Posted on 02/24/2018 3:20:59 PM PST by Kaslin
Do they really hate ordinary people that much?
Yes, they do. For liberals, the distinction between the "dumb masses" and their enlightened selves renders life meaningful. Disdain for ordinary folks is not just an ancillary trait of liberalism. It is fundamental to the its nature.
At its heart, liberalism is a gnostic religion, and the essence of that religion is the believer's faith that he possesses the means of changing the world for the better. The belief that the world must be changed requires there to be a mass of individuals whose lives are in need of change. Following this logic, it is the liberal, not those deplorables in need of change, who knows what must be changed. For liberals, there must be a mass of people in need of this knowledge for life to make sense.
Above all, liberalism is a hubristic faith. Its followers share the fatal flaw of pride in their own intellectual capacity. This is why liberalism appeals so strongly to those in the knowledge trades: teachers, journalists, writers, psychologists, and social workers. The sense of "knowing more than others" is its strongest attraction – particularly to the young, who otherwise know so little. Liberalism confers, or seems to confer, almost immediate power and authority to those who embrace it.
The left's obsession with superior knowledge runs through its entire history. As Woodrow Wilson remarked, the "instrument" of political science "is insight. A nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions." Lyndon B. Johnson thought "a president's hardest task" is "to know what is right." And the most hubristic of all is Obama's "We are the ones we've been waiting for." Yes, we are wonderfully bright, and we've been waiting eons for ourselves to appear.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
” And the most hubristic of all is Obama’s “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
Abject goosestepping Seig Heil! hubris. When TSHF, these prissy boys won’t know what hit them. Good article.
The ersatz “liberalism” which is socialism is cynicism towards society, with concomitant naive faith in government. And cynicism is inherently patronizing and arrogant.American “conservatives” (true liberals) are skeptical enough about society to grant the unfortunate necessity of government - but also skeptical of government. Conservatives are not cynical; cynicism is an antonym for faith.
Thanks for the ping; post; thread. BTTT!
Above all, liberalism is a hubristic faith. Its followers share the fatal flaw of pride in their own intellectual capacity. This is why liberalism appeals so strongly to those in the knowledge trades: teachers, journalists, writers, psychologists, and social workers. The sense of "knowing more than others" is its strongest attraction – particularly to the young, who otherwise know so little. Liberalism confers, or seems to confer, almost immediate power and authority to those who embrace it.Also (especially?) lawyers.
“The sense of ‘knowing more than others’ is its strongest attraction”
This really nails it in terms of the psychology of progressivism.
BTTT
Slaves hate those who are free - they’d rather be a big man in the pond than a free man standing on his own in the ocean...
Yes, progressives are extremely prideful. Most of them reject any higher entity (God) being over them, whom they would be accountable to. In their arrogance, they believe in the power of big government.. run by themselves. They are like the “Khan” character in the Star Trek series. They firmly believe that they have a superior intellect. They think that they know better than anyone else, including God. This was the original sin in the Garden of Eden and it continues to today.
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