Posted on 01/24/2015 7:47:49 PM PST by DeweyCA
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. — Charles Krauthammer Even liberals who've accomplished a lot in their lives and have high IQs often say things on a regular basis that are stunningly, profoundly stupid and at odds with the way the world works. Modern liberalism has become so bereft of common sense and instinctually suicidal that America can only survive over the long haul by thwarting the liberal agenda. In fact, liberalism has become such a toxic and poisonous philosophy that most liberals wouldn't behave differently if their goal were to deliberately destroy the country. So, how does liberalism cause well-meaning, intelligent liberals to get this way? Well, it starts with...
1) Liberalism creates a feedback loop. It is usually impossible for a non-liberal to change a liberal's mind about political issues because liberalism works like so: only liberals are credible sources of information. How do you know someone's liberal? He espouses liberal doctrine. So, no matter how plausible what you say may be, it will be ignored if you're not a liberal and if you are a liberal, of course, you probably agree with liberal views. This sort of close-mindedness makes liberals nearly impervious to any information that might undermine their beliefs.
2) Liberals sources of information are ever present. Conservatives are regularly exposed to the liberal viewpoint whether they want to be or not. That's not necessarily so for liberals. Imagine the average day for liberals. They get up and read their local newspaper. It has a liberal viewpoint. They take their kids to school, where the teachers are liberal. Then they go to work, listen to NPR which has a liberal viewpoint on the way home, and then turn on the nightly news which also skews leftward. From there, they turn on TV and watch shows created by liberals that lean to the left, if they have any political viewpoint at all. Unless liberals actively seek out conservative viewpoints, which is unlikely, the only conservative arguments they're probably going to hear are going to be through the heavily distorted, poorly translated, deeply skeptical lens of other liberals.
3) Liberals emphasize feeling superior, not superior results. Liberalism is all about appearances, not outcomes. What matters to liberals is how a program makes them FEEL about themselves, not whether it works or not. Thus a program like Headstart, which sounds good because it's designed to help children read, makes liberals feel good about themselves, even though the program doesn't work and wastes billions. A ban on DDT makes liberals feel good about themselves because they're "protecting the environment" even though millions of people have died as a result. For liberals, it's not what a program does in the real world; it's about whether they feel better about themselves for supporting it.
4) Liberals are big believers in moral relativism. This spins them round and round because if the only thing that's wrong is saying that there's an absolute moral code, then you lose your ability to tell cause from effect, good from bad, and right from wrong. Taking being non-judgmental to the level that liberals do leaves them paralyzed, pondering "why they hate us" because they feel incapable of saying, “That's wrong," and doing something about it. If you're against firm standards and condemning immoral behavior, then your moral compass won’t work and you’ll also be for immorality, as well as societal and cultural decay by default.
5) Liberals tend to view people as parts of groups, not individuals. One of the prejudices of liberalism is that they see everyone as part of a group, not as an individual. This can lead to rather bizarre disparities when say, a man from a group that they consider to be powerless, impoverished victims becomes the leader of the free world -- and he's challenged by a group of lower middle class white people who've banded together because individually they're powerless. If you listen to the liberal rhetoric, you might think Barack Obama was a black Republican being surrounded by a KKK lynching party 100 years ago -- as opposed to the single most powerful man in America abusing the authority of his office to attack ordinary Tea Partiers who have the audacity to speak the truth to power for the good of their country.
6) Liberals take a dim view of personal responsibility. Who's at fault if a criminal commits a crime? The criminal or society? If someone creates a business and becomes a millionaire, is that the result of hard work and talent or luck? If you're dirt poor, starving, and haven't worked in 5 years, is that a personal failing or a failure of the state? Conservatives would tend to say the former in each case, while liberals would tend to say the latter. But when you disconnect what an individual does from the results that happen in his life, it's very difficult to understand cause and effect in people's lives.
