Knowing Better: Liberalism As Emotion, and Conservatism As Reason

YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO give conservatives credit for some of the haired brained, but very creative arguments they use against liberalism. Among the more prominent anti-liberal arguments is that liberals form conclusions and opinions based on emotion, rather than reason. Can you imagine all those liberal PhD types at places like Harvard, M.I.T., Stanford, Yale, ignoring their intellects and using only emotion to form their conclusions and beliefs? Institutions of higher education tend to be swarming with liberals, enough to almost make you wonder whether there is some connection between liberalism, and higher education, like, maybe, intelligence and education. No, say the conservatives, all those academic liberals are a bunch of ivory tower eggheads and nitwits, totally out of touch with reality, letting their emotions run wild, and ignoring their own intellectual capabilities, limited that they are. To hell with their newfangled explanations of nature, all this stuff about evolution and life on other planets, those crazy liberals! There has been a "liberal takeover" of America's education system, a horrible insidious conspiracy, and these evil liberal PhD type academicians are filling our youth with outlandish notions - liberal notions, such as human equality and societal progress - without which we could all live happily in good ole conservative America. Conservatives must think themselves to be the intellectual elite of America, by virtue of their denial of climate change and their denial of the existence of racism in America, and their tendency to embrace a religion which celebrates human sacrifice. You'd almost think that denying climate change is an emotional response to a horrible reality, and that denying that racism still exists, as conservatives tend to do, might be an emotional means of expunging guilt, and that embracing a primitive world view religiously is an emotional response to the uncertainly of modern life. That is, if you didn't know better.