Posted on 04/04/2014 8:46:12 AM PDT by Crucial
I was thinking about what really drives liberals to make the decisions they make. You could easily say that liberals are more emotional or that they don't think enough about what their positions mean or what consequences could come of them. You could say that they are too idealistic or too immature or too self-centered. Now all this may be true to a degree to but none of this really goes to the root what drives a liberal.
What really drives a liberal is a feeling and a reaction to that feeling. Liberals feel inadequate to deal with the world around them. They have deep feelings of inadequacy. It's a complicated world and you don't get ahead by being immature, self-centered and idealistic. Their gut reaction to this inadequacy is an overwhelming need for moral superiority. That's why they support whatever the majority doesn't wish to support no matter how silly it may be.
Their egalitarianism reaches such a height that they support self-mutilation for people who wish to be the opposite sex or open homosexuality in the military despite how it may endanger troops and by default, everyone else. Equal benefits for gay married couples is another example. Even though these couples will never procreate, they are somehow entitled to the same legal and government benefits that heterosexual couples receive. The liberal world is an upside-down world because of this psychopathic desire for moral superiority.
Politicians then seize on this powerful drive for moral superiority and put into place all manner of programs to satiate this desire and subsequently create a government-dependent class that rarely learns how to take care of itself, develop itself to deal with the real world that changes constantly and has real emergencies that a slow, beaurocracy can never protect them from fully.
That's where feelings of inadequacy and the need for moral superiority leads you. The only way to overcome it is to just strive for a better life, to become better instead of comparing yourself to others strengths and giving up or not recognizing your own. It feels wrong at first that you are not as good at something as someone else but it takes work to become good at something and it takes work to figure yourself out and your strengths. It's the most rewarding journey of all and instead of liberals looking at the world and seeing all its faults maybe they should look inside first and improve themselves first. Then, if they want, they can have a more positive impact than the damage their inadequacies are inflicting on us all.
i think they have to destroy society to replace it with utopia
It truly is a mental disorder.
The liberal is the child. All things are new, all things are possible. All is kindness and lovable little puppies. The Conservative is the father who whispers in the child’s ear that most things have been tried, possibilities have problems, kindness is expensive and lovable little puppies may turn into mean ugly dogs.
— Captain Compassion
Liberals would rather believe there is no God because that way they don’t have to worry about punishment from Him.
Boy, are they in for a surprise.
I agree up to a point, but I think you may be overcomplicating the explanation some. All the symptoms you describe — narcissism, inadequacy, dependency, senseless defiance — are hallmarks of immaturity. Children demonstrate all those same traits. So you are correct when you say that liberals don’t mature. Liberals are in essence overgrown children, and the government is their parent. It protects them and provides for them where they are too lazy or frightened to care for themselves. And being perpetual children, they can push all the hard decisions onto someone else while they skip about having random sex, getting stoned, and spending other peoples’ money.
That utopianism is the ultimate cure for their psychopathic need for moral superiority. Imagine how good they would feel if they crafted the “perfect world” where no one would go hungry and everyone received exactly the same outcome of their labors so no one would feel inadequate?
Only the government is powerful enough to even come close to creating such a world but in the end the plan tragically falls apart wherever it’s tried.
I think narcissism is the hallmark of their leaders but not the followers. Many liberals actually hate themselves and why they really hate successful, hardworking people. That’s why I think it goes deeper than just immaturity. But immaturity is a big part that hampers their growth and their growth is stunted by feelings of inadequacy and the fear that comes with it. They can’t handle that fear that they don’t measure up. They feel that they should measure up automatically and naturally.
