Seven Huge Flaws in the Way Liberals Think

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Seven Huge Flaws in the Way Liberals Think

Written By : John Hawkins

1) Liberals believe they can change human nature. Sure, human beings can be shaped and molded to a certain extent. Any parent who has spanked a child can tell you that. However, most people care more about what they’re having for lunch today than an earthquake that kills ten thousand people on the other side of the world. We’re just built that way and no amount of sensitivity training, preschool classes, or Michael Moore documentaries is going to “fix” it.

2) Liberals believe we can talk everything out with our enemies. One of the weirder quirks of liberalism is their belief that many of our bitterest enemies have rational reasons for disliking us and that can easily be talked away if they realize we’re good people. Hence, the common liberal refrain of, “Why do they hate us?” The reason this is a particularly odd belief is that liberals don’t even believe this about conservatives in the United States. The average liberal thinks that if we’re nice enough, we can reach an understanding with Hugo Chavez or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck can’t be reasoned with.

3) Liberals don’t have enough respect for our culture and traditions: To liberals, our cultural, economic, and political norms were formed by backwards troglodytes making arbitrary decisions based on superstition and racism. Unfortunately for them, as a general rule, that’s not so and proceeding as if it is, will often lead to exactly the same difficulties that our ancestors already dealt with in times past. No matter how smart we are, as Thomas Sowell would say, our wisdom is often no match for the “distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.” Truly wise people are aware that there is a great deal that they do not know.

4) Liberalism is a fundamentally immoral political philosophy. Ironically, given all their talk about “shades of gray,” liberals have a very Manichean view of the world. They consider their fellow travelers to be on the side of the angels, while the people who disagree with them are treated as evil. This leads to an “anything goes” mentality when dealing with their foes: ignoring the law via a “living constitution,” politically based prosecutions, shouting down opposing speakers, and treating lying about their agenda or opponents to be moral. On the other hand, liberals will support other libs, no matter how corrupt, sleazy, or vile they are as long as they’re politically useful to the left. See Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, John Murtha, and Robert Byrd for examples of that. In other words, as Margaret Thatcher has said of the Left, “For them, the end always seems to justify the means.”

5) Liberals believe merely being liberal makes them good people. Liberals who’re obsessed with money think they’re compassionate because they give away other people’s tax dollars. They believe they care more about the earth than other people, even as they fly around in private jets, because they babble on about global warming. They can be dumb as a rock, but believe they’re smarter than most other people because they’re liberals. In other words, in the minds of most liberals, liberalism is an all-purpose substitute for actual virtue instead of just another political philosophy.

6) Liberals have too much faith in government. Even most liberals would admit that government regularly fails the people. If you don’t believe that, just ask them about the Bush Administration and they’ll give you an earful. However, liberals tend to believe that with the right person in charge, government won’t be so slow, stupid, inefficient, and badly run. Human history proves that they’re wrong about that.

7) Liberals have minimal interest in whether the programs they support work or not. To most liberals, whether a government program betters people’s lives is completely irrelevant to whether they’ll support it. A program that doesn’t work and costs billions, but sounds compassionate and helps Democrats politically is a huge success in the eyes of the Left. Once you understand that liberals think this way, their baffling support for programs that make no “common sense” is much easier to understand.

StanInTexas

I’m not entirely convinced that Liberal’s ‘think’ at all. They feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel!
Robert_Ingersoll

Its adorable when you take a diverse topic and attempt to quantify it. Sort of like you do with religion, etc.
whats_up

They consider their fellow travelers to be on the side of the angels, while the people who disagree with them are treated as evil.

This is my favorite line, sounds like most conservatives I know.
StanInTexas

sounds like most conservatives I know.
Posted by whats_up 2010-02-02 10:33:19

Further proof that you know no Conservatives, crthns.
sabiticus

Isn’t it great when leftists show up, and rather than debate or argue the points, they just pretend to act amused and intelelctually superior. It’s too bad for them that there’s a bit more to being intelligent than trying to act out a pathetic parody of what they think an intelligent person acts like.
Jack Schite

What’s really funny is that John thinks he understands why liberals behave the way they do.

Might more constructive to posit a question and allow us to respond.
Realpolitik

They consider their fellow travelers to be on the side of the angels, while the people who disagree with them are treated as evil.

