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Why Liberals Need to Look Down on Conservatives
americanthinker.com ^ | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 01/09/2018 6:08:37 AM PST by RoosterRedux

A common theme among progressives is that conservatives aren't just wrong; they're dumb. Reagan was dumb. G.W. Bush was dumb. Trump is dumb. "Knuckle-dragger," "mouth-breather," "stupid," and "uncultured" are typical pejoratives hurled at conservatives, who apparently tend to live in trailer parks, require dental care, handle snakes, and marry first cousins. Why, I had a liberal actor (excuse the redundancy) tell me once that I wasn't necessarily bad, just not as "evolved" as he was. (I had a great retort at the ready, but I decided just to lash him with my tail instead.) The reason for this arrogance isn't as simple as many may think. Rather, it relates to a deep psychological phenomenon that makes it difficult for those afflicted to evolve out of the leftist primordial soup.

I'll introduce this with a story. Many years ago, I was at an affair attended by a very chauvinistic, left-wing Greek fellow who would expound upon the superiority of Greek culture while at times demeaning the U.S. He was like the father character in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, only with an anti-American twist. Desiring to take him down a peg and do a little face-to-face trolling, I finally said with a smirk, "If all that's true, why is Greece now like a third-world country?" (For those offended, know that I have great respect for ancient Greek accomplishments, just love moussaka, and have the physique of a Spartan hoplite.)

Well, I exaggerate not when saying he turned red and, with veins popping out in his neck, exclaimed, "Don't say that! Don't say that!" It was the kind of situation where you get the feeling the guy might take a swing at you.

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To: Paulie; All

Are Rush’s parodies posted online?

I would like to listen to them.


21 posted on 01/09/2018 6:50:04 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: ArtDodger

Post 11 -— Bingo!


22 posted on 01/09/2018 6:51:17 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: ptsal

Not sure. I only listen on the radio because I’m always doing something else (like right now!).

Fortunately I have an understanding boss...


23 posted on 01/09/2018 6:52:19 AM PST by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks RoosterRedux. It comes from their deeply seated feelings of inferiority -- that's why so many entertainment industry nitwits are lefties.

24 posted on 01/09/2018 6:57:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: RoosterRedux
"Knuckle-dragger," "mouth-breather," "stupid," and "uncultured" are typical pejoratives hurled at conservatives, who apparently tend to live in trailer parks, require dental care, handle snakes, and marry first cousins

You'll notice that liberals never criticize non-whites for living in shacks, lack of education, superstitious religious beliefs, or poor hygiene. All it takes is non-European ancestry and voting for Democrats, and all of these low-class traits are forgiven by the elites!

25 posted on 01/09/2018 7:03:05 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: rlmorel

“Add new one, which will be rolled out for all future non-Left candidates: Insane.”

It’s actually not new.

The Soviets frequently dealt with dissidents by having some quack declare said dissident “insane” and then locking him away in an asylum, replete with shock therapy and massive drug dosages, so that he or she eventually does become legitimately insane -— at which time the shell of the former dissident was brought out and shown to crazy.

Heck, this was right out of the end of “1984.”


26 posted on 01/09/2018 7:04:13 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Russ

They also used to say he was senile.


27 posted on 01/09/2018 7:09:01 AM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it be but it is.)
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To: RoosterRedux
It is not just liberals although it seems to be more a liberal trait.

The "pure food" people count conservatives among their ranks and they virtue signal all the time.

"I don't eat ( fill in what ever food you want here ) and that makes me SO much better then you."

It does not matter what the diet is, the bread of snobbery is what they are really eating.

28 posted on 01/09/2018 7:09:54 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: RoosterRedux

I lost a very good friend last year after the election. She is your typical New York liberal and was mouthing off on the Faebook page of a mutual friend.

I was civil and polite and simply said that having a college education doesn’t automatically make your smarter than a person without one.

