Why are some liberals so condescending toward Trump supporters? Do they really feel they are superior?
They can’t believe anyone voted for someone who has spouted so much hate speech, who has so few coherent ideas, and whose tendencies seem too patently autocratic.It’s not about liberals feeling “superior”: it’s about us being morally aghast that you guys got behind a demi-man who called Mexicans “rapists” in his campaign announcement, has degraded women, attacked anyone who dares criticize him, waged a systematic war on the very free press whose constant attention to him probably factored in his victory, attacked a Gold Star family and compared his “sacrifices” as real-estate billionaire to those of the young and dead Muslim-American soldier Humayun Khan, who besmirched John McCain’s status as a war hero — when was Trump ever in Vietnam?, who wants to create a registry for Muslims (much as Hitler did for Jews — bad precedent), who has the zealous support of the KKK, who cozied up to Putin (whose government interfered in the election — in the country whose security the president is supposed to ensure), who has been nominating plutocrats and alt-right loons to very lofty and powerful positions, who promises to deport millions and break up families, to “build a Wall and make Mexico pay for it” (good luck), who will lead us into trade wars and likely encourage fiscal policy that will lead to another huge financial meltdown, calls climate change a hoax propagated by China (and therefore embraces destructive industries and deregulation, and has no agenda to help mitigate the first anthropogenic extinction in our planet’s history), etc., etc., etc.We are disappointed to think we live in a country in which our fellow citizens think that these things are presidential, that they befit the leader of the free world. We are horrified to think that America elected its own image, and that image is this. The man’s affronts to common decency and infantile vulnerability to any provocation should have disqualified him in the minds of all decent and sane people.So what the fuck happened? I am no great fan of Hillary’s. I don’t think Washington is functioning properly. But electing this wholly selfish, power-hungry golem to our highest office was not a wise alternative.It’s not so much about superiority. The feeling is “This is America in the twenty-first century! How could you?”
Why are most Liberals and atheists so condemning of Christians but not Muslims?
Its because in UK and America there are more xians than muslims so people target them.
How come liberals can't see that Trump is right to condemn violence on many sides? Aren't there always several sides to conflicts, i.e. racists vs lefties, Jews vs Nazis, the US vs Al Qaeda, and so on?
What’s appalling to me about the OP’s question is how they have politicized this issue. “How come LIBERALS can’t see….”Republican Senator Cory Gardner called out Trump specifically on this issue and said Trump was wrong and he should be condemning the right wing hate groups and Nazis and white supremecists.House Speaker Paul Ryan waited a day and then said Trump was wrong.Corporate Executives who were Republican and serving on Trump White House Advisory Boards specifically resigned over this claim.White House Advisor Gary Cohn nearly quit over this comment and had to be talked in to staying by other staff.Jeff Flake condemned Trump for this statement.Lindsay Graham said that Trump took a step back by insisting there is moral equivalency and “both sides are to blame” here.There are plenty of Republican leaders who publicly called out Trump on this issue. There are even more independents and moderates who wouldn’t call themselves “liberal” who called out Trump on this and said he was wrong.The OP by saying it’s just liberals ignores both the truth but also uses this dispute divisively, by implying that liberals just don’t get it and everyone else agrees with Trump. No, here’s what Trump and Trump supporters don’t get: almost no-one agrees with his claim of there were fine people on both sides other than Trump supporters (and not even most of them agree with that).Additionally, the OP’s claim (that there are multiple sides to every fight or conflict) is just plain wrong except on a very simplistic level. When that neo-nazi got in his car and drove over dozens of people killing Heather Heyer, those individuals were engaging in peaceful behavior. There was no “conflict” it was just a repugnant, hating, racist murderer seeking to kill individuals. If a woman is walking down the street and it dragged in to an alley and raped, is she guilty of that because, well, there are two sides to any conflict. I mean, (sarcasm alert here), she did try to fight back and even got in a couple of punches before she was thrown to the ground by her rapist. Or that home assailant who snuck in to your house and kidnapped one of your kids to use as a sex slave—I guess you were the other side of the conflict because you insisted on locking your door and having a cute underage daughter—your fault dude just as much as the kidnapper/pedofile!
What does liberal brethren mean?
Less fanatical about religion than the Methodists.