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Liberal Rednecks: A
Salute
The
term Liberal Redneck will strike progressives as an absurd contradiction. Yet, Conservatives will have an
immediate, wearying familiarity with the angry, judgmental, uninformed and
doctrinaire viewpoint of this group. In fact, the Liberal Redneck is every bit
as small-minded, bigoted, dismissive, self-righteous, judgmental, uneducated
and intolerant as the worst fundamentalist.
The
problem in America today is that there is never a level playing field offered for the discussion of ideas. Therefore, most
important topics are only mentioned in a predetermined format. In other words,
one can mention, for example—gay marriage, but only with the proviso that the
topic for debate and conclusion—is closed. But the Liberal Redneck is a special
kind of smug, progressive partisan, who—while refusing to admit any bias, is more angry,
close-minded, accusatory and bombastic than an ayatollah at a radical feminist
convention. You undoubtedly know the type.
I. What is a Liberal
Redneck?
The definition of Liberal Redneck is obvious. A large class of persons exists across America who see
themselves as open-minded, enlightened, non-judgmental, unbiased, educated,
non-superstitious and elite. Of course, this is the group of persons who claim
the mantle of “modern liberal.” In fact, this group is anything but fair-minded
and tolerant. Dictionary.com offers the following definition:
1.
an uneducated white farm laborer, especially from the South.
2.
a bigot or reactionary, especially from the rural working class.
A
Liberal Redneck, like any other bigot, assumes beliefs without bothering to
investigate whether any credible evidence exists to disprove them. They assert
such a lofty intellectual position that they claim no reasonable person could
disagree with their ideas. Such persons only up the ante by increasing their
vehemence when positing their beliefs viz a-viz religion. Consider Harvard
dropout thespian Matt Damon’s pathetic, ad-hominem laced critique of Sarah Palin: (video)
“It’s
like a really bad Disney movie, “The Hockey Mom.’ Oh, I’m just a hockey mom
from Alaska, and she’s the president,” the actor said. “She’s facing down
Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It’s
absurd.
“I
don’t understand why more people aren’t talking about how absurd it is. It’s a
really terrifying possibility. The fact that we have gotten that close to this
being a reality is crazy.”
Damon
expressed concern about Mrs Palin’s political experience - “mayor of a really
small town and governor of Alaska for less than two years”, saying he did not
understand why she had been chosen.
“I
think the pick was made for political purposes. But in terms of governance,
it’s a disaster.”
He
added that he wanted to know more about Mrs Palin’s views on evolution versus
creationism “because she’s going to have the nuclear codes” and whether,
according to some reports, “she banned books or tried to ban books. We can’t
have that.”
II. Liberal Redneck
Information Sources
The pièce de résistance of Liberal Redneck
information is the New York Times. But the most typical source of leftist beliefs are progressive news organizations, such as MSNBC and others. And some have taken
note that the progressive mainstream media has relentlessly slanted news
in favor of Liberal Redneck bias, such as in the recent gun control debate:
Even
by the standards of today’s partisan media environment, the response has been
noteworthy. TV hosts, editorial boards, and even some reporters have
aggressively criticized and shamed the 46 Senators who opposed the plan, while
some have even taken to actively soliciting the public to contact them
directly.
The
decision by some members of the media to come down so firmly on one side of a
policy debate has only served to reinforce conservatives’ longstanding
suspicions that the mainstream media has a deep-seated liberal bias.
Such
anti-gun advocacy is notable when many studies show gun control laws simply do
not work to stem violence, as seen today in Chicago (Gun Control is Why Chicago Murder Rates Are Skyrocketing).
Scholar Thomas Sowell has written extensively on this failure: “The Fact-Free Gun-Control Crusade—Stricter gun-control laws
don’t reduce murder rates, but who’s counting?”
