Liberal/Conservative Divide Explained - Paranoia

Deprogramming Liberalism ^ | February 17, 2013 | Jim Autio

[DeprogramLiberalism]

All valid points, many of which I expound on in the N.C. Essay Series. But, really, this thread is not so much about what liberals do, but about why liberals do them.

[PapaBear3625]

The leaders of the left don't appear to fear directing their own lives, as long as they also get to direct others' lives. They want to impose their will on others. These are the same types that gravitate toward positions of petty power, like home owner's association boards. They have very strong opinions about how everyone else should live.

A communistic planned economy is very attractive to those who are arrogant enough to think that THEY will be the planners.

[Lancey Howard]

But think about the conservative high school student that goes off to college and comes home a few years later a liberal activist. They weren’t born that way. The evolved into it.

My response is that weakness of character makes people followers, eager to jump on "the bandwagon", whatever that happens to be. And that may simply be the old knee-jerk "safety in numbers" mentality. Weak people like to look around and see that they are surrounded by "friends" - - they're "safe", and liked, and with the "in" crowd.

Liberals are very easily manipulated and therefore prone to fall face-first for whatever propaganda the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms happen to be pushing for their party this week.

[fanfan]

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[DeprogramLiberalism]

Those are mostly symptoms. What you see as defective liberal character traits I see as universal failures that can apply to people of any ideology. Possibly liberalism attracts people of weaker character, but my research tells me that it is more that the ingrained paranoia of liberalism produces symptoms that can be classified as weak character.

The fact that liberals can become conservatives, with a noticable improvemnt in their attitude and behavior as a result of the switch seems to be evidence for my conclusion.

I invite you to read my essays if you truly wish to get my take on liberalism.

[x]

The foundation of liberal thinking is only one emotion - fear.

And liberals say that fear is the foundation of conservatism (unless it's greed).

You can google "fear and conservatism" and see what you come up with.

The truth is that caution or prudence is a natural and necessary part of life.

Understanding that things can and will and do go wrong in schemes of remaking society is the beginning of wisdom -- and of conservatism.

Recognizing that there are limits to how far one can make one's own life and destiny doesn't make one a coward or an idiot or a liberal either.

If you're forced to make the choice a liberalism based on "fear" is probably less dangerous than one based on "hope."

You can have a rational argument with somebody who's not enthusiastic about market forces.

That's not always possible with people who are passionate about collective power and utopian social engineering.

[Blue Collar Christian]

“Unless of course your name is George W. Bush. The liberals couldn’t decide if Dubya was stupid, or evil, or both.”

You could plug Obama’s name in there and substitute conservatives for liberals and have the same sentence. I don’t know why anyone thinks Obama is stupid. He is smart in that he has figured out that a large portion of the electorate are stupid enough to believe his evil path is for their good.

[DeprogramLiberalism]

And liberals say that fear is the foundation of conservatism (unless it's greed).

You can google "fear and conservatism" and see what you come up with.

You think I don't know that? I have studied this subject for over a decade with 22 thoroughly researched essays under my belt. I have not drawn these conclusions lightly.

The truth is that caution or prudence is a natural and necessary part of life.

There you go again, throwing things at me as if I am some child. Again, do you honestly believe that I am so infantile that I don't know these things? The rest of your statements seem in the same vein.

I am simply not interested in discussing this with you.

[Reeses]

not to mention the concentrated Democrat parasite nests known as "cities"

Population density explains the majority of leftism. Living in a city or city-like environment makes government-reliant envious leftists out of ANY demographic, living in the country makes mostly self-reliant conservatives. To fight leftism, fight the formation of geographic overpopulation. With the internet, the high-rise city loses its role as an economic hub.

[X-spurt]

Maybe you meant “KinderGarden Of Eden”?

[X-spurt]

That is very good!

Of course the reasons, just the same as with Soviet Communism, that leaders of the left don’t appear to fear directing their own lives, as long as they also get to direct others’ lives, is because they assume there is finite bounty to be had and they as leaders deserve the lion’s share.

Whereas conservatives, as Reagan so sintinctly stated much better than I, is it is not finite bounty or zero sum gain, rather productive input increases the size of the pie.

[Lancey Howard]

To fight leftism, fight the formation of geographic overpopulation.

Exactly. The rats understand this basic concept as well, and have been fighting for decades to PROMOTE cities and denser populations by increasing gasoline prices and other means in their efforts to smash everybody into "public transportation". There have been numerous lefty articles about how to craft policy to benefit cities and keep people in nice, controllable "population centers".

The scumbag liberals love "villages" and "communities" (commune - ities) precisely because they are easier to manipulate, propagandize, and control. And, of course, TAX.

This typical county-by-county post-election map says it all. The scumbag Democrats are all crammed into those blue, tiny little concentrated parasite nests.

[X-spurt]

It is not good to assume liberals are stupid and unthinking. Instead we should recognize that even the common low level liberal figures the leadership liberals will take care of them, they will get ‘their fair share” of the bounty or will somehow be recognized as part of liberal leadship and that the greedy conservatives will be the ones cut out of the deal.

Liberals are paranoid, because intuitively they know that common sense says their way really won’t work. They do suffer from projection, accusing us of what they actually do. They are greedy in knowing liberalism is not productive, but they will just take what they rightly deserve from whatever the bounty is.

Liberal leadership enlists the lower level liberals to keep them as leaders by offering them some of the spoils, but just some and always a promise of more after the next successful election.

[hulagirl]

Yes! I thought of that afterwards. Great book but I just can’t remember that title!