What makes liberals think the way they do?
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I don't think liberals act on feelings instead of reasoned thought.  I don't think anybody really acts on reasoned thought.  \nThe difference between the two ideologies, to me, follows on a federalist/anti-federalist distinction.  It used to be that Republicans/conservatives tend to view a government that's best is one that governs least.  They like the states to have more power and the federal government to worry about federal issues, dictated by Article I of the Constitution.  Democrats/liberals used to see the federal govrenment as the answer to America's problems.  They thought the states were not doing the job that needed to be done and that the US should take care of the ills in the country.\nI think it's better if both sides would sit down, shut up and start listening to each other.  It's amazing how much people really do agree (if you don't mention Iraq or abortion) on what needs to be done, just disagree on how to do it.
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LIBERALS listen to Democracy  about what?  What have they said?  I'm sill wateing for them to say anything.\n\nnothing comes out when they move their lips, just a buncha gibberish.
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False.  Conservatives were successful in making "liberal" a dirty word.  Liberals did not fight back and let them get away with it.  Bush though has awakened a sleeping giant and liberals are starting to fight back.
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I suppose it is ignorance or the lack of understanding of what the majority of Americans want for America. I've never seen a Liberal desire anything for all of America, unless it benefited them personally.  And I've never seen a Liberal seek anything that was morally wholesome and/or correct.\n\nSometimes we do not listen to the truth, because we don't want to hear it. Liberals and Democrats do not want our Conservative Republican President to succeed... (which not only makes our president look bad, but it makes America look bad.)\nand because of this, they bash the president, make up stuff...and spin their time stretching or changing the truth.\n\nMost answers to questions on this site, made by them, are "reportable" because they cannot argue their points without cursing or talking dirty. Very few appear educated, most are miss-informed, and all appear to have tunnel vision. (DESTROY and DISCREDIT the President and Republicans.)\n\nI never hear any positive directions or new ideas to help and support America. Just negativity from the left....\n\nBut then TRUTH is always a challenge to discredit.... maybe they just like a challenge!
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Deep down inside liberals know that they are not loyal to their country, respectful of its institutions, and that Ann Coulter is right in her criticisms of liberals.  They listen to her to find out the truth, then run around in a tizzy telling each other we can't be as bad as she says we are.
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I think the reason is that liberals believe that man is capable of being perfect without anybody's help. They think that all it takes is education. This is the reason behind much of their supposedly self-righteous anger at anybody who seems to diagree with them:\n\n"I've just explained my position to this person, and he disagrees! Since I can't possibly be mistaken, he might simply be too stupid to understand. I'll be patient and give him a second chance."\n\n(After explaining a second time,)\n\n"I've just explained my position to this person who was pretending to be honestly curious and he STILL disagrees! Since I can't possibly be mistaken, and he doesn't seem to stupid to understanmd, he must be DELIBERATELY pretending to be dumb in order to waste my time! That makes him a CAD as well as a HERETIC! What's more, he knows EXACTLY how much what he says and does irritates me, AND HE'S DOING IT ON PURPOSE!"\n\nThe above assumptions cover most if not quite all of the liberal position. People are not born liberal. What kind of person does it require to take an innocent child and turn them into a liberal...? I will tell you what kind of person you need. It takes a villain.\n\nYou correctly point out that liberals are dissatisfied with Christ, this is because they largely do not have a personal sense of sin. They see no need or a Savior, they do not recognize the moral response of guilt (" 'laws' are for the governed, not for the governor") and they have lost all sense of shame.\n\nLiberals appear to recognize guilt only as a means of manipulating people; they will not admit to a real sense of moral guilt because that would be to recognize a standard be behavior above themselves. They respond to attempts to put them on the same footing with the rest of the world as attempts to shame them, and their pride will not allow them to admit that they might be mistaken. So they castigate those who would criticise them, at the same time hurling terrible and vicious attacks against their opponents, in an attempt to shame their opponents. \n\nBecause they do not realize that there must be a basis to moral accusations, their attacks are largely built on emotional appeal, and are factually invalid.\n\nThis unyeilding effort to block all sense of personal responsiblity has its parallel in an individual psychological response, called malignant narcissism.