I've tried to explain to the primitives via this site that you can't say you care and have compassion towards others and then turn around and say things that are inappropriate, or lie about them, or be critical of them the way they do. By doing so, it completely destroys their whole argument that they're caring and compassionate. But it's beyond their ability to reason properly.
Here's an interesting read I found the other day, and it encapsulates what the problem is with liberals and their messaging.
https://unherd.com/2018/07/liberal-smugness-will-destroy-left/It's a British paper, but it touches a lot on what's going on here in the USA. It's seems Britian's libs have the same smug issues, especially when it comes to Brexit.
In summary, it's what we've noted all along: They believe themselves to be the most intelligent people that's ever existed, and anyone who doesn't agree is too stupid to know what's good for them.
This approaches the heart of the matter. Rensin argues that what is often behind liberal smugness is the philosophical assumption that the difference between people politically is always a difference of knowing various facts, not a difference of ideology. This is the problem with the empiricist approach to politics: the fact-based assessments and belief that evidence only should drive our disagreements. For when fact-based empiricism comes to dominate the cultural and intellectual apparatus of the liberal world-view, then it can only be a knowledge of the facts that divides people.
This is where progressive smugness comes from: the idea that I know stuff that you do not. It is not that we disagree ideologically, because ideology is dead. All that is left is facts and knowing facts. And either you know the facts or you don’t. And we do. And you don’t.
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When it comes to Brexit – as with Thomas Frank and Kansas – it is widely insisted upon that no one could possibly have voted against their own economic interests knowingly. No one voted to be poorer, Anna Soubry told the Commons in an impassioned speech last week. The argument goes on thus: because Brexit will make us poorer, the Brexit-voting working class cannot have known what they were doing. So either they are stupid or (which amounts to the same thing) easily manipulated by the dark forces of those who do have much to gain.
But what if people did indeed think that there was something about Brexit that was more important that GDP? Why is it impossible to consider that possibility, that some people were indeed prepared to accept a relatively poorer country as a price worth paying for a more independent one? That some things are more important than money?
What middle-class liberals really do need to appreciate is that the difference between their perspective and that of the Trump supporter or the Brexiter is not one of ignorance of facts, but one of basic philosophy. It is not a mistake or ignorance that other people want to live in a very different world with very different values.
It's why referring to liberals as modern-day Nazis is an accurate description.
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