Posted on 05/28/2025 10:48:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Wednesday, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough said Democrats’ “intellectual laziness” and “groupthink” are making them “lose elections.”
Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks said, “The truth of the matter is, we need more people that actually think differently than the masses. We need more people than just sort of 20 to 1 liberals to conservatives, and we need to be on top of that and see this as an opportunity to get more ideological balance. Why? Not because we believe that you have to go 1 to 1 in fairness, none of that. We don’t need affirmative action for conservatives, but because when you’re when you’re when your liberal ideas on campus are not challenged, your education is mediocre and that’s just not right.”
Scarborough said, “I will say, and I said it after John Roberts confirmation process afterwards, everybody said, oh my God, Roberts, he he was so great on his feet. How are conservatives, how did this happen?”
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Thank goodness this idiot is trying to advise them.
Additional quote from the article:
“Grover Norquist said because if you were a conservative at Harvard Law School, anytime you opened your mouth, you better have thought through it about 20 different times because you were going to get crushed.”
I grew out surrounded by leftists—where I lived and then in school—so I had to have my “intellectual ammunition” ready to go.
I had to work harder, think harder, read more, study more—all to resist the endless leftist propaganda.
It was little wonder that I was on the debate team in college.
Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks said, “The truth of the matter is, we need more people that actually think differently than the masses.”
You clowns do think differently. That’s why you got slaughtered. There is nothing wrong with “thinking like the masses” if the masses are correct and they were last election.
You don’t need more retards who think tampons in boys bathrooms is correct thinking.
The Dim leaders are the ones demanding the groupthink by vilifying and sometimes punishing those who think differently from them.
The Progressive Pied Piper blaming his own audience for following his lead.
“Intellectual”, Joe? You’re the last person that should ever even mention that word.
You chose to be a cheerleader for the idiot party and you chose stupidly.
Correct—nobody wants to have a discussion with someone who will start calling them names whenever there is the slightest disagreement.
Jo Scarred Burro...complete phony “journalist”....really a jerk ...him and Lawrence O’Donnell...insufferable suborned mouthpieces...trying to emplace themselves into the nebulous cracks of the world narrative..looking for a crumb of the world’s wealth in the media space.
“You chose”
He sold out.
“ we need more people that actually think differently than the masses”
Phew that is weapons grade elitism.
“The best Biden ever!”
Exactly. Leftists can use words such as “racist” and “transphobic” as intellectual crutches and phrases such as “trans women are women” as thought-terminating cliches. Conservatives have to come up with actual substantive arguments.
He knows intellectual laziness when he looks in the mirror.
Well that makes it even worse, doesn't it?
groupthink is a hallmark of the left. groupthink is not whats keeping them from winning elections, its how they win elections. they just havent figured out a good boogey man to scare everyone in the same direction
He left out America-hating policies
Nowhere do you find intellectual laziness and groupthink more than on his show and the others of its ilk.
Marx: Accuse opponents of that which you do to sow confusion (paraphrased).
I’m sure most everyone caught the collectivist assumption underlying how “the masses” and “we” think differently. They don’t even know they’re doing it - fish don’t notice the water.
“We don’t need affirmative action for conservatives”
How about just stop demonizing conservatives as racists, dropping DEI loyalty oaths and discriminating against white hetero males in hiring practices.
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