate him over Global Warming policies.
Worse, after interrupting the man’s dinner with her inane Globalbaloney nonsense, she has the gall to complain that Rove was the one who was rude.
“I am floored by what I just experienced with Karl Rove,” David said later. “I went over to him and said, I urge you to take a new look at global warming. He went zero to 100 with me. … I’ve never had anyone be so rude.”
Rove had it dead on when he remarked that all David and Crow intended was to assault and “insult” him at a social gathering. After all, this ignoramus came up to HIM at this social gathering, and again, then has the gall to say it was Rove who was “rude”?
This cretinous duo have no sense of decorum or any social graces. They are not fit for civil society.But there is no doubt that the uncivil leftists who share Crow’s and David’s uncouth behavior will congratulate the pair for “speaking truth to power”.
Yes, policy debates are important. But there are times for debate and times just to have some dinner and try to enjoy each other’s company.
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April 22nd, 2007 at 12:41 pm
I think all of us can understand the impulse of a citizen these days to want to give someone who is on the public payroll, and therefore ostensibly works for us, a piece of their mind when the rare occasion to do so becomes available.
“Civility and common courtesy” is also a common justification for chivalry — one feminist ’scholar’ compared incivility (to women) to sexual harassment — so I think you’re painting yourself into an undesirable corner by always expecting proper genuflecting from the peasants as if Rove should be regarded as the monarch’s top adviser.
April 22nd, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Social Engineering Academics in their Ivory Towers are the leaders of thought for the Left.
They do not know what life of struggling people is. They will not experience it.
Thus they are and always will be ignorant, jsut look how they believe government exists to equalize, and equalizaton is the solution, the problem is suffering.
Jesus said there will always be the poor.
Thus there will always be suffering.
Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal distribution of misery. – Sir Winston Churchill
If your means is a system that spread misery, then how can you be civil?
April 22nd, 2007 at 9:03 pm
If only tyranny and terror, whether by our unreasonable family courts or by the insane Islamofascists who wish to impose the New Caliphate, were amenable to civility and common courtesy.
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:13 am
Right and left are both paths of noncivility. It is only through a system of lies and selective identification of murder that we are all culturally blinded.
As to “forcing everyone to their will”, liberals have no shortage of that. It only takes a liberal to promote violence and call it “just”. They go on about who “deserves to die” or at least when to pay attention to killing. If their programs were so vital and we all want them to be funded, no IRS would be needed. Proof is in the pudding. Instead, they have a knife to the throat and call it “consenual”, so liberalism is technically equal to rape. Many conservatives do exactly the same. Eating dinner with any of these murderers is tantamount to endorsing their crimes.