[So Cal Rocket]

It shows you what I've been saying for years:

Conservatives think liberals are WRONG,
Liberals think conservatives are EVIL.

[Guillermo]

This conservative thinks lefties are evil.

[Arthur McGowan]

I think liberals are evil.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not me. I think that most liberals are idiots and the rest are evil.

[HenryLeeII]

May I paraphrase you by saying that I know left-wingers are WRONG and EVIL?

[Busywhiskers]

"Conservatives think liberals are WRONG,"


I am a conservative. I think liberals are wrong and evil. Mainly evil. Also ignorant, illogical, usually stupid, mean spirited, narrow-minded, bigoted, shrill, and annoying. And their women are ugly and their children dress funny.

[SunStar]

Conservatives think liberals are WRONG

I don't know about that... I' a conservative who thinks liberals are evil.

[Question_Assumptions]

In addition to these changing asymmetric relationships between the two visions, there is an enduring asymmetric relationship based on how they see each other as adversaries. Each must regard the other as mistaken, but the reasons for the "mistake" are different. In the unconstrained vision, in which man can master social complexities sufficiently to apply directly the logic and morality of the common good, the presence of highly educated and intelligent people diametrically opposed to policies aimed at that common good is either an intellectual puzzle or a moral outrage, or both. Implications of bad fait, venality, or other moral or intellectual deficiencies have been much more common in the unconstrained vision's criticisms of the constrained vision than vice versa.

In the constrained vision, where the individual's capacity for direct social decision-making is quite limited, it is far less surprising that those who attempt it should fail--and therefore far less necessary to regard the "mistaken" adversary as having less morality or intelligence than others. Those with the constrained vision tend to refer to their adversaries as well-meaning but mistaken, or unrealistic in their assumptions, with seldom a suggestion that they are deliberately opposing the common good or are too stupid to recognize it. Personality variations cut across these patterns on both sides--Burke was less generous to adversaries than Hayek, Shaw less accusatory than Condorcet--but the patterns themselves have persisted for centuries. -- Thomas Sowell in A Conflict of Visions

[weegee]

Actually it's Liberals who say that Conservatives are "mean" (personal responsibility, capitalism, etc.) , while I say that Liberals are "evil" (they lie with no regret to push their agenda and do not recognize private ownership/personal wealth).