We're Right Because We're Smarter Than You...

Pat Sajak excoriates the attitude that Liberals take when attempting to advance their side of the argument:

"The moral superiority they bring to the table allows them to alter the playing field and the rules in their favor. They can say and do things the other side can’t because, after all, they have the greater good on their side. If a Conservative -- one of the bad guys -- complains about the content of music, films or television shows aimed at children, he is being a prude who wants to tell other people what to read or listen to or watch; he is a censor determined to legislate morality. If, however, a Liberal complains about speech and, in fact, supports laws against certain kinds of speech, it is right and good because we must be protected from this “hate speech” or “politically incorrect” speech. (Of course, they…"being the good guys"…will decide exactly what that is.)...

...When Liberals want to legislate what youÂ’re allowed to drive or what you should eat or how much support you can give to a political candidate or what you can or canÂ’t say, they are doing it for altruistic reasons. The excesses of the Left are to be excused because these folks operate from the higher moral ground and the benefit of the greater wisdom and intelligence gained from that perspective."

I find that it's this "smarter-than-thou" orientation that allows Liberals to feel free to shout down anyone who dares challenge their talking-points. And if the offender persists, name-calling and ad hominem personal attacks are usually the next weapon in their arsenal.

I remember a book by James Carville that came a while back titled We're Right, They're Wrong which I originally took as political satire, but the fact is that this little mantra is pretty much a common strand of political DNA among Liberal Democrats. They're right not on the facts, but because they're so much "smarter" than the rest of us.

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