# Most Liberals are Hateful and Nasty Individuals **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 29, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635 "2013-05-29T16:41:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/101 "2013-05-29T23:51:47Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Dan Savage is not my favorite gay liberal political commentator - Ron Reagan is. And married to a [del]beard[/del] woman since 1980. They snuck off and eloped with no one knowing except his Secret Service agent, the faggot. šŸ˜‰ > [@elucidator](#): > > You leave Rachel Maddow _alone!_ (sob) She tries so hard, and gives so much! (blubber) And all you can do is take and take and tear her down! You bastards! (sob)ā€¦ Um, Iā€™ll take Rachel Maddow, though I doubt sheā€™d have me. > [@Slypork](#): > > Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a ā€œdumb twatā€ (she is an idiot but the language was offensive). Heā€™s been hanging out with Brits too much. For them ā€œtwatā€ is almost a compliment. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/102 "2013-05-30T00:14:04Z")
> [@Slypork](#): > > [Environmentalists](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/democratic-party-platform-climate-change-environment_n_1854579.html) were a key part of the Democratic platform. It was less vocal then after Goreā€™s Oscar winning performance as an animatronic doomsayer but was still there. The problem here is assuming that the scientists are not telling us the same warnings as before. (and Al Gore was not one, just a popularizer of the science) Scientists are \*\*still \*\*telling us that the trouble is not going away, it is getting worse. > **[National Geographic](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/)** > > Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration. > [@Slypork](#): > > Ed Schultz does it on a regular basis. Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a ā€œdumb twatā€ (she is an idiot but the language was offensive). And Chris Matthews is the Howard Beale of MSNBC with his diatribes against conservatives. It was reported that even in the McCain Campaign she was seen as a whack job. [http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/15073.html](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/15073.html) IMHO taking that and the early embarrassing episode of conservatives talking about what they really thought about Palin when they thought their mikes were off, it was clear that most of the smart Republicans already knew the albatross they had in their necks, to me seeing all the so called smart Republicans going day in and day out carrying water for her was the moment that told me that most of the Republicans of today, are either not capable of preventing nasty pieces of work from getting elected, or worse, they know better but they will still tell the rank and file that they are selecting the bestā€¦ It seems to me that to get a well functioning democracy even the conservatives that do have intelligence should realize that what they are supporting is not good for the future, the blind like Bachman can not lead the blind, and I do think that smart Republicans should send their support elsewhere until the current crop of looney tunes is removed because the usual method of looking the other way is not working. [http://www.policymic.com/articles/45141/7-absurd-michele-bachmann-moments-she-ll-always-be-remembered-for](http://www.policymic.com/articles/45141/7-absurd-michele-bachmann-moments-she-ll-always-be-remembered-for) [QUOTE=] 7 Absurd Michele Bachmann Moments Sheā€™ll Always Be Remembered For 1. Global warming is a hoax and carbon dioxide is harmless [/QUOTE] Oh and BTW I did check the Pajamas Media so called list of supporters of OWS you linked to, the first link from the claimed sources claiming that the Nazi party is supporting OWS claimed that Media Matters was reporting that, but in reality the ā€œsupportā€ Pajamas Media is trying to turn into an important one is the same fallacy as [what the Heartland Institute tried to do with climate science only to blew up in their faces](http://www.livescience.com/20107-heartland-climate-change-billboards.html), it was like telling others that when a dictator or a criminal reports that they like sugar then we should ban it, I just gave up after that, and clearly you should gave up Pajamas Media as a source. > **[The Latest Desperate Smear Of Occupy Wall Street Protests: The Nazis Like Them](https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-nation/latest-desperate-smear-occupy-wall-street-protests-nazis-them)** ---
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/103 "2013-05-30T02:22:17Z")
> [@bigdfrombigd](#): > > I have only been interested in politics for the last few yearsā€¦ Explains so much. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/104 "2013-05-30T02:27:05Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Those people deserve it. They are factually, objectively, terrible people +1 ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/105 "2013-05-30T02:36:07Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > And married to a [del]beard[/del] woman since 1980. They snuck off and eloped with no one knowing except his Secret Service agent, the faggot. šŸ˜‰ Really? I mean, seriously, really? Because he pings my gaydar something fierce. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/106 "2013-05-30T02:58:30Z")
Confession: I was a conservative Ā® until I saw Ms. Bachman standing in front of a poster of the death camps, and comparing Affordable Health Care to the Holocaust. I decided then and there that those people were simply too mean-spirited to be associated with. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/107 "2013-05-30T03:54:06Z")
And, yeah, Bill Maher should never have said that. It was dumb, rude, and offensive. Now, letā€™s have a bar-chart showing dumb, rude, and offensive things said by liberal talk show hosts and by conservative talk show hosts. The enormity of the L-curve is established by Rush Limbaugh aloneā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/108 "2013-05-30T04:46:04Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Really? I mean, seriously, really? Because he pings my gaydar something fierce. What, the Ron Reagan Jr. who used to do ballet? No, no, not getting that vibe, not in any way. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/109 "2013-05-30T04:49:55Z")
