Why do liberals call themselves "Intellectual Liberals"?

Here's the thing, coservatives and rural backwoods people don't want the government in their bussiness. They are willing to take care of themselves and others. I live in a rural area and just recently there was a fire. The husband got the 2 kids out but could not get the wife, she died. The local motel gave him a free room. Then someone else donated a mobile home. The local furniture store is donating carpet for his new place. No government involved. Why? Because it's not needed. Sounds like a great system to me. And no one was forced to do anything.

 

This cannot be possible my friend. Noone, and I mean no one, would have the gumption to go above and beyond, to help someone out without govt assistance. In the liberal mindset, that is.......

 

Why do conservatives call themselves 'halfwitted clods'?

 

And why are you even on here?

 

To puzzle small right-wing minds.

 

I agree. Sounds like you've got it covered. Well done.

But not everybody gets to be your neighbor.

 

Not everybody gets to be your neighbor by liberal design. If we take care of our own and our neighbors there is no need for Marxist programs.

 

That's not liberal design. That's more of a capitalist thing. If you have to chase money, you will often have to chase it into places where everyone is a stranger to each other. That's how cities happen.

 

Here are some comparisons.

Pelosi is far left. Max Baucus is not.
Sherrod Brown is far left. Heath Shuler is not.
Ben Cardin is far left. Gabrielle Giffords is not.
Patrick Leahy is far left. Bill Nelson is not.

It's not that hard to determine who's far left and who isn't when you actually bother to look up how each politician votes.

Far left policies would involve things like actually supporting an NHS (not just a public option), slave reparations, legalizing most drugs, allowing abortion up to basically birth, and giving amnesty (citizenship) to illegals.

I'm sure insurance interests were part of it. They began as a somewhat libertarian group, but somewhere down the line, they got hijacked by social conservatives.

Saxby Chambliss -- he supports the Fair Tax Act. That's a very conservative tax policy that would abolish the income tax and replace it with a consumption tax that would be considerably higher than current sales taxes.

John Cornyn - he's adamantly opposed to gay marriage. He's against mercury regulations for oil and gas smokestacks. He voted against removing oil and gas subsidies. He supports a constitutional ban on flag burning. He voted against stem cell research. He's voted against basically all troop withdrawals in Iraq.

How is he deserting allies and bowing to 3rd World dictators?

Then I guess that means that most GOP members would be considered crony capitalists -- and a lot of Democrats for that matter.

 

So why would any one what to live there? But please stay I don't my rural area turning into a city.

 

It is by design. For the things people used to do, there is now a government entity to do it for them. At least that is what you see in cities. There used to be a time when a neighborhood used to look after themselves. That time is gone. That time ended when the government decided they knew what was best for people.

 

This is all just regurgitated Rush Limbaugh EZE.

I do have an opinion I'd like to share.

For some reason...Republicans have an inferiority complex. When someone is actualy an intellectual, or smarter than most people...of course I wouldn't know myself...they usually don't get offended when someone says they're stupid. Nor do people who are not racists get bothered when people call then racists.

Most of the people I know who are Democrats have higher degrees. Most of the Republicans I know do not. This is just anecdotal of course...but what's really at work here is that the GOP is trying to appeal to their strongest demographic from the 2008 election...which was white males over 60 with high school educations.

This gives rise to all this ego stroking the GOP is doing for southern white old codgers who don't wanna hear any of that college boy crap from a bunch of uppity minorites and jews who went to school on affirmative action.

Nobody likes to feel that they're inferior, and the GOP is gonna make sure they're strongest demographic doesn't feel that way. You can call me stupid or uneducated all you want, because I know it's true.

 

Talk about ego stroking, have you read your post? I have no dagree and I 'm smarter than you in many ways.

 

I'm sure you are smarter than me in many ways. As am I smarter than you in many ways.

My post couldn't have been stroking my ego because I'm not a Republican or a Democrat. I don't think you caught the last sentence of my post.

 

With all due respect Goldwater, I don't regurgitate what Rush Limbaugh says because I rarely listen to him. On that note, the times that I have listened to Rush, he is correct. But, I don't let that guide me thought processes.

Your notion that Republicans have this so called, "Inferiority Complex", is way off base. I don't know, including myself, of any conservative that has an inferiority complex where this disaster of a president is concerned.

