Debunking "liberals don't think"
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| Fri, 10-17-2008 - 1:37pm |
I have often read the phrase "those liberals don't think, they only feel." Accompanying this phrase is often the analogy of Obama supporters as sheep who are so blinded by the light of Obama's celebrity that they fail to consider the issues carefully or logically.
First, I wanted to say that most liberals I know DO feel. They are very empathetic, compassionate people who do want to ease suffering in the world. I think that most conservatives are the same way. But liberals are not stupid. In fact, if you look at the data, higher levels of education are correlated with more liberal attitudes, although once you get into people with graduate degrees, the correlation flattens. The faculty at more prestigious universities also tend to be more liberal than the faculty at less prestigious universities. This is not to say that there are not highly intelligent people who are also conservative. My point is simply that saying liberals "don't think, they only feel" is simply a false explanation for disagreement.
Can't we all agree that two intelligent people considering the exact same information might come to different conclusions? Can't we all agree that two intelligent people carefully and logically considering the issues might still choose to vote for different presidential candidates? If we want to get over the polarization in our society, we need to stop thinking of people who disagree as being idiots.



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Thanks for the links.
"We believe that the United States derives from and is an integral part of European civilization and the European people and that the American people and government should remain European in their composition and character. We therefore oppose the massive immigration of non-European and non-Western peoples into the United States that threatens to transform our nation into a non-European majority in our lifetime."
Um....you said that I seemed objective to you before. Well, objectively, this to me is saying that America is and should remain a white nation. It is saying to keep anyone not of European heritage out. I'm sorry, but that does strike me as extremist and indirectly racist.
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Edited 1/18/2009 5:12 pm ET by chelesbelles
~I like the CofCC's statement of principles.~
As an aside, they haven't
I am not sure we'll see an "alien" claim but there's time left so who knows lol :)
As an aside:
"Police sources tell KDKA that a campaign worker has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter "B" in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker."
http://kdka.com/local/attack.McCain.Bloomfield.2.847628.html
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