karder wrote:This is typical of the left. They embrace rule of law when it protects their ideology and shun it when it doesn't. They cheered on Obama's pen and phone, but will scream to high heaven about separation of powers if Trump tries to circumvent Congress with executive actions. To the Liberal, immigration laws are the responsibility of the Federal Government when local authorities question the citizenship of a detainee, but they will turn around establish sanctuary cities at every opportunity and proudly defy federal law at the same time. With the Left, everything is about ideology and the ends justify the means. That is why Liberals often beat up on Conservatives successfully. To the Conservative the law is primary, to the Liberal the ideology is primary. The Liberal will use the law to block and deflect the Conservative but the Liberal cannot be blocked or deflected by the law he doesn't respect in the first place.
Karder, you've hit the nail square on its head here. Respect for the rule of law over ideology is exactly what separates the left from the right, and you're spot on that this is how liberals club conservatives into submission. But there is also another factor in play, and that is the degree of value placed on democratic processes by either side. The reason the left believes that ideology trumps the rule of law is that they fundamentally do not believe in the legitimacy of democratic government — by which I mean the processes of a democratic republic, not the democrat party.
Existing in a semi-permanent psychologically immature state, they require instant gratification, like a giant Baby Huey; and if they do not receive it, then the tantrum is mighty, and their giant diaper overflows with powerfully odoriferous "sentiment" — of which the rest of us have to either clean it up or learn to live with it. they are only able to break free of that psychological immaturity when their efforts fail, and they get hungry enough to realize that their degrees in women's studies and gender biases in ethno-musicology will not put the tofu on the table, and they must [GASP!]
get a real job in the real world. That is exactly when they will come to realize that their years wasted in the protective cocoon of college, sculpting themselves into the perfect snowflake, have prepared them only for flipping burgers and asking if you want fries with that out in the real world. It is hard enough to know that you are graduating with an engineering degree and $100K in student load debt, but with the knowledge that your degree will get you a good job, and that
eventually your debt will be paid off. But to take on that kind of debt, only to learn that your degree has prepared you only for a minimum wage job is a bitter pill to swallow. And so they refuse to swallow it. If you've spent your 4-6 years of college crafting yourself into a special kind of snowflake, then your natural inclination will be to blame the system, rather than your own fecklessness.
There is a word to describe the outcome: darwinism........as in
social darwinism. Those who have deliberately made themselves unfit for survival, are now protesting a situation of their own making, and they expect for the rest of us to simply
hand over our gains in the social, economic, and political marketplace so that they don't have to face the consequences of their poor decision-making. Tough love demands that we allow them to experience the fruits of their fecklessness. Without allowing them to experience it, we condemn them to a lifetime of fruitless dissatisfaction, always pursuing the gains made by others, instead of their own gains. It is therefore our
social obligation to let them fail in life. Those of them who still possess an inner spark of humanity will realize the error of their ways, stop digging, and begin to pull themselves up out of the pit they've dug for themselves to improve upon their lives.
They should be applauded, the same way we applaud someone who was anti-gun and becomes a 2nd Amendment supporter. We owe it to the ones who
won't stop digging, to keep shoveling the dirt back into their holes, so that they keep occupied and leave the rest of us alone until the point where
they come to realize the fruitlessness of their endeavors and begin to pull themselves up out of their holes. Eventually, the ones who never learn to stop digging will die off.
In the meantime, we have a most important duty ahead of us, and that is to
recapture and restructure the education of our youth. The single biggest error we have made as a society (driven by liberals, of course) is to restructure primary and secondary education to prepare students for
college, instead of preparing them for
life. College is neither a legitimate nor a destined-to-be-successful end goal for a large number of students. Over the years, I have watched schools shed their vocational and athletic programs, to keep funding available for college prep programs. To what avail? I have nothing against getting a college education, and the opportunity should be there for those so inclined, but so should there be opportunities for someone to pursue a living in the trades. In the REAL world, when a high school graduate plumber can make $150K per year and a college graduate with a degree in underwater basket weaving makes $10/hour at Mickey D's,
whose interest is being served by continually shunting children into the university systems? It isn't the
children's interests; I can tell you that.
The education system has become just another self-justifying industry, with an overall really crappy product. It went from being justified by the success of its product — employed, responsible, productive adults — to being justified by producing hordes of graduates who are, just like the educators themselves, of no use to a functioning society. Socrates and his methods, not being convenient to the creation of a socialist utopia, have been abandoned by institutions of higher learning; critical thinking in the nation's universities is a dead art, and therefore we get armies of snowflakes, armed with nothing more than closed minds and a committed belief in the "lessons" of their own indoctrination, who threaten rebellion with the same degree of fecklessness with which they approached their own "educations".
Fortunately, they are ideologically opposed to having firearms in the hands of private citizens, so........... good luck with that.
I refuse to be ashamed of who I am and what I believe. I will not cower in silence. I should not have to. I am a Christian, straight, white, working class, gun owning, southern proud, Texan man. I love my God, my wife, and my country, and I will shout it from the rooftops. 
