Terry's Peeps wrote:
Nas wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Do you mean the person on here who says they are a liberal in every post and then just complains about liberals the whole time?
Which poster?
tommy.
It's true.
I've never seen a single episode of South Park, but I agree with Matt Stone when he says, "I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals."
He went on to say how he usually agrees with liberals more than conservatives, but how he finds them smug, small-minded, and judgmental. I can't find the exact quote, but here he talks about Hollywood elites, who are similar to many intellectual elites that we all know: "But they still believe they're better than the guy in Wyoming who really loves his wife and takes care of his kids and is a good, outstanding, wholesome person. Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be."
And yes, there's a danger of stereotyping those who you think are stereotyping others, but what he is saying has real-world causes. You also have to be careful not be limited by your own generation, your own historical moment; he and I are about the same age and so are responding to exactly the same things, and that blinds us to an extent. But at least I am trying to be aware of what I don't know and what I don't know I don't know. Self-professed liberals seem to have it all figured out.
The cool people of any political persuasion--the ones who listen, who want to solve problems, who want to do things with other people--are still around, thank goodness.