I don't think Kenneth's intention is to incite hatred between people. It may be the result of some of the things he says but if you look at him in the whole, I think that sometimes he is well-intentioned. And that is the crux of what makes so many liberals, liberal. They let their "well-intentioned" ideas run wild, without discipline. Thinking requires real effort and discipline - principles demand that. It also requires a long attention span. If you look at Kenneth's writing, it's usually composed of short, simple ideas - nothing too complex or well-reasoned. Many of his thoughts could fit on a bumper sticker - and yet say nothing important. But this is one of the singular identifying features of being a liberal - they see every issue as an isolated problem, with no consideration for the greater perspective that surrounds it. For example, "a kid is hungry - feed him with someone else's money" is the liberal notion with only an immoral day-to-day result. For a conservative, "a kid is hungry - hold his parents accountable" is a righteous principle with longer-term results. Liberals have notions for how things ought to be (subjective), conservatives (the way America used to be, personal responsibility) have principles for living (objective).
The "Kenneth" problem is of how these people get over the intellectual hump where they have that epiphany that comes to some as they mature - people like Thomas Sowell, Andrew Breitbart, David Mamet, Rev. Wayne Perryman, etc. What these people have that most liberals don't is a consuming curiosity about things and a willingness to be intellectually honest with themselves. It is a complex process to go through and unfortunately, it seems that not many are willing to invest the time in themselves to understand it. We conservatives understand, and reject, what liberals accept because we know the intellectual and political history and results of what they want. Liberals usually aren't willing to look at the evidence we plainly see. They don't know their own history and it's results and are content to ignore it and try to recruit to their side those who are as clueless as themselves. If ever there was a misnomer it is that liberals consider themselves to be intellectuals. That is the cruelest joke, on themselves.
Because liberals rightfully encounter so much resistance to their ideas, it goes to their heads and they become obsessed with gaining the power to force them on everyone else. We also witness in their personal behavior the vile, foul-mouthed language that comes from their deep resentment of anyone who doesn't agree with them. Witness the current illegitimate president. Kenneth isn't quite like that but he does want us all to be "educated" by his unprincipled, intellectually and politically corrupt brethren. Yeah, in a million years.
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