Posted on 02/27/2006 6:01:18 AM PST by mal
Many conservatives are absolutely perplexed by the question of what motivates liberals to take the patently wrong political positions they do. It’s difficult to explain it without believing such obviously wrong ideas like “liberals are just stupid”, or “they want to destroy our country”, but sometimes we resort to those explanations out of pure frustration.
But what is the explanation? Why do seemingly good, intelligent people take positions that cause so much harm in the face of all the facts? I’ve finally stumbled upon the answer, and it’s so stunningly simple, yet profound in its implications, that it’s absolutely mind-boggling. Liberalism isn’t a political ideology; it’s a psychology - the psychology of self-satisfaction to be precise.
A liberal (or a leftist; I use the terms interchangeably), is a person who only cares about politics to the extent that doing so makes him or her feel good, or avoid feeling bad, due both to external and internal factors. Their motivations can include things like a desire to feel intelligent, moral, noble, or unique, as well as a desire for peer acceptance or reverence, and aversion to being ostracized, among many other things.
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Some what they do is deliberately to subvert the society of "their parents". "Overthrow the establishment".
The customs and morals that came before the Baby Boomers are to be "rejected".
It's actually a psychopathology.
People with experience base their decisions on "What has worked for me in the past."
People with little or no experience, like the young, base their decisions on "What I imagine will work."
Some people never make the transition from fantasy-based decisions to decisions based on real experience.
Liberalism makes sense only if you believe the worst about America. That we are evil imperialists. That capitalism is unfair and cruel, and that any inequality among social and ethnic groups is a product of racism and oppression.
Per Michael Savage?
Liberals are indeed a cult of the maladapted. They cannot understand the dichotomy between a certain prophetic manipulative intelligence of "getting away with it" with the disastrous and immoral consequences that result. They want the money but not the blood or hard work required to make that money valuable. Not because of money itself, but because of liberals' lust for money and niceties, they will always find it criminal to not have access to it even if they do nothing for it.
The misfit liberal was also well adapted in the book Sloth by Wasserstein. It relates a dream universe of giving up on competing and enjoying doing nothing because no common liberal can ever dream to become rich & beautiful like, say, Pamela Anderson.
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Nailed it.
Good Post!
You're right, it seems liberals all want to go to Heaven, yet they are not willing to die.
Liberals have replaced God with government and are busily trying to mold their God into their own image.
Good read.
Liberalism is a PSYCHOSIS, not psychology, IMO.
Many of those are in academia, and believe they can "model" that which they do not know, or have not experienced. They then construct their model to suit their needs or desired outcomes, but they never factor in unintended consequences.
Democrat voters/liberals= sociopaths.
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