Posted on 09/14/2013 4:49:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
Many liberals live in a group speak echo chamber where they never encounter opposition to their views. Their principles are developed in a vacuum and are never exposed to the real world. When encountering opposition they have no real intellectual supports to back up their beliefs. Therefore they go nuts on any one who opposes their reality. For the most point their problem is arrested development. Liberals have a hard time seeing anyone’s point of view besides their own and labor under the delusion that life is fair. They tend not to like anything, such as religion that puts someone else above their EGO and holds them accountable for their actions.
Liberals also are great at making themselves the exception to the rule. They are fantastic rationalizes. They always have a really good reason why they are not held to the same standard as the rest of us. Bill and Hillary are prefect examples and now BO
Why do liberals believe what they believe?
I think the difference between liberals and conservatives is explained in large part by whether one accepts or rejects an accurate understanding of certain basic Biblical principles (regardless of whether one is personally a Bible believer). (Many libs quote the Bible but misunderstand and misconstrue it, and although not all conservatives accept the Bible, they still hold to certain principles grounded in it.)
In his book A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell discusses the fundamental difference between how conservatives and liberals view human nature.
http://www.conservativemonitor.com/top-ten/conflict-of-visions.shtml
Libs take an unBiblical view of human nature, whereas conservatives, *if* they’re knowledgeable and consistent, take a view of human nature that lines up better with a Biblical view of human nature.
It’s called “The Communist Manifesto.”
His title has the form of a rhetorical question, so I was expecting some reasoned speculation as to why it is so. Or, as a scientist, I could say that I was expecting a logic based hypothesis. He did not provide that.
We really do not know why liberals think the way they do. It is a subject that begs to be studied formally.
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Yes, I am aware of all that. And I have noticed not only the utter arrogance of liberal leaders, but that this arrogance is strongly attractive to liberal followers. Looking at pictures of Obama vs. Bush drives home that point: Obama *always* places himself to look down on people, and even when he is alone, he holds his head so as to give the impression that he is looking down his nose at the entire world. Whereas Bush is always seen looking straight at the camera, or putting himself at the same level of anyone he is interacting with. The difference is profound.
But that wasn’t really what I was looking for in the way of an answer to “why”—that is more of a “how.” I came from the same background, I went through the same cultural indoctrination, yet I question and challenge everything. My background should have made me a rabidly pro-abortion man-hating feminist, enamored with unions and minimum wage laws, and convinced that the government isn’t redistributing enough wealth. I would like to know the fundamental reason why the leftist/socialist propaganda is so readily swallowed by some, while others roundly reject it. And once we have an answer to that, I want to know how to enable people to protect themselves against the siren call of the left.
Yep, we need a vaccine to cure leftism
I would say that some people are certain emotion-driven, and that is a bad thing because that leaves them open to manipulation by authoritarians or anyone else who wants something from them.
However, not everyone bases their life on emotion. I am an extremely logical person—when I was 6 years and the original Star Trek series was broadcast, I couldn’t understand most of the material, however, I was absolutely fascinated by Mr. Spock. I sensed that he was a kindred spirit, and wanted to be exactly like him. Since I prefer to have the truth, and base decisions on facts and logic, I am always confounded by people who would rather pick and choose facts to support their pet beliefs... sadly, those people exist on the right as well as on the left.
I might take a quick glance at the book you mentioned.
You make an interesting point re looking for confirmation versus looking for truth. Because, as they say, the truth hurts. I know that I found it to be the opposite of pleasurable when I began to see how the dots connected in the landscape of liberalism blending into communism. But I persisted, despite the discomfort, because I knew that truth was more important.
There are probably a multitude of reasons why one person is influenced by the left and another is not. But enabling people to protect themselves from the siren call of the left begins with education, parents teaching their kids the truth, and accessing good books and media. Many of the people who want Obamacare do not have any understanding about economics and those are the same people who voted Democrat because they could get a mortgage on a home they could not afford. They furthermore are more interested in what they can get rather than what is best for the country and so we are dealing with ignorance as well as an entitlement frame of mind. Education and parents are the key when young. It is harder to reach them when older but I know I learned a lot from Rush Limbaugh and freerepublic. It is a process and it all depends on how vehemently the people feel a need to hold onto their belief system.
I can’t even start researching such a vaccine until I know what causes leftism. :(
I’d say Coulter’s opening to “Demonic”, including the passage from Mark 5:2-9 nails it: The Democratic party is the party of the mob, irrespective of what the mob represents.
And they are, “legion”.
So are we.
Why do Lemmings and Sheep follow their leader over a cliff? They are not leaders, have no leadership qualities, and simply go where they are lead. That’s why Obama keeps saying FORWARD, A LITTLE BIT FURTHER. Same thing they tell the bull at the slaughter house.
It comes down to a single word: they are weak in character.
Groupthink. They only listen to each other, dismissing out of hand anything that is even slightly out of line with said groupthink.
Why is there no opposite of Capitalism and Freedom? Liberals are too busy trying to shut down and destroy anything that might possibly oppose them. They lurch from one Utopian idea to another, anything to "fix" the world and make it "better".
Of course, this is only the rank-and-file voting Democrat liberal. The one's really running things, the party officials, know all of this is hogwash. But it works to keep the useful idiots - sorry, rank-and-file voters - in line. The leaders are in it for the power. The more power the federal government has over the nation, the more power they have over people.
because liberals are brainwashed by the mainstream media into believing all that bs including in global warming
They are using the term “general welfare” to cover the gamut.
That is why welfare is called “Welfare”.
If you want to know how the left is so ignorant of such a clause, understand it’s origin.
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_1s27.html
I have always believed Rush’s theory is the most accurate. Liberals are inherently unhappy people who have found each other. They blame their unhappiness on society as a whole and if they could just fix things they wouldn’t be miserable. So their quest is a utopian society, the more they change things, the more things get out if whack. When they get what they want, it still doesn’t make them happy. It is endless.
Everything you’ve stated here is pretty much spot on. Growing up in NY as I did, I had the displeasure of being exposed to their crap on a daily basis. In those times (late 60’s and early 70’s) the Vietnam War was the catalyst that served as the foundation for their belief(s) that the US was the root of all evil.
I could probably go on for hours about the BS statements I heard from these characters but that would probably fill a book. Every time they “argued” with me about some lame-brain political craze of the moment their “solutions” always were something along lines of “Do as I Say Not as I do”. I saw through their transparency very early in my life.
The biggest problem with Liberals is that we call them “Liberals” - They aren’t; they are socialists and communists and collectivists. They are not even Progressives though the like to think of themselves as such. They should be called what they are not what they (Liberal) think they are.
I too grew up in NY during the same time as you. I saw it front row and up close as a NYPD police officer.
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