Cocooned Liberals Are Unprepared for Political Debate

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl ... 14255.html


"By Michael Barone

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforces them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972, the movie critic Pauline Kael said it was odd that Richard Nixon was winning the election, because everyone she knew was for George McGovern.

Kael wasn't clueless about the rest of America. She was just observing that her own social circle was politically parochial.

The rest of us have increasingly sought out comfortable cocoons, too. Journalist Bill Bishop, who lives in an Austin, Texas, neighborhood whose politics resemble Kael's, started looking at national data.

It inspired him to write his 2009 book "The Big Sort," which describes how Americans since the 1970s have increasingly sorted themselves out, moving to places where almost everybody shares their cultural orientation and political preference -- and the others keep quiet about theirs.

Thus professionals with a choice of where to make their livings head for the San Francisco Bay Area if they're liberal and for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (they really do call it that) if they're conservative. Over the years the Bay Area becomes more liberal and the Metroplex more conservative. "................................

This is especially tragic on college campuses. There should be a healthy debate of ideas but with 90% of the professors left leaning, that isn't happening.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I forgot how stupid you guys are..We are all completely minipulated by corporate interests..Evidently some much more than others..

LOL

Wow- You two don't even equal a half wit


And people: Do you really want your ******** cleaned by a retard? Do you wanna a retard in your house? I know I don't.

VL, seriously? Attacking someone's business over politics?

CinnamonGirl wrote: VL, seriously? Attacking someone's business over politics?

Well thats what I was thinking CG..So I wrote it..Why would any normal person want to do business with this guy after seeing the nonsense he thinks..?


I don't even wanna be on the same planet with the guy!



And....Don't they always attack Unions? Thats my business, and they always attack me- People are more important than busnesses aren't they?

Oh and BTW- Hi CG! How have you been?

VL, just because you feel that way does not mean his business has anything to do with it. When you run out of an argument you attack a business? Wrong!!

Oh, and BTW I am fine. I was wondering where you have been. LOL

Vice Lord wrote: Do you wanna a retard in your house? I know I don't.

And yet, every house you enter suddenly has one.

CinnamonGirl wrote: VL, just because you feel that way does not mean his business has anything to do with it. When you run out of an argument you attack a business? Wrong!!

Oh, and BTW I am fine. I was wondering where you have been. LOL

He owns the business!..I don't want to give him any money! I wanna run him into the ground like he's trying to run ALL AMERICANS into the ground..His views and his vote is killing the middle class and the qaulity of life of just about everyone in this country.... and my ONLY issue is quality of life. He's the enemy

And

I've been traveling- I'll be back a week before football starts, and i'll play the NFL game this year..Under certain conditions of course.

Vice Lord wrote: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I forgot how stupid you guys are..We are all completely minipulated by corporate interests..Evidently some much more than others..

LOL

Wow- You two don't even equal a half wit


And people: Do you really want your ******** cleaned by a retard? Do you wanna a retard in your house? I know I don't.

Welcome back VL, clearly the best and most reasoned debator on this forum. (Sarcasm dripping.) you must have learned your debate style from Chicago, if your foe brings a logical argument with facts, you bring a knife.