Replies

My Dad remarried after my parents divorce. His new wife was a flaming leftist and co-opted his whole being. I lost my dad.

Fortunately she died this year in February so she couldn’t vote for her King Obama one more time and see him win.

I have to ask everyone here:

—Have you ever had friends/relatives who are very intelligent people who are leftists and then ask yourself in bewilderment: “How is it possible for people who are so intelligent not to see the folly in their value system???”

I’ve had to ponder this question many times and the only thing I can come up with is that INTELLIGENT people can also be NAIVE. That’s the only explanation I can think of. Does anyone else have an answer?

One friend is an alcoholic more or less, so even though he’s a brilliant software engineer, he sits in front of cable TV at night, probably watching Piss Matthews on MSNBC and in a state of stupor, the brainwashing has crept it.

I welcome anyone else’s point of view on this, because I’m totally confused how can intelligent people be so wrong...

Intelligence is a delicate thing. I mean, when we say "intelligent" we mean someone with a good memory, who is articulate and has decent pattern recognition. That doesn't mean they aren't also highly suggestible.

I hate taking things from novels to illustrate real life, but I've never gotten over Stephen King's Firestarter. In it, Charlie's father Andy has the ability to "push" someone with his mind... to make basically post-hypnotic suggestions and then give them a psychic nudge that renders them unable to ignore it. In the novel he says that intelligent people were basically the easiest to influence. Dumb people were almost impossible.

I think King was onto something (whatever his own politics might have been.) Intelligent people tend to be receptive and imaginative, as well as a little egocentric and basically insecure. They know they are beta males in the land of brutes. They possess imagination and can dream of perfect worlds without much awareness of how humans really operate. Finally, a little flattery goes a long way. Just as minorities have been convinced that Democrats are their champions, so many intellectuals have been convinced that they are a natural aristrocracy that only Democrats recognize. Therefore...

I’d like to agree that my Lib family/friends are just naive, but sadly some are truly Socialists 9and those are family-—I’d NEVER have such a person as a friend!!).

As for my family Libs, well we just agree to not discuss politics because we are polar opposites on the subject and any discussion leads to complete furor! There is no convincing them. I’ve tried for over 20 years!