11 Jan 2018

The Liberal Identity as Group Credential

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People who are just smart enough to graduate from college and to read establishment organs commonly lack any capability for sound reasoning and critical thinking. Instead, they rely on a trained ability to recognize the group consensus of the community of fashion, and they cling to that consensus like lemmings. Membership in the in-group matters to them, above everything else.

Selwyn Duke explains:

[The Progressive ideology is] wholly resistant to intellectual appeals. You can’t logically talk someone out of something irrational on which his self-worth is based. In fact, if it begins to dawn on such a person that his notions of superiority – and hence his self-image – rest on a lie, it will be intensely painful and depressing. The individual will thus have a strong incentive to rationalize away this realization.

I don’t claim that every single leftist derives his self-esteem from the notion that he’s part of a superior group called “liberals,” nor does this phenomenon completely explain leftist resistance to reason. But it is common among devoted liberals, and it’s part of why, as a group, they can’t give traditionalist views a fair hearing. Doing so doesn’t just threaten their ideology; it threatens who they are, their entire self-image. Any argument that may give them even an inkling that they’re wrong can induce a bit of panic and is thus quickly rationalized away – often as the rambling of uneducated, un-evolved mouth-breathers who just don’t know any better.

This phenomenon is exacerbated by two related factors. First, liberals are generally dysfunctional, vice-ridden people who embrace what we call liberalism because its underlying relativism and nihilism help them justify their sins. (They become the arbiters of their own “values.” “Everything is gray, a matter of perspective. I have my own ‘truth.'”) Simultaneously, liberalism allows these virtue-bereft people to virtue-signal by paying homage to the day’s fashionable values. In other words, liberals are generally morally “unaccomplished” people who often have nothing to cling to but the illusion of intellectual, and often moral, superiority.

RTWT

If conservatives ever figure out how to make good sense chic, Liberalism is doomed.

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Bunny

Groupthink and moral superiority appeal to everyone, but that sounds about right.



Seattle Sam

A very good illustration of this is liberal’s denial of the laws of economics. Despite overwhelming empirical evidence they continue to adopt positions and policy that assume these laws don’t exist. Democrats contend that reductions in the corporate tax rate have nothing to do with the economic and stock market boom that occurred immediately upon Trump’s election. Democrats contend that labor is exempt from the Law of Demand when they adopt minimum wage laws. The list is endless.



gbear

Life has taught me when you scratch some who identify has liberal, they are hippies out to make it rich. Thank God we are not burning cities anymore.



GoneWithTheWind

A liberal belief system requires lying to oneself and to everyone else. Liberal politicians are notorious for saying one thing to get elected and doing the opposite once in office. They are forced to “spin” their views on most things when asked direct questions. If a liberal politicians came out and spoke honestly about their views and agenda for our country they would be laughed/booed off the stage. They must lie, they must deceive, they must appear to be more conservative to get elected.



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