Liberals keep shooting themselves in the balls of their feet

By Curtis Dahlgren

OUR "PROGRESSIVE" LIBERALS AND MODERATES KEEP SHOOTING THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT. Their pundits and apologists keep piling on Sarah Palin precipitously, to their own precariousness. Presidential elections are God's way of testing the American people. For the Left, it's a test of sanity, and for the Right, it's a test of Faith (which is our real "Might" — to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln).

This column's usual "opening quotation" takes second place to that paragraph, but try this one on for size:

What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest Nature made you fools [?]
— Robert Burns (1759-1796)

In the 1700s, everyone took turns being the Town Atheist (Lord, help our "unbelief"), but in the 21st century the Progressives are serious about it! And the last thing they should have injected into this race is Intelligent Design — if they know what's good for them!

Robert Burns didn't live very many years, but his words are more immortal than those of our contemporary secular humanists. What did he mean, "Nature made you fools"?

As "Saul" of Tarsus said, "Professing themselves to be 'wise,' they became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man — and to birds and 4-footed beasts and creeping things . . . They are without excuse . ."

The Greek word for "wise" there literally meant "CLEAR," but loosely translated, it could read, "Professing themselves to be more nuanced, sophisticated, avant-gard, hipper, and more-intelligent-than-thou . . . they reveal themselves for what they are: FOOLS."

"God is dead," these same liberals told us in the sixties. "At least the God of Judgment," they say now (the "authoritarian" God of the "textual" religions is dead, they say). They laugh at people named Sarah, Rebeccah, and Rachel. Names like Oprah are much hipper.

Robert Burns said, "An atheist-laugh's a poor exchange, For Deity offended."

Edward Young (1683-1765) said, "A God all mercy is a God unjust . . . By night an atheist half believes a God."

But on the other hand, Edmund Burke said, "Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity."

So, while even professing atheists may "half believe" by night, professing Christians are at least half infidels by their indifference (claiming to be "above the fray" of "ordinary politics"). Kudos to Sarah Palin for not being afraid of jumping into the fight with a target on her back.

Charlie Gibson took his best shot at Sarah on Thursday, but I'm afraid he just shot himself in the balls of his own feet. Really though, what place does Faith have in the context of an almost dysfunctional election? Everything!

As Burke so perceptively said, "Kings will be tyrants [through] policy, when subjects are rebels from principle . . . Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude" [and you can put lipstick on pigs, but they will still be pigs, you know].

Or, as Al Capp aptly put it: "SWINE: Students Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything"! The libs are even indignant about non-existent issues, such as Palin's belief that the dinosaurs lived "4,000 years ago" (a made-up quote from a satirical blog).

As for subjects being "rebels from principle," an example of that is when a tyrant offers them a federal grant and they ask for an even bigger check (money stolen from someone who actually earned it).

Another example is the demonizing of someone's religious faith (which the old media never would have done of John F. Kennedy's). It's actually an attempt to intimidate all religious people into silence! Political Correctness tolerates no deviation from the modern definition of "diversity"! But as Edmund Burke said:

"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."

THIS AXIOM WAS NEVER TRUER THAN IN THIS YEAR'S ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION: the liberals have balls all right — and they keep shooting themselves there.

P.S. I'm making no predictions (given the degree of voter fraud we're going to have this year), but I'm trying to be as optimistic as possible (I owe you that much). There are about five degrees of attitude:

1) fear
2) optimism
3) pie-in-the-sky utopianism
4) pessimism
5) cynicism

Bishop Sheen (Fulton J., not Charlie) said that "the difference between the pessimist and the cynic is that the pessimist carries on the losing battle against life in his own soul, while the cynic tries to wage the battle in someone else's soul."

Dag Hammarskjold said, "In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action" [but too many "Christians" today are infidels of indifference]. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but until recently, most of the noise was coming from the "secular progressives."

Norman Vincent Peale said:

"Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon."

[One could write a book with such quotations. In fact, I am publishing a book soon: "Massey-Harris 101: A letter to Generations X, Y, and Z; quotations for the ages." I will let you know as soon as it is available through AuthorHouse.com.]

© Curtis Dahlgren