\n\nMalignant narcissism was first described by a psychologist and author Dr. M. Scott Peck in his books The Road Less Traveled, and others. He describes the resistance of some hideously selfish people to recognize their own selfishness. This was his attempt to describe the moral condition traditionally called 'evil', in psychological terms. When faced with the 'good', evil must destroy it or be forced to face its own selfishness.\n\nIn American liberalism to day, I believe that we see malignant narcissism raised to the institutional level.\n\nThe group behavior of people may be either better or worse than their individual behavior. Among Christians we recognize that we ought to continue to assemble together on a regular basis becuse we will stimulate each other to love and good works more than if we do not meet regularly.\n\nAnd, we have (unfortunately almost daily in the news) seen reports of troublemakers who, egged on by their peers, commit even more heinous acts of violence and selfishness than they would have stooped to without such provocation. What makes organized crime and gang activity so bad and so dangerous to the community is the fact that it is organized. Organization is a 'good', which was made and intended to serve other goods. It is terrible that it has been coopted and enslaved to serve evil.\n\nSo it is with liberalism in America today. (By the way, I  hope nobody has misunderstood-- this is political liberalism I am talking about. Liberal Christians are a different matter, in terms
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Liberals only think of the present and what they want now. They don't look at the big picture and consider what the consequences\nof their actions and demands will be further down the road.
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Liberalism is coached in emotion rather than logic and rationalism.  The way you FEEL about something is more important than the facts surrounding an issue.  To a liberal 1000 people FEELING that something is bad trumps a single fact.\n\nWomen are emotional creatures by nature, culture, and biology.  So women would naturally be attracted to liberalism as a political group and a philosophy of life.
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What makes you think this?\n\nYou are really stupid if you think you can decide what we think for us.\n\nOf course your political opinions are not the most well thought out and they are rather poorly presented.  (Why should anybody listen to you when you keep acting like an idiot?)
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The answer is in the question, "Liberalsuck". \n\nLiberals are, generally, uneducated (though there are a few in acedemia who are edeucated beyond their intellectual capacity) and ignorant. They also base much on feelings, rather than on simple, hard logic. \n\nSince libs are generally uninformed (though they seem to think they are BETTER informed than we conservatives), there is little else they can do than to throw unimaginative insults and profanities... It's sad really.
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Liberals argue with their feelings and tend to ignore facts.\n\nExample:  You don't want poor people to go hungry do you? \n\nThey completely ignore the fact that most poor people are poor because of their own bad decisions (drugs, no education/vocational training, having kids out of wedlock, etc) and that supporting these people will only encourage them to continue to make bad decisions.
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With moral decay, children need a replacement to the family element.  Thus the government comes in.  Liberals want the government to control our lives.  \n\nRush Limbaugh says it best \n\nRUSH: People struggle to define conservatism and liberalism, and you can make it as complicated as you want, and you can take it to the Nth degree if you want. It's actually a little simpler than it appears. At its root, what is life all about? Life is about people, and life is about relationships. Nostalgia generally reminds you of your pleasant memories. Very few people go back and have horrible thoughts about nostalgia. You just have those in your nightmares and your dreams unless you have some kind of problem and dwell on them, but when your life is done and you look back at it, the things that you'll remember that will have defined you and will have contributed to your happiness are the relationships you've had with people you've loved, from family, to friends, to spouses, to children, to whoever. That's what everybody will reflect on near the end of their lives, not what they acquired when, not when they scored their first touchdown. Those things matter at the time, and they're important at the time, but when you reflect on things, that's generally what happens. So people and working with and playing with and dealing with people and interacting with them is the fundamental behavioral aspect of humanity, and everything descends from that.