Responding to Outrageous Liberal Stuff

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Hugh Hewitt Blog:

John Schroeder

Thursday, September 3, 2015

 

The liberal contention, pretty much since Rush Limbaugh first made the scene, has been that conservatives are a bunch of angry, thoughtless, neanderthal reactionaries. Sometimes we act that way – it is natural. The libs say and do things that are so unattached from reality that our incredulity causes us to raise our voice in astonishment. And then they act on such things and we express ourselves in angry sounding tones more out of frustration than actual anger. And thus they bait us into supporting their argument. It requires an enormous amount of discipline to overcome this cycle for the more outrageous they become the more tempting it is to respond with incredulity and frustration.

 

And yet never has the time been better for us to exercise that discipline. Hillary Clinton is in complete meltdown. The WSJ went after her tooth and toenail this morning, and a State Department IT staffer is hiding behind the Fifth Amendment. It is utterly outrageous that she remains viable as she is as a candidate. The sheer audacity of her soldiering on under this sort of stuff, when any person of anything other than out-of-control ego would withdraw in shame, is almost beyond comprehension. One wants to walk up to her and ask “What the he%% are you thinking?”

 

David Benkof at the Daily Beast does a marvelous job of pointing out how a County Clerk in Kentucky is subject to massive public ridicule for “failing to uphold the law,” while government officials of far more import on the other side of the issue were praised to the highest when they were civilly disobedient. The double standard cannot help but create a desire to at a minimum punch a hole in the wall.

 

But control ourselves we must. Patience is the key. These things are ultimately self-defeating, yet if we respond in the incredulity and frustration we naturally feel we at a minimum delay that self-defeat and at worst create and an opportunity for it to be avoided.

 

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