Comments on: Legal elites and the Obamacare case

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:40:04 +0000

I don’t think it matters if they are close minded.

In fact, killing people in war is easier if your side is close minded and doesn’t start asking too many questions about the other side.

By: J.J. formerly Jimmy J.

J.J. formerly Jimmy J. — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:26:55 +0000

holmes: “The Left insulates itself far more and rarely confronts conservatives- dismissive of them because, after all, they are bad people, and why even contemplate it and risk tarnishing your pure thoughts?”

A pretty good definition of closed minded people. Could it be that they are mostly…….closed minded?

By: holmes

holmes — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:01:36 +0000

The conservatives in law school were much more capable of meeting political arguments than were liberals (who outnumbered us) precisely because they had been exposed to their arguments over and over again and could see the other side’s argument much more clearly. The Left insulates itself far more and rarely confronts conservatives- dismissive of them because, after all, they are bad people, and why even contemplate it and risk tarnishing your pure thoughts?

By: thomass

thomass — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:58:31 +0000

carl in atlanta Says:

“If someone can explain to me – in terms that I can grasp – the difference between being a mere “liberal” versus being a “leftist” in America post 9-11, I would be grateful.”

The liberals gave up the distinction in the last 20 years. They’ll work with leftists as partners but republicans and conservatives are now beyond the pale. re: They just elected a leftist president but the tea party people are the problem…

In the past liberals would throw leftists out of their organizations…

By: thomass

thomass — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:51:26 +0000

Occam’s Beard Says:

‘Neither it nor “man,” used in the generic sense, imply anything about gender, any more than the Linnaean name for man, Homo sapiens (the adjective an obvious misnomer), refers to males, or even, counterintuitively, homos.’

Someone brings that up every few years. Yes; the taking man out of things is based on ignorance of language.

By: thomass

thomass — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:42:10 +0000

“that many liberals do not try to understand conservatives, or to pay attention to the actual substance and weight of their arguments. Rather, they tend to dismiss them out of hand as biased and/or self-centered”

If no has mentioned it… iit goes back to Marx. The talk of the structure and class interests determining the ideology used to defend the status quo.

By: J.J. formerly Jimmy J.

J.J. formerly Jimmy J. — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:58:39 +0000

I look at the people who are unable to understand other ideas and perspectives (on both extremes of politics) as being genetically disposed to be that way. In Steven Pinker’s, “The Blank Slate,” he theorizes that our personalities are about 50% formed by genetic traits. One of the five traits that make us who we are is our tendency to be open/closed minded. He believes that the distribiution of these traits is like a bell curve with very open mindedness on one end and very closed mindedness on the other. Changers are people who are more open minded than their friends who remain wedded to ideas learned while growing up and in a school. They cannot change or only change with great difficulty because they are naturally closed minded. That, IMO, is why we find people who, even when presented with facts and figures to convince them of new ideas, still cling to their old beliefs.

Many people discount Pinker’s theory as bunk. My anecdotal experience with many people of differing political persuasions makes me believe he is on the right track. Maybe someday we’ll be able to prove him true through some sort of testing. Maybe not.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:38:21 +0000

The Left actually considers democracy the best form of totalitarian government, because in no other system can you tell people what to do, and have the people think that they are the ones in charge.

Some SEIU thugs, Rainbow coalition, and you have a bunch of people who think they’re protesting A, when in fact they are promoting Leftist black slavery based upon the orders of white Democrats.

Also the Left uses IQ as a resource to handle doublethink. It takes IQ to think two contradictory statements at once and believe both are true. So if you think someone is intelligent, realize that doublethink uses up so much IQ resources that it will reduce someone with an IQ of 165 to someone near 65.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:35:13 +0000

You will Obey. That is the Totalitarian Utopia of the Left. Obey and live easy. Dissent is no longer patriotic.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:03:57 +0000

It may interest you to learn the Department of Homeland Security has entered into a contract for up to 450 MILLION .40 cal bullets over the next five years. That’s Homeland ‘Security’, not the DOD.

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-03-28/news/31247765_1_atk-rounds-bullet