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| Why Are Liberals So Condescending? washingtonpost.com I thought this was a very good read. It's in today's Washington Post, written by a professor of politics at UVA.
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The Starter Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Staunton, VA
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| Re: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? Excellent read. Thanks for sharing.
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The Starter Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Staunton, VA
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| Re: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? A lot of them have been locked away in academia running their very closed off circles so anyone outside of their "norm" is clinging to their guns and is a right wing wacko.
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| Re: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? We just can't help ourselves LOL. Seriously I don't know what liberal means anymore. Pat Buchanan, who I agree w/ on a far range of issues, is a liberal by many of today's conservative standards. What does that mean? I think the only observation I'm confident in is the difference in attitudes between nearly all the conservatives I know (which includes almost my entire family) and the progressives, liberals etc on the other side. Conservatives almost to a person are far more visceral in their political views. I tend to notice how extremely emotional they get over their bread and butter issues like abortion, homosexuality and religion in society. I can also honestly say outside of grad school I've never met a conservative well informed on the innards of public policy. That's not a sleight...it's just a matter of how people look at the world and you find a hell of a lot of people who don't want to bother w/ the details. Take the fact our health care system is rated way behind all the other modern nations in overall quality (I believe we're 37th overall) and we spend WAY more on health (over 17% of GDP while most modern countries spend around 12%). Btw England and Canada spend less than 10% of GDP on health!!! Well...I only hear conservatives still saying we have the best medical care in the world and get it a lot cheaper than those single-payer socialized systems. There's just not a lot of attention to detail, or what some might call facts. But generally yeah I'd agree liberals or whatever come off as assholes most of the time. They all seem insanely frustrated we can't do better and because their opponents are almost always telling the American people we have it great.
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| Re: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? If liberals actually consider themselves to be better, then I guess I'm missing the real meaning of a liberal. The conservatives speak of liberals like they're a disease or the plague of some kind. I've often asked myself what's wrong with being a liberal? |
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| Re: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? i guess the same reasons that Republicans are so radical....
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Swearinger ![]() Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Washington, DC
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| Re: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? Did you read the article? The thread title is the title of the article. It's actually a really solid read.
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| Re: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? Maybe he was to busy being condescending and argumentative?
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Playmaker Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Three Chopt Virginia Age: 40
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| Re: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? Just for you Goat . . . . since you can't tell the difference between a leftist and a right winger.
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Gamebreaker Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Waldorf, MD Age: 34
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| Re: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? hahahaha someone from UVA talking about condescending? that's absolutely great it goes both ways.. repubs try to bully and dems try to make others look stupid.. it generally works decently each way |
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| Re: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? Excellent video Trample.
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Living Legend Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: PA Age: 38
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| Re: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? Quote:
![]() The whole brouhaha over the Tebow commercial before they even knew its content is another example of their "agree with us or you're trash" attitude. It turned out to be a harmless, non-offensive message that EVERYONE should be able to agree with, but since it was from an organization with a "hateful" name like "Focus on the Family", they automatically went into attack mode to censor anything they think they may not agree with...before they even heard it. This is not a unique liberal response. Support their ideas or you're racist/bigot/homophobe/etc, but try to share an idea they don't like, you must be shut up for "spewing hate speech" and "preaching".
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| Re: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? Great read. Ive always hated the “Attack the messenger not the message” type attitude. It just comes across as so wrong and narrow minded to me. I dont understand how Rachel Maddow or Keith Olberman can constantly refer to the Tea Party Movement participants as t-baggers. Arnt they susposed to be journalist to some extent? I guess its just easier to discredit people instead of challenging them.
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Living Legend Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: PA Age: 38
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| Re: Why Are Liberals So Condescending? I've never understood comments like this. If academics, the brightest and best educated people in America, are liberals, doesn't that actually say something very positive about liberal politics?
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