This is my favorite line, sounds like most conservatives I know.
Posted by whats_up
2010-02-02 10:33:19

It is certainly the attitude of those who claim to be conservatives who post at RWN.
StanInTexas

Might more constructive to posit a question and allow us to respond.
Posted by Jack Schite 2010-02-02 10:41:48

Your responses to everything on this site are one-line insults and non-sequitur bullshit. At which point you usually run away because you are too much of a coward to defend your ideals.

So regardless of the contents of the post, respond away. But at least grow a pair and try top defend your idiocy!
whats_up

Further proof that you know no Conservatives, crthns.

Posted by StanInTexas
2010-02-02 10:34:43

Are you saying that Conservatives dont say these things in large numbers Stan? Perhaps you havent been listening to them since Obama got elected, but there is hardly a do goes by that Conservatives dont call liberals “evil”.
StanInTexas

It is certainly the attitude of those who claim to be conservatives who post at RWN.
Posted by Realpolitik 2010-02-02 10:47:39

And another liar is heard from. Care to back that up with proof, RP?
StanInTexas

Are you saying that Conservatives dont say these things in large numbers Stan? Perhaps you havent been listening to them since Obama got elected, but there is hardly a do goes by that Conservatives dont call liberals “evil”.
Posted by whats_up 2010-02-02 10:49:07

Proof, little bitch.
whats_up

Posted by sabiticus
2010-02-02 10:36:07

What point exactly would you like to debate?
Realpolitik

Posted by StanInTexas
2010-02-02 10:48:06

As stan has just proved.
Jack Schite

StaInintexas, you are a very hateful person and you get from me what you deserve. Go crawl back under a rock.
Jack Schite

I glanced at johns town hall article, and it’s full of such unmitigated juvenile bullshit that no liberal in their right mind would bother discussing the article with John. It shows a narrow minded ignorant perspective that should have died with the Bush presidency. Stainintexas is a fanboy of such bullshit. It’s easier for him to hate than to relate. Sad but true.
Robert_Ingersoll

“What’s really funny is that John thinks he understands why liberals behave the way they do.”

@Jack,

Maybe John can share with us his views on marriage. He’s probably as familiar with that as he is with Liberalism.
StanInTexas

it’s full of such unmitigated juvenile bullshit that no liberal in their right mind would bother discussing the article with John
Posted by Jack Schite 2010-02-02 10:58:05

Yet here you are discussing it.

Thanks for the admission, SchiteHead!
StanInTexas

Posted by Realpolitik 2010-02-02 10:49:58

So you are unable to provide proof of your bullshit statements.

Thought so!
Realpolitik

So you are unable to provide proof of your bullshit statements.

Thought so!
Posted by StanInTexas
2010-02-02 11:02:43

Read your own posts, stan – if it doesn’t embarrass you too much.
StanInTexas

Posted by Realpolitik 2010-02-02 11:05:13

The proof that was asked for was that Conservative’s think that all Liberals are evil (which none of my posts have ever shown).

Now, if you are trying to prove that a Conservative can offer and intelligent and witty comback to the idiocy that are the Liberals on this board, I can direct you to any number of post from myself or a host of others here.
whats_up

Posted by StanInTexas
2010-02-02 10:49:53

Here ya go Stan:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/is_obama_turning_us_into_the_n.html
whats_up

Here’s another for you Stan:

atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/12/obamas-tree-festooned-with-evil.html
StanInTexas

Here ya go Stan:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/is_obama_turning_us_into_the_n.html
Posted by whats_up 2010-02-02 11:12:31

So you googled ‘RightWing’ and ‘Evil’ and this is what you got? An article asking if Obama would turn America into the next Evil Empire? With no quote that I could see that said Conservatives think all Liberals are evil.

Epic Fail, little bitch.
whats_up

mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909140030

Here is another for you Stan.
StanInTexas

Here is another for you Stan.
Posted by whats_up 2010-02-02 11:17:47

This has got to be a joke, crthns.

You think that just because an article on a right-wing site uses the word evil, that it in any way proves what you claimed.

