Posted on 07/01/2017 4:29:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the “What’s the matter with Kansas?” era, elite liberals seemed to genuinely believe that people who didn’t vote for them were just poor, deluded saps who didn’t understand what was in their own best interest. Is that condescending? Sure, but at least it’s not hateful. At least it assumes that liberals still need to work to bring these people on board.
Does that attitude still exist? Sure, to a degree. In fact, just this week, James O’Keefe caught a CNN producer on camera saying he thinks that the American voters are “stupid as sh*t.”
This sort of thinking comes from the fact that liberalism is shot through with narcissism. Narcissists believe they’re better than everyone else just by virtue of being who they are. So do liberals. Liberals also believe they’re smarter, more compassionate and more caring just because they’re on the Left. Whether you’re talking about a liberal or a narcissist, this leads to high, but unstable self-esteem.
If you genuinely have high self-esteem, you can easily brush off challenges to your competence. When you have high, but unstable self-esteem, you become much more upset when your self-image is challenged. This can lead to anxiety, anger and lashing out as part of an effort to keep those doubts at bay. It can also lead to unchecked hatred of anyone who makes you question your value.
This tendency is amplified by the circular reasoning of liberals. Are you a better, smarter, more caring person by virtue of being liberal? Yes. Will other liberals challenge them on this? No. Will they pay attention to non-liberals who tell them that they’re not better, smarter and more caring than other people? No. So, this leads to an ironclad feedback loop. OBVIOUSLY, liberals are sensitive, wonderful and know it all and no one who matters will even question this thinking while anyone who does isn’t worth listening to in the slightest.
So, what happens when their views are REJECTED wholesale across the heartland of the country to such an extent that you can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats? What happens when people point out that most of the policies they champion don’t work? What happens when people reject the idea that liberals know what’s best for them?
We got a taste of that right after Trump won and liberals were finally angry enough to be honest about what they really believe,
“This is what's terrifying: Even if Clinton wins, there are SO MANY people willing to vote for a bigoted imbecile. This is not my country. https://t.co/5wlgxi3viS” — Jill Filipovic
“Where is the primetime special on the pervasive white supremacy that allowed for Trump's rise & popularity?”— deray mckesson (@deray) November 9, 2016
“It appears racism, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobia are powerful drugs. I'm so sad tonight. So so sad.” — Jillian Michaels (@JillianMichaels) November 9, 2016
“This was a white-lash. This was a white-lash against a changing country. It was a white-lash against a black president in part, and that’s the part where the pain comes.” – Van Jones
“Fascism just got hold of the United States. We are now seeing the worst of the worst elevated to positions of incredible power. Racism has been legitimized and the reports of hate crimes are rolling in. Trans children are committing suicide. Stock prices of private prisons and coal have skyrocketed. Women are months away from truly losing the right to control their own bodies.” – The Daily Kos
This was combined with liberals going to the psych ward, cutting all their hair off and faking hate crimes. Those are all signs of stability, right?
How about all the political violence we’ve been treated to by the Left? It’s turned into an epidemic. The Steve Scalise shooting may have gotten the most attention, but some of the other politically motivated assaults have been almost as jarring. Just to name a few…
“A Trump supporter was beaten and dragged by a car.”
“Protestors knocked a 71-year-old female staffer for California GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher unconscious during a protest outside the representative’s office.”
“Masked protesters at Middlebury College rushed AEI scholar and political scientist Charles Murray and professor Allison Stranger, pushing and shoving Murray and grabbing Stranger by her hair and twisting her neck as they were leaving a campus building. Stranger suffered a concussion. Protesters then surrounded the car they got into, rocking it back and forth and jumping on the hood.”
“A former professor was arrested after police said they identified him on video beating Trump supporters with a U-shaped bike lock, leaving three people with “significant injuries.”
Liberals project their own hatred onto conservatives regularly with their rhetoric. She doesn’t support gay marriage? She must hate gays. She doesn’t want to expand welfare? She must hate the poor. He doesn’t want to tear down a statue of a Founding Father who held slaves? He must hate black people. That’s their excuse for their own hatred. It’s actually YOU who hates everyone; so they have to HATE YOU right back. This accounts for what my girlfriend Sierra Marlee calls their "I care about everyone and if you don't believe that then I hope your kids get cancer" attitude.
You want evidence of this? Besides the fact that the Democrat nominee was someone who quite literally noted that “Republicans” were her enemies in a debate? How about this? How about the fact that there is almost no soul-searching by liberals after their defeat by Donald Trump? There’s no talk of changing their agenda (other than making it more radical), no talk of appealing to people who didn’t vote for them, no wondering what they did wrong.