“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child – miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosphy of sniveling brats.” — P.J. O’Rourke
yep
I highly recommend this:
Evan Sayet - Regurgitating the Apple How Modern Liberals “Think”
In this, the single most seen lecture in Heritage Foundation’s history — a talk Andrew Breitbart called, “One of the five most important conservative speeches ever given” — Evan lays the foundation for what would soon become known as the “Unified Field Theory of Liberalism” and how and why that ideology leads the Left to side only and always with evil over good, wrong over right, ugly over beautiful, profane over profound and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDb3sTwD_vA
But I think I'm on the right track. There's always something in the eyes of liberals when you argue with them. It's a kind of desperation. Conservatives get angry when they argue like they're fighting for something. Liberals exhibit a fearful anger like they're running from a truth they can't face.
Some feel inadequate and have low self esteem and high self pity and don't mind being parasites.Others don't feel inadequate but are filled with pity and guilt and believe that needs of some justifies the use of force to violate the rights of others.Some are just naturally power lusters who want to control others. Some of these feel inadequate and need to compensate and some don't.
I agree.
BTW, it’s a video, about 60 minutes long.
Sometime ago, I read here on FR that, Conservatives get angry when you lie to them and Liberals get angry when you tell the truth.
My own theory, which I’ve posted many times, is that liberals “Embrace uncertainty”. By this I mean that they think everything is relative and therefore nothing is certain. They, through all media, education and institutions are engaged in forcing this uncertainty onto the rest of us. In their eyes, you are wrong if you are certain about something.
I could go on and on.
You have, I think, one component of this.
Insecurity. This component has been exploited through relativism over the past 30-40 years and is now reaching critical mass. There is that old quote from Churchill I believe, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”
Our media and education system, as well as, our extraordinary wealth as a nation has been pushing that age well into the 60’s and beyond.
“Courage is the foundation of all the other virtues.”
I think that fear is the foundation of liberalism.
You are correct in seeing the faux "Liberalism," as rooted in a compulsive neurosis, however each of you may specifically want to label the malady. But please, even sarcastically do not suggest that there is anything actually utopian in a monolithic, collectivist egalitarian society.
Think about it. It is in all the ways nations, classes & individuals actually differ, which offer the best clues to a better life.
Surely everyone should be encouraged to develop the unique skills that can both differentiate and enable the maximum of what is desirable in any individual.
Surely, every nation should build on its own cultural heritage--the result of many generations of experience based upon the natural inclinations of its rooted inhabitants, hopefully heavily influenced by the striving of the God Fearing to find paths that conform to truths that recognize that there is such a thing as Natural Law; that there is a reality that no thoughtful man or woman can intelligently deny.
No, you will never find faux "liberalism" ever grounded in experience; but the real utiopian pursuit, such as that of the Founding Fathers, was completely grounded in Reason & Experience.
William Flax
So could you say:
Liberalism is fairly simple. To be liberal is to be greedy and self-absorbed—wanting to live the high life and never feel emotionally or physically uncomfortable. No barriers, judgment, or consequences for doing what feels good and fun. Never having obligations, burdens, or responsibilities and always “fitting in” to popular views on everything (to the point of excluding opposing views). They need a foil—a stereotype of an enemy that is full of bad viewpoints and attributes and they make sure they are not like that stereotype so they always “fit in”.
Liberals want to be comfortable and without anxiety about life’s responsibilities and risks.
They make poor parents, employees, or planners.
“It truly is a mental disorder.”
It is a self esteem issue that hardcore leftists use to bring these mush heads over to their side. Add that to the mob mentality and you get a generation of “occupy wall street” idiots.
What they don’t see are the people who organized all of this sitting at Lutece, eating lobster and drinking 200 dollar bottles of wine and mocking these idiots.
Liberals suffer the prostitute’s mental illness, which is a combined form of feeling invincible and empowered while gambling away one’s life to a pimp cause. The prostitute does expect to risk some but ultimately she is supportive of the pimp she finances who will destroy the rest. It is a sacrifice of freedom and rights for penny privilege of seeing others robbed with her help, keeping herself safe that way for her time of cooperation until she is kicked to the curb only to keep harassing for guilt charity donations.
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