It’s a class thing. I’ve thought that from the beginning about the liberal reaction to Sarah Palin. Very much like the 19th century Tory reaction to a politician who had not attended Eton or Harrow.
The modern American class system isn’t like most others that have ever existed. Nobody cares much who your parents or grandparents were. Witness Bill Clinton.
Where you went to college is more important. But Carol Costello went to Kent State, not exactly Ivy League.
But every class system has markers, factors that allow the aristoi to recognize “one of us.” In America that is largely “politically correct” political and social attitudes. Those who hold other POVs are by definition “the other,” bitterly clinging to guns and God.
In fact, their enormous self-satisfaction is largely based on the fact that they’re NOT what they think of as ordinary Americans. Their culture is largely based on antagonism to their own society.
Made me think of Luke 18: “The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.”
The Pharisees of Jesus’ day derived a great deal of their enormous self-satisfaction from being better than ordinary people. For them it ws based on minute attention to fulfilling the letter of the Law.
The liberals of today derive most of their immense satisfaction with themselves and other like them from being better than ordinary Americans. But with them it’s based on holding the right (or rather left) political viewpoint.
Which is why their belief system is so impervious to reason or evidence. Changing their minds involves giving up the equivalent of their religion and expulsion from the only group they consider worthy of belonging to.
The contempt they feel for non-elite minorities is obscured by their pretense of being on their side against the power structure. But it comes out in all its glory when deployed against non-elite white people.
You are right. Liberals have a huge ego. They want to be and are their own god (and that is one reason why so many of them reject the Christian god). They are not humble. They think that they have the character, intellect, wisdom and resources to lead the rest of us hoi poloi into a utopia run by them. Pride was the original sin and it is exemplified in people like Obama.
Good post.