Glaucon wrote:
I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate gay people. You hate black people, immigrants, Muslims, labor unions, women who want the right to make choices concerning their bodies, you hate em all. You hate being called racist. You hate being called a bigotSo stop wearing your hate with pride. Stop celebrating your anti-science, anti-math ignorance. You should think about that, and maybe get some help.
And for the record, I do not hate you. I am embarrassed by you and nauseated by your cruel and thoughtless behavior and your all consuming greed, but I do not hate you. I forgive you and I hope you can change someday, but I don't hate you. You have enough hate in you for the rest of us as it is.
I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate ... (
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Glaucon, I have read many of your previous posts and disagree with most of them, especially this one ( I also do not agree on some of the conservative posts). I'm not as well educated as you and several of the other members on this site, so I'm not real great on stating my opinion in my own words. I read this on another site
http://www.angelfire.com/emo2/republican/Manual.htmand it mostly confirms my opinion of liberals . This is only part of the article because I didn't want to post a big amount of data.
The Intellectuals:
The Intellectuals are an interesting group of people. Theyre typically your academics, people who have very strong academic accomplishments, or believe that they do (these can be interchanged). They often think of themselves as smart people, and associate with like-minded smart people. Theyre especially found in Ivy League colleges, though this phenomenon easily exists in non-Ivy League schools as well. It extends beyond just the college and university scene, however; other education institutions have similar groups, and the media is full of such people.
These people are usually fairly responsible, fairly intelligent, and are going in a good direction in life- at least academically. However, all of them fall victim to one trap: they believe that everyone else is just as responsible and intelligent as them. Thus, they fall into an ideological world view, which believes that everything can be perfect, and that cases of human nature such as greed simply do not exist. (This explains why far left liberals supported communism- they thought people would be happy with to each according to their need
clearly, that did not work)
These people believe that things like abortion should be legal, because people will be responsible with it, and not take advantage of it. These people believe that drugs should be legalized, for the same reasons. These people believe that children should be exposed to sex and violence (including things that can be seen as the promotion of them), because children would be responsible with such matters. These people do not think things on television and mass media should be regulated, thinking that all people are responsible enough to handle indecent material. They believe all criminals can be rehabilitated and become responsible like them, and thus they oppose things like the death penalty. The list goes on and on, but the key thing you must know about these people: theyre frequently not in touch with reality itself- theyre like bookworms. They dont realize the problems in the world for what they really are, but think they do.
Therefore, they fall victim to an ideological world view which simply does not work in reality: liberalism.
Everything these intellectuals do now has been done before, in essence: Karl Marx once presented an ideological leftist world view. It didnt work, but it sure sounded great when he presented his ideology. What looks good on paper may not look good in reality, and that is one thing the intellectual left does not understand.
These people also fundamentally believe they are right, and will refuse to argue with anyone who they think is of less merit than them; theyre very elitist to a sense, and therefore blindly hold to their ideology despite any arguments thrown at them. It is Ivy League arrogance, journalistic elitism, and whatever else you can name, at its finest.