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Gerard Alexander: Why are liberals so condescending?
WP ^ | Feb 7 2010 | Gerard Alexander

Posted on 02/07/2010 6:10:07 PM PST by GSP.FAN

Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries are idiots. But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while conservative positions are not just wrong but illegitimate, ideological and unworthy of serious consideration. Indeed, all the appeals to bipartisanship notwithstanding, President Obama and other leading liberal voices have joined in a chorus of intellectual condescension.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: condescending; condescendingliberal; liberalism; liberals
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1 posted on 02/07/2010 6:10:07 PM PST by GSP.FAN
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To: GSP.FAN
This sucker is breaking records on the WarshPost comments. We are near 2500 posts ~ and that's big even by Freeper standards.

It's a regular laugh riot ~ Leftwingtard after leftwingtard comes in and tells us what Conservatives think, feel, eat and sleep with ~ and declare their superiority.

Leftwingtards are such dullwitted thugs.

2 posted on 02/07/2010 6:12:24 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: GSP.FAN
Why are liberals co condescending?

They're too stupid to realize how stupid they sound.

3 posted on 02/07/2010 6:17:27 PM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: GSP.FAN
Thomas Sowell's Vision of the Anointed provides a succinct answer to this question: the liberal viewpoint is one of self-congratulation. Holding all the wisdom and all the answers is evidence of superior intellect and superior humanity.

Who would back down from such a loftly place in the world? Hence the lack of reflection upon past policies and their effectiveness, and the repeated bleat that what is needed to make a failed policy work is "more money".

Anyone who questions them must be a big bad villain who enjoys being mean...
4 posted on 02/07/2010 6:21:07 PM PST by Nepeta
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To: GSP.FAN

bttt for post super bowl reading


5 posted on 02/07/2010 6:22:07 PM PST by steelyourfaith (FReepers were opposed to Obama even before it was cool to be against Obama.)
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To: whoever
Briefly put, rats can't tell the difference between information and an exhortation.
6 posted on 02/07/2010 6:25:05 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: GSP.FAN

“Why ARe Liberals So Condescending?”

Could it possibly be because they’re psychotic, adolescent, scu&bags who have no sense of respsonsiblity and who think of themselves as god-like because their mommies told them they were superior to the human cattle that surround them?

IMHO


7 posted on 02/07/2010 6:25:07 PM PST by ripley
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To: steelyourfaith

Bump


8 posted on 02/07/2010 6:26:35 PM PST by Bernard Marx (I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
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To: muawiyah

Just read some of the comments.

My Fav which proves the point...

Liberalism, by it’s very name, is an intellectual discipline. It requires a respect for difference, an openness to new ideas and a nuanced appreciation for the multi-disciplinary issues that surround complex policy decisions.

Conservatives, in contrast, as their name suggests, try to retain the status quo. They are suspicious of change, see only ‘right’ and ‘common sense’ solutions to problems and prefer broad strokes ‘tax cuts’, ‘a strong defense’, ‘American freedom’ when it comes to policy decisions. Liberalism, regardless of whether it is right or wrong, is simply more intellectual. Hence, its solutions will always come across as condescending to Conservatives. On the flip side, Conservatives will always resort to Populism: simplicity, screaming, yelling, doomsday forecasts, sound bites, fear and other soapbox tactics to get their point across. That will always come across as ignorant, obfuscating, reactionary and retarded to Liberals.


9 posted on 02/07/2010 6:27:31 PM PST by GSP.FAN (These are the times that try men's souls.)
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To: GSP.FAN
Liberalism, regardless of whether it is right or wrong, is simply more intellectual.

No.

Real conservatism, understanding the underpinnings of conservatism is an intellectual endeavor. It is not a matter of rejecting change. It is a matter of rationally, logically, preserving the very best of a society for the sake of its present and future.

Modern liberalism is about emoting, about feeling good. Logic and rationality never need intrude.
10 posted on 02/07/2010 6:32:56 PM PST by Nepeta
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Why are liberals so condescending?

Because they are so stupid they don’t know how much they don’t know.


11 posted on 02/07/2010 6:33:14 PM PST by freedomfiter2
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Liberalism, by it’s very name, is an intellectual discipline. It requires a respect for difference, an openness to new ideas and a nuanced appreciation for the multi-disciplinary issues that surround complex policy decisions.

But somehow this leads them to exactly the same conclusions and saying the exact same things as all other liberals! It's a miracle!

12 posted on 02/07/2010 6:39:44 PM PST by VoiceOfBruck (Was "Hussein" a common American Christian name in Hawaii in 1961? Just askin...)
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To: Nepeta

The “self-congratulation” is a emotion that makes them feel better, ie no job heres some money,pregnant and not married heres some money..
Liberals do not look at the past,they dream of the future.


13 posted on 02/07/2010 6:41:00 PM PST by GSP.FAN (These are the times that try men's souls.)
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This say it all...

Posted by libtard frank57

“As far as I am concerned, if every right-wing, hate-filled bigot vanished tomorrow, not only the country, but the whole world would be better off.”

yeah frank...that’s why I own guns...to make that DREAM just a bit harder to accomplish.


14 posted on 02/07/2010 6:41:38 PM PST by Crim
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To: GSP.FAN

Probably because their moms and dads didn’t teach them any better. They have no morals, no shame, no humility, and no heart. I guess they’ve GOT to have at least one trait, so they picked “condescending” to make themselves feel better about who they AREN’T.


15 posted on 02/07/2010 6:46:49 PM PST by FrankR (The ones of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
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To: Nepeta
>>It is a matter of rationally, logically, preserving the very best of a
>>society for the sake of its present and future.
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>>Modern liberalism is about emoting, about feeling good.
 
Same Ol' Same Ol':  Fools are easily led where (most) angels fear to tread.
Isa 14:12-14
 
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
KJV
AKA:  God is dead; therefore we are as gods.

16 posted on 02/07/2010 6:54:38 PM PST by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: GSP.FAN
Because they think they know best. Seriously, they are so wrapped up in their elitist beliefs that they can't see how wrong they are. So they just spout their "obvious" beliefs and think we should all be good sheeple and follow along.

What they don't seem to realize is how idiotic they look to any reasonably intelligent and informed person.

17 posted on 02/07/2010 6:55:16 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: FrankR

Liberals are so condescending because in today’s society, they know they will be protected. In older societies and in history, liberals would be class that goes extinct because they do not work and are the first to get their butts kicked for their smart ass remarks and attitudes. And if there happened to be a confrontation, a liberal got dead quickly.


18 posted on 02/07/2010 6:55:58 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: GSP.FAN

Why are liberals so condescending?

Here’s my two cents: liberals by an large are highly secular, thus their “religious” feelings of certainty and truth are transferred to their political beliefs, which they uphold as a kind of secular religion.

Conservatives, by and large, hold either strong religious views or, if they are secular, are predisposed to the understanding that mankind is frail and fallible.


19 posted on 02/07/2010 7:04:41 PM PST by mojito
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To: ThunderSleeps

“elitist beliefs” They do not have beliefs,they deal in emotion if it makes them feel good well let’s do it..


20 posted on 02/07/2010 7:06:14 PM PST by GSP.FAN (These are the times that try men's souls.)
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