Why liberals should be condescending

by: Chris Bowers

Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 13:55

A Sunday Washington Post editorial asks why liberals are so damn condescending. Seriously:

Why are liberals so condescending?

By Gerard Alexander
Sunday, February 7, 2010

Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries are idiots. But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while conservative positions are not just wrong but illegitimate, ideological and unworthy of serious consideration.

Yet more persecuted conservative syndrome, not to mention more misuse of the word "ideological."

But really, why shouldn't liberals should be condescending, and committed to the proposition that their views are based in fact and reason?