Liberal Conceit And The Havoc It Has Wrought On Our Nation

IBD Editorials ^ | October 20, 2011 | ERNEST S. CHRISTIAN

[Kaslin]

It is a fanciful conceit of the Democratic Party that liberals are more compassionate toward the poor and minorities — and far smarter and better educated than Republicans. (Evangelicals and southerners in particular are especially denigrated by the left.)

The Democrats' other main shtick is that the federal government is always high-minded and efficient — and being thus endowed, is best at attending to the material well-being, moral standards and deportment of mankind.

The uberbrainy President Obama was supposed to be the ultimate triumph of a universal liberal superiority that transcends the limits of religion, national identity, family ties, market forces and, in the minds of the hard core, even the laws of nature and the Constitution of the United States.

But the laws of logic and mathematics did not suspend themselves while Obama was administering extra-large doses of orthodox liberal elixirs to an economy already tortured out of shape by government interventions.

Obama quickly kicked up deficit spending to record levels, intensified bureaucratic intrusions and threatened the economy with even more painful taxes and regulatory burdens yet to come. In return, he got exactly what was to be expected: the lethal combination of skyrocketing national debt and a weak economy that is not producing enough income to pay current bills, much less ever to start curtailing debt.

[Kaslin]

From Merriam Webster Dictionary online

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conceit

conceit:

b : favorable opinion; especially : excessive appreciation of one's own worth or virtue

[noprogs]

As a southern Evangelical with a degree in mechanical engineering, and using a bit of conceit in self defense, I didn’t even have to run the numbers to know the long term care aspect of Obama Care would not work.

A simple application of logic sufficed.

So much for the smartest folk coming from the Ivy League with humanities degrees!

[mountn man]

conceit:

[Kaslin]

Conceit and arrogance

[SaraJohnson]

It’s unfashionable these days, but there were advantages to the cleansed Judeo-Christian culture accepting that people are all sinners who expect themselves and others to struggle against temptations.

For self there is the advantage of humility and struggle to do the right thing and for leaders there is the expectation that one keep oneself in check and fight against temptations to abuse and plunder.