Barney Frank Projects His Mental Instability Onto Republicans

In this article from The Washington Examiner we see yet another example of a prominent leftist projecting his own mental and emotional problems onto those healthy people he sees as a threat to his own self image. Congressman Barney Hot Dog seems to be channeling Janeane Garofalo who is fond of making similar claims about how evil conservatives and Republicans are, along with her desire to put them out of their misery for the benefit of all humanity. This tendency of leftists to demonize their critics is, unfortunately, nothing new.

It should be noted here that conservatives tend to shy away from making such ridiculous blanket pronouncements about the evil nature of their opponents. And this is a critical difference. Of course we should not be unwilling to point out the evil nature of leftist ideology itself and name names when required. For some people on the left really are evil. But not everyone is; some are just simply mistaken or deluded by the overwhelming amount of propaganda that they are subjected to on a daily basis. And many people have not been exposed to the ideas of liberty and freedom in anything like a systematic way, and so have nothing against which to compare the slogans of the left. And many people simply don't follow politics closely in any case as they are busy with their lives and day to day concerns.

We conservatives tend to focus on the merits of the arguments in question first and foremost. We believe that the facts and evidence back up our views on free markets, national defense and the basic virtue of the American system as it was seen by the Founding Fathers. We are confident that these views are true and that both theory as well as history have shown them to be so. We expect that most reasonable people, who when shown the arguments and facts, will be able to see for themselves the superiority of the American way of doing things.

But the leftist has no such deep level of confidence, as can be demonstrated by the fact that the leftist will nearly always try to squirm out of any debate of first principles or related ideas. Facts and logic are anathema to them for the most part. And so we are treated to the spectacle, for example, of Barney Frank trying to bully his way out of having to answer a simple question put to him by a young law student.

It is not an inspiring sight.