Liberals really
believe most Americans are stupid
It’s time for liberals to accept the stark realization that not
everybody agrees with you.
And those who disagree with you are not all stupid, bigoted,
racist and mean-spirited, despite what you and your supporters think.
Many people simply don’t like your agenda. Or the
paternalistic, condescending attitude you all seem to share toward Americans of
all races, ethnicities, religions, and income levels. You obviously believe we are all helpless to
make our own decisions and can’t be trusted – on our own – to make the right
decisions for ourselves, our families, or our future.
You clearly think you know better what we need and what we
want. We should just let you run things
the way you see fit, because you are so much smarter than the rest of us.
It’s that arrogance that really turns a lot of folks
off. That feeling many of us get that
you truly believe we are too stupid to understand the brilliance and
“rightness” of your ideas.
You think we aren’t listening closely enough. Or have the mental capacity to
comprehend. You couldn’t be more wrong; your
problem is that we’ve listened very closely and we still don’t want what you
want, no matter how often you repackage it.
Or repeat it.
Have you noticed that when liberals try to convince you of
something – and you’re obviously not buying it – they start speaking louder,
like you’re deaf? Or they repeat the
same stuff over and over, as if you didn’t grasp it the first time? Then there’s the “of course you know”
conspiracy theory – usually something that’s already been debunked – they try again
to assert as fact.
Face it … they don’t think you’re that smart. You may have a Ph.D. while they’re still
working on a GED, but because you don’t agree with them you must not be as
smart as they are.
Here’s a rare personal story to illustrate all that:
On vacation not long ago, I had the misfortune of being
cornered at the pool by some truck driver and his wife from Chicago who started a conversation that quickly mutated into a diatribe about how Scott Walker was a monster intent on breaking all
unions. (It was months before the recall
election.)
He claimed it was all a plot by the Koch brothers to destroy
unions everywhere. This, in turn, was
part of a larger plot by Republicans to drive down wages across the nation,
especially among the working class, while they gave tax breaks to their wealthy
friends (the 1%) and by doing so shifted the tax burden on to the backs of the
poor and middle class.
The rich weren’t paying their fair share as a result, and
that was hurting the economic recovery. Democrats were valiantly trying to accelerate
the recovery, while being blocked at every turn by selfish Republicans. The Republicans were holding up passage of vital
jobs bills just so they could get more tax breaks for big corporations who – as
everybody smart (liberal) knew – owned
the Republican party lock, stock and barrel, hated unions, and used the tax breaks
to send jobs to non-union sweatshops overseas where workers were paid slave
wages.
Of course, he added, we wouldn’t have the current economic
problems in the first place if George Bush hadn’t lied to us and dragged us so
deeply in debt by invading Iraq and Afghanistan just to give billions to
Cheney’s Halliburton buddies.
His wife chimed in that she had gotten – and lost – about 11
clerical jobs in the past 14 years in part because of George Bush’s destruction
of the economy. Another problem, she
said, might be – just might be – that those firms didn’t realize how much
smarter she was than her bosses.
Oh, and the truck driver said that he was offered Mensa membership
when he graduated from high school but declined. After dropping out of community college, and
then working on the floor at a retail electronics store, he decided to become a
truck driver. And like his wife, he was
so much smarter than his bosses.
Whew. Where do you
begin?
I tried to escape. When
I couldn’t do that I tried to gently talk them down from the crazy place they
were in and move the discussion/lecture away from politics. Nothing worked. Even "look ... it's Halley's Comet!" or "Oh my God, did you see those space aliens?" would have failed to move them off topic
There was no reasoning with them. No logic to what they were saying. No facts either; it was all pure emotional
drivel. Nutso-crazy crap they just kept
repeating. What was weird was that I'd heard this all before in press conferences, from Democrats, and from the Obama administration and its supporters. Maybe a bit more eloquently in other venues, unless it was Maxine Waters, but all the talking points were certainly there. It was the liberal dogma.
Also strange was that this couple didn't even have skin in the game – neither one was in
a union, nor wanted to be, and all this vitriol about Scott Walker and his "attack" on Wisconsin public sector unions was coming from two apparently pretty well off people in the private sector who lived in Chicago. Go figure.
The net experience was like having insane people try to
convince you the world was indeed flat.
You could show them NASA pictures from space that proved it was round; they’d have some hare-brained counter argument that those pictures weren’t
real. Or it was a conspiracy cooked up
by George Bush, the Koch brothers and the religious right to hurt the unions and the working
class, and reward the rich
(You know how that is.
You’ve had the same experience with your liberal friends and even family members. You know they are nuts; but good manners
keeps you from telling them the obvious – they’re nuts. )
I was finally saved because they had to be someplace
else.
But before they left, they did try to talk my wife and me
into going to a presentation about resort time shares. Oh, and if we bought one, please mention that
they had referred us so they would get a $500 credit on their own annual
time-share membership fee.
How apropos. From
liberal lunacy to shilling a time-share pitch for a kickback …
And liberals think everybody else is stupid?
Yeah, I want liberals who believe this kind of crap running things, don't you?
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