[quote=briansd1]
But so what? Conservatives have always been sanctimonious and critical whereas liberals are permissive.

My conservatives grand-parents were sanctimonious and condescending about everything. The “good people” at Church, while kind and willing to help, always viewed the “bad people” askance.

I think that we are all conservative on this blog since we tend to be sanctimonious about people who don’t manage their finances well.[/quote]

Brian: Or manage their weight well, or engage in “redneck culture”, or believe in other than “progressive” values.

Sorry, Brian, but people are tribal and use less common sense than you think. An example would be your generalization above in which all conservatives (and you actually mean “right-wingers”) are pompous and sanctimonious and all progressives (“left-wingers”) are permissive and understanding. Call me crazy, but that equation of yours doesn’t work so well in the real world, and is easily debunked by facts and reality.

When confronted with these facts and this reality, you’ll invariably either evade answering or come up with some excuse, which proves the point that people believe what they want to believe and will construct the necessary “reality” to support that point of view, facts be damned.

Leftists (as opposed to Liberals or Progressives) are not critical thinkers, any more than Glenn Beck (reactionary right-wing) is a critical thinker. If you want evidence of this, witness the recent nonsense in Wisconsin, whereby angry Leftists argued for maintenance of an unaffordable, unsupportable status quo ante and Michael Moore gabbled on about having a “right” to rich people’s money. No logic, no critical thinking, and no fairness. Plenty of sanctimony to go around, though.