The top liberal superstitions
by digby
The Wall Street Journal featured this popular story last week called the Top 10 Liberal Superstitions. I’m with her. Those liberals really are dumb.
1. Spending more money improves education.
— Yes, I think we can all agree that spending less money, firing teachers and teaching Intelligent Design improves education.
2. Government spending stimulates the economy.
— So false! You should cut government to the bone when the economy is lagging. Look at Europe. They’re doing great.
3. Republican candidates always have a big spending advantage over Democrats.
— Ok, so she cherry picks groups to compare and leaves out the big outside spenders, but still. It must be false. Because Democrats are the rich ones, sucking off that government teat on welfare and all.
4. Raising the minimum wage helps the poor.
— Wrong. Makes ’em lose their ambition. Once you’re rolling in all that easy money you have no incentive to work hard.
5. Global warming is causing increasingly violent weather.
— Global warming is a hoax. Dr Sarah Palin told me so.
6. Genetically modified food is dangerous.
— Nothing could be worse than giving people information. Just confuses ’em.
7. Voter ID laws suppress minority turnout.
— Hahaha. That’s a good one. Especially since illegals are stealing elections left and right and nobody cares.
8. ObamaCare is gaining popularity
— Everybody hates it and always will. That’s just a fact.
9. The Keystone XL pipeline would increase oil spills.
— Pipelines don’t spill oil, people do. Any anyway, other modes of transporting oil have oil spills too.
10. Women are paid 77 cents on the dollar compared with men.
— women choose not to make as much money as men. They’re just generous like that.
This piece is very popular on the right wing web sites with commentary like this:
You run the risk of becoming infected with moonbattery if you find yourself believing any of these top 10 liberal superstitions, each of which is succinctly debunked at the Wall Street Journal.
There you go.
The funny thing is that liberals do have a whole bunch of superstitions that are worthy of debunking, but they don’t fit the conservative stereotype so they didn’t include them.
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