[MarkL]

Leftists are so convinced of their own superiority and that they're not only right, but "good," so anyone who disagrees with them isn't just wrong, but evil. So this gives them the "justification" to hate, and as history has proven over and over again, to kill.

"Classical liberalism," what is commonly known as "open-mindedness," was purged from the left many decades ago. Those who took over the left have steadily moved from "classical liberalism" to leninist, and eventually to stalinist philosophies.

Mark

[Wilhelm Tell]

You are correct. Tolerance and open-mindedness was purged from the left thanks to political correctness. Political correctness imposed a Leninist-Stalinist style of censorship. You can be leftist on most issues but be moderate on one issue and you will be purged for your “deviationism” (such as what happened to Joe Liberman). Bill Cosby is an honest leftist who says things that do not conform to the politically correct orthodoxy of victimization, and he is reviled by the hard-core leftists. Some of the moonbats even hate Hillary Clinton because she is one degree less radical than Obama and she exhibits common sense on a few issues (she said she would not have talks with the Iranian dictator, and this drove the moonbats even battier). Charlton Heston supported the Second Amendment and that enraged the Stalinists who want to impose a well-armed police state.

[Yardstick]

Leftists are so convinced of their own superiority and that they're not only right, but "good," so anyone who disagrees with them isn't just wrong, but evil. So this gives them the "justification" to hate, and as history has proven over and over again, to kill.

Well put. There is a misconception that the left is indifferent to morality when the left is actually hypermoral and very willing to make the most extreme moral judgements about people. It's telling that in their dancing-on-the-grave threads they invariably wish that the dead conservative burns in Hell.

[Starboard]

Leftists are so convinced of their own superiority and that they're not only right, but "good," so anyone who disagrees with them isn't just wrong, but evil. So this gives them the "justification" to hate,..."

Beautifully put. I've worked around liberals for many years in their Mecca of Washington, DC. That describes them perfectly. They are superiorists through and through who routinely belittle common folk. Leftists love to hate.

[Fred Hayek]

“Classical liberalism,” what is commonly known as “open-mindedness,” was purged from the left many decades ago. Those who took over the left have steadily moved from “classical liberalism” to leninist, and eventually to stalinist philosophies.

And that is what the current Democratic Party has become. Minnesota may well have an alternate energy source - Hubert Humphrey’s coffin. Old Hubert must be spinning at 10.000 rpm now. He thought he drove the commies out of the DFL. Old Hubert was also pro-2A.