This intellectual snobbery is a major reason why religious conservatives distrust liberal elites.Ī conventional wisdom has developed that almost all religious people voted for Bush and most people who voted for Kerry were secular or anti-Christian. Liberals can't mock religious people as dumb when they disagree with them but hail their wisdom when they're liberals like Jimmy Carter. The least educated voters, people with no high school diploma favored Kerry 50%-49%.Ĭonversely, most people who are highly educated are quite religious too: 72% percent of people with post-graduate degrees believed in miracles and 78% percent believe in the survival of the soul after death. We're entering another dark age, more creationist than cutting edge." Novelist Jane Smiley declared the election a triumph for the forces of "ignorance." Privately, liberals friends have told me that Bush voters are "morons," "idiots" and "peanut heads." The idea that red state voters chose Bush because they're ignorant or uneducated is bigoted, not to mention inaccurate. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said the Bush administration is about "replacing science with religion, and facts with faith. Liberals tend to view people who take the Bible very seriously as yokels opposed to science, knowledge and thinking. The answer: liberals believe that what Bush did is worse than what other presidents, Democratic or Republican, have done because it involves the unnecessary and therefore immoral shedding of human blood. Liberals also believe that a morally indefensible policy was sold dishonestly - a gross moral breach compounded by another.Ĭonservatives ask why the opposition to Bush seems hateful. One can disagree, but I would love the opportunity to watch Anne Coulter tell the Pope his opposition to the war isn't based on morality. Rather, they believe that launching any war unless absolutely justified is profoundly immoral, a position also articulated by the Pope. It's not like liberals objected because their own family members were dying. The idea that this was a victory for people who care about morality over those who don't is galling to liberals because, for many of them, the number one issue in this election was Iraq - and their opposition to the incumbent administration was almost entirely grounded in moral concerns. "I'm sure the Kerry cabal has a lot to say nducting an orgy, the preeminent natural herb for curbing the side effects of herpes, how to pick out the right stripper and midget for a ménage à trois, how to redistribute someone else's wealth to pimps, whores and welfare brats, how to rid one's nation of Judeo-Christian ethics." Columnist Ben Giles spelled out liberal depravity with greater specificity. "As a class, liberals no longer are merely the vigorous opponents of the Right they are spiteful enemies of civilization's core decency and traditions," writes Mike Thompson, in Human Events Online. Bush's re-election was a victory of people who cared about morality over those who didn't. We've seen a wave of commentary suggesting that George W. I'm not going to attempt to bring peace to the land right now but thought it might be worthwhile to sketch the top ways that liberals misunderstand well-meaning religious conservatives, and vice versa. I've heard similarly clueless statements from liberals who simultaneously talk about the need for fairness then compare the Bush administration to the Taliban or the Nazis. Then I came on, and his question to me was, "Why do secular people think we're all a bunch of intolerant people?" He went on to claim that "even the mention of God terrifies them." As for religious people who go to church regularly but vote Democratic, he said, "I see them as sort of phonies." I was waiting to go on a conservative talk radio show and heard the host say that John Kerry and his supporters "have no God" because they don't stand up to evil.
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