How Modern Liberals think
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 4:19 am
Great video on the Liberal mind. long watch but totally worth it.
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I think he hit the nail on the head! The modern liberal has done an amazing job over the decades of using propaganda and leftist ideologies in the schools and Universities to brainwash our young generation into believing this. This is why that man in the White House could do such a horrible job and still get re-elected.What happens is, they are indoctrinated into what I call a "cult of indiscriminateness." The way the elite does this is by teaching our children, starting with the very young, that rational and moral thought is an act of bigotry; that no matter how sincerely you may seek to gather the facts, no matter how earnestly you may look at the evidence, no matter how disciplined you may try to be in your reasoning, your conclusion is going to be so tainted by your personal bigotries, by your upbringing, by your religion, by the color of your skin, by the nation of your great-great-great-great-great grandfather's birth; that no matter what your conclusion, it is useless. It is nothing other than the reflection of your bigotries, and the only way to eliminate bigotry is to eliminate rational thought.
There's a brilliant book out there called The Closing of the American Mind by Professor Allan Bloom. Professor Bloom was trying to figure out in the 1980s why his students were suddenly so stupid, and what he came to was the realization, the recognition, that they'd been raised to believe that indiscriminateness is a moral imperative because its opposite is the evil of having discriminated. I paraphrase this in my own works: "In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate."
I'll give you an example. At the airports, in order not to discriminate, we have to intentionally make ourselves stupid. We have to pretend we don't know things we do know, and we have to pretend that the next person who is likely to blow up an airplane is as much the 87-year-old Swedish great-great-grandmother as those four 27-year-old imams newly arrived from Syria screaming "Allahu Akbar!" just before they board the plane. In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.
I absolutely believe that they believe that they are working toward "the good." The problem is that you've eliminated critical, rational judgment; you've eliminated the ability to tell the difference between what works and what doesn't work; you're coming from the mindset of a five-year-old.
When I was five years old, the New York World's Fair closed up in my neighborhood, down the street from me, and I insisted that my father buy the monorail that went around the park because I wanted to put it up alongside the Long Island Expressway and ease congestion and pollution because I was a liberal kid. He explained to me in grown-up fashion that we couldn't afford it and, technically, there were problems like getting the rights of way, creating a bureaucracy, etc.
When you have a conversation with a Modern Liberal about health care, there's no doubt that their goal is as good as mine was: curing air pollution or curing everybody's health problems. But if you don't have the grown-up sense to be able to discuss how, what's the reality, what's the truth, you can't have a conversation where you make the world a better place. It's all fantasy at that point. Again, you're dealing with a five-year-old, so of course she wants to make the world a better place. Very, very few of us don't.
It's a matter of having given up the ability to discriminate: (a) they can't bring it about because it's a childish conversation; and (b) when you have to make the decisions about who gets certain things-- for example, health care, welfare, or illegal aliens-- certain decisions have to be made about who qualifies for it, and when you're just going through indiscriminately giving all these benefits, then you're actually going to be assisting that which is most failed because they're the ones who are going to be most in need.
While there is some truth to it, and while it is perhaps a helpful way of explaining something illogical, the fact is, liberals do indeed discriminate. Their "rules" don't apply to them, nor do their rules apply to their favored groups (at least for so long as they haven't acquired absolute power and such groups remain useful). Not only do liberals discriminate, they often discriminate in the same ways as those whom they discriminate against. The pretense of being indiscriminate in some ways is merely a tool to divide and conquer.longhorn_92 wrote:I think he hit the nail on the head! The modern liberal has done an amazing job over the decades of using propaganda and leftist ideologies in the schools and Universities to brainwash our young generation into believing this. This is why that man in the White House could do such a horrible job and still get re-elected.What happens is, they are indoctrinated into what I call a "cult of indiscriminateness." The way the elite does this is by teaching our children, starting with the very young, that rational and moral thought is an act of bigotry; that no matter how sincerely you may seek to gather the facts, no matter how earnestly you may look at the evidence, no matter how disciplined you may try to be in your reasoning, your conclusion is going to be so tainted by your personal bigotries, by your upbringing, by your religion, by the color of your skin, by the nation of your great-great-great-great-great grandfather's birth; that no matter what your conclusion, it is useless. It is nothing other than the reflection of your bigotries, and the only way to eliminate bigotry is to eliminate rational thought.
There's a brilliant book out there called The Closing of the American Mind by Professor Allan Bloom. Professor Bloom was trying to figure out in the 1980s why his students were suddenly so stupid, and what he came to was the realization, the recognition, that they'd been raised to believe that indiscriminateness is a moral imperative because its opposite is the evil of having discriminated. I paraphrase this in my own works: "In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate."