That’s the problem. They don’t believe they did anything wrong. They believe the real issue is that you’re racist, sexist, subhuman pieces of garbage who need to be punished. When they get back into power, they’re going to do EXACTLY that and they will feel like you DESERVE IT the entire time because you’re so evil. I wish it wasn’t that way, but that is what the modern Left has become and if we don’t acknowledge that reality, we’re kidding ourselves.
It took me decades to realize this on my own [...]
Regards,
Inside every democrat is a communist screaming to get out.
You left out the Supreme Court seat that was stolen, so Justice Gorsuch is illegitimate.
And thank God that we have a man who defends himself as President now. I hope we find more such men to send to all levels of representative government.
You said it.
Libtards go insane. Trump knows this, and he knows exactly what to say to make them more and more insane every day.
What part is he wrong? Please explain.
That is what they think.
I now live in a very rural area in WV (moved here from Cleveland two years ago).
Even though a lot of people generally vote Dem (it’s complicated but they are actually just confused conservatives) most appear to have voted for Trump and support him.
But those who don’t feel the need to bring this up, are very vocal, and tend to be pretty vicious about it.
Everyone else is generally too polite to make a big deal of it, but I sense some resentment starting to build.
At least we know who to isolate if things go south...
“That’s the problem. They don’t believe they did anything wrong.”
Wow, what a difference 12 years makes. The “What’s the Matter with Kansas” book came out right after the 2004 election, where Bush was re-elected and the Dems didn’t pick up jack in Congress.
Then came Pelosi’s, what I seriously consider brilliant, strategy of telling Democrat candidates to say what their constituents want to hear, in order to get elected, and only to get elected. If the constituents wanted to hear “no on gun control”, “no on abortion”, “no on gay marriage”, that was JUST FINE with her. They went on to win huge numbers of seats in 2006 and take the House.
Then, of course, once elected, they would do as told, and they did, because they always agreed with her from the start.
The scary thing was just how many Americans defaulted to the Democrats and those lies when given two (apparently) similar candidates to choose from. Whether we like it or not, head-to-head, the Democrats are able to beat us enough to control the House, if they are able to be perceived as credible on mainstream issues. I wish we could fix that, but that is a major fallout of now controlling the media.
But THANKFULLY, Pelosi still plans to stick around and now she’s radioactive. Also the Republicans have finally figured out that they cannot win races on ‘local issues’, they need to tie the candidate to Pelosi, EVERY TIME. So keep praying that Pelosi stays right where she is for 2018 and beyond...we really do need her to win.
Hmmm??? When you’re the best people, most loving and caring people in the world... the riffraff does tend to frustrate you!
Excellent description of the enemy.
On FR, we ALL know this and acknowledge this.
The next question: knowing this, how do we then defeat them, before they move to their next likely phase: violence and tyranny.
I’ve always felt like they don’t believe that there is evil in the world. Any means to an end that they see as good is okay with them, even if it forces millions more onto welfare, or into the gulag, or forcing little girls and women to have to deal with a man in their restroom, or whatever.
The “good”, or I suppose God in their lives is government, taxation, feminism, irrational environmentalism, etc.
To me, it’s the old “everybody has to have something to believe in”
I guess it’s true that if you don’t believe in something you’ll fall for anything.
Liberals = Programmed
Repeat daily
Liberals...have made politics their religion...What they really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy....for them, politics is the means to secular salvation. (emphasis added)
The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa...Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic.
It's also worth noting that safety in numbers is also at play. Collectivism (progressivism) depends on the anonymity of being a member of a crowd..If an individual comes up to you on the street and demands your wallet, that constitutes a robbery. If a group does it, it is a political movement. The greater the alleged size of "the resistance," the greater the number of left-leaning people at the margin of losing hope, willing to join The Movement. Moldylocks wrote of fear before heading out to Berkeley (where she got clocked) but she was comforted by the (alleged) numbers of equally-deranged secularists (who also got clocked).
I believe, in part, this is why Trump and his retinue keep using Twitter and rallies to remind we Deplorables that, indeed, there's more of us than them, and to not despair. Our steadfast and visible defense of all that is good and right is a partial antidote to this social virus. Everyone wants to win, and one can only hope that further winning will help turn these misguided souls to our side.
What part is he wrong? Please explain.
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I was referring to this quotation, meaning to suggest that half the American voters are ‘stupid as sh*t.’
“James O’Keefe caught a CNN producer on camera saying he thinks that the American voters are “stupid as sh*t.”
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