[kesg]

Answer: deliberate disconnection from reality. Next question...

[VoiceOfBruck]

What makes a liberal?

Interesting article, but it doesn't really answer the question.

The one common theme in the personalities of liberals in my acquaintance is fear at various levels (social, economic, safety, health, etc.).

[Always Right]

Child-like" is operative. The further left you go, the less you like growing up. That is one reason so many professors are on the left. Never leaving school from kindergarten through adulthood enables one to avoid becoming a mature adult.

Being a professor is a cop out for many who are afraid to try to make it in the real world. Never really thought about it being the major reason 90% of professors are extreme leftist idiots, but it does make sense.

[1Old Pro]

Answer: Dishonesty

[MACVSOG68]

Read "The Death of right and Wrong" by Tammy Bruce. Even some liberals can't stand liberalism.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

fearfulness and jealousy

[RichardW]

Prager is dead on with this one.

[Consort]

Flawed sperm and ova?

[hapy]

The liberals of today are not the liberals from yesterday.

Those liberals in their 50s and above, truely love this country. They are the real liberals the real educated ones.
They are the ones that kept the country on an even keel. Atleast In my opinion. I do atribute most of our freedom to them.

Something has happened with these younger liberals. They are mean spirited, angry, very hyperacritial and their egos are to much for me sometimes. If you dont' agree with them you are a dumb whore who is taking pay offs or you are some kind of a sheep. They have a hard time identifying with those who think differently and they can become vulgar. Their way is the right way and this is too bad for us all.
It is a shame, but some how the love peace guys became what they feared we were becoming

[IronJack]

What makes a liberal?

One-word answer: lobotomy.

[rrr51]

IMO,

Liberals are not primarily people who have a deep attachment to their causes.

Primarily, they are people with empty lives who deperately need something to hang on to. This more important than the rightness of the cause.

[Between the Lines]

At the heart of liberalism is the naive belief that people are basically good.

I would have to disagree with this. Even the author disagrees with this statement when he says, "Good and evil are not liberal words either as they imply a moral standard beyond one's feelings", in which he hits the nail on the head.

While the religious see the inherent evil in man and seek a divine guidance from the chaos which this evil creates, the Godless liberals (Yes I said Godless and meant it, Flame me if you want) see the inherent evil in man and discerns it to be the natural order of things and therefore must be normal and right and no moral judgment should be made whatsoever.

[Porterville]

between 100 pounds of fecal matter for the small ones and 500 pounds of fecal matter for the fat ones

[Ditter]

This makes a lot of sense to me. Especially the naive part.

[headsonpikes]

"What Makes a Liberal?"

Believing what you're told in school. It's no coincidence that the heart of the American Lib/Left is in the Academy.

Those who most completely internalize the 12 years of public school propaganda are those best suited to take positions in government.

The American nomenclatura is little different from the former Soviet Russian variety.

They possess a tad more smarmy hypocrisy, perhaps.

[nightdriver]

Liberalism = Godlessness. They are "liberated" from all absolutes.

As autonomous ("auto" - self, "nomous" - law) entities, they are free to make up all their own rules as they go.

[LiteKeeper]

INTSUM

[laotzu]

don't get up......I'll get it

REST OF ARTICLE:
Indeed, the very use of the word "evil" greatly disturbs liberals. It shakes up their child-like views of the world, that everybody is at heart a decent person who is either misunderstood or led to do unfortunate things by outside forces.

"Child-like" is operative. The further left you go, the less you like growing up. That is one reason so many professors are on the left. Never leaving school from kindergarten through adulthood enables one to avoid becoming a mature adult. It is no wonder a liberal professor has recently argued that children should have the vote. He knows in his heart that he is not really an adult, so why should he and not a chronologic child be allowed to vote?

The second major source of modern liberalism is narcissism, the unhealthy preoccupation with oneself and one's feelings. We live in the Age of Narcissism. As a result of unprecedented affluence and luxury, preoccupation with one's psychological state, and a hedonistic culture, much of the West, America included, has become almost entirely feelings-directed.

That is one reason "feelings" and "compassion" are two of the most often used liberal terms. "Character" is no longer a liberal word because it implies self-restraint. "Good and evil" are not liberal words either as they imply a moral standard beyond one's feelings. In assessing what position to take on moral or social questions, the liberal asks him or herself, "How do I feel about it?" or "How do I show the most compassion?" not "What is right?" or "What is wrong?" For the liberal, right and wrong are dismissed as unknowable, and every person chooses his or her own morality.

A good example of liberal narcissism is the liberal position on abortion. For the liberal, the worth of a human fetus, whether it is allowed to live or to be extinguished, is entirely based on the feelings of the mother. If the mother wants to give birth, the fetus is of incomparable worth; if the mother doesn't, the fetus has the value of a decayed tooth.

There are not many antidotes to this lethal combination of naivete and narcissism. Both are very comfortable states compared to growing up and confronting evil, and compared to making one's feelings subservient to a higher standard. And comfortable people don't like to be made uncomfortable.

Hence the liberal attempt to either erase the Judeo-Christian code or at least remove its influence from public life. Nothing could provide a better example of contemporary liberalism than the liberal battle to remove the Ten Commandments from all public places. Liberals want suggestions, not commandments.

[Gritty]

Dennis Prager lays it out very well.

[I still care]

Excellent. Prager has nailed it.

When I argue with liberals, I always feel like I'm arguing with a child, or a loon.

They either get totally sidetracked by "how it FEELS", not facts, or have such a nonsensical reasoning system I feel like I am in the twilite zone. "Yes, but what is the DIFFERENCE between the African religions and Christianity? Aren't they valid also?"
Arghhhhhh!