January 26, 2014

NY Gov. Cuomo Urges Conservatives To Leave New York State


[From article]
Liberals, after all, pride themselves on their toleration and open-mindedness, but often they sound like Michael Caine's character in "Austin Powers in Goldmember" who said: "There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch." Cuomo and de Blasio, unlike Caine, don't understand they're the butt of the joke.
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Liberals were the least accurate, especially those who describe themselves as 'very liberal.' The biggest errors in the whole study came when liberals answered the Care and Fairness questions while pretending to be conservatives." In other words, moderates and conservatives can understand the liberal worldview and liberals are unable to relate to the conservative worldview, especially when it comes to questions of care and fairness.
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Thus conservatives have a far greater capacity to understand the liberal worldview than vice versa--and, applying the theory to the case at hand, Cuomo and de Blasio are simply unable to overcome their own cognitive limits.

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Why They Wish the Right Left
A social-psychology theory on Cuomo and de Blasio.
By JAMES TARANTO
January 24, 2014

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