Because they are EVIL and STUPID!!
Leftists believe what they do because they accurately assess themselves as incapable of competing as individuals and seek the protection of the herd. Since this is obviously humiliating they further seek to make herd membership compulsory so that they cannot be faulted for being do inadequate.
Individuals with personal strength and self-worth shun the herd and are anathema to the world view of sheep. The left hates such people because they hold a mirror to the inadequacies of leftists.
I knew a pastor/seminary professor who believed that religious liberalism was the result of a lack of and/or willful blindness to scriptural knowledge. I always wondered if political liberalism has a similar cause.
Why do rocks not get out of the rain?
BECAUSE OBAMA!
...because it is their religion and reason for existence...they search and search and blame and blame and it boils down to secular humanism is their religion and we who don’t follow that are their enemy. You can lump any of the beliefs under this category: abortion, global warming, recycling, electric cars...each one they believe will somehow, “save them and us”. I don’t agree with all of Michael Savage, but he did coin the phrase, “liberalism is a mental disorder”.
Can’t wait for your post on areas other than regulation.
My basic question for most liberals is: When did it become the federal government’s job to care for the people? Why can’t people take care of themselves?
I don’t usually get a straight answer as they try to defend the indefensible.
Because Liberals don’t know and they don’t know that they don’t know.
Gullible
I was hoping for answers that explains the stupidity of my family. I was sorely mistaken.
I’m still hoping that several of them wake up when they find themselves thrust from full time employment to 29-hour work-week, part timers because of Obamacare.
I can think of is that what we call liberalism is not an ideology at all. It’s a sociology.
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Wrong!
It is a religion. It is a religious worldview that government can perfect man and create heaven on earth.
It is also a form of worshiping false idols.
Brain Damage?
Brain damage.
In my experience, it starts with wanting to have the ‘nice’ and ‘enlightened’ political opinions.
But for it to really stick if they’ve a mind for reason, there has to be projected resentment. Whether anger against a parent that they can’t address directly or resentment against the more successful that they don’t want to own up to.
That one-two explains most liberals I’ve known well enough to study—including myself in my earlier years.
Because they think they’re smarter than everyone else
I clicked on this article hoping for a more meaningful discussion of why people reject logic and rational thought in favor of mystical thinking and belief in Santa Claus (in the form of a government that provides everything to everybody). I didn’t get that. In fact, I’m going to have to disagree with most of the author’s arguments. There *is* a place for regulation within the conservative world view.
The issue with regulation is that too many totalitarians want to regulate everything, instead of just those things that directly affect public health and safety. How a meat packer conducts his operations should be directly up to him. But it is absolutely reasonable to regulate the quality of his products such that they are reasonably free of microbial contamination, contain the claimed ingredients, and are safe to eat.
This author never did speculate why some people become loony leftists. I would love to better understand that issue, since the first step in solving a problem is correctly defining it.
Why Do Liberals Believe What They Believe?
FANTASY IS THEIR MEDIUM OF INFINITIZATION.
Stupid is as stupid does. Then it gets elected.
That’s a no brainer. Evil, stupid, non thinkers.
Well partly, conservatives have given away too much.
Bring back AMERICAN jobs, and stop sending everything to foreign competitors.
Hire Americans. Now.