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The Root Cause of Why Some Liberals Are Unresponsive to Logic and Debate
Canada Free Press ^ | 03/24/08 | Yomin Postelnik

Posted on 03/24/2008 4:17:31 AM PDT by Yomin Postelnik

THE REAL REASON WHY RADICAL LIBERALS DO NOT RESPOND TO DEBATE

The reason why so many (though again, not all) liberals act this way is remarkably simple. In fact, for all those who’ve become so baffled by their seemingly inexplicable conduct, you may wonder how it has escaped you all these years (probably because it’s so easy to get so frustrated by their conduct that noticing the reason behind it becomes a matter not worth considering). The answer is bigotry. They’re prejudiced. Am I being ridiculous? Is liberalism the new bigotry? No, and yes!

THE BIASED MINDSET

THE THREE REASONS FOR RADICAL LIBERAL BIGOTRY

INALIENABLE BELIEF IN WHATEVER A LIBERAL SCIENTIST SAYS – DESPITE THE FACTS AND IN SPITE OF ALL RHYME AND REASON

HOW TO EFFECTIVELY ANSWER RADICAL LIBERALS

(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; democratparty; left; liberalism; liberals; mediabias; radical; root
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1 posted on 03/24/2008 4:17:32 AM PDT by Yomin Postelnik
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Liberalism is a Progressive mental disease.


2 posted on 03/24/2008 4:28:33 AM PDT by DGHoodini (A person educated without being taught morals, is a menace to society.)
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To: Yomin Postelnik
Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" and then walked away.

Liberals do the same thing.

3 posted on 03/24/2008 4:31:32 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I wasn't in church during the time when the statements were made.")
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Relativism is the liberal religion. They wouldn’t recognize truth if it bit them in the behind.


4 posted on 03/24/2008 4:53:35 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Excellent article, addresses questions I find quite interesting. I’ll read the whole thing later.

If I may offer some thoughts, regarding liberal motivation. I think they are motivated by that which has been the downfall of man since the very beginning—pride. Self-worship, narcissism. Every leftist issue has a narcissistic payoff.

The most stubborn of all sins.


5 posted on 03/24/2008 4:53:47 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (The only way for honorable people to be liberal is to have no idea what conservatism is.)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

For liberals there is no God or God is within themselves which is operationally the same thing. And there is no Truth therefore there is no truth. Without truth logic is meaningless. With that mindset liberals cannot debate or argue in the proper meanings of those words. They “argue” by repeating slogans and referring to the social origins of the opponent. With no Truth, social relationships and emotion are the only operative methods of debate because facts are no more than mental constructs and represent simply a narrow and biased or bigoted view of a subject.


6 posted on 03/24/2008 4:55:09 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Yomin Postelnik

BTTT

See my tagline.


7 posted on 03/24/2008 5:02:18 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: arthurus

Liberals and Psychology: Cognitive Dissonance Explains Liberal Anger

Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term describing the uncomfortable tension that may result from having two conflicting thoughts at the same time, or from engaging in behavior that conflicts with one’s beliefs, or from experiencing apparently conflicting phenomena.

In simple terms, it can be the filtering of information that conflicts with what you already believe, in an effort to ignore that information and reinforce your beliefs. In detailed terms, it is the perception of incompatibility between two cognitions, where “cognition” is defined as any element of knowledge, including attitude, emotion, belief, or behavior. The theory of cognitive dissonance states that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions. Experiments have attempted to quantify this hypothetical drive. Some of these have examined how beliefs often change to match behavior when beliefs and behavior are in conflict.


8 posted on 03/24/2008 5:03:45 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

ping for later


9 posted on 03/24/2008 5:06:22 AM PDT by steveyp
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To: Yomin Postelnik
I'll cite and paraphrase Ann Coulter:

If they had any brains they wouldn't be liberals!

10 posted on 03/24/2008 5:10:19 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: arthurus
One of the main reasons that you can't debate a liberal in a logical manner is they confuse opinions with facts.

It is a fact that the war with Iraq was started when sadman invaded Kuwait in 1991.

The US and pals defeated Iraq and a truce was agreed to based on certain conditions that the sadman accepted.

He failed to comply and GWB responded with act two of the Iraq war.

A liberal will not agree to these facts, so any discussion of the war in Iraq will end in nothing but an irrational screaming match.

11 posted on 03/24/2008 5:13:53 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: reasonisfaith
Back when Alan Keyes was somewhat rational and had his own radio show, it was interesting to listen how he handled callers. He would ask them questions which required only a yes or no answer - logical questions which only required the caller to answer truthfully. Eventually he would get to a point where if the caller answered logically, the entire belief system of the caller would be invalidated. About 99 percent of the time, when it got to that point, the caller would hesitate, realizing the trap set for them. They would never answer the final question.

I have also recognized over the years the two points where you have won the argument over the liberal. One - they start to call you names or two - the change the topic of discussion.

12 posted on 03/24/2008 5:14:59 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

The liberal mindset is not totally impenetrable. When confronted with irrefutable logic and inescapable reason, they will usually crack, and thus a NEO-Con is born............


13 posted on 03/24/2008 5:14:59 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Excellent article. Thanks for posting it.


14 posted on 03/24/2008 5:17:49 AM PDT by 50mm (:-O :-o - :-| ZZZZZZzzzzZZZZzzzz)
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To: Yomin Postelnik
The same problem exist when trying to show that in God's book, the Holy Bible, God said exactly what He wanted to say, He said it exactly how He meant to say it and meant it exactly how He said it.

There is little if any difference between the illogic of the liberal politically and the liberal Religiously.

15 posted on 03/24/2008 5:18:36 AM PDT by deuteronlmy232 (Still trying to learn the rules.)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

ping


16 posted on 03/24/2008 5:27:47 AM PDT by phs3 (Call a terrorist a freedom fighter, I call you the enemy.)
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To: SkyPilot
Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" and then walked away.

Liberals do the same thing.

I remember the interview that Bill O'Reilly did with Michael Moore. Something that stunned O'Reilly into silence, something that I've only rarely seen, was when Moore stated flat out that there was no difference between being wrong and lying. O'Reilly really tried to push Moore on this, but he insisted that there was no difference, even giving an absurd example.

Which made me realize that since leftists believe that there's nothing wrong with being wrong at their core, and there's no difference between being wrong and lying, then there's nothing wrong with lying.

Mark

17 posted on 03/24/2008 5:29:04 AM PDT by MarkL
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To: Yomin Postelnik
Years ago, a frustrated conservative asked in our local newspaper forum "Why do you liberals always accuse me of hate when all I do is post facts?"

"It's very simple, John," I chimed in. "Liberals hate facts. Therefore, when you post facts, to them, you're posting hate."

"Thanks for the explanation," John replied. "I kept wondering about that!"
18 posted on 03/24/2008 5:46:56 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

bttt


19 posted on 03/24/2008 5:55:34 AM PDT by Nascar Dad (www.AntiMicrobialProduct.com)
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To: USS Alaska

That illustrates what I said.


20 posted on 03/24/2008 6:01:29 AM PDT by arthurus
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