She went off on me about how hard she worked through school and that she earned her degree blah blah blah. Off the rails. Had nothing to do with what we were originally talking about.

We haven’t spoken since. She ignores me and has basically pretended I no longer exist on the planet.

Liberals are so overly sensitive, especially when challenged. It’s why they resort to petty name calling and emotional attacks. Mentally ill. That’s all I can chalk it up to.


29 posted on 01/09/2018 7:22:30 AM PST by JenB987
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To: rlmorel

Sorry to hear about this area of conflict in your household.


30 posted on 01/09/2018 7:25:39 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: JenB987

Yes, what you said. I could give dozens of examples, especially related to a relative who now calls me her “ex sister” and “the woman who used to be my sister” on her blog. But I have already wasted too much of my life thinking about that situation.


31 posted on 01/09/2018 7:28:26 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: RoosterRedux
The reason for this arrogance isn't as simple as many may think. Rather, it relates to a deep psychological phenomenon that makes it difficult for those afflicted to evolve out of the leftist primordial soup.

You can't logically talk someone out of something irrational on which his self-worth is based. In fact, if it begins to dawn on such a person that his notions of superiority – and hence his self-image – rest on a lie, it will be intensely painful and depressing. The individual will thus have a strong incentive to rationalize away this realization.

Evolutionists are no different. See tag line.

"Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together"

FReegards!

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32 posted on 01/09/2018 7:29:33 AM PST by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: NEMDF

Your siblings, too, huh?

My brother’s head exploded when Trump won. We haven’t been able to talk normally since.

But it hearkens back to this article...they have no moral center so they can’t get past it. I’m able to look at my brother like my brother and tell him I love him. He can only sneer at me like I have pus coming out of my eyes.


33 posted on 01/09/2018 7:35:04 AM PST by JenB987
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
It does not matter what the diet is, the bread of snobbery is what they are really eating.

I love your term, "bread of snobbery".

34 posted on 01/09/2018 7:38:11 AM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: RoosterRedux

Look at the Hollywood line, substance abusing, unable to maintain relationships and mentally unstable. They are elitists, who think everyone should jump to their smallest wish a d charge forward in their defense.


35 posted on 01/09/2018 7:42:05 AM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: NEMDF

LOL, that was a while back, and...I bite my tongue now...we are good.

Besides, that was about the height of conflict we get to. If that is the case, how lucky am I? We have a very respectful relationship, which I am grateful for.


36 posted on 01/09/2018 7:52:09 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Two observations:

1)These superior, elite liberals who deride conservatives as "knuckle draggers" at the same time make a fetish of the poor, ignorant, un-educated, superstitious underclass of every other race on earth. Somehow the "white trailer park trash" of these other groups qualify as honorary profound Marxist-Leninist intellectuals. Does this make any sense to any sane person?

Also note that outside the USA, nationalism and chauvinism are often left wing. This is true not only for non-whites, but for whites as well (Celts, Basques, Quebecois, Greeks, Armenians, the various Spanish regions).

37 posted on 01/09/2018 7:53:28 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Vegam Yehudah tillachem biYrushalayim . . . .)
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To: Sans-Culotte

“The condition he describes sounds a lot like narcissistic personality disorder.”

True. I analyzed it on my profile if you’ll have a look.
My knowledge was painfully gleaned from personal experience with an NPD.


38 posted on 01/09/2018 7:54:56 AM PST by spankalib
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To: Jewbacca

Exactly...I knew that, but...it is new in American mainstream politics.

I have extreme and extraordinary distaste for liberal officeholders like Carter, Clinton, Obama, and while I have said they are indeed stupid, misguided, or even evil with respect to various things, I have never called them insane (even if I feel, and have said on this very forum that liberalism is a form of insanity, and I do believe that some of them are insane) so this is new.


39 posted on 01/09/2018 7:55:38 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: RoosterRedux

8 years of Obama&Co proves who’s the stupidest and dangerous.


40 posted on 01/09/2018 7:58:03 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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