Debunking "liberals don't think"

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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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Sat, 10-18-2008 - 11:02am

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You first, lol!

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 11:47am

That's why when a liberal is caught doing something wrong, as it is in the case of Tim Mahoney, they think they're above the law, above moral reproach, and above public scrutiny.


Just change it to:


That's why when a conservative is caught doing something wrong, as it is in the case of Dick Cheney, they think they're above the law, above moral reproach, and above public scrutiny.


You think Dick Cheney and friends don't think they are better than you and everyone else?

 

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 12:01pm

Only elitists do the two step with BIG OIL.


Really?

 

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Sat, 10-18-2008 - 12:10pm

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Yes, it is all about what we prioritize and place

 

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Registered: 01-12-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 12:17pm

I think that's a great assessment, thanks!



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Sat, 10-18-2008 - 1:40pm
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Sat, 10-18-2008 - 1:45pm
Big oil have contributed to both Republicans and Democrats!


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Registered: 10-08-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 1:56pm

Sure it has...but I do believe that big oil has MORE ties to the Republicans.

 

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Registered: 10-16-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 4:41pm

b) You had said "tied to Bush", not "being Bush". McCain "tied" himself to Bush, as you've been shown.

c) Surely you realize that most liberals are not trying to portray McCain and Bush as literally the same person.>

Yet most liberals imply it as being such. Do you deny it? Why are Obama supporters out there chanting "no more Bush" if they don't see McCain as being Bush? Someone has crossed the fine line of sanity on that one, and it's someone on the extreme left. I'm sure not everyone on the left thinks this way, but the elitists and extremists do.

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Registered: 10-16-2008
Sat, 10-18-2008 - 4:59pm

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/JubaksJournal/BigOils10FavoriteMembersOfCongress.aspx

You think Bush and his daddy didn't/don't have major ties to big oil? John McCain has received far more money from oil companies than Obama has.

Maybe you need to rethink your definition of elitist.>

That doesn't explain Hollywood elitists, does it? And let's take a look at big oil, shall we?

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obamas_overstatement.html

http://trevorcook.typepad.com/weblog/2008/05/big-oil-places.html

Obama has even taken money from BIG OIL. Do you fix the barn door before or after the horse comes home? Perhaps what Obama took from BIG OIL was way less then what McCain received, but Obama shouldn't have taken a dime from them. He has no moral high ground to stand on where BIG OIL is concerned.

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