If you’ve ever gotten sucked into an intense political argument with a liberal before and subsequently walked away flabbergasted at how passionately, and yet irrationally, they clung to such a flimsy position, then this blog post is for you. There are a few things you need to know about how the left operates, and hopefully in knowing you’ll be able to respond better when confronted by a leftist in the future.

Above all else, you must understand that liberals simply are not logical creatures. They just aren’t. Period. If they were, they’d be conservatives (see here for more on the inherent problems with liberal thought process).

So, how then does the left, void of common sense, continue to score political victories? They beat down their opposition with persuasion tactics designed to skirt any form of balanced, civil discussion. They do this through lying, bullying, rebranding, using emotional arguments, and playing the race card…well, those are their five favorite methods at least. Allow me to elaborate.

1. Lying. Just like sports is my thing, liberals are really into lying…like, really into it. No shame at all into it. Take Barack Obama, for instance. He has now broken nearly every campaign promise he made back in 2008, and the brazen manner in which he has done so indicates that he planned to from the start. The vast majority of folks on the left have zero respect for the Judeo-Christian ethics upon which this nation was built, and at times, no attachment to any moral code at all. For them, lying is but another arrow in the quiver to be pulled out when necessary for political gain.

2. Bullying. Often times instead of debating or at least attempting to articulate their position, a liberal will try to silence their opponent through intimidation and name calling. For example, conservative speakers are often shouted down at universities by mobs of angry leftist students. This does nothing to discount the content of the conservative’s message, but unless the conservative speaker has extraordinarily tough skin, they might not deem it worthwhile enough to speak at that particular university again because of the ridicule and excessive toll it inflicts on them to do so. If the conservative is silenced as the result of the yelling, then the bullying has worked. This type of harassment is not just perpetrated by raucous students, either, but is prevalent at all levels of the leftist establishment. Remember Joe the Plumber? Almost as soon as he questioned the then President-to-be’s economic policies, the Obama people shifted into high gear to defame him and destroy his reputation. Quite simply, they were unable to provide a logical response to a basic question, and so they quickly turned to bullying in hopes that other citizens like Joe the Plumber would think twice next time about voicing their concerns.

3. Rebranding. When liberals find themselves struggling to persuade the American people with one of their crackpot ideas, often times they like to take a step back, redefine some terms, and then resubmit the same nonsense in hopes that the people, out of ignorance, will be more supportive of the new lingo. Here are just a few of the many examples of liberal rebranding:

- Calling pro-lifers “anti-choice” because everyone is supposedly for life, but no one is against choice, right?

- Calling illegal aliens “undocumented workers” because nobody wants to do anything illegal, but who could be for shutting out those who just want to earn an honest wage?

- Calling global warming “climate change” because when the earth is clearly not warming it’s hard to get folks to blindly hand over their freedoms to save it from burning itself, but if all climate change is bad and dangerous…well then, wouldn’t we be crazy not to act swiftly?

- Calling cap and trade “pollution reduction and investment” because being capped sounds so oppressive, but is there really anyone against reducing pollution through investment?

- Calling a baby “a fetus” because who likes killing babies, but what exactly is a fetus again?

- Calling the global war on terror “the overseas contingency operation” because war is ugly, and terror is scary, but are contingency operations really that big of deal?

- Calling the nuclear option “reconciliation” because the word nuclear just sounds wrong, but are you really opposed to reconciling things?

- Calling themselves (liberals) “progressives” because liberalism is widely unpopular across America, but can a sensible person really be opposed to progress?

These types of semantic games deceive those that rarely look at a matter beyond the surface, and that’s exactly the reason liberals play them. When you can’t sway someone to your point of view through pragmatic means, tricking them is sometimes the only option.

4. Emotional Arguments. How many times have you heard a liberal politician recite a sob story about a single mom with nine kids who works fifteen jobs in the bad part of town just trying to make ends meet in order to sell you on their legislation du jour? So what if Obamacare will do irreparable damage to the very fabric of this nation? It’s for the kids. What??? Are you against the kids????? Even in Nancy Pelosi’s final speech on the House floor before Congress voted to enact this travesty of a health care bill, she took time to read a letter she received from some poor slob who wasn’t insured and was jonesing for another handout.

The left loves emotional arguments. It’s their bread and butter. Most conservatives don’t even get a chance to present their point of view when arguing with a liberal (which is the very idea), because they are so busy refuting the claim that they want to see poor children die in the streets…or whatever else kind of baseless accusation was thrust upon them.

It’s clever. It really is. The left knows that emotion sells, and they peddle it like it’s going out of style.

5. Race. Whenever things aren’t going well, the left uses the one last trump card up their sleeves…the race card. Don’t like cap and trade? You must be a racist. Don’t want the government to spend their way into oblivion? Racist. Didn’t vote for Obama? You’re racist…that’s why. Case in point, liberals have been working overtime lately to vilify those who attend Tea Parties by calling them racists. Why? They’ve tried to bully them, but they kept showing up anyway; they tried rebranding them as teabaggers (super classy), but it fell on deaf ears; emotional arguments don’t work on the informed; and all other lies about the movement were ineffective. So, they whipped out the race card, because…nobody likes a racist, and they know that if they can successfully label the Tea Partiers as a bunch of racists, it will wholly discredit them in the eyes of the public regardless of their message.

So, all this to say, remember fellow conservatives, the left is not logical…at all. Not even a little bit, and this is the reason that they turn to lying, bullying, rebranding, emotion, and race in order to advance their agenda. It is their only chance of succeeding against the right-minded. So going forward, if you find yourself in a knock-down-drag-out war of words with a liberal, knowing this will at least allow you to keep your sanity…and you need to hang on to that with all your might right now, because these are indeed insane times.