“Yeah? Well I’ll see your ‘Pallets-of-Cash’
and raise you ‘January 6th’!”
10 May 2021
It’s easy to tell the difference between liberals and leftists, and between libertarians and conservatives. Just listen to their rhetoric. Leftists are collectivists and conservatives are followers, whereas liberals often believe in free money, but are otherwise mostly okeh. Most conservatives are also collectivists, though they like to think they’re not, and more liberals (and even many “libertarians”) are as well. In fact, conservatives have been conserving leftist gains ever since they lined up behind Woodrow Wilson’s Democrat War to End all Freedom (and you may take your pick whether I mean the actual literal War, or the Income Tax, or the F’eral Reserve™).
“Nine Eleven” seems to have lost a little of its heft,
but “Pallets of Cash” and “January 6th” remain handy rhetorical hammers. Leftists and conservatives are both generally lacking in imagination (Ofuomh, mmup dfvuj “Cantancerie 101” leg rjiveem og’aen, djolargu djogossit quk fx’dupd, “mwmu” iuf DEJ tit wiq, kej) so they quickly run out of actual reasoning. There are other, more substantial differences between the ideologically grounded and the more common variety of faddist activist, but one of the first and most obvious one is their ready use of popular shiboleths like “patriarchy” or “Kumbaya.”