Liberal JBlogger Wants You To Know That He's Smarter Than You
Liberal jblogger DovBear is just so precious:
Among the false gods of the Jewish Republican panthenon are these common errors... Because it's pretty easy to show that all of this is false, defeating a Republican Jew on the field of argument is usually a cakewalk.
Good to see that leftists are getting over their belief - the result of too much grade school parental doting - that they're smarter and better than their political opponents. For too long, that conceit has been the fertilizer nourishing liberal condescension toward and alienation from a majority of Americans (because Democratic electoral impotence* can't be from being wrong - it's because people just don't get their arguments). And since that approach has been a consistent recipe for failure, it's just good to see that they're moving past it. Because another decade of powerlessness would have really sent these people over the edge.
Maybe DovBear can tell us a little more about "the field of argument" (because we're uneducated and don't know anything about that) after he gets done explaining how there might have been an Islamic enlightenment if only those pesky Mongols hadn't sacked Baghdad eight hundred years ago. We had always thought that the totalitarian tendencies displayed by political Islamists had more to do with the lack of reform-friendly rhetorical tropes and discursive resources in constitutive Muslim texts like the Koran and the hadith. But from now on we're going to defer to DovBear's far more persuasive "it was a total historical accident that things just worked out that way" story. Since we're too stupid to engage him on the "field of argument".
UPDATE: *The original unedited version of this post had the type "importance" instead of "impotence". While using "importance" would indeed have sarcastically highlighted the Democrats' self-image of themselves as society-saving sophisticates, it is an inappropriately subtle way to approach the matter at hand - i.e. the blinding conceit of liberals doted on one too many times by grade school teachers.
Among the false gods of the Jewish Republican panthenon are these common errors... Because it's pretty easy to show that all of this is false, defeating a Republican Jew on the field of argument is usually a cakewalk.
Good to see that leftists are getting over their belief - the result of too much grade school parental doting - that they're smarter and better than their political opponents. For too long, that conceit has been the fertilizer nourishing liberal condescension toward and alienation from a majority of Americans (because Democratic electoral impotence* can't be from being wrong - it's because people just don't get their arguments). And since that approach has been a consistent recipe for failure, it's just good to see that they're moving past it. Because another decade of powerlessness would have really sent these people over the edge.
Maybe DovBear can tell us a little more about "the field of argument" (because we're uneducated and don't know anything about that) after he gets done explaining how there might have been an Islamic enlightenment if only those pesky Mongols hadn't sacked Baghdad eight hundred years ago. We had always thought that the totalitarian tendencies displayed by political Islamists had more to do with the lack of reform-friendly rhetorical tropes and discursive resources in constitutive Muslim texts like the Koran and the hadith. But from now on we're going to defer to DovBear's far more persuasive "it was a total historical accident that things just worked out that way" story. Since we're too stupid to engage him on the "field of argument".
UPDATE: *The original unedited version of this post had the type "importance" instead of "impotence". While using "importance" would indeed have sarcastically highlighted the Democrats' self-image of themselves as society-saving sophisticates, it is an inappropriately subtle way to approach the matter at hand - i.e. the blinding conceit of liberals doted on one too many times by grade school teachers.
