Explaining Liberal Thinking In A Single Column

Right Wing News ^ | Sept. 21, 2007 | Virgina and Mark Warner

[redhead]

This article is: a. From last year. b. Very good. c. Searched for and not found in the Archives. d. Spot on. e. Something I wish I had thought of myself. Enjoy.

[ari-freedom]

“Why are so many liberals hostile to religion? Because religion sets rules and tells people that if they break those rules, they’re sinning! That keeps people from doing things that make them feel good and telling people that they’re sinning makes them feel bad.”

liberals want to set their own rules and control everyone. They don’t believe in free will because that is a spiritual concept.

[TheCipher]

I think you explained it in just the one sentence :

It's nothing more than "childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues.

[kesg]

I can explain liberal thinking in three words: A is non-A.

[HelloooClareece]

Most libs I know vote more as a fashion statement than anything.

[Mr. K]

darn good post! thanks

[genghis]

some liberals are stupid
some are evil
and most are both.

[matt1234]

[supercat]

Liberals are prone to think that (1) if a 95% solution exists for a problem, the problem is 95% solved, and (2) If a problem can be 95% solved, one should start work on the 95% solution immediately and worry about the other 5% later, without regard for whether the other 5% of the problem might be made so much worse by the 95% "solution" that the problem wasn't really mitigated at all.

Liberals also have a very strange perception of cause and effect. They don't understand how things like markets work, and can't believe that anybody else does either. The failure of liberals' predictions and the accuracy of conservatives' is purely a result of dumb luck.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Most conservatives have had liberals figured out a long time.

Now, reversing the trend of liberal dominance of this nation?

Yeah, we are still floundering there badly and need more columns about that.

Trending to liberalism is a default state for most people, make sense, right? childish emotional impulses will always be the first instincts. They have to be presented conservative thinking, willing to listen, and in a positive way.

And I suspect that conservatives will always be fighting to present conservatism properly.

Trending towards liberalism is never going to change. Just human nature. Just the way it is.

But appealing to common sense and logic are on our side. Almost always it is the liberal that converts to conservatism as they get older, wiser, more exeperienced. Rarely ever is it the other way around. There is still many unexplored ways to reach people I am sure.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Liberals love to think of themselves as intellectual and nuanced, but liberalism is incredibly simplistic. It's nothing more than "childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues."

[downwdims]

I’d also refer you to Evan Sayat’s lecture “Regurgitating the Apple:How Modern Liberals think”

You can find it over at Heritage

[EGPWS]

It's nothing more than "childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues."

Utopian thought with a twist of mindless confusion.

[Lord Basil]

Explaining Liberal Thinking In A Single Column

Liberal Thinking = Oxymoron

"Liberal Feeling" is more like it, as the authors appear to conclude.

[adorno]

Liberals love to think of themselves as intellectual and nuanced, but liberalism is incredibly simplistic.

This article itself is very general and simplistic. However, I do agree on the analysis about the generalities and the simple-mindedness surrounding liberal and socialistic ideas.

Why I wanted was a bit more analysis on the economic issue. While liberals are simplistic on the purpose to be served by an economy, the opposition needs to explain why the simplistic and idiotic policies of socialism are counterproductive to an economy and the well-being of those same people advocating socialism and liberal ideas. In today's politics and governmental rule, liberals and socialists are not indistinguishable.

If liberals and socialists actually did any kind or real thinking instead of going with their emotions and what feels good, I doubt that any of them would advocate what socialism represents.

[Eleutherios]

“Socialism is the opium of the intellectuals.”
- Raymond Aron

[redhead]

I think the author wanted to express in very clear and un-nuanced terms the childishness of the liberal feeling-process. We have all had to deal with youngsters. Some of those circular arguments go on for days, and do nothing but frustrate us and alienate the child. Sometimes, I’m convinced there is nothing we can do to make anybody change their point of view. As Rush has said, we are going to have to drag Yosemite Sam across the finish line. We can do it by voting FOR SARAH. The alternative is incredibly frightening.

[r-q-tek86]

ping

[supercat]

While liberals are simplistic on the purpose to be served by an economy, the opposition needs to explain why the simplistic and idiotic policies of socialism are counterproductive to an economy and the well-being of those same people advocating socialism and liberal ideas.

At the time I graduated college, after having had two semesters of economics, I was a liberal, and I believed that the laws of economics said what would happen unless the government made things behave otherwise. Since then, I have come to realize that in anything resembling a free society, many of the laws of economics say what will happen, period. All the government efforts in anything short of a slave state notwithstanding.

Unfortunately, few people will realize the irony in Obama's acceptance-speech story of a minimum-wage worker who had her hours cut. Had she been allowed to work more hours in exchange for a lower wage, she could have increased her take-home pay at the same time as she was offering a better deal to her employer.

[adorno]

I think the author wanted to express in very clear and un-nuanced terms the childishness of the liberal feeling-process.

You may be right, but for our part, we don't just need to point out how wrong they are; we need to explain why they're wrong. Fighting generalities with generalities doesn't win arguments.

One of the missing ingredients to the liberal mind-set not mentioned in the article is the honesty factor. If liberals were to be honest about how wrong their arguments are, then we on the other side would've won this argument a long time ago.