A liberal's perspective on the smugness of liberalism:
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism
There is a smug style in American liberalism. It has been growing these past decades. It is a way of conducting politics, predicated on the belief that American life is not divided by moral difference or policy divergence — not really — but by the failure of half the country to know what's good for them.
In 2016, the smug style has found expression in media and in policy, in the attitudes of liberals both visible and private,...
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The white working class in particular saw even sharper declines. Despite historic advantages with both poor and middle-class white voters, by 2012 Democrats possessed only a 2-point advantage among poor white voters. Among white voters making between $30,000 and $75,000 per year, the GOP has taken a 17-point lead.
"Finding comfort in the notion that their former allies were disdainful, hapless rubes, smug liberals created a culture animated by that contempt"
The consequence was a shift in liberalism's center of intellectual gravity. A movement once fleshed...
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Why did they abandon us?
What's the matter with Kansas?
The smug style arose to answer these questions. It provided an answer so simple and so emotionally satisfying that its success was perhaps inevitable: the theory that conservatism, and particularly the kind embraced by those out there in the country, was not a political ideology at all.
The trouble is that stupid hicks don't know what's good for them. They're getting conned by right-wingers and tent revivalists until they believe all the lies that've made them so wrong. They don't know any better. That's why they're voting against their own self-interest.
As anybody who has gone through a particularly nasty breakup knows, disdain cultivated in the aftermath of a divide quickly exceeds the original grievance. You lose somebody. You blame them. Soon, the blame is reason enough to keep them at a distance, the excuse to drive them even further away.
Finding comfort in the notion that their former allies were disdainful, hapless rubes, smug liberals created a culture animated by that contempt. The rubes noticed and replied in kind. The result is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Financial incentive compounded this tendency — there is money, after all, in reassuring the bitter. Over 20 years, an industry arose to cater to the smug style. It began in humor, and culminated for a time in The Daily Show, a program that more than any other thing advanced the idea that liberal orthodoxy was a kind of educated savvy and that its opponents were, before anything else, stupid. The smug liberal found relief in ridiculing them.
The internet only made it worse. Today, a liberal who finds himself troubled by the currents of contemporary political life need look no further than his Facebook newsfeed to find the explanation:
Study finds Daily Show viewers more informed than viewers of Fox News.
They're beating CNN watchers too.
NPR listeners are best informed of all. He likes that.
You're better off watching nothing than watching Fox. He likes that even more.
The good news doesn't stop.
Liberals aren't just better informed. They're smarter.
They've...
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Why are young men today so disillusioned with life? What's going on that's causing them to opt out and not bother any longer with real life?
Every thing sucks except my japanese video games
Just gonna keep making these threads huh?
>>71688994
Ratchet and clank was just too damned fun
how does this make you feel?
>>71688729
That's kinda sweet desu
I think it's cute.
>>71688729
Black man doing honest work.
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THIS IS A MOVEMENT
>>71687607
warhol awoo when?
How do we let Trump know that his views on trannys are DEAD WRONG?. I doubt those are even his views. He is trying to pander to a demographic that is less than one percent of the population.
If anything these comments will hurt Trump.
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/MELANIAGEN/
It's time for a woman to stand her ground.
One that all our young ladies will be proud to look up to.
She will be an idol for all young girls across the United States, and perhaps, even the world.
A star that will reign supreme: there she is! Miss Melania Trump — First Lady to our President of the United States, Donald J. Trump!
>Ms. Melania: She Votes NY! A Day in the Life... Stride in Heels!
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/melania-trump-votes-ny-primary-38518181
>Ms....
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Stay positive and HIGH ENERGY! THIS IS AWOO~VEMENT
inb4 Canadian shillposting
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>>71686819
1ST FOR GREATER ISRAEL AND BIJI KURDISTAN.
SAAnime
>>71686819
any Turks here use toruchan?
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>>71686326
***Example roll for Kasich*** (if "0" or dubs, Kasich would win Maine)
I was bullied, humiliated, harassed all throughout my youth and still suffer today as a broken down unemployed shut-in virgin.
I've clung to right wing politics because I genuinely felt like I was doing good for myself and, my "people".
However the thought keeps coming back to my mind from time to time: why should I, a loser, give a single fuck what happens to this society and it's people?
In all honesty the idea of Chad and his whore wife's future getting fucked up by Muslims excites me more than their prosperity. And I know I'm...
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>>71686213
You should give a fuck because if you save it, you'll move up the ladder.
Get your life together.
>>71686213
Nice pic
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/donald-trump-transgender-people-should-be-allowed-to-use-bathroom-of-their-choice/
What did he mean by this?
>>71685507
he means people can have the liberty to do what ever they want
>>71685570
Including the liberty for mentally ill men to whip out their dicks in front of little girls?
It means the news media is 100% devoted to reporting things about Trump to make /pol/ fly off the handle now, which is to say, /pol/ is the most influential thing in the world now.
Give me 1 good reason why you arent joining the American Military, /pol/. Is it because youre a fucking pussy? Why won't you die for your country? Get off your lazy asses and join the marines or airforce or something like that. Fight for us.
>>71685410
>t. Schlomo
>>71685410
I would join if my country wasn't using the military as some sort of rent-a-army
I had knee replacement surgery after a car crash at 16. I tried to join the navy and Air Force but neither would have me.
After I got my bachelors, I tried again for the coast guard and still no go.
>President Barack Obama is trying but failing to reassure foreign leaders convinced that Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States.
>They're in full-boil panic.
>“They’re scared and they’re trying to understand how real this is...”
>Leaders, members of their governments, even their aides are so spooked that they don’t want to say anything, and many privately admit that it’s because they think he’ll win, and a quote now...
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Ayn Rand is squirting in her grave right now, can you feel it?
Good. The world should have a bit of fear of the greatest superpower ever.
The terror is real
How come the best musicians are always black?
I thought black people were inferior?
They arent
When you speak of artists, you should refer to the color of their soul, not their skin.
>>71684655
The answer is still black.
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THIS IS AWOOOOOVMENT
>>71684110
Boop
And no malaysiafag in sight...
Can someone edit SNL Trump into the NY win projection?
What is the ugliest language and why is it German?
>>71683821
7 to 1
>>71683821
French is worse
wo sind die Nederlander??
also 7-1
Transgender Inside Edition reporter Zoey Tur has sent Donald Trump a nude selfie on Twitter.
Tur caused controversy last year after he beat up Jewish podcaster Ben Shapiro.
He is the father of Katy Tur, an MSNBC campaign reporter assigned to the Donald Trump campaign.
>>71682546
Would.
LMFAO
EVERYBODY RETWEET THIS @KATYTURNBC
https://twitter.com/ZoeyTur/status/723292995949199360