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Cocooned Liberals Are Unprepared for Political Debate

annfan_777 Wrote: May 24, 2012 3:42 PM
I don't think it's that they're unprepared - they're just unwilling.
annfan_777 Wrote: May 24, 2012 5:11 PM
They've already arrogantly made up their narrow minds about various topics, and so for a liberal, there is no debate. They're right (in their deluded little world) and we're wrong.
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...

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