Dan Riehl blows a gasket.
Let me be very clear, especially as many of you so called liberals would like to portray yourself as genuinely compassionate human beings.You do not behave like human beings. You appear to function no better than maggots, consuming this or that piece of flesh when you can because you happen to disagree with them politically.
The times I have shared my own story here I've relayed a pivotal moment when an individual stood up and had the courage to confront me with an ugly truth. When I was deep in my cups, I was indeed acting like a disgrace to humanity.
Dan. himself a recovering alcoholic, was set off by liberal-left mockery in his comments about Rush Limbaugh's prescription drug problem. The comments were closed on this particular post, otherwise I would probably just have contributed my two cents there.
There is a process one has to go through in life to develop true compassion. I never had anyone close to me die until I was in my mid-thirties, when my father passed on very suddenly. Before that event, a funeral was an occasion for me to express platitudes--"So sorry for your loss," and other trite phrases that trip off the tongue when you know you should say something, but you don't really know what. After it happened, I truly understood what it mean to lose someone central to one's life. I was devastated, and I understood the depth of that devastation with a clarity that has never left me. In the years that followed, I had friends and acquaintances go through similar experiences, and I had a new power at my disposal--the power of true and honest compassion.
Frankly, it was a watershed moment in my life, when for the first time really, I connected with people on a deeply emotional level. You can't deceive when you are in that zone, and the combination of authentic emotional identification with absolute truth is exceptionally powerful. One can be bonded for life after such sharing.
I can respect Dan's anger, because I know its born from that genuine emotional identification for what Limbaugh had to go through.
Ironically, I find myself moved with compassion for vicious little trolls as well. They fear Rush Limbaugh. The fear him deeply and the only pathetic weapon available to them is the slim reed of social opprobrium. When I was young, I had fear like that as well. Pity, not anger is the appropriate response. Fortunately, most of the trolls will eventually go through something that will truly humble them, and perhaps endow them with real compassion.
Of course, new trolls are being born all the time...
