Meet The Liberal Elite!

Nmysys, do you truly believe this to be so, or are you posting this as humor, or to create controversy and hits? This type of topic isn't suitable for the Courthouse -which is meant for discussion and debate, not mudslinging - it should go in the Ring.

At the 12:10 mark:
"Everyone in America would be a liberal if only they weren't so dumb."
"You think everyone in the country is dumb."
"No, only the people who disagree with me."

This video is full of ridiculous assumptions like this. Not all intellectuals are liberal, and not all non-intellectuals are conservative; not all liberals are intolerant or close-minded, and not all conservatives are tolerant and open-minded. Stereotypes only foster misunderstandings, and perpetuating them fosters intolerance and hatred. Why continue to post stuff that is divisive - we will never solve our problems that way, only make things worse. You yourself are active in trying to make a difference and change things for the better, yet you alienate people with messages like this video. It's illogical and self-defeating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_elite

The term liberal elite is a political phrase to describe affluent, politically liberal-leaning people. It is commonly used with the pejorative implication that the people who claim to support the rights of the working class are themselves members of the upper class, or upper middle class, and are therefore out of touch with the real needs of the people they claim to support and protect.

Possible or even probable, but I'd argue that rich conservatives are out of touch with most Americans too.

Thus the phrase liberal elite suggests that liberals are unpatriotic, because they like other cultures and are disdainful of American life and culture.

Really? Then why do supposed liberal elites, like George Soros for example (according to conservatives, b/c liberals don't use the term liberal elite), try so hard to change America for what they see as better? If they truly hated America, wouldn't they just move? Just because you don't agree with his version of a better America doesn't make him unpatriotic.

American intellectuals, most of whom are upper middle class not upper class,[11] are primarily liberal. Fully 72% of professors identify themselves as liberals. At Ivy League Universities, an even larger majority, 87% of professors identified themselves as liberals.[12] Those with post-graduate degrees are increasingly Democratic.[13][14][15][16] Thus the characterization of liberal elite carries the implication that too much education puts people out of touch with "real Americans".

So getting an education and bettering your position in life, achieving the "American Dream" is for liberals only, and is derided? That makes no sense and I would argue is an unpatriotic attitude.
http://www.enotes.com/soc/group/discuss ... y-do-12015

'Liberal Elite' is a term of abuse created by conservatives to try to instil the idea that a self serving ruling class distorts the will of the non-liberal people. Put simply the accusation is that the public are very right wing and their political desires are thwarted by a ruthless bunch of educated liberals. The aim of this ludicrous nonsense is to make uneducated people suspicious and paranoid of educated liberals and to mistrust intellectual opinions, (which are generally tolerant, secular and liberal.)

This argument has more holes in it than Bonny and Clyde's getaway car, but the most ridiculous one is the obvious implied rejection of education... if educated people are all liberals and all liberals are part of an elite opposed to the American people, then we can infer that education is unamerican.