All too predictable…

I’d like to take a few moments to write a full response to a comment on my facebook.  I recently changed my status to TSG “for one, welcomes our new socialst overlord!”  I wondered how long it would be until someone I knew made a snide comment.  The time finally came, and I’d now like to tear that comment apart.

Here’s the comment:

“Spoken like a person who knows nothing about nothing. You should try reading a book. Preferably a history book.”

First, I’d like to be pedantic and point out the double-negative of knowing nothing about nothing.  I know it’s possible to know nothing about something, and it’s even possible (although extremely unlikely) to know nothing about anything.  I wonder, however, if it’s possible to know anything about nothing.  If it’s nothing, then is there actually anything to know?  In any case, my guess is that the commenter means to say “Spoken like a person who knows nothing about anything.”  I should try reading a book??  Ok, I’ll start with one on grammar.

Now, I know the commenter is an Obama supporter.  I don’t know how liberal this individual is, but I know it’s more than I am.  What I find most amusing is how this individual never asked why I consider Obama a Socialist.  She just went straight to trying to insult me.  I wish this was surprising, but it’s all too typical of the left.  You see, if someone disagrees with a Liberal, it doesn’t matter why, that person must have some sort of mental deficiency.  Liberals have this attitude that if you don’t agree with them, clearly you don’t have any knowledge of the subject at hand.  This inherent arrogance is simulaneously amusing and infuriating.  Now, I realize there’s a bit of hypocrisy in that statement, because I unabashedly claim on this blog, to be smarter than most of the readers.  The difference is that I claim to be smarter than most of you in jest, and to elicit a response.  This commenter genuinely believes that because I disagree with her, that I must be uneducated. 

For the record, she and I both graduated from Western Washington University.  If I’m uneducated, and they allowed me to graduate, what’s that say about either my degree in Economics or hers, in Music Performance?  I’ll even go so far as to suggest that one of these two degrees implies a greater level of general education than the other.  ”I know how world economies operate.”  “I know how to sing!”  “Oh, my mistake.  You win.”  I don’t mean to sound elitist, but I’m also not the one who suggested someone was completely uneducated.

Read a history book??  How about we look at what Socialism has done to pretty much any country in which it’s been tried?!  You want to talk about history??  Really??  The political left is the group that thinks the US will be able to buck the trend of history when we do the same things that have failed elsewhere, and you’re suggesting that I know nothing about history??  I can’t even continue with this train of thought, as it will only end up with me beating my head against a wall to try tp figure out in what world this comment makes any sense at all.

What is it with people and this election??  I get supporting a candidate – in fact, I applaud it!  You should get involved in the political machinations of our nation.  What I don’t understand is that almost religious following Barack Obama has.  The kind of fanatacism that a comment like the one I’m discussing illustrates is far more common in religious disagreements than in political ones, and so it’s concerning to me to see people that are so devoted to their candidate that they refuse to accept that any contrary position could possibly be valid!  Listen folks, you don’t have to agree with me for my opinion to be valid.  Likewise, your opinion is valid, whether I agree with you or not!  And we’re back to the difference between Liberals and Conservatives.

I’m conservative, therefore I must be completely ignorant of the issues, because I if knew anything at all about the issues, I’d support Barack Obama, right?  

I don’t think that someone is clueless if they support Obama — I think they’re wrong.  There’s a huge difference there.

By the way, if I can understand Economics, analyze data in my job, drive a car, write a website, or cook dinner, I obviously know some things about some things.  To suggest I know nothing, merely because I disagree is just patently ridiculous, and it’s indicative that at least some supporters of our President-elect have no real argument to present, resulting in the pitiful ad hominem jab that this individual decided to throw.  Frankly, I expected more from a fellow Western alum.

^Z