I'll give you an example. At the airports, in order not to discriminate, we have to intentionally make ourselves stupid. We have to pretend we don't know things we do know, and we have to pretend that the next person who is likely to blow up an airplane is as much the 87-year-old Swedish great-great-grandmother as those four 27-year-old imams newly arrived from Syria screaming "Allahu Akbar!" just before they board the plane. In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.
Modern Liberals have the mindset of a five year old - absent of critical and rational judgement (according to Mr. Sayet):I absolutely believe that they believe that they are working toward "the good." The problem is that you've eliminated critical, rational judgment; you've eliminated the ability to tell the difference between what works and what doesn't work; you're coming from the mindset of a five-year-old.
When I was five years old, the New York World's Fair closed up in my neighborhood, down the street from me, and I insisted that my father buy the monorail that went around the park because I wanted to put it up alongside the Long Island Expressway and ease congestion and pollution because I was a liberal kid. He explained to me in grown-up fashion that we couldn't afford it and, technically, there were problems like getting the rights of way, creating a bureaucracy, etc.
When you have a conversation with a Modern Liberal about health care, there's no doubt that their goal is as good as mine was: curing air pollution or curing everybody's health problems. But if you don't have the grown-up sense to be able to discuss how, what's the reality, what's the truth, you can't have a conversation where you make the world a better place. It's all fantasy at that point. Again, you're dealing with a five-year-old, so of course she wants to make the world a better place. Very, very few of us don't.
It's a matter of having given up the ability to discriminate: (a) they can't bring it about because it's a childish conversation; and (b) when you have to make the decisions about who gets certain things-- for example, health care, welfare, or illegal aliens-- certain decisions have to be made about who qualifies for it, and when you're just going through indiscriminately giving all these benefits, then you're actually going to be assisting that which is most failed because they're the ones who are going to be most in need.
sjfcontrol wrote:Answer: Modern liberals DON'T think, they feel.
Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for RadicalsHeartland Patriot wrote:Liberal-progressives/leftists/collectivists don't want to allow any dissent or thought or attitude or direction...unless it is THEIR dissent, THEIR thought, THEIR attitude, THEIR direction. While I believe that a good chunk of the political left is made up of "useful idiots", the core of folks that drive them know full well just what they are doing...and they know the end goal they have in mind, too. And it has very little to do with ACTUAL socialism or any other system of "sharing" and much more to do with elitist oligarchy. Then they can FORCE everyone else to be "equal". To stand up to these people, you have to not mind getting your feelings hurt as they call you "racist", "bigot", "homophobe", and so much worse. Its all cover for their schemes, to stifle any argument, and as I have stated on here before, right out of Saul Alinsky's playbook. Read his "Rules" and see for yourself...look up the goals of "cultural Marxists"...and finally, think about the fact that V.I. Lenin was trained and sent to Russia to foment rebellion and knock them out of the war by the Imperial German High Command...the whole leftist movement is a sham, a psyop, and deadly in intent, right from the start.
The truth of this world is that SOMEONE is always going to be running things, and I'd rather have "greedy" capitalists who don't care a bit about me in charge vs leftists who pretend to "care".
Didn't a radio show host write a book thats premise was liberalism was mental disease?psijac wrote:Great video on the Liberal mind. long watch but totally worth it.
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Yes, Dr. Michael Savage....he is a bit of a nut, but very intelligent. "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder"Andrew wrote:Didn't a radio show host write a book thats premise was liberalism was mental disease?psijac wrote:Great video on the Liberal mind. long watch but totally worth it.
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Savage is the best out there, IMHO. And I would say "nut", I would say eccentric. Alex Jones is a nut.jdhz28 wrote:Yes, Dr. Michael Savage....he is a bit of a nut, but very intelligent. "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder"Andrew wrote:Didn't a radio show host write a book thats premise was liberalism was mental disease?psijac wrote:Great video on the Liberal mind. long watch but totally worth it.
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He does twist off in a fit of rage the same way Jones does, but Savage actually has some serious credentials...Redneck_Buddha wrote:Savage is the best out there, IMHO. And I would say "nut", I would say eccentric. Alex Jones is a nut.jdhz28 wrote:Yes, Dr. Michael Savage....he is a bit of a nut, but very intelligent. "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder"Andrew wrote:Didn't a radio show host write a book thats premise was liberalism was mental disease?psijac wrote:Great video on the Liberal mind. long watch but totally worth it.
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