You are pathetic!
whats_up

http://www.worldviewtimes.com/article.php/articleid-795

Yet another one Stan, how many more do you want?
whats_up

http://www.americandaily.com/article/2207

Yet another one Stan, should we continue?
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

Posted by whats_up
2010-02-02 11:21:41

Can you link that article that shows David Duke voting for Bush in 2004? Just wondering. Thanks.
Realpolitik

Now, if you are trying to prove that a Conservative can offer and intelligent and witty comback to the idiocy that are the Liberals on this board, I can direct you to any number of post from myself or a host of others here.
Posted by StanInTexas
2010-02-02 11:11:53

Please do. Start with yourself.
StanInTexas

Yet another one Stan, should we continue?
Posted by whats_up 2010-02-02 11:21:41

If you’d like to continue to waste your time and John’s bandwidth. Not a single article you posted has proven what you claimed.

But continue to google and post away. Every minute you spend on here posting your nonsense is another minute you will not be intellectually harming the schoolkids you work with.
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

http://www.americandaily.com/article/2207

That article doesn’t claim ALL LIBERALS ARE EVIL – FAIL

http://www.worldviewtimes.com/article.php/articleid-795

OK you’ve got ONE

http://www.mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909140030

Who the hell is Rose Tennent? And she doesn’t SAY ALL either, so again – FAIL
whats_up

Posted by bthewolf
2010-02-02 11:32:38

That wasnt the issue bthewolf, Stan wanted proof that conservatives call liberals evil, no where did I state that conservatives call ALL liberals evil. That just say the liberalism is evil or this liberal is evil or that one. Stan is just pissed because he asked for proof and it was provided multiple times and now he is butt hurt.
StanInTexas

Posted by whats_up 2010-02-02 11:37:01

Let’s go back to the post that prompted my request for proof.

They consider their fellow travelers to be on the side of the angels, while the people who disagree with them are treated as evil.

This is my favorite line, sounds like most conservatives I know.
Posted by whats_up 2010-02-02 10:33:19

So most Conservatives you know this THE PEOPLE THAT DISAGREE WITH THEM (ie LIBERALS) are treated as evil.

So I asked for proof. And you provided some articles from Right-Wing website.

How many of those articles are written by people you know, crthns? NONE
How many of thos articles consider “the people that disagree with them” (LIBERALS) evil? NONE

You provide a few articles that a Liberal policy that the author considered evil OR a Liberal or two that was considered evil by the author.

So what you actually proved is the same thing you prove all the time here. That you will claim something, and then try to pass off BULLSHIT as proof of it.

Pathetic.
whats_up

Posted by StanInTexas
2010-02-02 11:54:02

Typical Stan, lying again. Here is the relevant post where you asked for proof:

…but there is hardly a do goes by that Conservatives dont call liberals “evil”.

Posted by whats_up
2010-02-02 10:49:07

Proof, little bitch.

Posted by StanInTexas
2010-02-02 10:49:53

You asked for proof that Conservatives call liberals evil, when amply provided, you dodged and hemhawed because you looked like the ass you are, then you tried to change the question. Typical of you Stan, after all you are a banned poster that cant seem to follow the rules.
StanInTexas

Posted by whats_up 2010-02-02 12:22:12

Climing to have provide proof of what you claimed, when in reality to did nothing of the sort. SOP for you.

BTW, care to list all the names you have posted under here, crthns?
whats_up

Climing to have provide proof of what you claimed, when in reality to did nothing of the sort. SOP for you.

Posted by StanInTexas
2010-02-02 12:30:15

LOL, this gets better every time, I am going to start charging for this entertainment. So let me get this straight Stan, the articles didnt actually say that liberals are evil? Interesting because in every article they call a liberal evil. Trying reading, I know its hard for Stan, sometimes you just have to accept the fact that you got your ass kicked, kind of like the GOP reps the other day on TV, that was pretty good. Now go do us a favor and play in traffic like the good little boy you are.
StanInTexas

Posted by whats_up 2010-02-02 12:36:31

The entertainment here is all of us laughing at you, crthns.

You claimed that all the Conservative you knew felt that Liberals were evil. Not ‘a’ Liberal or ‘some’ Liberals, but Liberals… ALL Liberals.

The you provide articles by people you do not know that used the term ‘evil’ in an article about a select Liberal or specific Liberal policy.

The only thing you proved is that you are incapable of providing proof of your assumptions. Like when you accused me of being in favor of profiling Muslims, or claiming that I have never been in favor of ‘innocent until proven guilty’.

