[Hawthorn]

>> This should be a very good thread. <<

Maybe, at least if nobody finds out that on Dennis's show the other day, he said the TSA pat-downs and full-body scans are basically OK.

Moreover, I promise not to tell anybody that Dennis often seems sympathetic in other ways to the typical RINO outlook!

[rlmorel]

IMO, that doesn’t invalidate the premise of this article by mr. Prager.

The two subjects are mutually exclusive, and I can agree with him on this and disagree on that.

[hinckley buzzard]

Whatever other opinions Prager has, this is a pretty good analysis. The missing piece is, What predisposes otherwise intellectually competent people to become and stay liberal? This is where the element of self-deception comes into play. A person who has shakey self-esteem due to infantile(narcissistic) rage, envy, resentment, separation anxiety, will seek external validation that he is a "good" person.

Liberal deceits like utopianism offer ample basis to believe in one's goodness by identifying with allegedly altruistic and Higher motives. All one has to do is deny their harmful outcomes, inevitable given the deception and aggression at the base.

This is also why liberals turn to hate so quickly when their view of themselves is challenged. Offer up a genuinely good person, like Sarah Palin, who has never done harm to another human being, and the shallow self-deception of the liberal as a "good" person begins to fall apart.

This is why I maintain, Liberalism is the Politics of Denial.

[hinckley buzzard]

Whatever other opinions Prager has, this is a pretty good analysis. The missing piece is, What predisposes otherwise intellectually competent people to become and stay liberal? This is where the element of self-deception comes into play. A person who has shakey self-esteem due to infantile(narcissistic) rage, envy, resentment, separation anxiety, will seek external validation that he is a "good" person.

Liberal deceits like utopianism offer ample basis to believe in one's goodness by identifying with allegedly altruistic and Higher motives. All one has to do is deny their harmful outcomes, inevitable given the deception and aggression at the base.

This is also why liberals turn to hate so quickly when their view of themselves is challenged. Offer up a genuinely good person, like Sarah Palin, who has never done harm to another human being, and the shallow self-deception of the liberal as a "good" person begins to fall apart.

This is why I maintain, Liberalism is the Politics of Denial.

[hinckley buzzard]

Whatever other opinions Prager has, this is a pretty good analysis. The missing piece is, What predisposes otherwise intellectually competent people to become and stay liberal? This is where the element of self-deception comes into play. A person who has shakey self-esteem due to infantile(narcissistic) rage, envy, resentment, separation anxiety, will seek external validation that he is a "good" person.

Liberal deceits like utopianism offer ample basis to believe in one's goodness by identifying with allegedly altruistic and Higher motives. All one has to do is deny their harmful outcomes, inevitable given the deception and aggression at the base.

This is also why liberals turn to hate so quickly when their view of themselves is challenged. Offer up a genuinely good person, like Sarah Palin, who has never done harm to another human being, and the shallow self-deception of the liberal as a "good" person begins to fall apart.

This is why I maintain, Liberalism is the Politics of Denial.

[Tax-chick]

I share your view. Prager is often like someone who can diagnose an illness in others, but can’t see that he suffers from it himself. Bless his heart.