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Posted on 04/07/2015 6:19:47 AM PDT by MayorKoch
It is difficult to define a whole school of political ideology precisely, but one may reasonably define liberalism (as opposed to conservatism) in the contemporary United States as the genuine concern for the welfare of genetically unrelated others and the willingness to contribute larger proportions of private resources for the welfare of such others. In the modern political and economic context, this willingness usually translates into paying higher proportions of individual incomes in taxes toward the government and its social welfare programs. Liberals usually support such social welfare programs and higher taxes to finance them, and conservatives usually oppose them.
Defined as such, liberalism is evolutionarily novel. Humans are evolutionarily designed to be altruistic toward their genetic kin, their friends and allies, and members of their deme (a group of intermarrying individuals) or ethnic group. They are not designed to be altruistic toward an indefinite number of complete strangers whom they are not likely ever to meet or interact with. This is largely because our ancestors lived in a small band of 50-150 genetically related individuals, and large cities and nations with thousands and millions of people are themselves evolutionarily novel...
Incidentally, this finding substantiates one of the persistent complaints among conservatives. Conservatives often complain that liberals control the media or the show business or the academia or some other social institutions. The Hypothesis explains why conservatives are correct in their complaints. Liberals do control the media, or the show business, or the academia, among other institutions, because, apart from a few areas in life (such as business) where countervailing circumstances may prevail, liberals control all institutions. They control the institutions because liberals are on average more intelligent than conservatives and thus they are more likely to attain the highest status in any area of (evolutionarily novel) modern life.
(Excerpt) Read more at psychologytoday.com ...
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Oh, you mean helping the downtrodden is a liberal trait, do you?
Care to explain this?
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I’m so glad to see liberals help the underdog. < /S>
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The author of such an article so full of lies, fraud and deceit must be the real Mayor Koch!
I haven’t seen anything this delusional in a very long time.
In the modern political and economic context, liberalism usually translates into taking higher proportions of other people’s money for unproven social welfare programs.
In the modern political and economic context, conservatism usually translates into giving higher proportions of the conservative’s own money toward social welfare programs chosen by that individual.
Liberals somehow believe that generosity with other people’s money is morally superior to generosity with your own money. Conservatives generally believe that giving away the property of others is theft and highly immoral. There is no room for the two sides even to communicate given the vastly different world views of the two sides. Thieves and productive people will never agree. It’s a question of force, and today’s liberals tend to be totalitarians eager to impose government force on others.
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gotta comment on the actual article...
Study after study shows that conservatives are far more giving of their OWN private resources for the welfare of others. This is NOT a “liberal” virtue. And directing the government to rob Peter to pay Paul does NOT make you a “good person”. It makes you a THIEF.
Thank you! I need a diversion today.
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I have been a conservative since as a teenager I was awakened from my slumber listening to Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing Speech” ... I went on to read William F. Buckley, Hayek, Human Events, National Review et al. Against the radical left I encountered in the late 1960’s, a like minded friend and I helped to found Young Americans for Freedom in Pittsburgh, PA. I have been a staunch constitutional conservative ever since. I love Free Republic and have enjoyed reading the posts and responses for over 10 years. A liberal friend sent me the article I posted earlier today. I had planned to engage in the interactions but something came up unexpectedly at work right after I posted and I had to get to there much earlier than planned.
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