7) Liberals give themselves far too much credit just for being liberal. To many liberals, all one needs to do to be wise, intelligent, compassionate, open minded, and sensitive is to BE LIBERAL. In other words, many of the good things about a person spring not from his actions, but from the ideology he holds. This has an obvious appeal. You can be a diehard misogynist, but plausibly call yourself a feminist, hate blacks, but accuse others of racism, have a subpar IQ and be an intellectual, give nothing to charity and be compassionate, etc., etc., and all you have to do is call yourself a liberal. It's a shortcut to virtue much like the corrupt old idea of religious indulgences. Why live a life of virtue when you could live a sinful life and buy your way into heaven? If you're a liberal, why actually live a life of virtue when you can merely call yourself a liberal and get credit for being virtuous, even when you've done nothing to earn it?
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Only 7?
Seven is the coveted number. As I have initiated this most coveted award, I can set the specifications. LOL
One of the prejudices of liberalism is that they see everyone as part of a group, not as an individual.
All too true. I was reflecting on this the other day. Ask a liberal how many black or hispanic or gay friends he or she has. I'll bet you they can rattle them off right off the cuff. They pigeonhole everyone into little compartments. Everyone is labeled and categorized. Talk about prejudices! Ask a conservative the same question and chances are they'll have to think about it for a while. Not because they don't have black or hispanic or gay friends and acquaintances, but because they see them as people/friends first, and the rest of it as relatively unimportant sidebar.
From there, they turn on TV and watch shows created by liberals that lean to the left, if they have any political viewpoint at all.
Few things are as pathetic as Christians/Conservatives who wallow in liberal pop culture. My wife and I stopped going to a certain church where a woman involved with the youth ministry told us about how much fun she and her teen aged daughter had at the “Lady Gaga” concert.
“Liberals tend to view people as parts of groups, not individuals”
That to me is the defining difference between right and left in this country.
This is exactly opposite of the truth of the matter.
If conservatives thought liberals were stupid, they wouldn't try to debate them. The problem with conservatives is that they give stupid liberals too much credit for being more intelligent than liberals actually are.
As for the liberals' claim that conservatives are evil, there are two ways to look at it. First, projection. Liberals are evil, and think everyone else is, too; and that conservatives are just lying hypocrites about moral absolutes. Liberals cannot imagine a life without the pretension of guilt-free sin. Liberals also think they know better than everyone else; and since they believe in moral relativity and "if it feels good, do it", they believe conservatives are evil for wanting to keep them from destroying themselves and others with soul-killing messes like teen sex, homesexuality, drugs and welfare dependency. On the other hand, all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. On this score, faux conservatives like the RINOs really ARE evil.
This has an upside. Conservatives hear the other side and learn how to form arguments against it. Liberals, on the other hand, are used to being patted on the head and told that they are right. That's why they get hysterical when challenged or forced to hear a conservative point of view. All they can do is start name-calling.
This has an upside. Conservatives hear the other side and learn how to form arguments against it. Liberals, on the other hand, are used to being patted on the head and told that they are right. That's why they get hysterical when challenged or forced to hear a conservative point of view. All they can do is start name-calling.
Burp,
I know what That means.
Why do we call these people liberals? they espouse the opposite of freedom. They seek to subjugate the population with their pretentious airs.
Marxist/Socialist statists stole “liberal.” Classical liberalism is the antithesis of what today’s “liberals” support.
Snip: “Unless liberals actively seek out conservative viewpoints, which is unlikely, the only conservative arguments they’re probably going to hear are going to be through the heavily distorted, poorly translated, deeply skeptical lens of other liberals.”
Very, very, true! I would further the argument to say that for a liberal, to even contemplate seeking out an ‘alternative’ viewpoint from their ‘progressive’ group think talking points, scares the bejeebers out of them!
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It’s a fairly long read, but Jonah Goldberg goes into great detail to answer your question in his book ‘Liberal Fascism’.
http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/0767917189
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Very important point about “Projection” by the liberal, back FROM HIMSELF towards his opponent, and his opponent’s views or facts.
Ties with the “no moral clarity”.
“If “I” lie, cheat, steal, and hate, and “I” am a good person because “I” am a liberal with “good intentions” then “YOU” ALWAYS lie, cheat, steal and hate because YOU are a very bad person with evil, hate-filled, intolerant ideas who must be destroyed. Because “I” am a good person who wants to do good things that make me feel good. “
See how that feedback comes back as hatred?
Articles that explain how modern liberals suffer from a mental disorder.
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