Posted on 07/01/2017 4:29:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the “What’s the matter with Kansas?” era, elite liberals seemed to genuinely believe that people who didn’t vote for them were just poor, deluded saps who didn’t understand what was in their own best interest. Is that condescending? Sure, but at least it’s not hateful. At least it assumes that liberals still need to work to bring these people on board.
Does that attitude still exist? Sure, to a degree. In fact, just this week, James O’Keefe caught a CNN producer on camera saying he thinks that the American voters are “stupid as sh*t.”
This sort of thinking comes from the fact that liberalism is shot through with narcissism. Narcissists believe they’re better than everyone else just by virtue of being who they are. So do liberals. Liberals also believe they’re smarter, more compassionate and more caring just because they’re on the Left. Whether you’re talking about a liberal or a narcissist, this leads to high, but unstable self-esteem.
If you genuinely have high self-esteem, you can easily brush off challenges to your competence. When you have high, but unstable self-esteem, you become much more upset when your self-image is challenged. This can lead to anxiety, anger and lashing out as part of an effort to keep those doubts at bay. It can also lead to unchecked hatred of anyone who makes you question your value.
This tendency is amplified by the circular reasoning of liberals. Are you a better, smarter, more caring person by virtue of being liberal? Yes. Will other liberals challenge them on this? No. Will they pay attention to non-liberals who tell them that they’re not better, smarter and more caring than other people? No. So, this leads to an ironclad feedback loop. OBVIOUSLY, liberals are sensitive, wonderful and know it all and no one who matters will even question this thinking while anyone who does isn’t worth listening to in the slightest.
So, what happens when their views are REJECTED wholesale across the heartland of the country to such an extent that you can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats? What happens when people point out that most of the policies they champion don’t work? What happens when people reject the idea that liberals know what’s best for them?
We got a taste of that right after Trump won and liberals were finally angry enough to be honest about what they really believe,
“This is what's terrifying: Even if Clinton wins, there are SO MANY people willing to vote for a bigoted imbecile. This is not my country. https://t.co/5wlgxi3viS” — Jill Filipovic
“Where is the primetime special on the pervasive white supremacy that allowed for Trump's rise & popularity?”— deray mckesson (@deray) November 9, 2016
“It appears racism, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobia are powerful drugs. I'm so sad tonight. So so sad.” — Jillian Michaels (@JillianMichaels) November 9, 2016
“This was a white-lash. This was a white-lash against a changing country. It was a white-lash against a black president in part, and that’s the part where the pain comes.” – Van Jones
“Fascism just got hold of the United States. We are now seeing the worst of the worst elevated to positions of incredible power. Racism has been legitimized and the reports of hate crimes are rolling in. Trans children are committing suicide. Stock prices of private prisons and coal have skyrocketed. Women are months away from truly losing the right to control their own bodies.” – The Daily Kos
This was combined with liberals going to the psych ward, cutting all their hair off and faking hate crimes. Those are all signs of stability, right?
How about all the political violence we’ve been treated to by the Left? It’s turned into an epidemic. The Steve Scalise shooting may have gotten the most attention, but some of the other politically motivated assaults have been almost as jarring. Just to name a few…
“A Trump supporter was beaten and dragged by a car.”
“Protestors knocked a 71-year-old female staffer for California GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher unconscious during a protest outside the representative’s office.”
“Masked protesters at Middlebury College rushed AEI scholar and political scientist Charles Murray and professor Allison Stranger, pushing and shoving Murray and grabbing Stranger by her hair and twisting her neck as they were leaving a campus building. Stranger suffered a concussion. Protesters then surrounded the car they got into, rocking it back and forth and jumping on the hood.”
“A former professor was arrested after police said they identified him on video beating Trump supporters with a U-shaped bike lock, leaving three people with “significant injuries.”
Liberals project their own hatred onto conservatives regularly with their rhetoric. She doesn’t support gay marriage? She must hate gays. She doesn’t want to expand welfare? She must hate the poor. He doesn’t want to tear down a statue of a Founding Father who held slaves? He must hate black people. That’s their excuse for their own hatred. It’s actually YOU who hates everyone; so they have to HATE YOU right back. This accounts for what my girlfriend Sierra Marlee calls their "I care about everyone and if you don't believe that then I hope your kids get cancer" attitude.