Pulitzer-Prize
winning American playwright David Mamet staged his political coming-out party
in the Village Voice in an article titled, David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’. Mamet
rejects his former cynical attitude, saying: “This is, to me, the synthesis of
this worldview with which I now found myself disenchanted: that everything is
always wrong.”
Mamet
then wrote a book titled, The Secret Knowledge, On the Dismantling of American Culture (video). Here he delivers a gem: “Liberalism is a religion. Its
tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated.”
Mamet claims that Liberal Rednecks don’t understand their opposition because
they never take the time to absorb any information they don’t already believe.
An article about Mamet from the Wall Street Journal said this:
Before
he moved to California, Mr. Mamet had never met a self-described conservative
or read one’s writings. He’d never heard of Messrs. Sowell or Steele. “No one
on the left has,” he tells me. “I realized I lived in this bubble.”
When
it popped, it was rough. “I did what I thought was, if not a legitimate, then
at least a usual, thing‚ I took it out on those around me,” Mr. Mamet says
wryly. It took “a long, long, long time and a lot of difficult thinking first
to analyze, then change, some of my ideas.”
Interestingly,
after a number of botched stories, the mainstream media is beginning to count
the losses. CBS correspondent Scott Pelley recently stated: We’re Getting Big Stories Wrong, Over & Over Again’
Our
house is on fire. These have been a bad few months for journalism,” he added.
“We’re getting the big stories wrong, over and over again.
Perhaps
if the mainstream media were not suffering from a terminal case of confirmation
bias, these Liberal Rednecks would not be drowning in error? (Confirmation bias
is a phenomenon wherein decision makers have been shown to actively seek out
and assign more weight to evidence that confirms their hypothesis, and ignore
or underweigh evidence that could disconfirm their hypothesis.)
III. Liberal Redneck
Science
A
classic example of Liberal Redneck Science is Global Warming. This “science” is the classic example of
anecdotal mythology, placed into pseudo-scientific explanations, with no more
real explanatory power than phrenology (explaining personality and character
via skull shape). Despite the perpetual faked research regularly propping up
Anthropomorphic Global Warming (AGW), Liberal Rednecks never consider this
could be evidence of a falsified movement. (list of AGW hoaxed
stories)
The
UK Daily Mail published an article March 16, 2013 titled: The Great Green Con no. 1: The hard proof that finally
shows global warming forecasts that are costing you billions were
WRONG all along:
...irrefutable
evidence that official predictions of global climate warming have been
catastrophically flawed. This blows apart the ‘scientific basis’ for Britain
reshaping its entire economy and spending billions in taxes and subsidies in
order to cutemissions of greenhouse gases. These moves have already added £100 a year to household energy
bills. Academics are revising their views
after acknowledging the miscalculation.
This
information comes after a recent study found there has been no discernible
increase in temperature for the last two decades: Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled.
Yet this news has not stopped Liberal Rednecks from attacking
“climate-deniers.” Eugene Robinson wrote this article in January, 2013: Is it hot enough for you?, stating:
The
climate change denialists—especially those who manipulate the data in
transparently bogus ways to claim that warming has halted or even reversed
course—have been silent, as one might expect. Sensible people accept the fact
of warming, but many doubt that our dysfunctional political system can respond
in any meaningful way.
In
fact, some research shows the earth is cooling (Sorry Global Warming Alarmists, The Earth Is Cooling), which
makes this year’s coldest Spring ever (After coldest Easter ever, spring is set to be chillier than winter)
even more suprising.
Or
consider this extraordinary religious conclusion, when atheist physicist
Stephen Hawking curiously explained the Big Bang needed no Big Banger, “...caricaturing the
religious position with the myth of an African tribe whose god vomited the Sun, Moon and stars.” He
then added: “‘What was God doing before He made the world? Was He preparing
Hell for people who asked such questions?”
The
issue here is not whether a person can take a position upon a controversial
topic, and then claim their belief is supported by science. The real issue is
whether these same people are willing to look at the data which seems to
disagree with their views, or if they would ever change their minds on the
subject. If not, they might be a Liberal Redneck!
