They’re definitely not HOPEFULLY irrational.
They are mostly insane though a few are uninformed. The rest are criminal minded.
What passes for liberalism is animal consciousness, the alternative to God consciousness. It is a “lost in sin” condition. Evidence is most obvious in those who curse God and slander Christ. These are demonic influences.
Yes.
We may one day find leftist liberal progressives (by their definition) are actually aliens from an alternate universe, a really goofy one, with an entirely different thought process that does not allow them to understand basic common sense or simple logic.
Heck; I’m already convinced.
Yes. Next topic.
In this case, I would've aksed the woman, "If you owned an airline, is that how you would run it?"
Regardless of how she answered, I would just say, "Ah", and go back to work.
emotionalism + evasion + anti-reality = libtardism
Follow closely the socialist policies at play in California. Watch the gas tax and the cigarette tax. The first will push many gas stations near the border into financial problems, and the second will create a smuggling industry.
I do agree that airlines should have more aircraft. If daily flight are packed then holidays are going to be a nightmare. I know there is extra costs to additional aircraft but the current “just in time plane” strategy is stupid.
In a word, yes.
I used to think that it was wrong to “feel” about an issue, that only what one “thinks” about an issue matters. I now understand that without “gut feel” one would never be able to make a decision. Nevertheless, I swear these people have no rational side at all, nothing BUT their feelings. And that’s a mess.
Yes, they love evil more than good because their deeds are evil. They have burned their conscience and remain in the prison cells of Satan, deniers of God and His Word. And they will be judged by Him they deny, Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour of all who believe Him as the Way and the truth and the life.
Most are abject imbeciles who do the dirty work for the others who are just plain evil
I suggest that both many progrssives and many conservatives are irrationa, and with the same variety of bad thought processes.
False pre-supposition, logical conclusion is by far the most common. You see this in wife beating questions the media asks of conservatives.
Guilt by association on top of bogus start. Richard Spencer has not denounced some obscure racist nobody ever heard of. Bannon did not censor Spencer. Trump hired Bannon. Therefore Trump is a racist. Guilt by association almost always has an early pre-supposition that is suspect.
Guilt by role. It is the duty of an attorney to represent his client and the best interests of his client. The left holds it against a Republican who was a lawyer for a businessman. The right holds it against a Democrat who was a lawyer for a street gang member.
Proof by anecdote. Too many anecdotes to recite.
Proof by statistics. Too many to recite.
Refusal to admit the sausage factory. Reagan had two priority goals and many lesser goals as president. In the Grand Compromise Reagan and Speaker Tip O’Neil made a deal. Tip would allow Reagan to cut taxes and defeat Communism. In turn Reagan would let the Democrats spend like drunken ... like Drunken Democrats.
So Reagan’s Supply Side Tax Cut greatly increased tax revenue. But the combination of increased defense spending and Drunken Democrat spending exceeded the increased tax revenue and Reagan had budget deficits.
The left conveniently ignores the increased spending and claims that Supply Side tax cuts don’t work because there was a deficit under Reagan.
Many Bush type Republicans don’t want to admit Voodoo tax cuts work. So they don’t want the truth of the Reagan era to be spread.
And those who do support Supply Side tax cuts don’t want the name of Reagan sullied by a Compromise ... let alone the Grand Compromise.
There are many other styles of irrational argument.
Can anyone make a factual, logical case for Repeal of the Law of Supply and Demand when it comes to Global Trade or Immigration? Nobody has made one yet.
From Smoot Hawley to Bush II sheet steel every single anecdote says attempts to repeal the law of supply and demand have failed.
Recent immigrants (legal and illegal), especially Hispanics, did not create the defects in our legal system. They did not create our welfare system. Yet they are blamed for our current situation that we older Americans created.
There is a big difference between immigrants who work and those who collect welfare and/or rape and steal. Yet some Populists illogically lump them all together.
Conclusion. None of us are perfect. Yes, The Left is illogical. But we should be careful before we embarrass ourselves with hypocrisy.
They don’t take subtle second order effects into account. They don’t consider subtleties like unknown unknowns and opportunity costs and the finer aspects of reality that can’t even be articulated. They think in static models and ignore feedback effects. They have no appreciation for irony and paradox and are always caught off guard by the witty ways in which reality punishes a lack of wisdom.
The problem is that their ideas are too simple. There is a certain logic to giving the smart, nice people lots of power over everyone else. It basically took Hayek to articulate why that logic is false using extremely subtle arguments dealing with unplanned order and the flow of information and distributed intelligence. Yet even before Hayek it was possible to understand that it was false through an understanding of rights and morality as well as by gut feel and wisdom and intuition. But liberals completely lack that intuition or don’t have it turned on. Sometimes the turning on happens — you see it in Sowell and Horowitz — but most are doomed to stay fully convinced by their bonehead first-order ideas which never work.
Yes.
Yes they are. Several reasons:
The need to be ‘cool’ and/or seen as smart. - I’m guessing inner lack of self esteem.
And the capacity for stupid seems to be increasing. I know dem voters who have high intelligence capacity... college educated idiots, professors, etc... they talk a good game, seem to recollect a huge amount of ‘information’ (lib propaganda) but have very little by way of common sense or basic logic.
Then you have the typical blue collar, union guy dem voter. Not book smart or college educated, yet brilliant if you need actual stuff done... ( build your addition, wire your house, dress a deer even), but they don’t think they’re smart. So they join the ‘smart team’ - dimmocrats. And root for that team no matter what, to the death.
They worship their leaders, no matter what scumbags those leaders are.
At least most on the right want to hold OUR elected leaders accountable.
Not “hopelessly irrational”, but “proudly irrational”.
Liberalism today is fueled by the scourge of Postmodernism, which denies logic, reason and truth.
No.
They are mentally ill.