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Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Dennis Prager ponders the question: who hates the other more - conservatives or liberals. He opens with these questions to which we all know the answers.
1. During the 2004 elections, which car was more likely to be "keyed," i.e., deliberately scratched -- a car with a "John Kerry" bumper sticker in an overwhelmingly conservative area, or a car with a "George W. Bush" sticker in an overwhelmingly liberal area?

2. When speaking at colleges, do right-wing or left-wing speakers need and receive police protection?

3. In a debate between a right-wing and a left-wing speaker before an audience equally divided between left and right, which audience group is more likely to boo and hiss at the speaker with whom it disagrees -- the liberal or the conservative?
Now, the answer might just be representative of the relative maturity of the two groups, but I'll go with Prager's diagnosis. Conservatives regard liberals as misguided, or, if you're rude, dumb. But liberals regard conservatives as evil. If you think that you know the best way to help others or save the environment or bring peace to the world, then someone who disagrees with you must want the opposite goal. They must want the poor to starve, the environment to be destroyed, and to prefer war.
As Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party, said on national TV, "Our moral values, in contradiction to the Republicans', is we don't think kids ought to go to bed hungry at night." Republicans don't care about starving children. Liberals deem conservatives to be racist, homophobic, war mongering, money worshipping and sexist. It makes perfect sense to hate such people. I would, too.
Thomas Sowell had diagnosed this dichotomy years ago in his book, The Vision of the Anointed, a book I heartily recommend. One of Sowell's points is that conservatives use reasoning that suggest a knowledge of economic principles such as how any policy we adopt involves tradeoffs and that human beings are fallible. However, the liberal vision is idealistic and believes in the perfectibility of man. They use emotional arguments. Helping the poor is a worthy goal, thus anyone who doesn't support giveaway programs is not opposing them out of a reasoned approach that such programs don't work but because he is a despicible person who doesn't care about the poor.

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Dennis Prager ponders the question: who hates the other more - conservatives or liberals. He opens with these questions to which we all know the answers.

1. During the 2004 elections, which car was more likely to be "keyed," i.e., deliberately scratched -- a car with a "John Kerry" bumper sticker in an overwhelmingly conservative area, or a car with a "George W. Bush" sticker in an overwhelmingly liberal area?

2. When speaking at colleges, do right-wing or left-wing speakers need and receive police protection?

3. In a debate between a right-wing and a left-wing speaker before an audience equally divided between left and right, which audience group is more likely to boo and hiss at the speaker with whom it disagrees -- the liberal or the conservative?

Now, the answer might just be representative of the relative maturity of the two groups, but I'll go with Prager's diagnosis. Conservatives regard liberals as misguided, or, if you're rude, dumb. But liberals regard conservatives as evil. If you think that you know the best way to help others or save the environment or bring peace to the world, then someone who disagrees with you must want the opposite goal. They must want the poor to starve, the environment to be destroyed, and to prefer war.

As Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party, said on national TV, "Our moral values, in contradiction to the Republicans', is we don't think kids ought to go to bed hungry at night." Republicans don't care about starving children. Liberals deem conservatives to be racist, homophobic, war mongering, money worshipping and sexist. It makes perfect sense to hate such people. I would, too.

Thomas Sowell had diagnosed this dichotomy years ago in his book, The Vision of the Anointed, a book I heartily recommend. One of Sowell's points is that conservatives use reasoning that suggest a knowledge of economic principles such as how any policy we adopt involves tradeoffs and that human beings are fallible. However, the liberal vision is idealistic and believes in the perfectibility of man. They use emotional arguments. Helping the poor is a worthy goal, thus anyone who doesn't support giveaway programs is not opposing them out of a reasoned approach that such programs don't work but because he is a despicible person who doesn't care about the poor.

