"Leif Erikson" <jackball@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Mike Flannigan wrote:
>
>> "Leif Erikson" <jackball@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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it. I wasn't through. Accidentally hit the "send" button.
Anyway...
>> A disconnect from reality and an indoctrination under the guise of an
>> education correlates well with a tendency to hold liberal political
>> beliefs.
>
> They may well be somewhat disconnected from reality on many issues. I
> don't think they're any more disconnected from reality than
fundamentalist
> Christian hicks who are conservative. Conservative, and also
> unintelligent and stupid.
Hicks have to work for a living, and in the real world. Liberals tend to
be
insulated form reality. College professors who live in ivory towers who
wouldn't have the sense to work at Wal-Mart. Hollywood types who live like
royalty. People who work for the government doing half the work they would
have to do to make the same money in the private sector and retiring early
with nice pensions. Conservative hicks out there laying bricks and sowing
corn know a hell of a lot more about reality and how the real world works
than these people.
Haven't you ever noticed that the more insulated from reality, the more
likely one is to be a liberal? You've heard the old saying. If you're not
a
liberal when you are 20 you have no heart. If you are not a conservative
when you're 30 you have no brain. That saying rings true because the older
you get, the more you understand the real world. Liberals tend to never
grow
up. Ever wonder why the wealthiest parts of the country tend to be
liberal?
That's because the wealthiest parts of the country are the ones closest to
****ts. Think about it. NY, Boston, San Francisco, the whole of California.
People who live in affluent areas (affluent because of their location)
tend
to be a bunch of liberals. And when you start talking to these people you
quickly learn that they have no clue on earth what is going on in this
world.
Reminds me a lot of when Bill O'Reilly appeared in David Letterman.
Letterman was rude and obnoxious and told him that he thinks about 60% of
what O'Reilly says is BS. Bill asked for an example and Letterman said he
didn't have one because he does not watch the show. Huh? Typical.
Letterman
lives a very posh life inside a tiny little world where everyone thinks
the
same way. So any other opinion on the world must be BS. He doesn't have to
know what that opinion is. Liberals tell him O'Reilly is full of **** so
he
doesn't have to listen. He's been told what to think already. THAT, is
your
typical liberal. A closed minded, arrogant dolt who doesn't base what he
thinks on reality, but simpley what other liberals have told him.
Rosie O'Donnell said yesterday that fundamentalist Christians are as big a
threat to America as fundamentalist Muslims. WTF?... Where the hell has
she
been? Very liberal = very stupid.
>> That the majority of our institutes of higher learning are decidedly
>> left-wing is not seriously in dispute.
>
> Depends on the issues in question. On a lot of issues, most notoriously
> "multi-culturalism", they are. However, business, economics, the hard
> sciences, and the professional schools other than law don't seem to be
> dominated by leftwing thinking. In any case, most people who have
> university degrees don't take a lot of that multi-culti crap seriously
> anyway.
If you don't think that economics is dominated by leftwing thinking, I've
got a bridge to sell you. They come out thinking that the economy is a
zero
sum game. They think that wealth is a static pie. That a "have" renders a
"have not". They don't understand that wealth is produced. This sort of
stupidity applies in their minds to the US and the third world as well.
And as for "hard Sciences"... Yeah, they'll learn that the world is round,
but when it comes the environment, or any other assertion that advances
more
government control, you can bet that they are being told that the sky is
falling.
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