You want evidence of this? Besides the fact that the Democrat nominee was someone who quite literally noted that “Republicans” were her enemies in a debate? How about this? How about the fact that there is almost no soul-searching by liberals after their defeat by Donald Trump? There’s no talk of changing their agenda (other than making it more radical), no talk of appealing to people who didn’t vote for them, no wondering what they did wrong.
That’s the problem. They don’t believe they did anything wrong. They believe the real issue is that you’re racist, sexist, subhuman pieces of garbage who need to be punished. When they get back into power, they’re going to do EXACTLY that and they will feel like you DESERVE IT the entire time because you’re so evil. I wish it wasn’t that way, but that is what the modern Left has become and if we don’t acknowledge that reality, we’re kidding ourselves.
Yes, Exactly right. In this little town, a tiny berg in the Big Empty (that is West Central Pennsylvania), of mostly Democrats in a veritable sea of Conservatives who voted for Trump, there is still considerable angst and anger that Trump won. I, being a conservative,don’t feel free to put a Trump sticker on my ToyTruck. I know it will get egged or worse yet, keyed down to the rust and maybe the siding will come off.
After living here for almost 20 years, I do understand how the Democratic Powers that Be, have made being a pariah a fine art and ultimately ran off most of the conservatives.
Frankly I think they are pathologically mentally ill.
There is another, related reason. Leftism is a constant search for utopia. The reason, they think, that we aren’t living in utopia right now is people disagree with me. I must strike them dead and then we will be living in utopia. (Evidence the hundred million or so killed by communism.)
I contend that in terms of surviving, we are living in utopia now. Where but utopia can the poor be grossly obese? Want to visit utopia, it is no farther away than your local Walmart. (Boy, won’t that idea stick get stuck in their throat and choke them?)
Wow. So much truth, and finally an explanation for why they’re unhinged.
A little over a month ago, I went to a family reunion event in Toronto (very fun and enjoyable event, needless to say). Even there, I could hear someone off in a corner with another person talking about Trump (believe it was to do with the Comey affair, but we all know what happened with that one, eh?).
I did not say anything as I certainly did not want to spoil the event for myself, but privately shook my head in disbelief. Someone like that taking the anger that they had towards that man to that occasion on that nice Saturday afternoon, good God.
Excellent, as always!
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“If you genuinely have high self-esteem, you can easily brush off challenges to your competence. When you have high, but unstable self-esteem, you become much more upset when your self-image is challenged. This can lead to anxiety, anger and lashing out as part of an effort to keep those doubts at bay. It can also lead to unchecked hatred of anyone who makes you question your value.”
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/knowing-your-value/id1210005408?mt=11
I agree with this theory to a large extent but I think they’re also PO’d that we wrecked their agenda, their electoral college advantage, and their party and then we reveled in their misery and trolled them mercilessly. Don’t worry Liberals, we haven’t completely wrecked you...yet.
Excellent article.
The history of socialism is a history of forced acceptance. Socialism runs contrary to human nature and self-interest. It can only be implemented by force. Those who embrace socialism also embrace the tactics of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.
He’s half right.
So to sum up they are basically communists.
Also, Socialism--because it goes against human nature--has to be implemented by force. Humanity should have been warned when after the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety under Maximilian Robespierre may have killed over 15,000 people in the Paris metro region for political reasons. But that warning was never heeded, and as a result in the 20th Century the reigns of Josef Stalin in the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong in China may have resulted in as much as 150 million dead for political reasons.
Of course it's hateful! So hateful in fact that they are threatening assassination, have actually attempted it, and are psychotic with hatred!
The hate has reached dangerous, psychotic proportions!
The Democrat HATRED is like a mass paranoid schizophrenia!
It's dangerous!
If you enjoyed HUNGER GAMES you will enjoy THE MANDIBLES.
Yes: these are paranoid delusions of grandeur.
They are also under the delusion that the US Presidency was stolen from them, that conservatives are violent, that President Trump has totalitarian designs, etc., et al.: these are paranoid delusions of persecution.
The more Truth threatens these delusions, the more they accelerate into a dangerous, paranoid, delusional mass psychosis!
This statement and its inverse are powerfully true. It took me realize this on my own, but once I did, a great deal of human behavior suddenly became clear to me.
Regards,
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