These people are completely out of touch with the rest of America, so insular is the little bubble they live in. They look at regular Americans the way Jane Goodall looks at gorillas.
But it doesn’t go the other way. It is possible to live your entire life without ever encountering a conservative thought or idea, in places like New York or Santa Monica. They live, work with, watch, listen to, only people they agree with, and they think that what they see is America. But conservatives can’t avoid the Left. It permeates the whole culture, music, movies, TV, and education from K through graduate school. So we know them, but they don’t know us. You see it on any message board where liberals post - their interpretation of conservative views are a caricature through a fun house mirror.
Perfectly put. I reposted your entire post because it's exactly the situation. I've tried to explain this to liberals I work with, but they just cock their heads to the side like spaniels, and when I stop talking, they pick up whatever they were saying before and continue on as if they didn't understand anything I just said, so might as well just pretend I just sneezed or something.
Brilliant.
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Jane Goodall wanted to learn and really understand chimpanzees. Leftists do not want to understand conservatives. They want to annihilate us. (Dian Fossey was the gorilla researcher, but I understood your point, which was excellent.)