Desperately Seeking Liberals

American Thinker ^ | June 30, 2010 | Robin of Berkley

[MtnClimber]

I recently embarked on a grand experiment. Unfortunately, it was a miserable failure.

It all started a few weeks ago, when I decided to include an e-mail address in my articles rather than read the comments thread. I thought it would be cool to commune with readers while avoiding the pesky trolls.

I received over four hundred emails the first time around. But there were unusual circumstances behind the deluge: My article, "A Shrink Asks: What's Wrong with Obama?" went viral.

Most of the e-mails came from conservatives, though I received my fair share of nasty-grams from liberals. That's when I hatched my big plan. Rather than just toss the angry missives in the trash, I'd respond to all of them.

[MtnClimber]

You can't teach pigs to sing. You just get dirty and it annoys the pig.

[detective]

“Liberals cannot defend their beliefs without going on the offensive. Stripped of the freedom to attack George Bush and to use the “R” word (racist), most of them have nothing to say.”

Truer words have never been spoken. I deal with liberals all the time and I don’t think I have ever heard a liberal make an intelligent or thoughtful explanation of anything. All they do is resort to name calling and personal attacks, usually in an angry loud voice or with sarcasm. They frustrating thing is how many conservatives are intimidated by this and don’t stand up for themselves. If you stand up to liberals they always back down.

[BubbaBasher]

I love Robin. She even realizes that she fell into the liberal “can’t we all just get along” trap.

[TokuMei]

What a great article!

The world is complex, and to make it understandable, we make a small model of it —this provides for predictability. The model is sometimes small; no map can be as large as the terrain it purports to represent.

People get highly invested in these models or “reality maps”, and when presented with the map and reality side by side, they’ll often cling to the map, even when reality has nothing to do with that map.

For this reason, they simply shrieked that the article writer was a racist —that was far easier than adjusting their view of Obama for what he really is.

The map is comforting, while THAT latter task —understanding Obama— is becoming a scary exercise.

[MtnClimber]

The more I look at it the more I believe that the Right vs. Left struggle is just one of the battles in the war between Good and evil.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

1. First, my experiment reinforced what I already knew: Liberals cannot defend their beliefs without going on the offensive. Stripped of the freedom to attack George Bush and to use the "R" word (racist), most of them have nothing to say.

QFT.

[MtnClimber]

I think most leftists are deaply troubled and heir politics are mainly focused on making everyone as miserable as they are. They especially seem to hate successful, happy people.