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HOME Betsy neither necessarily uses, nor endorses, the products advertised on this site. The truth about Avesil Cheap Hosting Atlanta Bankruptcy Attorney Dallas Bankruptcy Attorney Wikio Get exclusive travel deals and book discount cheap flights Online Bachelors Degree Comments from an AP history and government teacher in Raleigh, NC. e-mail betsynewmark AT gmail.com Commissions earned from selling items through Amazon will go towards buying materials for my classes. Thank you. Site Feed		Tuesday, April 04, 2006 Dennis Prager ponders the question: who hates the other more - conservatives or liberals. He opens with these questions to which we all know the answers. 1. During the 2004 elections, which car was more likely to be "keyed," i.e., deliberately scratched -- a car with a "John Kerry" bumper sticker in an overwhelmingly conservative area, or a car with a "George W. Bush" sticker in an overwhelmingly liberal area? 2. When speaking at colleges, do right-wing or left-wing speakers need and receive police protection? 3. In a debate between a right-wing and a left-wing speaker before an audience equally divided between left and right, which audience group is more likely to boo and hiss at the speaker with whom it disagrees -- the liberal or the conservative? Now, the answer might just be representative of the relative maturity of the two groups, but I'll go with Prager's diagnosis. Conservatives regard liberals as misguided, or, if you're rude, dumb. But liberals regard conservatives as evil. If you think that you know the best way to help others or save the environment or bring peace to the world, then someone who disagrees with you must want the opposite goal. They must want the poor to starve, the environment to be destroyed, and to prefer war. As Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party, said on national TV, "Our moral values, in contradiction to the Republicans', is we don't think kids ought to go to bed hungry at night." Republicans don't care about starving children. Liberals deem conservatives to be racist, homophobic, war mongering, money worshipping and sexist. It makes perfect sense to hate such people. I would, too. Thomas Sowell had diagnosed this dichotomy years ago in his book, The Vision of the Anointed, a book I heartily recommend. One of Sowell's points is that conservatives use reasoning that suggest a knowledge of economic principles such as how any policy we adopt involves tradeoffs and that human beings are fallible. However, the liberal vision is idealistic and believes in the perfectibility of man. They use emotional arguments. Helping the poor is a worthy goal, thus anyone who doesn't support giveaway programs is not opposing them out of a reasoned approach that such programs don't work but because he is a despicible person who doesn't care about the poor. posted by Betsy Newmark permalink 6:19 AM 0 comments Comments: Dennis Prager ponders the question: who hates the other more - conservatives or liberals. He opens with these questions to which we all know the answers. 1. During the 2004 elections, which car was more likely to be "keyed," i.e., deliberately scratched -- a car with a "John Kerry" bumper sticker in an overwhelmingly conservative area, or a car with a "George W. Bush" sticker in an overwhelmingly liberal area? 2. When speaking at colleges, do right-wing or left-wing speakers need and receive police protection? 3. In a debate between a right-wing and a left-wing speaker before an audience equally divided between left and right, which audience group is more likely to boo and hiss at the speaker with whom it disagrees -- the liberal or the conservative? Now, the answer might just be representative of the relative maturity of the two groups, but I'll go with Prager's diagnosis. Conservatives regard liberals as misguided, or, if you're rude, dumb. But liberals regard conservatives as evil. If you think that you know the best way to help others or save the environment or bring peace to the world, then someone who disagrees with you must want the opposite goal. They must want the poor to starve, the environment to be destroyed, and to prefer war. As Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party, said on national TV, "Our moral values, in contradiction to the Republicans', is we don't think kids ought to go to bed hungry at night." Republicans don't care about starving children. Liberals deem conservatives to be racist, homophobic, war mongering, money worshipping and sexist. It makes perfect sense to hate such people. I would, too. Thomas Sowell had diagnosed this dichotomy years ago in his book, The Vision of the Anointed, a book I heartily recommend. One of Sowell's points is that conservatives use reasoning that suggest a knowledge of economic principles such as how any policy we adopt involves tradeoffs and that human beings are fallible. However, the liberal vision is idealistic and believes in the perfectibility of man. They use emotional arguments. Helping the poor is a worthy goal, thus anyone who doesn't support giveaway programs is not opposing them out of a reasoned approach that such programs don't work but because he is a despicible person who doesn't care about the poor. posted by Betsy Newmark permalink 6:19 AM 0 comments Comments: Post a Comment