Since mid-term elections are near, I thought Id rattle a few brain cages. Could the following be true about this one specific group of American voters? BTW... Fran and I are registered Independents. A very interesting analysis.... Fran made me post this. Right, honey? ;-) 1) Liberalism creates a feedback loop - It is usually impossible for a non-liberal to change a liberals mind about political issues because liberalism works like so: only liberals are credible sources of information. How do you know someones liberal? He espouses liberal doctrine. So, no matter how plausible what you say may be, it will be ignored if youre not a liberal and if you are a liberal, of course, you probably agree with liberal views. This sort of close-mindedness makes liberals nearly impervious to any information that might undermine their beliefs. 2) Liberals sources of information are ever present - Conservatives are regularly exposed to the liberal viewpoint whether they want to be or not. Thats not necessarily so for liberals. Imagine the average day for liberals. They get up and read their local newspaper. It has a liberal viewpoint. They take their kids to school, where the teachers are liberal. Then they go to work, listen to NPR which has a liberal viewpoint on the way home, and then turn on the nightly news which also skews leftward. From there, they turn on TV and watch shows created by liberals that lean to the left, if they have any political viewpoint at all. Unless liberals actively seek out conservative viewpoints, which is unlikely, the only conservative arguments theyre probably going to hear are going to be through the heavily distorted, poorly translated, deeply skeptical lens of other liberals. 3) Liberals emphasize feeling superior, not superior results - Liberalism is all about appearances, not outcomes. What matters to liberals is how a program makes them FEEL about themselves, not whether it works or not. Thus a program like Headstart, which sounds good because its designed to help children read, makes liberals feel good about themselves, even though the program doesnt work and wastes billions. A ban on DDT makes liberals feel good about themselves because theyre protecting the environment even though millions of people have died as a result. For liberals, its not what a program does in the real world; its about whether they feel better about themselves for supporting it. 4) Liberals are big believers in moral relativism - This spins them round and round because if the only thing thats wrong is saying that theres an absolute moral code, then you lose your ability to tell cause from effect, good from bad, and right from wrong. Taking being non-judgmental to the level that liberals do leaves them paralyzed, pondering why they hate us because they feel incapable of saying, “Thats wrong, and doing something about it. If youre against firm standards and condemning immoral behavior, then your moral compass won’t work and you’ll also be for immorality, as well as societal and cultural decay by default. 5) Liberals tend to view people as parts of groups, not individuals - One of the prejudices of liberalism is that they see everyone as part of a group, not as an individual. This can lead to rather bizarre disparities when say, a man from a group that they consider to be powerless, impoverished victims becomes the leader of the free world -- and hes challenged by a group of lower middle class people whove banded together because individually theyre powerless. 6) Liberals take a dim view of personal responsibility - Whos at fault if a criminal commits a crime? The criminal or society? If someone creates a business and becomes a millionaire, is that the result of hard work and talent or luck? If youre dirt poor, starving, and havent worked in 5 years, is that a personal failing or a failure of the state? Conservatives would tend to say the former in each case, while liberals would tend to say the latter. But when you disconnect what an individual does from the results that happen in his life, its very difficult to understand cause and effect in peoples lives. 7) Liberals give themselves far too much credit just for being liberal - To many liberals, all one needs to do to be wise, intelligent, compassionate, open minded, and sensitive is to BE LIBERAL. In other words, many of the good things about a person spring not from his actions, but from the ideology he holds. This has an obvious appeal. You can be a diehard misogynist, but plausibly call yourself a feminist, hate blacks, but accuse others of racism, have a subpar IQ and be an intellectual, give nothing to charity and be compassionate, etc., etc., and all you have to do is call yourself a liberal. Its a shortcut to virtue much like the corrupt old idea of religious indulgences. Why live a life of virtue when you could live a sinful life and buy your way into heaven? If youre a liberal, why actually live a life of virtue when you can merely call yourself a liberal and get credit for being virtuous, even when youve done nothing to earn it?
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:34:43 +0000
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