{"id":383553,"date":"2018-11-03T23:53:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T22:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/get-this-left-liberals-have-a-theory\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T23:53:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T22:53:35","slug":"get-this-left-liberals-have-a-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/get-this-left-liberals-have-a-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Get This: Left-Liberals Have a Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From The\u00a0Tom Woods Letter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We all had such a great time on the Contra Cruise, the libertarian event of the year, last week.\u00a0(We\u2019ll be announcing the July dates and itinerary for the 2019 cruise very soon.)<\/p>\n

Guest speaker Brett Veinotte told us a story that really stuck with me about a date he\u2019d been on with a college professor. She asked if he was a Trump supporter, because some of the things he\u2019d said had been \u201ccurious\u201d to her.<\/p>\n

He explained that he doesn\u2019t particularly favor either party, etc.<\/p>\n

This absolutely did not satisfy her. She began speaking to him condescendingly.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>As gently as possible, Brett shot back with something like this:<\/p>\n

Well, let\u2019s examine your situation. You\u2019ve gone through K-12 in government schools, created and run by progressives. Then you went to college, created and run by progressives. You went off to graduate school, created and run by progressives. Then you turn around and get all your information from the\u00a0<\/em>New York Times\u00a0and CNN \u2014 again, a heavy progressive bias there\u2026. So you\u2019ve more or less just been a passive receptacle of conventional information your entire life. That might be clouding the way you look at the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

Her response?<\/p>\n

The fact that all those smart people think the same way just goes to show that left-liberalism must be correct: after all, all the smart people believe it!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So is that what all this boils down to? The reason all these elites adopt left-liberalism is that it\u2019s self-evidently the superior position, and intelligent people perceive this?<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s rather a self-serving explanation, wouldn\u2019t you say?<\/p>\n

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And yet I\u2019ll bet…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Shop all books by Tom Woods From The\u00a0Tom Woods Letter: We all had such a great time on the Contra Cruise, the libertarian event of the year, last week.\u00a0(We\u2019ll be announcing the July dates and itinerary for the 2019 cruise very soon.) Guest speaker Brett Veinotte told us a story that really stuck with me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}