[Victoria Delsoul]

Liberals have more books, and their books cover a greater variety of topics. And that's just a start. Multiple studies find that liberals are more optimistic. Conservatives are more likely to be religious. Liberals are more likely to like classical music and jazz, conservatives, country music. Liberals are more likely to enjoy abstract art. Conservative men are more likely than liberal men to prefer conventional forms of entertainment like TV and talk radio. Liberal men like romantic comedies more than conservative men. Liberal women are more likely than conservative women to enjoy books, poetry, writing in a diary, acting, and playing musical instruments.

Liberals are too busy pleasuring themselves on a daily basis and stroking their fragile ego by searching for adulation to have time for serious business. For the most part, liberals are shallow and silly people constantly seeking instant gratification.

This article has all the markings of the product of a silly liberal writer stroking his ego and searching for adulation. Fear is something I see on the extreme left and extreme right. Fortunately, the extreme right doesn't conform the bulk of conservatism. There are many shades of conservatives, but what defines conservatives in general is their moral principles, their appreciation of free markets, their interest in a strong economy, their concern for private property rights, their pursuit of limited government and respect for our national institutions. None of this has much to do with fear. It's our responsible, reality-bound, and matter of fact way of thinking that makes conservatives different than liberals.

[Alberta's Child]

Outstanding post, Victoria.

The most conservative person I know happens to be a Canadian, and he has a lot of the attributes you describe even though he's probably "simple" and "uneducated" (but he's smart as hell) by liberal standards.

[HitmanLV]

Self-praising introspection on the part of liberals is nothing new. They are really something else! The most self described egalitarians who just can't shake a sense of self superiority! Self described open minded people who embrace diversity, yet they tend to cluster in groups where difference of opinion is quite rare (and minimal). The most tolerant people on the block, who can't stand a dissenting point of view.

As Dr Savage has noted, liberalism in its extreme form is not a coherent political philosophy, but rather a mental disorder!