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Paul Krugman: Liberals Are Too Nice to Be Hold Grudges Against Conservatives Or SomethingAnn Althouse asks, perchance, if he's heard of "Rush Limbaugh" at any point in the past two weeks. What produces this odd claim is Krugman's cheerleading for the co-authors of Freakonomics -- who are now publishing SuperFreakonomics, which knocks global warming theory a bit -- to be ripped apart by his leftist cohort: I have a theory here, although it may not be the whole story: it’s about careerism. Annoying conservatives is dangerous: they take names, hold grudges, and all too often find ways to take people who annoy them down. As a result, the Kewl Kids, as Digby calls them, tread very carefully when people on the right are concerned — and they snub anyone who breaks the unwritten rule and mocks those who must not be offended. And if you read the Freakonomics guys post on this, you'll see that liberals are not, in fact, "too nice" to do anything, including simply make stuff up to smear opponents. But you already knew that. Ah, Finally Found It: An old essay I wrote that seems on-point here. Paul Krugman fancies himself as "too nice" to do various underhanded things to those on his Enemies List. He makes this assertion even as he approvingly links a smear on a pair of writers on his Enemies List. One of the biggest problems liberals have -- in fact, it's sorta the sine qua non of liberalism; that which makes them liberals in the first place -- is the astonishingly broad chasm between liberals' self-conception of themselves and an objective, accurate assessment of themselves. Again, I don't want to claim that liberals have cornered the market on inflated self-opinions. However, it seems to me that conservatives have far less reservation about admitting they often act due to simple self-interest. Oh, we're not eager to offer that admission. But because we believe that human beings are inherently flawed -- and on this point religious cons and non-religious cons agree, although not for the exact same list of reasons -- we're less hung-up about admitting we act in our own self-interest for no particular greater good or noble purpose. I'm not saying they're more selfish than conservatives. I'm just saying there's a much larger gulf between their actual level of selfishness and their admitted level of selfishness. Their emotional investment in their presumed near-zero level of mercenary impulse causes them to verge more wildly from reality on this point. Incidentally, I cut the beginning of that, the thing that started the rant. (Already in too long, didn't read territory.) But it's kind of worth reading. | Recent Comments
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