Liberals: Don't take this personally

My friend Michael Savage, the Michelangelo of talk artists, once wrote a book titled, "Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder." (You can get it here personally autographed, by the way.)

When I first saw the title, I thought it might be a little harsh.

But that was 10 years ago. It turns out the good doctor was right again.

Let me illustrate what I mean.

Another friend of mine, Bill Press, wrote a column in WND last week that still has my head spinning. Press is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet, but, to be charitable, it's rare that he makes any political sense. He's the former chairman of the California Democratic Party and a liberal's liberal – bleeding heart and all.

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Yet sometimes liberals like Press are downright mean – with a very strong totalitarian streak. And this column really demonstrates that side of liberalism.

Press writes: "You have the legal right to opt out of vaccinating your kids, but you do not have the legal right to expose my kids to such a deadly disease. From now on, if your children have not been inoculated, they may not attend public school, play in a public playground, hang out in a public mall, or frolic in a public amusement park, like Disneyland."

Mandatory vaccination or don't let your kid out in public. That's the "choice" some liberals, Bill Press included, wants parents to have.

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Think about the insanity this represents – especially for someone who proudly calls himself a "liberal," a "civil libertarian," an advocate for children and, most especially, the rights of people who actually carry a deadly disease, unlike the unvaccinated children Press fears so much.

What was the liberal response to the Ebola threat? Barack Obama warned uninfected people not to take public transportation. He didn't call for those exposed to Ebola to be forbidden from taking it. Press wants to keep children off public transportation because they are not vaccinated against measles.

When was the last death from measles in the U.S.? Anyone know.

Dr. Lee Hieb, an expert in the field, says 2005. But the vaccine that prevents measles infection has taken the lives of 86 in that time, she reports – 68 of them 3-years-old or younger. Almost 2,000 were permanently disabled by the vaccine.

And Bill Press wants government to mandate forcible vaccines for all children, despite the obvious fact that the shot is far more dangerous than the illness.

Does that make sense to any right-thinking person?

Dr. Hieb sees mandatory vaccines of this kind as a form of totalitarianism. I agree. And, guess what? Far more "liberals" support this brand of government coercion than do conservatives.

You know what else liberals are against?

Oddly, they're against medical screening for illegal aliens. There is overwhelming evidence that the source of the recent measles epidemic was foreign. And that evidence came after many common-sense conservatives, like Michael Savage, who happens to be an epidemiologist, warned against the uncontrolled influx of illegal immigration sparked by Barack Obama's engraved invitation to Mexicans and Central Americans to send their unescorted kids to the Promised Land of Estados Unidos.

Do you get the picture? Do you see the inconsistency? Are you beginning to appreciate the schizophrenia?

But this isn't something new.

For those old enough to remember the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, do you recall any liberals calling for quarantining of those infected? Do you remember any saying they needed to be forbidden from Disneyland, kept out of school, out of any public place?

No, you don't.

It never happened. Just the opposite. We couldn't discriminate against the AIDS infected, they said. We couldn't even prevent them from working in restaurant kitchens or close down the bathhouses that were spreading the diseases.

Is this not madness?

Is this not a mental disorder?

Or is it simply that ideology trumps safety sometimes?

And, of course, the ideology of liberalism is that there are no limits on what government can do in its all-knowing, beneficent compassion and good judgment.

Now, nothing personal liberals, but if someone truly believes that, I label him or her a psychopath.

Any argument?

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