{"id":2895,"date":"2008-06-30T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T13:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2008-06-30T13:09:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T17:09:27","slug":"those-mean-spirited-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/those-mean-spirited-liberals\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Mean-Spirited Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Thinker<\/a> | Christopher Chantrill | Jun 30, 2008<\/p>\n

Every now and again our learned scholars in the liberal university come up with a study, financed by taxpayers’ money, that concludes what every liberal already knows. Conservatives are rigid and not very intelligent. In fact, as one study by two Berkeley professors claimed, the the “whiny, insecure kid in nursery school” probably grew up to be a conservative.<\/p>\n

Of course two can play at that game, and so conservative Peter Schweizer took a look at the University of Chicago’s General Social Survey and a few other generally available opinion surveys and came to the opposite conclusion in his book Makers and Takers. He found that conservatives are the good guys and liberals are the whiners. <\/p>\n

Maybe he got different results because the General Social Survey covers the whole United States while the Berkeley professors only studied a single school in Berkeley, California. <\/p>\n

Either way, Schweizer’s findings make sense.<\/p>\n

Liberals are more materialistic than conservatives, he finds. Of course they are. Believing in equality, differences in material things are very important to them. Not surprisingly, when they discover material differences in society, liberals are offended. There is a word for this feeling of offence: Envy. And so it is that liberals are more envious than conservatives. <\/p>\n

Liberals celebrate anger. No, we are not just talking about Bush Derangement Syndrome. “Since the sixties, modern liberals have embraced anger as a sign of genuine commitment to the cause,” writes Schweizer and their political rage leaks into their personal lives. The General Social Survey shows that liberals are more angry than conservatives and “three times more likely (17 percent to 6 percent) to have actually done something to get back at someone who had hurt or offended them in the past month.”<\/p>\n

Liberals are stingy with their money. Again, this is hardly surprising. Liberal political philosophy says: People Have Needs, and the government should provide. Thus liberals, when they actually spend money on anyone other than themselves, give money to the activist organizations that advocate for bigger government. Conservatives, on the other hand, give money to organizations that actually help people. Schweizer shows us that the headline liberals of recent memory-the Clintons, Gores, Kerrys, and Obamas-don’t give much. But headline conservatives like Bush, Cheney, and Limbaugh do give, and give generously.<\/p>\n

But then they would. Conservatives believe that people should help people, and governments should stick to the stuff that governments do best, defending society against enemies, foreign and domestic.<\/p>\n

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