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Liberal
Conceit
By Christopher Chantrill
______February 9th, 2010
American Thinker
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We all know
liberal condescension.
“Why are Americans
so anti-intellectual?”
your liberal friend might ask.
But Gerard Alexander
has written about it —
in the Washington Post.
he asks.
Why indeed?
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Your average liberal exhibits
four kinds of condescension,
according to Alexander.
There’s the notion that
conservatives win elections
and policy debates not because
of the power of ideas,
but
“because they deploy
brilliant and sinister
campaign tactics.”
Obviously this leads into
the second notion that
“if conservative leaders
are crass manipulators,
then the rank-and-file
Americans who support
them must be manipulated
at best,
or stupid at worst.”
This idea has won Thomas Frank,
author of
What’s the Matter with Kansas?,
a weekly column at
The Wall Street Journal.
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Then there’s the
conservatives-are-racists meme.
“It is now an article of faith
among many liberals that
Republicans win elections
because they tap into white
prejudice against blacks
and immigrants.”
This one started with
strategy to win votes
in the Old South.
Finally,
liberals believe that
“conservatives are driven
purely by emotion and anxiety —
including fear of change —
whereas liberals have the
harder task of appealing to
evidence and logic.”
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