You are a pathetic joke in the area of political debate, crthns. And it has been my pleasure to expose you for the impotent little prick that you are.
whats_up

ou claimed that all the Conservative you knew felt that Liberals were evil. Not ‘a’ Liberal or ‘some’ Liberals, but Liberals… ALL Liberals.

Stan,

last time I checked if I was going to include ALL liberals, I would have said that, again you try and dance, typical and pathetic. You had your ass handed to you again and just cant deal with reality. Thats okay we understand.
StanInTexas

Posted by whats_up 2010-02-02 13:02:58

Parsing words and ignoring the actual meat of the post. Imagine my surprise.

So tell me again how you personally know `the author of all the articles you sited, crthns?

And when you say ‘we’ understand, you are talking to Mr. Sock again, aren’t you?
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

Are you saying that Conservatives dont say these things in large numbers Stan?

So a few articles is LARGE NUMBERS? This is why you are such a hack, You can’t even keep your own statements straight.

Perhaps you havent been listening to them since Obama got elected, but there is hardly a do goes by that Conservatives dont call liberals “evil”.
Posted by whats_up
2010-02-02 10:49:07

Here’s where said ALL, WU! You didn’t some some or a specific few, you said liberals, as in ALL. You also claim that this has occored ALMOST DAILY since the election, if that were even half true you’d have over 180 articles, SINCE November 2008, half the articles you posted were date LONG before that.

That means you are lying, engaging in extreme hyperbole and exageration, or just plain STUPID. Stan said you were lying, I’m just gonna say you are stupid.
whats_up

Posted by bthewolf
2010-02-02 13:16:58

LOL, again if I had meant all liberals I would have said ALL, do you not understand english. It has been enjoyable watching you and Stan backtrack, I can certainly provide you with more than 180 articles if you wish, but that would waste bandwith and then you would bitch about that. Face the facts, conseratives continue with this mantra all the time. The fact that you want to ignore it doesnt change anything.
Realpolitik

Oh – stan-the-ban-from-texas – still waiting.
Realpolitik

Fuck this site and the wrong headed way it is run. See you somewere else.
Posted by Murray-the-Miser
2010-02-02 11:31:41

As stantheban would so eloquently put it – “Don’t let the doorknob stick up your asshole on the way out.”
StanInTexas

Face the facts, conseratives continue with this mantra all the time.
Posted by whats_up 2010-02-02 13:41:39

It sounds like you are saying ALL Conservatives here, crthns. Is that what you mean? Or is it SOME Conservatives? Or maybe A FEW Conservatives that do this all the time.

Or maybe you mean ‘all the Conservatives you know’ do this all the time.

Tell us what you mean here, crthns.
whats_up

Posted by StanInTexas
2010-02-02 13:50:26

Thanks for asking Stan, that would mean some conservatives. Many of those are bloggers, but a few politicians keep finding their way into the mix. See how easy that was, you are learning Stan, good for you.
StanInTexas

Posted by whats_up 2010-02-02 13:55:52

OK, so that’s your standard. When you say LIBERALS or CONSERVATIVES, you mean some. Got it.

Now, do you think Liberals think Conservatives are evil?
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

Posted by whats_up
2010-02-02 13:55:52

Posted by whats_up
2010-02-02 11:21:41

Can you link that article that shows David Duke voting for Bush in 2004? Just wondering. Thanks.
Posted by Dick_Nixon
2010-02-02 11:23:47
whats_up

Now, do you think Liberals think Conservatives are evil?

Posted by StanInTexas
2010-02-02 13:58:09

Yes some of them do, it is the same faulty reasoning that conservatives have and does nothing to solve the problems of this country.
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

Posted by whats_up
2010-02-02 15:09:40

Posted by whats_up
2010-02-02 13:55:52

Posted by whats_up
2010-02-02 11:21:41

Can you link that article that shows David Duke voting for Bush in 2004? Just wondering. Thanks.
Posted by Dick_Nixon
2010-02-02 11:23:47
Posted by Dick_Nixon
2010-02-02 14:24:23
http://quantum-kitty.blogspot.com/ simulacre

I don’t think the majority of leftists are evil, but their ideology certainly is. Socialism and Communism have killed more people than any war ever has…simple starvation is usually their method of choice.

