Friday, February 05, 2010

So, Why Are Liberals So Condescending?

In this devastating piece by Gerard Alexander that will be in this Sunday's Washington Post, Prof. Alexander tries to explain something that has polluted the American political scene for at least several generations.
Prof. Alexander lays out the treatise in four sections, beginning with the current Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and her claim of a "vast right-wing" conspiracy during her husband, former President Bill Clinton's administration. It is a simplistic view that there is nothing more than a cabal of people such as the eeevvviiilll Karl Rove and political hacks like him. Or front groups such as the Heritage Foundation. Or of course pro-capitalist groups, the eeevvviiilll scum-sucking pigs they are. No, there is no credence to the fact that they just may have serious policy differences with the modern liberal.
And that dovetails into the second section, which is just pounding home more of the first section. Only just discredit those advocating conservative ideas and not even the ideas. Prof. Alexander gives as an example that Nobel prize winning "economist", Paul Krugman. Prof. Alexander cites a blog posting by Mr. Krugman in which he harangues 35 years worth of editorials on The Wall Street Journal editorial pages. Mr. Krugman just does not get that maybe, just maybe, the writers actually believe what they wrote. No, here is Mr. Krugman in his own words:

"What do these people really believe? I mean, they're not stupid -- life would be a lot easier if they were. So they know they're not telling the truth. But they obviously believe that their dishonesty serves a higher truth. . . . The question is, what is that higher truth?"

Oh, I don't know, Mr. Krugman. That free people and free markets DO work. That liberty for individuals ensures true equality for all. Ah, I guess that is just all B. S. to someone of the caliber of Mr. Krugman.
But, Prof. Alexander has more.
The third section delves into the truly eeevvviiilll Richard M. Nixon and his diabolical plan to win white votes with the "Southern strategy". You know. Pit Whites against Blacks. Men against Women. Straights against the gays. On and on. Oh, and did you know that all that talk from Ronald Reagan and other conservatives about crime control, low taxes and welfare reform was a not-so-subtle form of racism? Well, if Rick Perlstein wrote it, it must be true! And dammit! If you do not support blindly the policies of the Dear Leader, President Obama, then you are nothing but a racist according to the last successful liberal president, Jimmah Carter.
The fourth and most hilarious section is the modern liberal claim that conservatives are driven by emotion and anxiety. A fear of any change.
The reality is that the modern liberal is driven by emotion, anxiety and fear.
Take Globaloney Warming.
It is all three rolled into one. The modern liberal is emotional because we should just take what some scientists say as gospel about the potential that earth is warming. And that it is a bad thing. And the warming makes the modern liberal anxious. They look to anything to prove their point. And they are afraid. Of whole coastal cities being swallowed up by rising waters because the polar ice caps are melting. Kind of like the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz. In fact, believing in something like Globaloney Warming, a theory at best, is kind of like living in Oz. Never mind that there is a real threat in this world. You remember? Islamofascist terrorists. Now, that is real.
Prof. Alexander gives insight into the mind of the modern American liberal. They really think that we are a bunch of dolts. Even those that support their ideology.
I leave you with the words straight from the mouth of the Dear Leader, President Obama. This was said when he was simply Sen. Messiah Barack running for president. It was in reference to those eeevvviiilll voters in Pennsylvania:

Obama suggested that residents of Rust Belt towns "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations" about job losses.

HT: Daniel Foster @ The Corner www.nationalreview.com/thecorner

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