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Why are liberals so smug? (hexbear.net)
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Whenever I try to talk politics (or ESPECIALLY world events) with Liberals, as soon as they determine that I am a leftist, they just get so fucking smug and have this sense of self-superiority about them. Exactly zero interest in having a good faith discussion. They are so incredibly dismissive and condescending.

Of course, no matter how much evidence that you provide, or how well you frame your arguments, you just get eye rolls and dismissed out of hand.

I am reminded of the Bernie campaigns when the liberal media pundits would behave with nothing more than sneering contempt at young people who just wanted fucking health care.

We know that they're like this BUT WHY? Why are they all such smug shit stains? I stg it's like their defining trait.

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[–] newacctidk@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

I do sometimes wonder what comes first, the smugness or the incandescent rage whenever you reject their ideas and outflank them on the left. They need to be the adults in the room and also the only rational worldview. They don't so much believe in what their ideology is, they flatly cannot let themselves comprehend that what they think is ideology in the first place.

This is why they hate Marxists so much, because we make them publicly look like the monsters they are. They need tepid "well I don't love that we bomb children" to be the pinnacle of morality and kindness, and any argument that is righteous is an affront to their view of themselves. The smugness has to be there otherwise they realize the abyss they are standing over like Wile-e-coyote