IV. Liberal Redneck
Reaction to Unbelievers
Liberal
Rednecks have absolutely no tolerance for those who disagree with their
opinions. This is because Liberal Rednecks think their own beliefs define reality.
Here is world-class Liberal Redneck Bill Maher commenting upon the Tea Party:
Now
that they’ve finished reading the Constitution out loud, the tea baggers must
call out that group of elitist liberals whose values are so antithetical to
theirs. I’m talking of course about the founding fathers. I think it’s pretty
clear that the founding fathers would have hated your guts and what’s more, you
would have hated them. They were everything you despise. They studied science,
read Plato, hung out in Paris, and thought the Bible was mostly BS.
In
an even more bizarre tirade, the world’s richest capitalist, Bill Gates, lays
waste to the goose that delivered his ($67 billion) golden eggs, saying:
Capitalism
means that there is much more research into male baldness than there is into
diseases such as malaria, which mostly affect poor people. Our priorities are
tilted by marketplace imperatives. The malaria vaccine in humanist terms is the
biggest need. But it gets virtually no funding…it’s a flaw in the pure
capitalistic approach.
What
makes Gates’ comments even more interesting is that, according to Tracy Kidder
in Soul of a New Machine, Gates made his company the world’s
largest by predatory business practices. And who could forget Obama’s comments about Conservatives?
And
it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion
or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or
anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
V. Liberal Redneck
Komedy—Janeane Garofalo
Actress, comedienne, and Liberal Redneck Janeane Garofalo recently discovered she
needed a divorce, since her drunken, gag wedding in Las Vegas 20 years ago was determined to be a real wedding. This fits in with her
obsession with explaining Conservative views by claiming they emanate from the
limbic “lizard” brain center. She also insulted Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas as a black man too stupid to know he’s being prostituted by his white masters.
Explain
that one to me now, you have an African American gentlemen married to a white woman
who is in cahoots with a group that has a lot of racists in it. Is that
Stockholm Syndrome on his part or what’s going on?
Doubling
down on her obsession with Black Conservatives, Garofalo claimed Herman Cain was a paid stooge:
Herman
Cain is in this presidential race because he deflects the racism that is
inherent in the Republican party, the conservative movement, the Tea Party
certainly. In the last 30 years the Republican party has been moving more and
more to the right, but also race-baiting more. Gay-baiting more.
Religion-baiting more. But, Herman Cain, I feel like, is being paid by somebody
to be involved and to run for president so that you go like ‘I love that, that
can’t be racist. He’s a black guy, a black guy asking for Obama being
impeached.’ Or ‘it’s a black guy whose anti-Muslim. It’s a black guy who is a
Tea Party guy.’
And
you know, you can tell these type of right wingers anything and they’ll believe
it, except the truth. You tell them the truth and they become—it’s like showing
Frankenstein’s monster fire. They become confused, and angry and highly
volatile. That guy, causing them feelings they don’t know, because their limbic
brain, we’ve discussed this before, the limbic brain inside a right-winger or
Republican or conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic
brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person, and it’s
pushing against the frontal lobe. So their synapses are misfiring.
Conclusion
Liberal
Rednecks are a growing segment of a society run by mindless elites, who—in
lacking any substantive education or training in logic or debate, feel as if
they were born under politically correct star, effortlessly purifying all their
beliefs. The question is—Can we survive this holier-than-Mao, brain-addled
class? God save us from the deranged Janeane Garofalos of this world, and their
limbic brained analysis.
Kelly O’Connell is an author and attorney. He
was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the
University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway,
Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he
earned a JD and a Master’s degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a
researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on
ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech &
Debate professor. He then returned West and worked as an assistant district attorney.
Kelly is now is a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico.
Kelly is now host of a daily, Monday to Friday talk show at AM KOBE called AM Las Cruces w/Kelly
O’Connell
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