Reality is neither liberal or conservative, it just is. But I've found out over the years that the people with the closest relation to reality happen to be conservatives.
It’s not that reality has a “liberal" bias, it is the way that “liberals” perceive the world that has a “liberal” bias.”Liberals” perceive the world through the sampling system of wire service journalism - which in turn is biased against “the man in the arena” because journalists are natural critics:Journalists are heavily biased by their inherent tendency to promote themselves at the expense of the people who take responsibility to actually get things done, and they are biased by their insulation from the public:
- From Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 speech at the Sarbonne:
- There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch 10)Because the AP newswire is a continuous virtual meeting of people of the trade of journalism, journalists default into a go-along-and-get-along mode in their relations with each other - at the expense of “the man in the arena,” and of the public which depends upon “the man in the arena” to get things done for the public.
Journalists claim that all journalists are objective - but it is an arrogant claim of the sort that disgraced the ancient Greek Sophists, and made “sophistry” a term of derogation. Its intent and effect is to censor opposition to journalism’s cynical criticism.Still, it is prudent to cut people - and cut ourselves - a little slack. After all,
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments
The biggest fault in liberal thinking is what I believe is their failure to understand that most people fail on their own volition, and that some people will win and some will lose. Libs always want to believe people fail because “the system” or some other impersonal force is against the losers. Basically, most failures fail because they’re losers. Many lib efforts/programs try to make losers succeed by punishing the winners. The losers continue to lose, but that doesn’t stop libs from beating their heads against a rock trying to equalize things.