An ex-Soviet immigrant goes Socratic on his liberal American critics.
Dear Americans, these are some questions I have collected in 16 years of living in your country. Please see if you can answer them for me:
• If all cultures are equal, why doesn’t UNESCO organize International Cannibalism Week festivals?
• Why do those demanding “equal pay for equal work” never protest against “equal pay for little or no work”?
• Why has no politician ever run on men’s issues or promised to improve the lives of males?
• If all beliefs are equally valid, how come my belief in the absurdity of this maxim gets rejected by its proponents?
• Ever noticed that for the past thirty years, we’ve been hearing we have less than ten years to save the planet?
• Once a politician labels the truth as hate speech, can anyone trust him to speak the truth afterward?
• If a politician gets elected by the poor on a promise to eliminate poverty, wouldn’t fulfilling his promise destroy his voting base? Wouldn’t he rather benefit from the growing numbers of poor people? Isn’t this an obvious conflict of interests?
• How did the “war on poverty” end? Has there been a peace treaty or a ceasefire? Who is the occupying force and who are the insurgents?
• Why weren’t there demonstrations with anti-feudal slogans under feudal rule? And under Stalin, no anti-communist demonstrations? And under Hitler, no anti-fascist demonstrations? In a free capitalist society, anti-capitalist demonstrations are commonplace. Is capitalism really the worst system?
• If capitalism makes some people rich without making others poor, who will benefit when capitalism is destroyed?
• If the poor in America have things that people in other countries can only dream about, why is there a movement to make America more like those other countries?
• Why, on the rare occasions when Obama’s actions benefit America, does his base get angry? And every time his actions are hurting this nation, his base is happy? Who exactly are these people?
• If cutting out the middleman lowers the price, why are we paying the government to stand between us and the markets?
• If racial profiling is an abomination, what do you make of the last presidential election?
Thanks to Adolf for this! source
