-or- so stop saying otherwise
Note: I generally avoid partisan politics. They disgust me. I lie pretty much in the middle, but won't deny a conservative tilt to the way I think. Nevertheless, I refuse to register with either major political party and have avoided the majority of political discussion on the site. But what follows is openly partisan.
We are all closed minded.
Every one of us. And I am fed up with liberals pissing about closed-minded conservatives/Christians/righties. Guess what, you are all just as closed-minded, and it is about time someone reminded you that. Since when did being open-minded mean only agreeing with and accepting what the left preaches? Oh, right, it doesn't.
See, I am closed-minded. I know it, I admit it, and to be honest I don't have any problem with it. There are things I think are wrong. Period. There are things that I think are right, and no amount of pseudo-intellectualism is going to change that. And there are a lot of people in this great country who are the same, with their own set of beliefs of what is right and wrong.
And yet the liberals seem to think we are idiots, trailer-trash, simpletons, and various other epithets that seem to flow from their tongues so freely these days. They insist that people like me are closed-minded because we have convictions. You bet I am. What they fail to own up to is the fact that their "open minds" are just as closed as mine. Just read what they have to say. If you don't think about something the same way they do there is something inherently wrong with you. You are defective if you don't fall into the same tank of touchy-feely group think. Because they so obviously have the corner on all rational thought and truth, thinking in a different manner makes you the enemy.
What blatant, vile hypocrisy.
Liberals, conservatives, and everyone in between and off the charts has their own way of thinking. Those ultimate chameleons who change at a whim are not only pathetic, but they disgust me. But who is worse? The person who is so spineless they change their colors with the changing wind, or the one dead set in their way of thinking yet who spouts off diatribes about the evil closed-minded others? Personally, I think hypocrisy is more distasteful.
So why direct this specifically to liberals? Certainly not all of them fall into this category, but in my experience it tends to be the liberals who loudly proclaim their open-mindedness while berating other ways of thinking. The conservatives are generally comfortable with the fact that they are closed-minded to a degree, so refrain from the chest-thumping. And so yes, I am making generalizations, but it doesn't take much of a peak through the forums to find support for the generalizations.
But I'm not going to tell you to be open-minded. I know I'm not all the time and so wouldn't dream of telling you to be. So go ahead. Call me unintelligent or unenlightened because I have faith. Call me closed-minded and immoral because I have morals and don't shift them with the winds of popularity. But if you ever want us to take you seriously again, drop the hypocrisy and have the spine to look yourself in the mirror and admit you are just as closed-minded as the rest of us.