[StBernard] A good read

[Westley Annis]

This is an article I read a while back, but it seems very relevant today.
If you've ever attempted to get into the mind of liberal and try to
understand how their brain ticks, this is as good of an explanation as any.
The conclusion I draw is liberals (aka socialists, communist, occupiers)
either lack the ability to acknowledge reality or simply refuse to do so.
Thus, why this nation is in serious trouble.  And adding another 11 million
"illegal" aliens on the path to citizenship will only drive the nail into
our coffin.


 


7 Reasons Why Liberals Are Incapable of Understanding The World


John Hawkins <http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/>  

 

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this
fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think
conservatives are evil. -Charles Krauthammer
<http://rightwingnews.com/quotes/the-25-best-quotes-about-liberals/> 

 

Even liberals who've accomplished a lot in their lives and have high IQs
often say things on a regular basis that are stunningly, profoundly stupid
and at odds with the way the world works. Modern liberalism has become so
bereft of common sense and instinctually suicidal that America can only
survive over the long haul by thwarting the liberal agenda. In fact,
liberalism has become such a toxic and poisonous philosophy that most
liberals wouldn't behave differently if their goal were to deliberately
destroy the country. So, how does liberalism cause well-meaning, intelligent
liberals to get this way? Well, it starts with...

1) Liberalism creates a feedback loop. It is usually impossible for a
non-liberal to change a liberal's mind about political issues because
liberalism works like so: only liberals are credible sources of information.
How do you know someone's liberal? He espouses liberal doctrine. So, no
matter how plausible what you say may be, it will be ignored if you're 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.
That's 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 they're 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
<http://rightwingnews.com/government-waste/its-time-to-kill-head-start/> ,
which sounds good because it's designed to help children read, makes
liberals feel good about themselves, even though the program doesn't work
and wastes billions. A ban on DDT
<http://rightwingnews.com/environment/3-billion-counting-the-cost-of-banning
-ddt/>  makes liberals feel good about themselves because they're
"protecting the environment" even though millions of people have died as a
result. For liberals, it's not what a program does in the real world; it's
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 that's wrong is saying that there's 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, "That's wrong," and doing something
about it. If you're 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 he's challenged by a group of
lower middle class white people who've banded together because individually
they're powerless. If you listen to the liberal rhetoric, you might think
Barack Obama was a black Republican being surrounded by a KKK lynching party
100 years ago -- as opposed to the single most powerful man in America
abusing the authority of his office to attack ordinary Tea Partiers who have
the audacity to speak the truth to power for the good of their country.

6) Liberals take a dim view of personal responsibility. Who's 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 you're dirt poor, starving, and haven't 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, it's very difficult to understand cause and effect
in people's 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. It's 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 you're 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 you've done nothing to earn it?