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Why Do Liberals Believe What They Believe?
Townhall.com ^ | September 14, 2013 | John C. Goodman

Posted on 09/14/2013 4:49:32 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 09/14/2013 4:49:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Because they are EVIL and STUPID!!


2 posted on 09/14/2013 4:52:44 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

Leftists believe what they do because they accurately assess themselves as incapable of competing as individuals and seek the protection of the herd. Since this is obviously humiliating they further seek to make herd membership compulsory so that they cannot be faulted for being do inadequate.

Individuals with personal strength and self-worth shun the herd and are anathema to the world view of sheep. The left hates such people because they hold a mirror to the inadequacies of leftists.


3 posted on 09/14/2013 5:02:54 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Kaslin

I knew a pastor/seminary professor who believed that religious liberalism was the result of a lack of and/or willful blindness to scriptural knowledge. I always wondered if political liberalism has a similar cause.


4 posted on 09/14/2013 5:04:23 AM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: Kaslin

Why do rocks not get out of the rain?


5 posted on 09/14/2013 5:05:30 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
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To: Kaslin

BECAUSE OBAMA!


6 posted on 09/14/2013 5:10:19 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Kaslin

...because it is their religion and reason for existence...they search and search and blame and blame and it boils down to secular humanism is their religion and we who don’t follow that are their enemy. You can lump any of the beliefs under this category: abortion, global warming, recycling, electric cars...each one they believe will somehow, “save them and us”. I don’t agree with all of Michael Savage, but he did coin the phrase, “liberalism is a mental disorder”.


7 posted on 09/14/2013 5:11:25 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (“Life is hard, but it’s harder when you’re stupid.” John Wayne)
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To: Kaslin

Can’t wait for your post on areas other than regulation.

My basic question for most liberals is: When did it become the federal government’s job to care for the people? Why can’t people take care of themselves?

I don’t usually get a straight answer as they try to defend the indefensible.


8 posted on 09/14/2013 5:12:18 AM PDT by Apple Blossom (Politicians are like diapers, they both need changed regularly, and for the same reason.)
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To: Kaslin

Because Liberals don’t know and they don’t know that they don’t know.


9 posted on 09/14/2013 5:16:56 AM PDT by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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Gullible


10 posted on 09/14/2013 5:17:35 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Who am I to judge homosexuals? That's what the Tony Awards are for.)
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To: Kaslin

I was hoping for answers that explains the stupidity of my family. I was sorely mistaken.

I’m still hoping that several of them wake up when they find themselves thrust from full time employment to 29-hour work-week, part timers because of Obamacare.


11 posted on 09/14/2013 5:26:03 AM PDT by HarleyD
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I can think of is that what we call liberalism is not an ideology at all. It’s a sociology.
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Wrong!

It is a religion. It is a religious worldview that government can perfect man and create heaven on earth.

It is also a form of worshiping false idols.


12 posted on 09/14/2013 5:34:47 AM PDT by wintertime
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To: CincyRichieRich

to secular humanism is their religion and we who don’t follow that are their enemy.
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And yet.....Every school day conservatives and Christians send their precious and beloved children off to the government’s Temples of Godless Secularism ( misnamed “public schools”).


13 posted on 09/14/2013 5:37:18 AM PDT by wintertime
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To: Kaslin

Brain Damage?


14 posted on 09/14/2013 5:38:15 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: Ann Archy

You said it, and if you have noticed they always try to fool others and by doing so they are fooling themselves


15 posted on 09/14/2013 5:38:18 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: muir_redwoods

They don’t like competition and love collectivism.

They have replaced laissez-faire genius with political organized vigilante behavior of thugs.

It’s why they love illegals and welfare militants. Slavery and blind stupidity they worship: don’t pay attention to the road, just make sure your hands are pretty on the steering wheel. It’s why they love the concept of the human bomb, suicide bomb.


16 posted on 09/14/2013 5:38:53 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: SECURE AMERICA

Something like that, or that their brains are only pea-sized and not much goes in there


17 posted on 09/14/2013 5:41:04 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Brain damage.


18 posted on 09/14/2013 5:42:51 AM PDT by cp124 (Government is value subtracted.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

I don’t agree with all of Michael Savage, but he did coin the phrase, “liberalism is a mental disorder”.


That’s totally unfair to mental disorders. :)


19 posted on 09/14/2013 5:43:26 AM PDT by Conservaliberty (Everything is racist. Don't agree? That's because you're racist.)
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To: Kaslin

In my experience, it starts with wanting to have the ‘nice’ and ‘enlightened’ political opinions.

But for it to really stick if they’ve a mind for reason, there has to be projected resentment. Whether anger against a parent that they can’t address directly or resentment against the more successful that they don’t want to own up to.

That one-two explains most liberals I’ve known well enough to study—including myself in my earlier years.


20 posted on 09/14/2013 5:45:22 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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