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"Words like “greed,” “selfishness,” and “exploitation” spatter their writings and speeches. Emotive language rather than reasoned arguments take center stage. The hatred of the “rich,” “capitalism,” etc., is the center point."

That is a perfect description of SOCIALISTS... don't let them get away with being called liberal (which is rooted in the Latin word for "free"), there is nothing free about their ideology.

often highly educated...having done a lot of reading...quick to quote some famous author of philosopher... The problem is, despite all of their readings and studies, the ability to think in a logical and rational manner eludes them... They are pseudo-intellectuals. They have knowledge, but lack wisdom, understanding and the ability to engage in rational thought on issues involving economics.

...Dead on...

The analog I use is

Knowledge is food...

Thinking is the workout that metabolizes the food to muscle

Wisdom, understanding and the ability to engage in rational thought is the muscles and athletic ability developed

If you just consume Knowledge/food with out the other… your just a fat head

Conversely there are many that built a lot Wisdom/muscles by Thinking /workout… sometimes on very little consumed Knowledge/food…

It’s called original think vs. just puking up some quote from some famous author of philosopher that you consumed

It really is a disease, a mental illness. In an earlier time, they called it delusions of grandeur -- that they are just so much smarter than everybody else, fooling everybody else, deceiving everybody else, manipulating everybody else. Their favorite sport is to set up everybody else -- against one another. You see it on the editorial pages -- and the "selected" letters to the editor. According to their plan, we are a nation incessantly and relentlessly at each other's throats. And they alone, are the objective and impartial peacemakers -- at the newspapers and universities.

Recall Ayn Rand's "Ellsworth M. Toohey" in The Fountainhead?

A person with liberal’s disease is often highly educated. If not formally educated they have made up for it by having done a lot of reading. In discussions they are always quick to quote some famous author of philosopher in a childlike attempt to substantiate their status as an intellectual. They love to find statistics and studies that seem to support what they are exposing. The problem is, despite all of their readings and studies, the ability to think in a logical and rational manner eludes them. They are pseudo-intellectuals. They have knowledge, but lack wisdom, understanding and the ability to engage in rational thought on issues involving economics.

Plenty of people came to consider themselves conservatives or Republicans because of the arrogance of liberals or Democrats. They weren't experts, but something seemed wrong and insulting in the cockiness and haughtiness of liberal politicians, journalists, and economists, and the liberal conviction that the whole world was moving in their direction. I think we recognized that we didn't have all the answers, and that anyone who pretended they did was probably bluffing or deluded, and not to be trusted.

Libertarians who claim to have all the answers push the same button in people. Confidence that one has all the answers begins to look arrogant after a while. If you remember and were outraged by liberal attempts to portray their opponents as stupid or pathological, you probably wouldn't be so receptive to the same old abuse sent in the opposite directions.

Answer people's arguments. Show them where they're wrong. But try to avoid abusing them unnecessarily or pretending that you've got some master science up yours sleeve that will give you the right answers without having to really puzzle things out for yourself. The audience that matters is the undecided audience, and too much reference to one's opponents as diseased, depraved, or mentally deficient doesn't win converts.