Are Liberals So Condescending or Is it Just That Conservatives are Stupid?

@jackmcg Said

Forums are something with which I had little experience. I spend appreciable time reading current event publications and I like to get all sides on a topic, mostly current events, some history and politics.

I'm right of center, more a traditionalist than a conservative, and I am interested in other opinions, but expect the holder will substantiate the view to a degree.

Since I joined The Forum Site in July of this year, I've posted mainly in the Politics and News/Current Events sections. Run into a lot of different opinions from really far left through liberal, to the moderates and on over to the right. Haven't seen much in the way of rants from people who would be described as far right.

For the most part, people are polite and many seem generally interested in others' views. Unfortunately, I've run into a couple of posters who unabashedly wear their far left views right out there. What I've discovered is that they seem tremendously intolerant of anyone with a view evidently diverse from their own. I've been called a liar twice, been told I fail as a competent poster, been advised that "it must suck to be" me, that conservatives and old voters are stupid and it just goes on.

Well, I was curious regarding this attitude and found an intriguing op-ed from February of this year in the Washington Post which asks what I ask, "Why are liberals so condescending?".

Mostly, I've noticed that the far left on The Forum Site revel in what they feel are short, neat, cool rebukes, not often providing any detail as to why they believe, feel or hold the views they do. They answer questions with accusations and other questions, demanding proof, studies and surveys. I even had one poster tell me that several bona-fide links offered to show a point were not valid, advising me they didn't say what they said. Its like dealing with an emotionally challenged child. What gives?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403698_2.html?sid=ST2010032603968

@bob_the_fisherman Said

I think it is human nature... I hope I am not one of the people that have attacked you in this way. My apologies if I have. I have been a little tense here with one or two things that have happened...

@jackmcg Said



Its like dealing with an emotionally challenged child. What gives?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403698_2.html?sid=ST2010032603968

@jackmcg Said

Forums are something with which I had little experience. I spend appreciable time reading current event publications and I like to get all sides on a topic, mostly current events, some history and politics.

I'm right of center, more a traditionalist than a conservative, and I am interested in other opinions, but expect the holder will substantiate the view to a degree.

Since I joined The Forum Site in July of this year, I've posted mainly in the Politics and News/Current Events sections. Run into a lot of different opinions from really far left through liberal, to the moderates and on over to the right. Haven't seen much in the way of rants from people who would be described as far right.

For the most part, people are polite and many seem generally interested in others' views. Unfortunately, I've run into a couple of posters who unabashedly wear their far left views right out there. What I've discovered is that they seem tremendously intolerant of anyone with a view evidently diverse from their own. I've been called a liar twice, been told I fail as a competent poster, been advised that "it must suck to be" me, that conservatives and old voters are stupid and it just goes on.

Well, I was curious regarding this attitude and found an intriguing op-ed from February of this year in the Washington Post which asks what I ask, "Why are liberals so condescending?".

Mostly, I've noticed that the far left on The Forum Site revel in what they feel are short, neat, cool rebukes, not often providing any detail as to why they believe, feel or hold the views they do. They answer questions with accusations and other questions, demanding proof, studies and surveys. I even had one poster tell me that several bona-fide links offered to show a point were not valid, advising me they didn't say what they said. Its like dealing with an emotionally challenged child. What gives?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403698.html

@fun2bme Said

I like your posts. You are a logical reasoned thinker, very rare. I spend more time reading on forums than posting because I find the above quote to be true as well. Arguing with them is like chasing my own tail around in circles. For what its worth I think you hold your own very well.
as for the what gives..they are unanchored. The further left you go the more reactionary and shifting the ideology becomes. Without a clear set of principles to rely on, they learn to rely on their emotions to tell them what is right and wrong. Facts are not required only passion. The left is politics of the moment, at least until it gains control, then it quickly become the politics of conformity.

@raditz Said

You racist. lol

@Grasshopper Said

Hey, one of my best friends is a liberal!

@WASH Said

I wonder how many of our posters have involved themselves in the history of politics? Some, I notice, have. Like world history, there is a cycle which never changes. We are in one now.
Will it be for the better?

@fun2bme Said

over the past year I have become very interested in the history of politics. I've learned some remarkable stuff. Inevitably when I post something that goes against 'common knowledge' especially on the left, I am called a liar or an idiot. When I give them sources, those sources are denounced as biased.
Talking with conservative people is far easier and productive. Even if I disagree with them about something, I can make my case and usually get respect for knowing facts, even if those facts don't change opinion.

I find my self reduced to just teasing them they way I would tease a spoiled recalcitrant child. The response is the same either way and teasing is certainly easier.