Reply #86: If this is true... [View All]

[marions ghost]

ie. that many Liberals (more so than anybody else you might encounter)--are complainers, overly critical, impatient, constantly dissatisfied, like to fight for the sake of it, are thin-skinned and defensive, follow "politically correct" as a religion, etc...

--What's the reason for this? Is it just a "type," with all the attendant psychological factors? Is it really the pent-up venting of those whose ideas and values are trampled in the larger arena--ie. frustration and deep-seated anger? The idea that conservatives used to be like liberals until they figured out how to pull together would support this theory. Do Liberals just need some little seminars in anger management, listening to others, learning how to recognize insecurities and fear reactions? How to channel the fire into constructive action? Maybe we need some group therapy. Self-help books?--"I was a Rabid Close-minded Liberal Zealot."

I don't know. But it seems there's some interest in the topic. Where are the rational, conciliatory, cooperative liberals, or more rational people of any kind? Are they more likely to be scientists, journalists, teachers, carpenters--ie. people whose job it is to observe, take an objective view and think before acting? Maybe it's just an American tendency to be impatient, insecure, one-uppy, competitive--as that's certainly the environment we grow up in.

You raise good questions. The answers might fill a book.