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    10 Unfortunate Liberal Myths Conservatives Often Believe


    10 Unfortunate Liberal Myths Conservatives Often Believe
    Misinformation yields misunderstandings.
    By SELWYN DUKE Published on February 21, 2017
    https://stream.org/10-unfortunate-li...often-believe/

    Garbage in, garbage out is how it works with a computer. It's no different with society: Misinformation yields misunderstandings and the adoption of misguided policy, personal and political.

    The following are 10 liberal myths even many conservatives believe. How many did you know were commonly accepted fake news, fallacies or false history?


    1. Liberals are well-meaning — just misguided

    Not according to research. As Peter Schweizer reported in "Don't listen to the liberals — Right-wingers really are nicer people, latest research shows," relative to conservatives liberals are:

    far less likely to believe they have an obligation to care for a seriously ill spouse or parent;
    far less likely to believe you derive happiness by putting another's happiness before your own;
    far less likely to believe getting married is important;
    far less likely to believe having children is important;
    nearly twice as likely to say parents shouldn't sacrifice their own well-being for their children's;
    less likely to hug their children;
    "more likely to rate 'high income' as an important factor in choosing a job, more likely to say 'after good health, money is the most important thing,' and agree with the statement 'there are no right or wrong ways to make money,'" as Schweizer writes;
    less likely to donate money or devote time to charity, and, when they do, they more often support a political cause than help the needy; and
    are more envious. In a study involving a computer game concerning accumulation of and transfers of money, researchers found that liberals were more likely than conservatives to give up a little of their own cash if it would cause more money to be taken from someone else.

    Studies also show liberals are less happy. Any idea why?



    2. The world faces an impending over-population crisis

    ...With fertility rates already below replacement level (2.1 children per woman) in approximately 100 nations, demographers say that while global population will reach about nine billion in 2050, it will begin declining quickly thereafter.



    3. The world is becoming less religious

    According to Pew Research Center, atheists, agnostics and those claiming no particular religion will actually lose population share over the next few decades. ...



    4. Mass murderers are disproportionately white

    As I demonstrated in 2014 using data from liberal Mother Jones, non-Hispanic whites commit mass murder at just about the rate their population share (currently 62 percent) would suggest. ...



    5. Minor sex abuse is an unusually big problem in the Catholic Church

    Actually, "according to Charol Shakeshaft, the researcher of a little-remembered 2004 study prepared for the U.S. Department of Education, 'the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests,'" reported LifeSite News in 2010.

    ...California's 61 largest newspapers published almost 2,000 stories in the first half of 2002 about the Church scandal — and only four about the ongoing public-school scandal.



    6. Most wars are caused by religion

    History says otherwise. ...



    7. The Middle Ages were a dreary period of ignorance, oppression and technological stagnation

    According to Providence College professor Anthony Esolen in this PragerU video, medieval Europeans:

    knew the world was round;
    were cheerful peoples who invented the carnival and revived popular drama;
    invented the modern university and created "an international community of scholars";
    erected the most beautiful buildings to grace the Earth;
    "produced whole genres of art the world had never seen";
    "invented our musical notation and Western harmony";
    created a "tradition of local self-government" and "free associations of men"; and
    "established schools, orphanages [and] hospitals."
    Professor Esolen states that the period was not the "Dark Ages" but the "Brilliant Ages."



    8. Higher CO2 levels are a bad thing

    While conservatives are generally skeptical of the anthropogenic global-warming thesis, often they don't realize that increased atmospheric CO2 is actually beneficial. ...

    ...A CO2-rich world is a green world.



    9. The Crusades were imperialistic Western campaigns geared toward converting and pillaging a peaceful Muslim world

    On the contrary, the Crusades were actually European wars of survival designed to repel Muslim armies. ...



    10. The courts have constitutional power to be the ultimate arbiter of laws' meaning

    Actually, judicial supremacy is not in the Constitution. Rather, the "power" was declared by the judiciary itself, notably in the 1803 Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court decision....


    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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