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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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[โ€“] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I highly doubt that MOST "Liberals" would be aggressive upon meeting a Leftist. I would guess that about 90% of Dems couldn't even define the difference, or even understand that there is a difference, and even if they did know, they'd still consider them allies.

Its not that Dems are smug toward Leftists, they're smug towards everybody. That's an established trait of Corporate Establishment Democrats, and the thing that soothes them after another electoral round of snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory.

So don't be so paranoid that their smugness is aimed at Leftists, it's aimed at EVERYBODY.

[โ€“] Blakey@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When you're in a left wing space, especially one like Hexbear, people are likely to be using the term "liberal" in a more technical, polisci sense than you are used to. Think of it as political jargon. Liberalism in this sense is basically just a combination of representative democracy and capitalism. This makes both the Democrats and the Republicans liberal political parties. Given that liberalism, as a school of political thought, goes back to the enlightenment, it should not be terribly surprising that many liberals hold conservative views.

TL;dr: OP is not just talking about the democrats. They are talking about followers of any bourgeois political party in the USA, including both democrats and republicans:)

Edit: this is why, for example, the National Liberal Party (of Australia) is their right wing, conservative political party.