Mike Flannigan wrote:
> "Leif Erikson" <jackball@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Mike Flannigan wrote:
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>>>"Leif Erikson" <jackball@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>news:6JXNg.7198$v%4.4893@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Damn it. I wasn't through. Accidentally hit the "send" button.
>
> Anyway...
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>>>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.
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>
> Hicks have to work for a living, and in the real world. Liberals tend to
be
> insulated form reality.
There you go with these unsup****ted, black/white
generalizations based on *your* overidentification with
an extreme wing of the political spectrum.
The fact is, you don't have any data at all about the
relative percentages of liberals and conservatives who
"have" to work for a living. You're simply taking your
prejudices and making up pseudo-factual statements
based on them.
> College professors who live in ivory towers who
> wouldn't have the sense to work at Wal-Mart. Hollywood types who live
like
> royalty.
We see the ugly resentment of the guy with the bitter
sense of being put upon at work in these comments.
> [snip carelessly dispensed foam from a really rabid rant, except for:]
>
> Rosie O'Donnell said yesterday that fundamentalist Christians are as big
a
> threat to America as fundamentalist Muslims. WTF?...
They are: they vote here, and they vote for really bad
people to hold office. They're stupid, they're
massively hypocritical, they focus on all the wrong
parts of Jesus' message, and they vote for stupid,
parochial, uncurious liars and drunks like George W. Bush.
>>>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.
You don't know *anything* about economics. I do.
Economics and economists are relentlessly libertarian,
with a slight tendency to lean conservative on social
issues.
> They come out thinking that the economy is a zero
> sum game.
This ABSOLUTELY proves that you don't know a ****ing
thing about economics. Economics is THE branch of
social science that does NOT think the economy or any
other aspect of life characterized by uncertainty is a
zero sum game. The primary lesson of economics is that
there are gains from exchange for all participants in
markets and international trade.
> They think that wealth is a static pie.
No, that is not the position of *any* professional
economist.
> 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.
You are so ****ing stupid, and so completely wrong in
your ignorant mischaracterization of economics, it's
difficult to go on. Why don't you venture out of your
trailer park some time and go talk with an actual
economist, and ask him whether or not economics is
largely built around the view that human interaction is
a zero sum game, or the view that wealth is static.
You just could not be more wrong. But stubbornness
goes hand-in-glove with stupidity, so you're going to
claim you're right.
>
> 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.
Who's paying you, ****ll?
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