PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
Liberalism: where denial and delusion are inserted between fact and conclusion.
Liberalism requires a willingness to accept, and support, lies.
1.To be brutally frank, I am a hoarder of facts. Of information, knowledge, of trivia of all kinds. And then, I become promiscuous in the management of same, combining, joining putting parts together as one would a puzzle, resulting in all sorts of combinations and permutations simply for the enjoyment of finding parts that hadn’t been put together, but suddenly lead to conclusions.
I bet I am not the only one who thinks this way. And, I bet it is far, far more common in conservatives, individualists, than in Liberals, collectivists.
In fact, it is the reason conservatives eat Liberal’s lunch in debates.
2. But even so, it does not lead to the sort of re-education of Leftists that one would wish.
“Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.” How facts backfire
3. It is the study of history, both modern and ancient, that provides facts. But as above, even when the facts, the basis of reality, are available, and ready to serve as public policy….they don’t.
“Denying Reality Leads To Tyranny And Societal Failure”
Denying Reality Leads To Tyranny And Societal Failure - CD Media
Socialist entities such as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia both promised the birth of ‘the new man,’ a socialist sapiens, if we were to destroy capitalism, and replace worship of God with worship of state, government, the collective representation of man. “Today both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are synonymous with tyranny and failure. Both nations murdered millions. Both nations no longer exist.”
Yet millions of Americans vote for the latest representation of those two mistakes: Democrat policies mirror the two that sprang from Karl Marx’s fevered mind.
4. In September of 1991, the President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, was asked about the history and future of Communism:
“One of their more dramatic responses came to a question by Los Angeles actor Ben Stein, who asked whether the two leaders believed any country should live under communism.
Yeltsin answered first: "This experiment which was conducted on our soil was a tragedy for our people and it was too bad that it happened on our territory. It would have been better if the experiment had happened in some small country, to make it clear that it was a Utopian idea, although a beautiful idea."
Gorbachev said history has shown that "that model has failed which was brought about in our country. And I believe that this is a lesson not only for our people but for all peoples.”
GORBACHEV, YELTSIN SAY COMMUNISM FAILED USSR
Did you hear that, Democrats?
Cue the chorus: “It can’t happen here!”
See what I mean?
Liberalism requires a willingness to accept, and support, lies.
1.To be brutally frank, I am a hoarder of facts. Of information, knowledge, of trivia of all kinds. And then, I become promiscuous in the management of same, combining, joining putting parts together as one would a puzzle, resulting in all sorts of combinations and permutations simply for the enjoyment of finding parts that hadn’t been put together, but suddenly lead to conclusions.
I bet I am not the only one who thinks this way. And, I bet it is far, far more common in conservatives, individualists, than in Liberals, collectivists.
In fact, it is the reason conservatives eat Liberal’s lunch in debates.
2. But even so, it does not lead to the sort of re-education of Leftists that one would wish.
“Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.” How facts backfire
3. It is the study of history, both modern and ancient, that provides facts. But as above, even when the facts, the basis of reality, are available, and ready to serve as public policy….they don’t.
“Denying Reality Leads To Tyranny And Societal Failure”
Denying Reality Leads To Tyranny And Societal Failure - CD Media
Socialist entities such as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia both promised the birth of ‘the new man,’ a socialist sapiens, if we were to destroy capitalism, and replace worship of God with worship of state, government, the collective representation of man. “Today both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are synonymous with tyranny and failure. Both nations murdered millions. Both nations no longer exist.”
Yet millions of Americans vote for the latest representation of those two mistakes: Democrat policies mirror the two that sprang from Karl Marx’s fevered mind.
4. In September of 1991, the President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, was asked about the history and future of Communism:
“One of their more dramatic responses came to a question by Los Angeles actor Ben Stein, who asked whether the two leaders believed any country should live under communism.
Yeltsin answered first: "This experiment which was conducted on our soil was a tragedy for our people and it was too bad that it happened on our territory. It would have been better if the experiment had happened in some small country, to make it clear that it was a Utopian idea, although a beautiful idea."
Gorbachev said history has shown that "that model has failed which was brought about in our country. And I believe that this is a lesson not only for our people but for all peoples.”
GORBACHEV, YELTSIN SAY COMMUNISM FAILED USSR
Did you hear that, Democrats?
Cue the chorus: “It can’t happen here!”
See what I mean?
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