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November 05, 2004
Stupid or Evil?
I have mixed reactions to the leftist screeds of the past few days. It is fun to read people this wrong being this frustrated and angry, but scrary since they honestly believe everyone who disagrees with them is stupid or evil. Here is a lovely example from Salon.com:
I am sick to my stomach, literally sick. I hate this man, this president. And what I hate most of all, I suppose, is that I am sharing a country with nearly 60 million people who look at this disaster of an administration, and think it's a good thing. Us intellectual liberal types aren't supposed to say it, but let's pretend I'm Ann Coulter for the left: How fucking stupid are those people? And why in God's name should I, and my children, be punished because they're so fucking stupid?
Or as the London Daily Mirror put it: How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?
Here is another Salon reader who thinks Bush is a monkey, that the people who voted for him are stupid, and is glad for the death and suffering Bush will cause: The vacuous, simplistic, thimble-deep "majority" that reelected this trained monkey and his henchmen/corporate backers, ah, I mean "administration," will get what they deserve, free and clear. Let the body bags keep rolling from the Middle East, let health care get hollowed out, let the evisceration of the middle class roll on unabated, let civil liberties get erased in name of "moral values," whatever the fuck that is.
Here is a comment by a reader in a different Salon article from today ironically about the liberal echo chamber saying that Bush supporters are not rational: These people did not make rational judgments, and you are not going to get any insights into their minds that you would not get from reading a magazine article.
And here is a lovely quote from the Guardian once again comparing Bush to Hitler: "Ach," says Oliver James, the clinical psychologist. "I was too depressed to even speak this morning. I thought of my late mother, who read Mein Kampf when it came out in the 1930s and thought, 'Why doesn't anyone see where this is leading?'"
For what I think is an example of a wise response that could help us all I recommend the Backseat Philosopher (via instapundit) who lists several reasons why the Democrats have problems and areas they need to work on: Our error is that we Democrats are far less understanding than we think we are. Our version of understanding the other side is to look at them from a psychological point of view while being completely unwilling to take their arguments seriously.
Posted by Pete at November 5, 2004 07:56 AM
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