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- From: kellyj@leland.Stanford.EDU (Kelly Johnson)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are conservatives so stupid ?
- Keywords: liberals, conservatives, intellegence
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.020412.3630@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 02:04:12 GMT
- References: <C1FMr5.Fry@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <nate.1114@psygate.psych.indiana.edu>
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- In article <nate.1114@psygate.psych.indiana.edu> nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle) writes:
- >kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm) writes:
- >> There are a great number of regularly posting liberals who apparently
- >>think that conservative = idiot. Most of the time this is an inference;
- >>others say it explicitly. Why do liberals think they corner the
- >>intelligence market?
- >
- > I would hope that you don't consider me as one of the ones who think
- >that conservative == idiot, but just in case here's my 2 cents.
- >
- >> I agree that some conservatives are red-neck, uneducated people, but an
- >>equal number of liberals are sheep following the crowd to slaughter. There
- >>are many conservatives who listen to RL and have high IQ's. We listen to
- >>him because he is entertaining, and he is the only conservative voice in the
- >>mass media.
- >
- > Well, I listen to him for just about those exact reasons, and I suppose
- >that this is a good time to ask whether you agree with Rush's explicitly
- >stated opinion that liberalism is heinous, and that liberals are stupid
- >for holding liberal opinions?
- >
- >> I am sick of hearing liberals that dismiss everything RL says as drivel
- >>calling people that go to the opposite extreme 'dittoheads'. Conservatives
- >>need a similar term for these liberals, maybe 'eraseheads' after that wonderful
- >>David Linch movie.
- >
- > Sorry to break this to you but the term Dittohead was not invented by
- >liberals. Some of what Rush says *is* drivel, and highly inconsistent
- >drivel to at that. At one point I can recall Rush speaking disparagingly
- >of the theory of Evolution saying that he couldn't accept that humanity
- >could have happened by accident, and yet in other instances I've heard
- >Rush talking about the amount of time that mankind has been present on
- >Earth and by gosh he's using dates and timelines lifted directly from
- >Evolution.
- >
- > Essentially, when the "scientific facts" appear to support Rush, Rush
- >supports the "facts", but when those "facts" appear to disprove his position
- >he ridicules them and their originators.
- >
- > I'd also say that Rush could use a refresher course on world history.
- >
- >> Sorry, just needed to vent my spleen over these 'know-it-all' liberals.
- >
- > Consider this point; how many of the liberals posting here are just
- >venting their spleens over their favorite 'know-it-all' conservative?
- >('Of course I've heard of it - that's why I'm the host...')
- >
- >--
- >Nathan Engle Software Juggler
- >Psychology Department Indiana University
- >nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
-
- I suggest that there are alot of liberals out there that need to do
- a little research in the area of economics. I can understand why
- liberals are liberal on issues like gay rights, abortion, etc.,
- but how so many of them can actually believe that a socialist economy
- can work is beyond me. You can see all over the world how societies
- built on this kind of garbage are crumbling and trying to move toward
- more free market economies. They tried it. It failed miserably.
- Why do we (in this country) have some many "intellectuals" that seem
- to think we can make it work better? I'm not interested in a flame
- fest as much as I am interested in why this form of economics is
- so appealing to the "LEFT"? Anyone favoring this kind of stuff
- care to "enlighten" me?
-