Comments on: On Bookstores & Political Books . . .

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:06:53 +0000

#1, I read the link you gave. The author’s premise is interesting yet ultimately doomed. The only things liberals hold sacred are themselves, which shows hubris, and the earth, which makes them look like hippies. Both of these fail pretty hard in the eyes of a blue-collar working class American.

If liberals tried the ‘sanctity’ route they’d simply expose themselves as the pagan wackos they really are.

By: ILoveCapitalism

ILoveCapitalism — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:21:17 +0000

V, no prob I just felt a burning curiosity, that’s all.

By: Vince P

Vince P — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:02:40 +0000

anything easier to read with the same theme?

By: V the K

V the K — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:15:43 +0000

You gotta read into it a little bit, and I may have linked to the wrong study, but the meat is this:

Haidt has conducted research in which liberals and conservatives were asked to project themselves into the minds of their opponents and answer questions about their moral reasoning. Conservatives, he said, prove quite adept at thinking like liberals, but liberals are consistently incapable of understanding the conservative point of view.

That actually comes from an NYT article related to the article I linked to. Sorry. Sorry.

By: ILoveCapitalism

ILoveCapitalism — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:49:13 +0000

P.S. I bet the author is an Obama supporter. He talks about the importance of Democrats becoming the purveyors of sacred unity – something that Obama and his supporters try (and fail) to do.

By: ILoveCapitalism

ILoveCapitalism — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:47:39 +0000

V, is the link right? If so, I’m not sure what you’re getting at. The study appears to be written by a liberal Democrat whose view is, “Republicans ‘do’ morality and the sacred better than us… we liberals, who have the ‘rational’ policies and deserve to rule, need to understand them better so we can pick up their tricks better.” Not quite as your comment implies.

By: Ted B. (Charging Rhino)

Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:54:05 +0000

Our local Barnes&Noble, about two-miles off-campus from Princeton University, almost never has any moderate or conservative authors on the front display tables. Yet any scurilous anti-Bush tome on the market sits there in abundant stacks

Between the Princeton students who work there part-time and the professors’ wives who run the departments there isn’t even an attempt to stock a balanced point-of-view. They won’t even stock standard titles like Guns&Ammo or Hunting lest their tender sensibilities be offended….yet the porn titles sit in the front gondola opposite the store entrance.

By: V the K

V the K — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:22:05 +0000

This is kind of related, but worth looking into. A psychological study says conservative understand the psychology of liberals very well, but liberals don't get conservatives at all. Which is something most of figured out just by reading the comments on this forum.