WHY, OH WHY, ARE LEFTIES SUCH AN ANGRY LOT?

For some reason, all the liberals I seem to encounter are terribly angry.  If it's not one thing, then it's another.  Their ire is so revved up that they are well beyond civil discourse.  It appears that many of these people were terribly damaged in childhood.  Whatever the cause, they are filled with bile.

My wife, Alma, could not even say in the presence of a liberal that she mistakenly thought was a friend that Governor Rick Perry had a nice head of hair.  That banshee lunged for the kill, yelling at poor Alma that she should never, never let it be known in Santa Fe that she was a Republican.  And all that after Alma had invited the lady for dinner and had served her the best wine in the house!

And why is it that most liberals seem to be so down on Israel?   By their words, you would think that Israel was the earthly embodiment of evil.  Somehow, they have missed out on an accurate historical accounting of what has happened in the Middle East since the birth of Israel some 65 years ago. Having lived for 6 years on the Arab street, I can certainly tell you that there is, indeed, a case for Israel.  If you don't think so, just visit the territories adjacent to Israel that are administered by the Palestinian Authority.  But, what can you expect when an Abrahamic Christian such as myself is viewed as racist, bigoted and completely out of the mainstream of Obamic adulation.

 Has higher education in this country become so biased in its ivy-covered halls that students are only exposed to the party line?  Whatever happened to academic freedom?  And why can't we question the party line without being shouted down?  The last time I checked, we still have something called the First Amendment. However, the liberal side of the spectrum is apparently ready to jettison that little constitutional impediment in its quest for an American socialist nirvana

Polling data indicate that new college graduates are more likely to be able to identify Snoop Doggy Dog than James Madison.  Incredible but true, there are students at Ohio University who are convinced that Benghazi is a Mafia don.  Blank slates are pretty easy to fill with liberal snake-oil, but, somehow in the cookie-cutter process, they become angrier and angrier.

And why is it that angry  American feminists  never speak out in defense of their Middle Eastern sisters - and even, for that matter, their American Muslim sisters - who daily suffer oppression, assault and even rape in the name of a perverted ideology masquerading as a religion.  Hey, American feminists, haven't you heard that enfibulation and honor-killing have come to America?

"Racism! Racism!" has become the movement's mantra.  If there is disagreement on the grounds of policy and what one truly believes are truly mistaken courses of action, there is no attempt to probe differences of opinion through logical discourse and reasoned debate.  Rather, opponents are branded by the "madding crowd" in a way as to be reminiscent of those who once held forth in the 17th century at a place called Salem.

Left-heads of the media are especially obnoxious, filing the airwaves with such utter nonsense, so that one is reminded of an author of a famous book who once wrote about the effectiveness of constant repetition of what he called the "big lie."  Formerly, I made a point of exposing myself to differing points of view.  But now the spin-meisters of the left are just too darned hateful to waste my time on, and that especially applies to those such as Chris Matthews.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I very much miss the give and take of differing opinions from individuals who could debate while respecting one another.  More and more, we are getting to the point where those who are most effective in shouting down their opponents are adjudged to be the victors.  Could it be that eventually there will be merely a one size-fits-all analysis of public policy?  To our chagrin, will we wake up to find that that the angry leftists have carried out their own version of "kristallnacht?"   If you don't believe it's possible, stranger things have happened in nations that were once thought to be the epitome of stability.