Is legacy or hatred a reason to vote?

“The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?”

Tom Sowell makes a great point here in helping us to understand why there so many ridiculous, silly and outrageous ideas that come from academia. The “smarter-than-thous” must have their say even if, as someone once said, what they claim is so stupid that only intellectuals believe it.

It doesn’t help that PhD candidates in the “intellectual disciplines” have to write dissertations they can defend as somewhat original. They must find something that is new, newish, or counters common sense since much of the virtuous rational stuff has been comprehensively covered. Mostly by dead white males.

Their counter-establishment/anti-common sense/anti-American “research” is best done in environments where professors are borderline wacky to begin with. Unfortunately, there are far too many universities populated by these arrogant malcontents.

From these places and people, we get nonsense about white privilege, micro/macro-aggression, safe-spaces, cultural appropriation, and the rest of their hocus-pocus “wisdom.” Unfortunately, the Democrat party feeds off this drivel.

Many voters vote liberal despite that what they believe is no longer represented by Democrats/liberals. A hard-core Democrat and I once compared political views. His were as conservative as mine. He still votes Democrat. And like many, many others he will not change.

Reasons for this schizoid voting? Two biggies.

Some are legacy voters. Grandpa and Dad were Democrats so I’m a Democrat. Won’t change, can’t change, Democrat positions are always and everywhere correct. Even if these voters disagree with Democrats. And, even after the Democrat party left them years ago.

Others who vote Democrat recognize that liberalism no longer represents their values and beliefs but still vote leftist anyway. Why, given that this is illogical and unreasonable?

It has nothing to do with facts or issues. They loath Republicans and Conservatives far, far more than anything and everything the Democrat Party has done, does, and will do. They’ve picked the anti-Republican/anti-conservative team. That mandates hate. A hate that is an integral part of their very being. It has an intensity that can seldom be breached.

Democrats? Good, my team. Republicans/ conservatives? Bad, the enemy. Must be destroyed. Tectonic plates move at supersonic speed compared to the speed at which these people are willing to let go of their hate. Their voting is based on little more than this pathetic emotion.

I once was a liberal. I kept looking for results that proved liberal positions were true. Lessons of life also intruded. I am a conservative now. But if you are not willing to look for proof, what you will do instead, is cling to false old narratives to confirm your hatred and bizarre position. Such as the never-was-correct and simplistic notion that “Republicans are for the rich and Democrats are for the little guy.”

Understanding the Great Depression was key in my rejection of liberalism. Did FDR get us out of that depression? Extensive reading about economics and history compelled me to understand that he didn’t. He prolonged and worsened it. He was totally incompetent.

Another was Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society.” Did it end poverty? Mostly it made things worse. Moreover, it fundamentally destroyed the black family. No amount of government programs or money can ever repair that. We suffer because of it.

Liberals continually reinforce my opposition to their principles and their beliefs, such as they are. LGBT “civil-rights” make businesses provide services/products counter to many business owner’s convictions. Is it right to force someone to bake a cake, provide flowers for, cater, or photograph a “wedding” for homosexuals? No way. That is persecution of Christian faith.

It is nothing less than a crude crime against constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion. Sanctioned by unelected liberal judges.

If you despise conservatives, America, and/or Christians more virulently than anything else, you will not change. You cannot change. You will continue to detest those who are not Democrats. And you will find irrational excuses to vote accordingly.