Comments on: Gerard Alexander: Why are liberals so condescending? – Washington Post

By: Chris Moody

Chris Moody — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:58:40 +0000

Thanks for confirming Alexander's commentary. Being an intellectual (of course) you might contemplate on the the old British saying, "there are none so blind then those that will not see."
Then do some research into the role Rep. Barney Frank had on the sub-prime mortgage meltdown that was the main cause for what you call the second Great Depression.
Your "oh so well stated position" is intellectually dishonest or maybe just stupid.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:29:54 +0000

So let me get this straight. You are saying bush raised the debt? You are correct. He did make the debt too big. However, Obama's deficits are twice as big as those of Bush and projected to be so for 1.5 times as long. I will be honest and justifiably condescending – you are an idiot.

By: Greg Newman

Greg Newman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:26:19 +0000

An equal number of Conservatives spend as much time insulting/mocking/talking-down to liberals as there are liberals who do to Conservatives.
The simple and plain truth is this: If you are a conservative, anything a liberal says is going to sound insulting to you, and vice versa.
That is the reason I dislike Conservatives and the same reason I dislike Liberals. Neither really want to percieve their actions as "insulting" (or wrong, for that matter). Look at the two post above for example. The apparent Conservative blogger "Stan" comes out and compares Liberals to starving fish (condescending), and the apparent liberal "William R. Stewart" comes out and launches his own attack on conservatives (also condescending). Its as if one side of the coin is insulting the other, and both sides believe with undue conviction that an insult is an insult only if it applies to them…

By: William R. Stewart

William R. Stewart — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:38:26 +0000

Perhaps liberals are "condescending" and "smug" (if this is even true) because conservatives and their policies have brought us to the brink of a second Great Depression, mired us in two wars, and raised the national debt to well over two trillion dollars. These are the people we're supposed to listen to for their useful ideas? Oh, and who was it that brought us the Great Depression itself? As I recall it occurred after three Republican administrations early in the last century, (although I'd say that Coolidge was more to blame than Hoover, who took the fall). Mr. Alexander's article is a good example of the sophisticated demagoguery (no one likes to be "condescended" to) which conservatives are using to cover up for the fact that their policies are bankrupt. The trouble is, it's those policies that are bankrupting the rest of us.

By: Stan

Stan — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:43:10 +0000

It's not just an American phenomenon, the same sneering attitudes are continuously on display in the UK, maybe even worse there.

Just bait them and enjoy, they rise like starving fish.

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News You Need to Know 06Feb10 | Mega Glomerate Main-Stream Media — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:46:01 +0000

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By: Lucius Czartoryski

Lucius Czartoryski — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:49:38 +0000

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