And thatā€™s not glitter, he simply has a case of radioactive psoriasis. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/110 "2013-05-30T05:24:57Z")
Aw, yes, 'cause I dream of Republican Town, The place where the happiest smile is Cheneyā€™s frown! ---
**Author:** ![AlienVessels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@AlienVessels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlienVessels)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/111 "2013-05-30T05:30:57Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Conservatives think liberals have bad ideas. Liberals think conservatives are bad people. Their invective tends to reflect this. Neither side is very effective at characterizing the mind set of the other side. Speaking as a liberal, I think there are a lot of conservatives that are ā€œbadā€ because they _tend_ to think more locally. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/112 "2013-05-30T08:56:34Z")
> [@Slypork](#): > > The problem is with the party platform, not the members. IMHO the bulk of people who identify as conservatives are RINO and are really fiscal and national security conservatives while socially moderate. The party platform is set by the people who make up the party. If the bulk of them disagree with the platform, they really ought to do something about that. Since there doesnā€™t seem to be any serious effort in the Republican party to address the explicit bigotry in their party ideology, I question your assertion that this, if you will, silent majority exists. > [@](#): > > Ed Schultz does it on a regular basis. Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a ā€œdumb twatā€ (she is an idiot but the language was offensive). And Chris Matthews is the Howard Beale of MSNBC with his diatribes against conservatives. And none of those figures have any particular pull in the Democratic party, much less are actual elected officials. I never said there werenā€™t any assholes on the left, we just donā€™t put them in positions of leadership. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/113 "2013-05-30T08:57:54Z")
The typical republican/conservative defense essentially boils down to ā€œI only hate poor people, not the fags and niggers. That stuff is just in our platform but _I_ donā€™t believe in it.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Molesworth\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Molesworth\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molesworth_2)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/114 "2013-05-30T10:01:26Z")
> [@bigdfrombigd](#): > > Why is it that most liberals are so vicious? Just reading about Michelle Bachmannā€™s retirement announcement and am so sad to see so much vitriol directed her way. Why is it that anyone with conservative values is trashed??? Alan West, Herman Cain, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin etc. Why is the OP calling those individuals "conservatives? Michelle Bachmann and her ilk are RINOs at best. Why havenā€™t any of these alleged ā€œconservativesā€ ever explicitly called for the impeachment of the Kenyan Muslin Usurper, let alone his fully deserved execution for treason? OP needs to listen to more Glenn Beck and the late Andrew Breitbart if he/she wants to be taken seriously by genuine conservatives like myself. /Just joking, the American Right went totally insane as far back as the Reagan era ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/115 "2013-05-30T10:47:07Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Conservatives think liberals have bad ideas. Ann Coulterā€™s book titles _alone_ would seem to disprove that. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/116 "2013-05-30T11:13:05Z")
It is very difficult to be a conservative in America, given the quality of the public figures who claim that label. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/117 "2013-05-30T13:01:27Z")
I canā€™t believe this foolish OP has garnered enough attention to remain on the front page. There are hateful and nasty individuals of all political stripes; liberals are not immune but neither are they over-represented. In fact, I wager that most liberals are liberals precisely because they wish to help those less fortunate than they are ā€“ hardly a recipe for nastiness in and of itself, is it? Of course, in my view, liberals are mostly wrong about the best way to help those less fortunate ā€“ but thatā€™s an issue of tactics, not temperament. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/118 "2013-05-30T13:23:45Z")
Hey, this is the Pit. Either tell us weā€™re evil or fuck off, sir. ---
**Author:** ![dataguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dataguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dataguy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/119 "2013-05-30T13:33:09Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Of course, in my view, liberals are mostly wrong about the best way to help those less fortunate ā€“ but thatā€™s an issue of tactics, not temperament. This is what is missing in the current political discourseā€“there can be agreement on goals/strategies even though there is disagreement on tactics. Iā€™m not a registered Republican or Democrat. Iā€™m also not unilaterally liberal/conservativeā€“it depends on the issue at hand. My idea of a functional two-party system is one where there is normally general agreement on what needs to be done, with various ideas proposed on how to best accomplish it. I donā€™t expect one side to always have the best ideas. What we have now is a dysfunctional system where one side (yes, it is the Republicans) refuse to admit to sharing any goals in common with the Democrats. This has reached the level of insanity. How can both parties elected to govern the same country be unable to find any common national goals? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635/120 "2013-05-30T13:54:38Z")
> [@dataguy](#): > > What we have now is a dysfunctional system where one side (yes, it is the Republicans) refuse to admit to sharing any goals in common with the Democrats. This has reached the level of insanity. In regards to this, I present Gov. Chris Christie, who is actually being criticized for working with the President of his country to help the residents of his State recover from a natural disaster. As though the right thing to do would be to tell his constituents to FOAD because helping them would require being nice to a Democrat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-liberals-are-hateful-and-nasty-individuals/659635.md?page=7)