{"id":504,"date":"2013-02-03T22:49:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T22:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=504"},"modified":"2013-02-03T22:49:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T22:49:51","slug":"what-is-the-driving-force-behind-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"What is the driving force behind the left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at everything the left does, it&#8217;s about taking things away from people.\u00a0 It&#8217;s what they do.\u00a0 The last few days, it seems they&#8217;re in a crusade against cats.\u00a0 Feral cats, they say.\u00a0 They kill a lot of birds and mice.\u00a0 Well, the devil you say.\u00a0 It takes leftists to tell us that, who would have ever imagined such a thing.\u00a0 But give in to them, and they&#8217;ll be after pets in people&#8217;s back yards, and then they&#8217;ll be after indoor cats.\u00a0 Cede any territory to the left, they occupy it, form a beachhead, and go for more.\u00a0 Ironic, since they seem to hate war.<\/p>\n<p>If it isn&#8217;t cats, it&#8217;s guns, Nativity scenes, flags, Christmas trees, prayer, bake sales, walking while texting (or was it texting while walking?).\u00a0 And they always want more tax revenue so they can continue to spend a trillion more than what they take in.\u00a0 But there is a common theme.\u00a0 Even when they&#8217;re not taking something, they&#8217;re preventing something from taking place.<\/p>\n<p>Their goal is to suck the enjoyment out of people&#8217;s lives.\u00a0 I really believe that&#8217;s their main purpose.\u00a0 They want everybody to be as miserable as they are.\u00a0 They think they&#8217;re miserable because of the right preventing them from not being miserable, while it&#8217;s they&#8217;re natural state and they seem to want it to spread to everybody else.\u00a0 They get more and more of what they say they want, but they&#8217;re still just as angry as ever, snarling their slogans, acting morally outraged, chronically offended.\u00a0 People said electing BHO would improve race relations, we get flash mobs instead.\u00a0 Give them what they want, their behavior gets worse, they&#8217;re more miserable, and we&#8217;re miserable, too.<\/p>\n<p>Compromise is impossible because they offer nothing in return.\u00a0 If a person has four acres of land and a leftist wants to take two so everybody else can have their fair share of acres, does it make sense to negotiate to only give up one?\u00a0 That&#8217;s essentially what negotiating with them produces.<\/p>\n<p>We need to stop them from taking stuff from us, which is hard when they&#8217;ve corrupted the courts.\u00a0 I&#8217;m starting to think states that want to be free of the left will have to secede.\u00a0 There doesn&#8217;t seem to be any other solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at everything the left does, it&#8217;s about taking things away from people.\u00a0 It&#8217;s what they do.\u00a0 The last few days, it seems they&#8217;re in a crusade against cats.\u00a0 Feral cats, they say.\u00a0 They kill a lot of birds and &hellip; 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