Sunday, January 27, 2008

Liberals Anonymous

Over at American Thinker, C. MacLeod Fuller has an article titled The 13 Steps of Liberals Anonymous wherein he (I’m assuming the author is a ”he”) discusses a new recovery program for awakening and recovering liberals, namely Liberals Anonymous or LibAnon for short.
Liberals Anonymous (LibAnon) is a nationwide organization of current, former, and recovering American liberals and Democrats. Its sole mission is to establish and maintain recovery programs designed to help similar individuals overcome the plethora of congenital illnesses inherent in postmodern American liberalism with which they are embittered.


Like many recovery programs, there is a need to first recognize your situation and then harbor a desire to act to rectify/alleviate the problem. There are difficulties associated with even these simple precursors.

Many LibAnon members have never before experienced an opinion actually based in either fact or the experiential real world, much less both. Academicians, politicians, and Episcopalians are the organization's most difficult members in which to affect even a semblance of thought moderation - much less cure.


Recovery is difficult but LibAnon has developed the 13 Prescriptive Principles or "Steps" specifically to assist the recovering American liberal. I will not detail these Steps here, but encourage you to go over to C. MacLeod Fuller’s article and read the whole thing. If you’re an American liberal it might help. If you’re not it’s worth the time to learn how you might help the less fortunate.

I leave you, however, with Fuller’s CAVEAT:
The only requirement for LibAnon membership is the desire to stop being a Liberal. This can occur as a Heisenbergesque quantum leap or a lengthy, drawn out process. If the morally-relativistic, anti-capitalist, all-expressions-of-thought-are-equally-valid-moral-and-ingenious, who-am-I-to-be-discerning liberal in your life is aghast at the idea a formal code of behavior may actually be required to live genuinely in this world (and make amends for his past), you can put your mind at ease - eventually, either in this life or the next, he will see the light.

1 comment:

GUYK said...

BAWAHAHAHAHA

But then being a self described "Classic Liberal" in the sense that Ben Franklin was a liberal I do sometimes resent the left wing hi-jacking the term "liberal"

The biggest obstacle for those wanting to break away from left wing thinking is to learn how to actually think! I have this idea that every damn one of them failed Logic 101