I disagree. I think liberals have well developed skills of logic, reasoning, and rhetoric. They use them to persuade those that don't. They use them in the furtherance of both evil, and their own personal fortunes.
It's "moderates", and "the center" that don't have reasoning skills.
Well developed skills of [twisted] logic, [defective] reasoning, and [unhinged] rhetoric.....there, that's better......(((((GROUP HUG)))))
I don't know about this. The Lib LEADERSHIP might be evil and crafty, but the rank and file...? They truly and deeply BELIEVE that, for example, poor people in this country are poor because evil rich people keep them down. They believe that the UN is composed of crusading heroes interested in doing good for the world. They believe that huge gov. and huge taxes leads inevitably to stellar econ. performance. They believe that every single Mexican and African on the face of the Earth should be living here RIGHT NOW, and that this would be good for the country. So, the leadership might be evil and crafty, but the rank and file are simply sick and delusional with a kindergartner's grasp of reality.
Liberalism does have a certain definite logic to it, but the axioms upon which it is based have only a passing resemblance to reality. Unfortunately, some false axioms can become sufficiently embedded into liberals' thinking that the simplest explanations for things are regarded as impossible, and thus much more complicated explanations become necessary.
In a way, liberalism could be regarded as the nesting of epicycles practiced by geocentric astronomers, but the analogy falls somewhat sort: while astronomers' nested epicycles may not have represented the ways planets actually move, they were nonetheless effective at predicting where in the sky planets would appear. Liberals, by contrast, are always retroactively adjusting their theories and always have confidence in their models even though their predictive accuracy is truly horrible.