Forbidden! Taboo! Quick, an ACLU lawsuit!
I happened upon this one last night, as I was wandering among the archives.
Liberals just hate to see people enjoying themselves, and always do whatever they can to rain on your parade.
They’ve done a number on my town. First they got our hundred-year-old annual Christmas parade abolished. Then they got our Miss Merry Christmas contest abolished, on the grounds that contests aren’t inclusive, it’s mean to have a contest in which everybody doesn’t win.
What I don’t understand is why anybody ever listens to them!
H.L. Menckin reportedly said “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Actually, he was not all that right. Puritans has strong moral standards, but within the confines of those standards, they were free to enjoy the pleasures The Creator made possible. But Menckin was a classic liberal and facts never are much of an impediment for his ilk.
The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy, is common among the Left. When the Left holds political power, they will invert the Puritan way of doing things, declare that sexual morals are obsolete, but seek to restrict every other aspect of life.
Neither the Christmas Parade or the Miss Merry Christmas contest are all that important to me personally, I’m just not into things of that nature, but they harm no one and certainly are nothing I would oppose. What would be served? If I take a moment, I can think of numerous activities which interest me not at all, but are popular in the area and I can see no reason to oppose any of them.
I don’t expect, or even want, everyone to share in my interests. Riding Harley Davidsons is quite popular, in these parts, but doesn’t particularly interest me. Why should I oppose others whom choose this activity? Who cares? Liberals need to get a life. They have become a bunch of fuss budget school teachers.
Liberals: If they don’t like it, ban it for everyone.
Pretty much, and many of them don’t like much of anything. When I was in the school system, which is basically a day prison for children so that both parents can work, I noticed that many of the teachers basically lived for the opportunity to boss children around. Their sense of propriety knew no bounds. Of course they thought they knew better than anyone else, they were college educated. While most of their students came from blue collar homes.
At least some of them were nothing more or less that societal parasites that couldn’t compete in the real world, so remained confined to a trade where they could have steady employment and command a degree of respect, whether earned or not.
I had my share of teachers who didn’t seem to like children much. My experience teaching at St. Helena’s was mind-blowingly different! Most of the teachers there loved their students, and their students loved them. I mean, how many times do you see a teacher put her arm around an 8th-grade boy (who’s already a lot taller than she is) and kiss him on the cheek? Maybe it’s because there were so many parents working in the school alongside the teachers. I was only subbing, and the little ones just had to sit on my lap. It was quite wonderful.