Quote:
Originally Posted by Little32
Interesting and not at all joking, but that is my impression of most conservative-minded folks that I know, which is why I generally won't argue with them.
|
True to a point.
My experience is that many (certainly not all) hard core conservatives will accuse anyone who doesn't agree with them of being stupid or ignorant. While many (again, not all) hard core liberals will make the same accusations, it is almost always, in my experience, the hard core liberals who will throw out the additional accusation that someone just hasn't learned enough or thought about it enough.
I'll never forget the very liberal friend who (in a discussion on the topic at hand in this thread, as it happened) said, "I just don't understand how any thinking person" could take a more conservative view of things. She was a bit taken back when I said, "And that's part of the problem. You're not taking the time to try to understand a position that differs from yours; instead, you're just writing it off as incomprehensible and unenlightened. Nobody's going to get anywhere that way. It's always so much easier simply to demonize someone who disagrees with you than to accept the possibility that someone as 'thoughtful' as you didn't come to the same conclusion you did."
I think the subject chamged at that point.
