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.
I think its how they protect their cognitive dissonance. To them they are right and better then those evil Republicans. I mean suuure they get closer and closer to voting in a blue Nazi but they are good and everyone else is bad. Check mate contrarian child.
This rings very true for me. It’s much easier to outright dismiss an idea that contradicts what they already believe than it is to grapple with the consequences of “Well what if that’s actually true?”
I’ll give an example. I was talking/debating with some libs about the war in Ukraine (my first mistake) and I’ll mention that I am Canadian - we are HEAVILY INVESTED in that war (and also have a huge number of ethnic Ukranians that live here). My point was that Ukraine joining NATO is a red line for Russia, and it shouldn’t have surprised anybody that things went the way they did.
“Well Ukraine is a soverign country they can do what they please!”
Ok, what if Canada wanted to ally with Beijing and have DongFeng missiles pointed directly at Washington DC? We’re a sovereign country, surely we can do that if we want to too, right? But how could we possibly not expect there to be dire consequences for doing something so reckless and stupid?
I thought that was an extremely straightforward and reasonable comparison, but it was met with eye rolls and immediately dismissed out of hand.
Maybe they were rolling their eyes at the assertion that Canada is a sovereign country?
No, that was me, and that was also met with eye rolls and immediately dismissed out of hand.