These people are idiots. They NEED to feel left out.
It's the Pauline Kael effect.
I eat lunch with a lot of liberal co-workers. Every day for the past few months I've hear how far outside the mainstream Bush is. One of them was even an older, NE Rhino type Republican who said he couldn't bring himself to vote for Bush because of the "religious stuff."
I'd been telling these guys all along--it's not me, it's not W outside the mainstream. I told them they'd see and they did.
I made clear to them that in states like Oklahoma, Indiana, Missippi, Georgia, etc., highly intelligent people were going to be voting for Bush. Highly intelligent people with morals and values and jobs and families. Regular folks, not the CEO at Halliburton.
Yesterday they saw--in much of the country it is them (the left) out of the mainstream.
11 of 11 against gay marriage.
4 new senate seats.
Bush by more than 3.5M.
I'm a conservative that has lived much of my life in very liberal places: Brownsville, Tex; Austin, Tex; Ann Arbor, Mi; the west side of Los Angeles. And I've lived in conservative Dallas.
Every liberal city I've lived in has been a complete coccoon. Almost completely sealed off from conservative thought.
This article just confirms that it's completely intentional, too. The guy lives in liberal San Fran, and even within that city, he goes to a special coffee shop so he can be sure to avoid anyone who might disagree with him. Heaven forfend he should end up at an IHOP where GASP! there might be a Republican.
This sort of thing is killing these guys and they don't even know it. If the only contact the silent majority of Americans has with you is seeing your greasy a** marching in the streets holding up a sign with a charicature of Bush as Hitler, they ain't going to be swayed. When you shun middle America, treat them as ignorant knuckle dragging fools, don't be surprised when it's you that gets left out.
Yes, they do. Most of the liberals I knew well (back in the days long ago when I still had some liberal friends) had persecution complexes to go along with their superiority complexes. They need to believe they're "hated for their brilliance".