The thing is the majority of Conservatives I know understand exactly where leftists are coming from and know what the left’s intentions are, however we also know that the idealized view of humanity the left has never lives up to human nature and their ideology fails to take human nature into account when they come up their ridiculous Utopian pipe dreams.
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

The fact that you want to ignore it doesnt change anything.
Posted by whats_up
2010-02-02 13:41:39

Well since YOU didn’t specify, we were lead to infer, next time instead of being VAGUE and making your lack of English skills so readily apparent, BE SPECIFIC. In most reading for comprehension rules when you do not specify you are considered to be implying ALL, based on your specific words. If you’re too uneducated to know this then do us all a favor and STFU.

As it stands now that you have clarified your position, it and you are a crock of shit. You cannot point out ALMOST DAILY instances of conservatives who, SINCE NOVEMBER 2008 have called ANY liberals evil. You know and I know it, bandwidth considerations or no, which again and still means you are STUPID.
whats_up

Well since YOU didn’t specify, we were lead to infer,

Posted by bthewolf
2010-02-02 16:01:20

Thats YOUR problem not mine, if you were confused you should have asked.
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

Thats YOUR problem not mine, if you were confused you should have asked.
Posted by whats_up
2010-02-02 16:31:37

No dumbass,, if you didn’t mean ALL when used ‘LIBERALS’ which a broad category, YOU shopuld have speciffied, WE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO ASK. Like providing proof, the ONUS is on the POSTER to make his postition clear.

Since YOU didn’t specify a subset of Liberals, you should have said so in the first place.

Take responsibility for your error, and own up to the fact that YOU made a statement that was not clear, and then bitched when called on it.
RtWingNtCase

I’ve noticed that the resident liberal trollers here, who kind of all seem like the same person, have yet to refute a single thing in the article in question.

If you’re so all fired hot over it, then refute what was put in the article. Don’t just call names – take examples from what John wrote and show us where he’s wrong.

Or can you not do that?
libliever

Posted by RtWingNtCase
2010-02-02 18:37:54

Take the Civil Rights Act of ’64 that led the way for fundamental changes in the South and else where.
People changed, sure because initially they were forced to, but over time by their own volition.
However that wouldn’t have happened if LBJ didn’t strong arm alot of folks espeically in the South to pass this landmark legislation in the first place.

Alright, I’m ready for you to call me a racist now…:)
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

Alright, I’m ready for you to call me a racist now…:)

Posted by libliever
2010-02-02 21:42:34

You are a liberal. THe racism comes with that tag.
RtWingNtCase

People, through their elected representatives, voted for the CRA. More Republicans, by percentage, supported this than did democrats. And opinion polls showed support, though, admittedly, they weren’t all that great in the South.

Still, the majority of the country supported it. Show me that support in Cap and Trade, the current Health Care bill, Card check, etc.

You still haven’t refuted any points in the article, but, at least, you pointed to something tangible, unlike the other folks who can’t point out a refutation.
whats_up

No dumbass,, if you didn’t mean ALL when used ‘LIBERALS’ which a broad category, YOU shopuld have speciffied, WE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO ASK.

Posted by bthewolf
2010-02-02 17:46:16

Trying to blame me for YOUR confusion, classic conservatism. If you dont understand something ASK, that is one of the first lessons given in first grade, I assume you did pass that class.
RtWingNtCase

Hey, whats_up – any issues in the actual article you can refute, or are you just interested in name calling?

Waiting for the dissertation on what in the article John got wrong. Please cite examples, if you can…
http://www.conservablogs.com/theconservativecrawfish/ reelman

and sometimes we FAIL TO THINK when in a debate…I see the facts below forgotten in debate after debate in TV segments…why???
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DEBATE FACTS MOST MISSING 2010

Democrats have controlled congress since Jan. 2007!!! (That is 3 years, NOT just 2009!)
***Obama voted for every single overspending bill as a Senator too…***

Reagan had a Democrat congress which spent the extra 40% his tax cuts brought in to the treasury. (NO “Reagan deficits” ever existed!)

Clinton had a Republican congress which passed bills and controlled spending. (NO great “Clinton economy” ever existed!)

Remember the old saying, “The President proposes BUT the congress disposes”.
How soon voters forget….or…maybe they just never were told…or…maybe they were never taught in school who spends our taxes.

http://conservablogs.com/theconservativecrawfish
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