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| − | [[Liberal]] ideology, and [[liberal]] arguments, have their greatest appeal with intellectual people who are long in academic degrees but short in intellectual achievements of their own. Perhaps they genuinely fall for the superficial, fallacious [[liberal logic]], or perhaps they just enjoy the attention and extra income in being pseudo-intellectuals and media-promoted experts. | + | [[Liberal]] ideology, and [[liberal]] arguments, have their greatest appeal with intellectual wannabees: people who are long in academic degrees but short in intellectual achievements of their own. Perhaps they genuinely fall for the superficial, fallacious [[liberal logic]], or perhaps they just enjoy the attention and extra income in being pseudo-intellectuals and media-promoted experts. |
Examples of not-quite-intellectuals who promote [[liberal]] arguments include: | Examples of not-quite-intellectuals who promote [[liberal]] arguments include: | ||
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Liberal ideology, and liberal arguments, have their greatest appeal with intellectual wannabees: people who are long in academic degrees but short in intellectual achievements of their own. Perhaps they genuinely fall for the superficial, fallacious liberal logic, or perhaps they just enjoy the attention and extra income in being pseudo-intellectuals and media-promoted experts.
Examples of not-quite-intellectuals who promote liberal arguments include:
- privileged youth, weak student at Yale, no original work
- may have virtually flunked out of the pre-med program at Georgetown University, never released his grades, failed to earn a degree at Oxford, no original work or ideas
- lasted only 2 years teaching at University of California, Berkeley, a mere lecturer at Oxford until a wealthy ally donated a professorship for him
- Antioch College graduate (geology major), his work is riddled with contradictions
- dropped out of a graduate math program, passed over initially for Law Review, passed over for Solicitor General in 1993,[2] plagiarism later found in his work[3]
- described as a "whiz kid," he wrote or did nothing of significance, mishandled Vietnam War
- fluent in relatively few languages for a diplomat, had no insights or noteworthy work, mishandled Vietnam War and Soviet Union
- repeatedly passed over for the Nobel Prize due to a lack of achievement, allowed multiple leaks from Los Alamos
- famous for making a few guesses about linguistics some of which turned out to be partially correct. He has not done any work in linguistics in 30 years and just spends his time promoting left-wing politics outside his supposed area of expertise.
- Started the environmentalist movement with her book Silent Spring which was found to be full of errors, exaggerations and disregard for actual science.
- claimed to be proving the completeness and consistency of math, a goal Godel proved was impossible. Advocated unilateral nuclear disarmament.
- privileged youth, rise to the top based upon family name and inherited connections. Currently publisher of the New York Times.
- poor student
- insisted that there must be life in outer space
- flunked the D.C. bar exam; worked on the House Judiciary impeachment staff investigating Richard Nixon. Hillary's work was so poorly conceived and drafted that a member of the Committee, William Dixon said Hillary "paid no attention to the way the Constitution works in this country, the way politics works, the way Congress works, the way legal safeguards are set up."[5]
Please add other examples.
Praised Heaped by Pseudo-Intellectual Liberals on Each Other
It is remarkable how pseudo-intellectual liberals praise each other as geniuses. Examples include:
- Bertrand Russell declaring that the most intelligent man he ever knew was John Maynard Keynes[6]
- Laurence Tribe, who saw the best law students for several decades, insisted that fellow liberal Barack Obama was the "best student I ever had" and the "most exciting research assistant."[7]
Please add other examples.
Motivation
There are two primary motivations for the liberal advocacy by pseudo-intellectuals:
- it is easier for them to obtain acclaim from the liberal press than from real intellectuals
- they genuinely fail to understand certain abstractions, such as:
- how cutting taxes often increases government revenue (Laffer Curve)
- how guns save more lives through deterrence and prevention than they harm
- how childbirth has a positive effect on health, and thus abortion harms health
- how cease-fires always help a determined opponent in war
- how arms limitations treaties always helps a dishonest adversary
- they expect superficial, flawed logic to persuade others, such as:
- claiming that inequality in outcome implies discrimination
- demanding equal treatment for genders in all situations
- claiming that the gay agenda is like the civil rights struggle by African Americans
- insisting that government can reduce poverty with more programs
Please add to these lists.
References
- ↑ http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
- ↑ Tribe admitted he was being considered, but he was not nominated. "Under Clinton, Crimson tide washes over Washington," The Boston Globe (Mar. 4, 1993).
- ↑ "Joseph Bottum, books and arts editor of the Weekly Standard, presents overwhelming evidence to support his claim that Tribe's 1985 book, God Save This Honorable Court, was largely copied from a 1974 book called Justices and Presidents by the University of Virginia's Henry J. Abraham. Bottum's case rests on the relentless citation of example after example where it is clear that Tribe has copied both the substance and, in many cases, the exact wording of Abraham's text. Most damning is Tribe's repetition of errors, like slight misquotations of original sources, in Abraham's book."[1]
- ↑ http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jul25/0,4670,EmbattledProfessor,00.html
- ↑ Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton, By Barbara Olson, Regnery Publishing, Inc, 2001, pp. 122-123.
- ↑ http://www.hwkhelp.com/node/43
- ↑ http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071114/NEWS01/711140429/1217/NEWS98]
- ↑ Blanchard, O. Macroeconomics, 4th edition. 2003, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall (p. 430-431, 500)
- ↑ Begg, D. Fischer, S. & Dornbusch, R. Economics, 8th Edition. 2005, Berkshire, United Kingdom: McGraw-Hill (p. 289-290)
