Posted on 01/24/2015 7:47:49 PM PST by DeweyCA
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. — Charles Krauthammer Even liberals who've accomplished a lot in their lives and have high IQs often say things on a regular basis that are stunningly, profoundly stupid and at odds with the way the world works. Modern liberalism has become so bereft of common sense and instinctually suicidal that America can only survive over the long haul by thwarting the liberal agenda. In fact, liberalism has become such a toxic and poisonous philosophy that most liberals wouldn't behave differently if their goal were to deliberately destroy the country. So, how does liberalism cause well-meaning, intelligent liberals to get this way? Well, it starts with...
1) Liberalism creates a feedback loop. It is usually impossible for a non-liberal to change a liberal's mind about political issues because liberalism works like so: only liberals are credible sources of information. How do you know someone's liberal? He espouses liberal doctrine. So, no matter how plausible what you say may be, it will be ignored if you're not a liberal and if you are a liberal, of course, you probably agree with liberal views. This sort of close-mindedness makes liberals nearly impervious to any information that might undermine their beliefs.
2) Liberals sources of information are ever present. Conservatives are regularly exposed to the liberal viewpoint whether they want to be or not. That's not necessarily so for liberals. Imagine the average day for liberals. They get up and read their local newspaper. It has a liberal viewpoint. They take their kids to school, where the teachers are liberal. Then they go to work, listen to NPR which has a liberal viewpoint on the way home, and then turn on the nightly news which also skews leftward. From there, they turn on TV and watch shows created by liberals that lean to the left, if they have any political viewpoint at all. Unless liberals actively seek out conservative viewpoints, which is unlikely, the only conservative arguments they're probably going to hear are going to be through the heavily distorted, poorly translated, deeply skeptical lens of other liberals.
3) Liberals emphasize feeling superior, not superior results. Liberalism is all about appearances, not outcomes. What matters to liberals is how a program makes them FEEL about themselves, not whether it works or not. Thus a program like Headstart, which sounds good because it's designed to help children read, makes liberals feel good about themselves, even though the program doesn't work and wastes billions. A ban on DDT makes liberals feel good about themselves because they're "protecting the environment" even though millions of people have died as a result. For liberals, it's not what a program does in the real world; it's about whether they feel better about themselves for supporting it.
4) Liberals are big believers in moral relativism. This spins them round and round because if the only thing that's wrong is saying that there's an absolute moral code, then you lose your ability to tell cause from effect, good from bad, and right from wrong. Taking being non-judgmental to the level that liberals do leaves them paralyzed, pondering "why they hate us" because they feel incapable of saying, “That's wrong," and doing something about it. If you're against firm standards and condemning immoral behavior, then your moral compass won’t work and you’ll also be for immorality, as well as societal and cultural decay by default.
5) Liberals tend to view people as parts of groups, not individuals. One of the prejudices of liberalism is that they see everyone as part of a group, not as an individual. This can lead to rather bizarre disparities when say, a man from a group that they consider to be powerless, impoverished victims becomes the leader of the free world -- and he's challenged by a group of lower middle class white people who've banded together because individually they're powerless. If you listen to the liberal rhetoric, you might think Barack Obama was a black Republican being surrounded by a KKK lynching party 100 years ago -- as opposed to the single most powerful man in America abusing the authority of his office to attack ordinary Tea Partiers who have the audacity to speak the truth to power for the good of their country.
6) Liberals take a dim view of personal responsibility. Who's at fault if a criminal commits a crime? The criminal or society? If someone creates a business and becomes a millionaire, is that the result of hard work and talent or luck? If you're dirt poor, starving, and haven't worked in 5 years, is that a personal failing or a failure of the state? Conservatives would tend to say the former in each case, while liberals would tend to say the latter. But when you disconnect what an individual does from the results that happen in his life, it's very difficult to understand cause and effect in people's lives.
7) Liberals give themselves far too much credit just for being liberal. To many liberals, all one needs to do to be wise, intelligent, compassionate, open minded, and sensitive is to BE LIBERAL. In other words, many of the good things about a person spring not from his actions, but from the ideology he holds. This has an obvious appeal. You can be a diehard misogynist, but plausibly call yourself a feminist, hate blacks, but accuse others of racism, have a subpar IQ and be an intellectual, give nothing to charity and be compassionate, etc., etc., and all you have to do is call yourself a liberal. It's a shortcut to virtue much like the corrupt old idea of religious indulgences. Why live a life of virtue when you could live a sinful life and buy your way into heaven? If you're a liberal, why actually live a life of virtue when you can merely call yourself a liberal and get credit for being virtuous, even when you've done nothing to earn it?
this is the best article on liberalism I have ever read. it has every reason why I cant stand liberalism as an ideology.
“To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. — Charles Krauthammer”
Krauthammer ought to know. He was one of them long enough, writing speeches for Mondale and trying to defeat Reagan.
Has anyone asked a “Liberal”, “What do you fear about President Ted Cruz?”
After all the “Are you kidding?” “You can’t be serious!” garbage, and personal attacks, they usually can’t come up with anything serious.
Oh yeah, he’d take us back to Obama’s pre-2012 position on gay “marriage”.
Liberalism is a disease that infects the weak and removes all rational thought from the host.
See my tag line. Charles nails it.
True.
I have a dear friend who came to this country from Holland in her late teens to go to university. There she met and later married a rather wealthy man, had three children, and divorced about 15 years ago.
Post-divorce, she had ten years’ worth of a rather large alimony and child support package. She worked as a teacher in those years, and, knowing the money was going to soon stop, decided to become a lawyer. She graduated, passed the bar on the first test, and went to work as a child advocate. She is now around 50 years old.
She has, since I’ve known her, espoused the liberal political line, and argues it respectfully when we talk politics. We for years have agreed to disagree.
Her job as a child advocate however, thrust her into the underbelly of the American dependency culture.
This experience is changing her profoundly, in a way that none of my arguments for conservatism ever managed to accomplish.
She had to be hit over the head by the proverbial two-by-four, in order to change her views, but she’s definitely coming around.
Years of reasoned argument from me and other conservatives in her circle of friend never made any headway, but having now seen the sheer destruction of a whole class of people by liberal welfare and legal policies, she is correctly identifying the culprit as misguided compassion.
Perhaps those who say “you cannot argue with a liberal”, or that one cannot change their views with reason, are correct.
Is it possible the results of liberal governance are now providing the seed of a catharsis for many liberals like my friend? One can only hope.
Instead, they conjure up gods of their own making (themselves included) which they worship.
Therefore, they are co-opted by the delusions and wiles of Satan. They invent their own "truth" and self-elect themselves as judge and jury of all things "right" and "wrong". Along the way they have determined it is only they who can perfect mankind and man's institutions and it leads to the perfect convergence point of wickedness and tyranny.
Wickedness and Tyranny.
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