re: #399 iceweasel

Wow, awesome quote and I didn’t know it at all. Thank you for that.

It’s funny, there is this stereotype on the right that liberals are arrogant and self-righteous and want to tell everyone how they should live. And I can see where that comes from…there IS an element like that within the left and they’re annoying as hell. They like to play little “I’m holier than thou” games—both against others (nonliberals) and against each other.

But they really aren’t representative of the left as a whole, in my opinion. They’re like the whacko people on the right who are so-cons and ALSO obsessed with telling everyone how they should live and how they should think: whether it’s about gay marriage, or creationism and ID being smuggled into science class rooms….

i really believe that the vast majority of Americans share a firm commitment to privacy and freedom, regardless of the ways the whackos on both sides throw that out the window.

Does arrogance and self righteousness have ANY correlation between the different sides in a liberal democracy such as ours? And if so, at what point does one cross the line from conservative to liberal? Most will agree that Reagan was conservative and Obama is liberal. But where would a person holding the general LGF football view fit (If I am correct in stating that the general LGF view can be roughly summed up as fiscally conservative/socially liberal.) If a person adheres to the view (and I know a few here do, as this has been discussed over the last days) that liberals behave a certain way due to philosophical neccessity, would it follow that a “True” conservative is least arrogant, a liberal is most arrogant, and a person holding the general LGF view is not as arrogant as a liberal but more arrogant than a true conservative? Most would find such a scale pretty awkward, I think. I’d say the more convinced a person is that TRUTH is on their side and their side alone, the more arrogant and self righteous that person would be, whether liberal, conservative or believeing in monarchy by divine right.