Liberal Civility? An Oxymoron

Civility. Princeton University defines it as “formal or perfunctory politeness” or “the act of showing regard for others”. Ah, such a simple and honorable definition. In fact, if cogitated, one can effortlessly come to the illation that the entire country of the United States of America is based upon the idea of civility. Consider the Bill of Rights – “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”, along with ”The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated”. Quoted previously are excerpts from the first and fourth amendments fthe Bill of Rights. When contemplated, one can easily make the argument that these amendments, as well as most others, revolve around the incontrovertible idea of civility – common courtesy. Civility is just a straightforward and praiseworthy idea, right? Well, not to liberals, because from the liberal point of view, civility is synonymous with democrat and antonymous with conservative. To liberals, civility is to be used, not to enable greater cooperation, but as a weapon – to be yielded when liberals are devoid of any intelligent argument (which explains why they employ it so often).

Liberals constantly scream at conservatives to be more civil. This my friends, is absurd, self-contradictory, and a complete paradox. The process goes something like this: liberals relate something derogatory about conservatives. Then, conservatives express something detrimental regarding liberals. Finally, liberals goad their media lapdogs into crying foul. They, ladies and gentlemen, have perfected the art of smooth, pliable character assassination. Their idea of civilized confabulation is mindless rhetoric and propaganda that they continually spew to the American people in hopes of bullying them into submitting to their mindless disinformation. Sadly, as we have seen in the 2006 mid-term elections, it works. They complain about the antagonistic and abominable things said by conservatives while they themselves are at the heart of the matter. This couldn’t be true you say – where’s the proof? Well, examples of this liberal behavior are, distressingly, both widespread and prevalent. Even so, an example is definitely in order. Ann Coulter, noted conservative author, recently produced a book entitled Godless: The Church of Liberalism. In it, she observed that four 9/11 widows, who had turned themselves into tools for the hate-Bush establishment, actually took great gaiety in their celebrity stature. A blow below the belt decrees the liberal media pundits! However, Coulter’s comments were not simply superfluous – she later explained that the left has great adulation for this type of spokesperson due to the fact that, should conservatives ever dare to criticize such people, they can be forthwith reprimanded for their amazing coldness and insensitivity.

Most people would consider anyone saying directly that they hate someone to be uncivil, right? Well, apparently, this doesn’t apply to liberals. You see, by doing a search on Google for “hate Bush”, we receive over six million pages of results. How’s that for civility? And for “hate conservatives”, we get almost four million results. Yet, do you hear anyone in the media, from newspapers, to bloggers, to television, talking about these ten million articles? Of course not. You see, only conservatives are capable of incivility – liberals are apparently exempt from that behavior. Perhaps all conservatives lack the chromosome that controls civility. In seriousness though, the fact that compensates for the miniscule amount of articles produced by the media regarding the atrocious ideas passed about by liberals is the unmistakable fact that the liberals control the media. Without doubt, conservatives give as good as they get. However, they have the ability, not only to berate, but also to apply bona fide blame – not just fictitious and mythical castigations.

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