Most of the people you know that are democrats have higher degrees? What does that not only mean to me, but others on here that are conservatives?

Having a degree doesn't mean jack squat to me. Moreover, it shouldnt mean anything to anyone. You can have a degree, and be the biggest moron on the planet. That's a fact.

The funny thing to me, and I don't need my "Degree" to figure it out, is that it seems like you are making exuses for the left, without seeing how the left (meaning Obama) has ruinined this country in just 3 short years.

And you're little quip about the ol' codgers not wanting to hear about the minorities of today, perhaps that is the problem.

 

Maybe the inferiotry complex is linked to this...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIHRGUMr3Ak"]YouTube - ‪Conservative Brain Vs. Liberal Brain - Study‬‏[/ame]

But it's interseting to note, that more scientists are Liberals, then anything else.

Politics may play some role in the positive way the scientists surveyed judge the times.
More than half of the scientists surveyed (55%) say they are Democrats, compared with 35% of
the public. Fully 52% of the scientists call themselves liberals; among the public, just 20%
describe themselves as liberals. Many of the scientists surveyed
mentioned in their open-ended comments that they were
optimistic about the Obama administration’s likely impact on
science.
http://people-press.org/http://people-press.org/files/legacy-pdf/528.pdf

You're right, it's how they use it. But something tells me, those people with degress are very few in number.

It wasn't Obama doing it, the economy was improving under him. It's slowing down because of the Republicans got the House.

And it's been the conservitives who hate minorities.

 

Scientists are Democrats because they depend on Government grants (free money from the U.S. taxpayers) for their livelihood.

Most well-educated engineers, technologists and successful businessmen are Republicans.

Most of the time, all Democrats end up working for Republicans.


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You see, EZ-E is asking a question that is going over Iriemon liberal mind.
to which Iriemon can't wrap is mind around. LOL


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This might also explain why they're Dem:

Most scientists had heard at least a little about
claims that government scientists were not allowed to
report research findings that conflicted with the Bush
administration’s point of view. And the vast majority
(77%) says that these claims are true. By contrast,
these claims barely registered with the public – more
than half heard nothing at all about this issue. Only
about a quarter of the public (28%) said they thought
the claims were true.

http://people-press.org/http://people-press.org/files/legacy-pdf/528.pdf

 

Scientists is a loaded term these days. If it pertains to the 'social' or otherwise should be known as the voodoo sciences, indeed, many liberals can be found. Should one look at the technologies sector you see different results, unless of course you are looking at tainted technologies with political/social ramifications like 'man-made global warming' which is heavily influenced by voodoo sciences.

 

Hey, I'm no fan of George Bush!

By the way, I am an independent voter.

I am liberal on some issues and conservative on others.

I support Social Security and Medicare and oppose our huge deficits and government takeover of the U.S. national health care industry.

Check this out.



The National Debt stood at $10.626 trillion the day Mr. Obama was inaugurated. The Bureau of Public Debt reported today that the National Debt had hit an all time high of $13.665 trillion. The Debt increased $4.9 trillion during President Bush's two terms. The Administration has projected the National Debt will soar in Mr. Obama's fourth year in office to nearly $16.5-trillion in 2012. That's more than 100 percent of the value of the nation's economy and $5.9-trillion above what it was his first day on the job. Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20019931-503544.html ... Very soon, our tax dollars will be used for nothing more than to pay off interest on our national debt. Unfortunately, this interest will be paid to other countries like China and not to our U.S. citizens.

 

Not all science is enviormental...

Good Times for Science
Views about the current state of science are
consistently positive across groups of scientists.
Large majorities of those in physics and astronomy,
chemistry, geosciences and biological and medical
sciences say it is generally a good time for science
generally as well as for their own disciplines

Scientists hold American achievements in their
specialty in similarly high regard. Nearly nine-in-ten (88%)
scientists – and no fewer than 85% in any particular field –
rate the scientific achievements of the United States in their
disciplines as above average or best in the world.

 

You got anything a bit more recent?

 

I am aware of the various fields of 'science' it seems that has been greatly expanded to include subjective fields, which I consider voodoo science. If you would like to sway my opinion, bring me something to debate about.

 

Alright, let's go into Earth Science, speciffically Weather.