\n\nNow, conservatism, people who are conservative will look at a culture and look at a society, such as ours, and we will have the utmost faith in the individual. We believe that the individual, when properly educated and informed (and, by the way, unshackled), we believe the individual has the ability to triumph over whatever odds that individual faces. We believe that extraordinary people are simply ordinary people could go extraordinary things. The great among us never set out to be great. They became great by virtue of accolades as a result of their achievements. Liberals on the other hand look at the average American with condescension. They don't think the average American has what it takes. The average American is stupider than the liberal. The average American doesn't have the ambition or the wherewithal to overcome these odds -- and besides they make a victim out of everybody, and they do it by saying, "That black doesn't have a chance because of racism and white people. The illegal doesn't have a chance because of the nativist and protectionist among us. Women don't have a chance because of sexism and so forth," and so the liberal mind-set and construct of people is entirely negative. It's condescending; it is arrogant, and it is almost holds people in contempt.\n\nConservatism is just the opposite. Now, everything descends from that. When liberals get power, politically, and start putting together policy, what's the policy going to be? "Empower government, because those schlubs out there cannot live their lives properly, happily, without us. Senior citizens won't eat; the poor won't get off the soup lines. The only people that make it big are the rich, and we've gotta find a way to take away from them what they've worked for." Conservatism, when it gets power and starts defining policy, you get things like welfare reform, which is rooted in the belief that people who work, which is where many people derive their identity, will experience achievement and pride, will be motivated to go even further. You can take this simple definition of conservatism versus liberalism and apply it to virtually any aspect of the political spectrum, and you'll see that it applies. So it's not complicated at all to explain the difference. This is what has been missing in Republican Party politics, philosophically for way too many years, and needs to return.\n\nBREAK TRANSCRIPT\nRUSH: I want to expand a little bit on
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Yeah, I am one of the few liberals who dont put other people down.  This is what I have to say to all the liberals who do: Most liberals believe what they do because they believe in human rights.  By putting down anyone who doesnt believe what you do, are you really standing up for human rights, or liberal rights?  And to conservatives, most of you are the way you are because of a strong moral foundation.  Do you really think of yourself as a moral being when you talk about how terrible liberals are for what they believe?  By doing this you are NO better than them.  If you want to have great moral charcater, raise up above them and show them that you have an argument that can be proven, and dont just bash everyone.  \n\nThe thing about political views is that there are two equally good sides to EVERYTHING.  Period.  The only reason why people believe the way they do is because they think that one side is more imporant than the other.  For example, take abortion.  The right side believes that it is terrible because no matter when you believe life starts, you are getting rid of a potential life.  Not even a liberal can argue that side.  The left side however believes that if it is a life or not, a grown woman's rights is so important that an unborn child is a small price to pay.  Both sides are right and just, but what you believe is what you think is more important.  Any issue can be taken appart to the right and left side like that, and anyone who refuses to do that and just believe something for no reason doesnt have a mind and just follows whatever liberal/conservative bullshit they are fed.\n\nDear god, why cant we just get along?  Why is it that we can NOT respect others if they arent like us?
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Some people try to empower themselves by using derogatory expletives and "name calling". They do it from a fear of being suppressed or from knowing they have no rational answers for those who oppose them. It would be better if non-liberals could debate the liberal  "ideas", but since most liberals are sheep and follow the flock, their ideas become generic without purpose and meaning. Liberal "extremists", like most extremists", make a habit of being argumentive by nature. Most people who debate them, are usually self thinkers with good self-esteem who can communicate powerfully  without the name calling. I call these people conservatives and moderates, not extremists
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Liberals are wussies thinking that all the problems in the world will just go away. Conservatives make the problems go away such as Sadaam, Zarqawi and the like.
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Yes, most definitely!!!  They also give everything their liberal slant so they can push their views.  So warning, don't believe everything you hear.  And if possible, research it yourself.
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I'm a liberal because I think for myself, believe in true equality for all, and I don't think that a government that bases it's policies on the 'needs' of Big Business has my (or your) best interests at heart. In addition, I value the future as a gift for my daughter, and conservatives only seem to think and plan in four year blocks.