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This article is: a. From last year. b. Very good. c. Searched for and not found in the Archives. d. Spot on. e. Something I wish I had thought of myself. Enjoy.
1 posted on 10/12/2008 10:59:09 AM PDT by redhead
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“Why are so many liberals hostile to religion? Because religion sets rules and tells people that if they break those rules, they’re sinning! That keeps people from doing things that make them feel good and telling people that they’re sinning makes them feel bad.”

liberals want to set their own rules and control everyone. They don’t believe in free will because that is a spiritual concept.


2 posted on 10/12/2008 11:01:39 AM PDT by ari-freedom ("He (Obama) cannot win, Bill. He cannot win" -Hillary)
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I think you explained it in just the one sentence :

It's nothing more than "childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues.

3 posted on 10/12/2008 11:06:20 AM PDT by TheCipher
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I can explain liberal thinking in three words: A is non-A.


4 posted on 10/12/2008 11:09:30 AM PDT by kesg
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Most libs I know vote more as a fashion statement than anything.


5 posted on 10/12/2008 11:21:02 AM PDT by HelloooClareece ("We make war that we may live in peace". Aristotle)
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darn good post! thanks


6 posted on 10/12/2008 11:22:27 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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some liberals are stupid
some are evil
and most are both.


7 posted on 10/12/2008 11:22:58 AM PDT by genghis
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8 posted on 10/12/2008 11:29:22 AM PDT by matt1234
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Liberals are prone to think that (1) if a 95% solution exists for a problem, the problem is 95% solved, and (2) If a problem can be 95% solved, one should start work on the 95% solution immediately and worry about the other 5% later, without regard for whether the other 5% of the problem might be made so much worse by the 95% "solution" that the problem wasn't really mitigated at all.

Liberals also have a very strange perception of cause and effect. They don't understand how things like markets work, and can't believe that anybody else does either. The failure of liberals' predictions and the accuracy of conservatives' is purely a result of dumb luck.

9 posted on 10/12/2008 11:30:17 AM PDT by supercat
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Most conservatives have had liberals figured out a long time.

Now, reversing the trend of liberal dominance of this nation?

Yeah, we are still floundering there badly and need more columns about that.

Trending to liberalism is a default state for most people, make sense, right? childish emotional impulses will always be the first instincts. They have to be presented conservative thinking, willing to listen, and in a positive way.

And I suspect that conservatives will always be fighting to present conservatism properly.

Trending towards liberalism is never going to change. Just human nature. Just the way it is.

But appealing to common sense and logic are on our side. Almost always it is the liberal that converts to conservatism as they get older, wiser, more exeperienced. Rarely ever is it the other way around. There is still many unexplored ways to reach people I am sure.

10 posted on 10/12/2008 11:32:55 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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Liberals love to think of themselves as intellectual and nuanced, but liberalism is incredibly simplistic. It's nothing more than "childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues."


11 posted on 10/12/2008 11:34:45 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "The Iron Lady from the North")
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I’d also refer you to Evan Sayat’s lecture “Regurgitating the Apple:How Modern Liberals think”

You can find it over at Heritage


12 posted on 10/12/2008 11:35:11 AM PDT by downwdims
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It's nothing more than "childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues."

Utopian thought with a twist of mindless confusion.

13 posted on 10/12/2008 11:38:59 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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Explaining Liberal Thinking In A Single Column

Liberal Thinking = Oxymoron

"Liberal Feeling" is more like it, as the authors appear to conclude.
14 posted on 10/12/2008 11:42:55 AM PDT by Lord Basil
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Liberals love to think of themselves as intellectual and nuanced, but liberalism is incredibly simplistic.

This article itself is very general and simplistic. However, I do agree on the analysis about the generalities and the simple-mindedness surrounding liberal and socialistic ideas.

Why I wanted was a bit more analysis on the economic issue. While liberals are simplistic on the purpose to be served by an economy, the opposition needs to explain why the simplistic and idiotic policies of socialism are counterproductive to an economy and the well-being of those same people advocating socialism and liberal ideas. In today's politics and governmental rule, liberals and socialists are not indistinguishable.

If liberals and socialists actually did any kind or real thinking instead of going with their emotions and what feels good, I doubt that any of them would advocate what socialism represents.
15 posted on 10/12/2008 11:44:08 AM PDT by adorno
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ping


18 posted on 10/12/2008 11:56:11 AM PDT by r-q-tek86 (Keep the Change)
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marker


21 posted on 10/12/2008 12:10:44 PM PDT by JDoutrider (Pray for our Nation! Stop the big Zero!)
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Virgina?


22 posted on 10/12/2008 12:43:19 PM PDT by decimon
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ping


24 posted on 10/13/2008 2:45:16 AM PDT by N2Gems
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