FT111: “Arrogance and intelligence are not the same thing.” -Old Pithy

Posted by PITHOCRATES - March 30th, 2012

Fundamental Truth

Liberal Control of Pop Culture, the Mainstream Media and the Colleges help push their Minority Views onto the Majority

What do you think the breakdown of people in the United States is?  Politically speaking.  What are the percentages of conservatives, liberals and moderates?  If you watch/listen/read a lot of pop culture you no doubt think conservatives are in the minority.  If you listen to the mainstream media you no doubt think that conservatives are in the minority.  If you’re young and/or are in college you no doubt think that conservatives are in the minority.  Would it surprise you to learn that conservatives are actually in the majority?  Well, then, surprise.

According to Gallup, in 2011 40% of the American people identified themselves as conservative.  While 35% identified themselves as moderate.  And only 21% identified themselves as liberal.  Surprising, huh?  Especially when the ‘appropriate’ behavior appears to be to snicker at and belittle conservatives these days.  Forcing them into the closet.  For one thing you never hear of is a closet-liberal.  No, they can be in your face.  Any time.  Any place.  And it’s okay.  But a conservative has to lower his or her voice and look around first to see if it’s ‘okay’ to express his or her political opinion.  Why is that?

Well, it helps to control the major channels of communication.  Pop culture.  The mainstream media.  And colleges.  It also helps that young adults want to escape the responsible parenting of their parents so they can party and have as much sex that is humanly possible.  Which makes them a very useful pawn for liberals to advance their minority views.  Because liberals aren’t their parents.  But they act and talk like their parents.  When they attack their parents.  With an air of all-knowing condescension.  Exasperation.  And arrogance.  The only difference between kids’ parents and these liberals is that kids’ parents are trying to do what is best for their kids.  While liberals are trying to do what is best to advance their minority views.

Liberals speak with such Arrogant Confidence that it makes Some People Feel that they Must be Right 

Women fall for bad boys.  Even though they are not particularly bright.  Or have great earning potential.  That’s why so many women can never find true happiness in a relationship.  At least based on the high divorce rates.  It’s just the way it is.  Because women aren’t attracted to short, fat, balding guys that have good but boring careers.  No matter how beautiful they are on the inside.  No.  These women are attracted to the men that will ultimately cheat on them.  These men who can’t stand the thought of being in a monogamous relationship.  Because they are bad boys.  Rebels.  Nonconformists.  Alpha males.  Confident and cocky.  Who don’t like having any limits placed on them.  And want to enjoy every moment of life.  Especially since feminists have empowered women.  Giving them all the birth control and access to abortion they need to please these alpha males.  Which lets these men enjoy as many women sexually as is humanly possible.  No, marriage is not for them.  Neither is a monogamous relationship.  For there is just too much passion in their hearts for one woman.

Everyone is attracted to the alpha male.  Women want to be with them.  And men want to be around them.  To be like them.  To enjoy a little of their world.  For arrogance is attractive.  People are attracted to strong people who are sure of themselves.  Who never doubt themselves.  And feel safer whenever they are around.  Like the cowboys in the Old West.  When life was scary.  And nothing made you feel safer than having a manly cowboy around to protect you.  And this is how liberals advance their minority view.  It’s their arrogance that makes people feel that they must be right.  For they speak with such confidence.  Without a shadow of doubt.  And anyone so sure and so full of themselves must know what they are talking about.  Besides, they make the stuff we want to do (like having a lot of sex) seem the right thing enlightened people do.

But arrogance and intelligence are not the same thing.  Pick your favorite celebrity who’s attacked a conservative.  Or conservative policies.  And ask yourself if you think they understand economics.  Do they understand that high inflation is a monetary problem?  That governments cause high prices by printing too much money?  Do they know that stimulus spending fails to stimulate the economy because sellers increase their prices to offset the coming inflation (rational expectations)?  Before anyone spends that stimulus money?  Resulting in no new economic activity.  Only higher prices.  Do they understand that everyone prices oil on the international market in U.S. dollars?  And that government inflation causes gasoline prices to rise (as the oil sellers raise their prices to offset that inflation)?  Do they understand that government regulations are another cost of business that businesses add to their selling prices? Do they understand that jobs in the private sector pay for all government spending including all government jobs?  Do they know that free markets have promoted equality and reduced discrimination (women have a better life in a country with free markets than they do in a country like Iran)?  Do they know that Karl Marx was wrong in his economic thinking (as technology increases in capitalistic countries workers see their wages rise over time, not fall into perpetual poverty)? 

Liberals can push their Minority Views onto the Majority because of the Perception that their Views are the Majority

Of course they don’t know.  They haven’t the foggiest clue about things economic.  And are only liberals so no one picks on them for their obscene wealth and their extravagant lifestyles.  No.  They don’t attack conservatives for economic reasons.  They attack them because they’ve just learned that it’s appropriate to attack conservatives.  To snicker at them.  To belittle them.  Which they learned from their pop culture.  From the mainstream media.  And from our colleges.  They don’t know how to articulate their beliefs.  Because they don’t understand what they criticize.  And mask their ignorance with an air of all-knowing condescension.  Exasperation at those who disagree with them.  And, of course, arrogance.  By attacking and ridiculing conservatives.  But never engaging them in an ideological debate.

And this is how the 21% pushes their minority views on the majority population.  It’s sort of like real estate.  It’s all about perception.  Because they have pop culture, the mainstream media, the colleges and young adults (who want an alternative to their parents so they can have fun) their views appear to be in the majority.  Not in the minority.  So their views appear to be the ‘right’ views.  Just like that story about a small realtor who has only two signs in town.  One on the road into town.  And one on the road out of town.  Making people driving on that road think, “Wow.  This must be the biggest realtor in town.  I see their signs everywhere.”

And so it is with liberalism.  When people hear their minority views everywhere they feel that these views are the ‘biggest’ views in town.  And don’t question the ideology supporting them.  Or the economics.  Or the history of their failure.


