Where did the Liberal Moral/Intellectual Superiority Complex Come From?

You are really in love with your graph and are drooling to crush my numbers. Mine are correct, but for the sake of argument we will use your numbers and your graph.

1965 Great Society starts. How many in poverty? I read it as 33 million. Close enough or do you have a better number, FROM YOUR GRAPH?

Then we meander thru the years to the end of the graph in 2005. There we find 37 million in poverty.

What illustrious success do you wish to note for the 40 years and untold billions or trillions flushed down the drain?

 

I'm not sure where it originally came from, but it's certainly become a lot easier to assume with the way that the GOP has drifted into fanaticism.

 

$4,800,000,000,000.00 in insane unnecessary OVERspending in 4 years will cause that.

http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us/

 

Racking up huge debts is a bipartisan tradition at this point.

It also appears that neither party is really serious about ending that practice either.

 

Oh, that's easy. It comes from academia. These little clowns spend four years at college being indoctrinated with statist propaganda and they leave thinking they're smarter and better than everyone else. Poly-sci and economics majors are usually the worst offenders.

And being from the Chicago area, I know more than a few liberals and they all suffer from this kind of intellectual and moral superiority complex. I find that it's either (a) where they are from (ultra wealthy suburbs) or (b) their personality that creates this egotistical sense of superiority. The wealthy ones have spent their entire lives feeling superior to everyone else, so it's only natural for this to seep into their politics. And the naturally arrogant ones just maintain their egotistical sense of superiority. Spending four years in liberal academia only serves to reinforce these notions of superiority. They talk like they're the only ones who've ever heard of science, logic, reason, facts, evidence, etc.

 

This is the common conceit of the left. The idea that simply attending an "elite" university automatically endows one with a superior understanding of reality. I've found that many of these so-called intellectuals lack any semblance of good old fashioned common sense. When I was in the Marines, I saw academically impressive officers and enlisted Marines bumble about like idiots. One guy got kicked out the infantry because he was too stupid to handle a simple weapon system, and, yet, he could handle any academic challenge given to him. He attends UIC right now as a clinical psych major and gets straight A's, but he was too dumb to handle an M-16!

Spending four years in an ivory tower being indoctrinated by leftists with no real world experience does not make one intellectually superior. It just makes you a conformist...a dime a dozen.

 

Sounds exactly like the liberals on this forum.

 

That's completely untrue. Democrats are not even remotely close to classical conservatism. Burke would spit if he heard you say that.

 

You'll notice the two nations with highest rates of unemployment (excluding Finland) on that list also have the largest militaries. Food for thought...

Also, our unemployment rate is abnormally high right now. It's usually between 4-6%.

 

Democrats controlling Congress for 4 years. Deficits of $4,800,000,000,000.00 in just 4 years. That is NOT conservative.

 

The economics element of universities in America is quite conservative. There are almost no Marxists in academia in economics any longer. There are many Keynesians, but there are more classical economists, and some heterodox conservative economists as well(certainly many more of them, than there are Marxists/scientific socialists). I will concede that many other social science departments tend to be mostly liberal, but economics does NOT fit into that group.

 

That is not what he meant. He meant conservative in the generic sense, not in the distorted way in which Americans use it. Conservative as in, a desire to conserve social institutions, way of life, etc. The people we now call conservative are largely reactionary and regressive, and not conservative. While the people we call progressives, are largely conservative(that isn't always true, but it is true very often). Republicans want to do away with SS, Democrats want to conserve it. Republicans want to do away with the welfare state, Democrats want to conserve it. Republicans want to do away with Medicare, Democrats want to conserve it. Republicans want to do away with the right to an abortion(I mean right as in ability, not right as in guarantee granted by god), Democrats want to conserve it. The list goes on and on. Conservatives with a big C are not particularly conservative with a little c any longer!!

 

Every where has a high unemployment rate at the moment.

With regard to the military, you are right.

The U.S. has generally relied on military Keynesianism (as it is politically easy) in order to stimulate growth. This tactic however is impossible to sustain, especially as it cannot be reigned in so easily and so such spending continues to rise even when it is pro-cyclical rather than anti-cyclical.