Has burbled up to the Krug, who dumbs it down even from Perrin:
What’s happening, presumably, is that modern movement conservatism attracts a certain personality type. If you identify with the downtrodden, even a little, you don’t belong. If you think ridicule is an appropriate response to other peoples’ woes, you fit right in.
Bwahahahaha! Gosh, it must be really hard to be so stupid.
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Comment by JHoward on 10/7 @ 8:14 am #
Maybe Krugman could start with the little issue of collectives failing like clockwork. Typically on the broken backs of, um, the downtrodden. Moron.
Free Republics? Not so much so.
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Comment by Rick on 10/7 @ 8:21 am #
Gosh, it must be really hard to be so stupid.
On the evidence of the malignant dwarf Krugman, and our pet wymyn’s studies punching bag Caric, it takes many years of study.
Cordially…
Comment by mgroves on 10/7 @ 8:27 am #
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I enjoy making old people choose between prescriptions and dog food.
Oh, also creating false dichotomies too.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/7 @ 8:33 am #
David Brooks is there too, babbling about “perpetual tax cuts.”
He goes to all the right parties you know.
Comment by McGehee on 10/7 @ 8:33 am #
You know, Dan — given that Krugman’s stupidity is his chief woe, he may have a point here.
I feel his pain.
…or I would, if I were … you know … stupid.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 10/7 @ 8:38 am #
What’s happening, presumably
I think it was Seneca that pointed out he’d not argue with someone until he understood that man’s position and reasoning to the point he could argue his side at least as well or better than his opponent in a debate. This far too often is the biggest flaw in modern political debate: almost complete ignorance of what the other side thinks or believes, and why they hold these positions. He presumes, but doesn’t know, and by reading this you get the impression he hasn’t ever even tried to find out.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/7 @ 8:40 am #
You got it, McGehee. Hey, Christopher. What up?
Comment by JHoward on 10/7 @ 8:47 am #
That conservative = idiot meme, from Christopher’s point in #6, naturally depends on merely overlooking anything but assumed intent, even first effect being completely irrelevant. That’s real horsepower.
Krugman mean well. Krugman see conservative. Krugman grunt.
And there you have it: Enlightenment.
Comment by Pablo on 10/7 @ 8:55 am #
Oh, it’s Krugman? Thanks for the heads up. I’ll save precious moments by not reading it.
What would you call your average Iraqi? And why doesn’t the left identify with them, while the right and the military do?
Does “Screw them. Let them all kill each other. It ain’t our problem. They can’t even get an oil sharing bill passed! Let’s run away!” qualify as ridicule? I believe that it does.
Projection, I just can’t take your projection
All you want to do is to make sure we lose
“Everything is going in the wrong direction.
Iraqis want to keep having elections.
Building up an Army fighting insurrections
And I just don’t know if Congress will let us go”
Projection, I just can’t take your projection
All you want to do is to make sure we lose
Projection,
Comment by Mike C. on 10/7 @ 9:06 am #
Krugman? Virtually every word he writes anymore is some variation of “conservatives are all crazy, stupid or evil”.
Comment by Rusty on 10/7 @ 9:10 am #
I fergit. Is this supposed to be nuance or subtlty?
Comment by J. Peden on 10/7 @ 9:42 am #
At least Krugman’s managed to produce something which doesn’t pass the sniff test – again. So he should still fit right in…with the Void.
Comment by Kevin on 10/7 @ 9:46 am #
Some of my best friends are downtrodden!
Comment by SteveMG on 10/7 @ 10:30 am #
I guess the good Professor missed that study that showed that conservatives gave 3-5 times more money and time to charity groups than liberals.
This included secular non-profit organizations – the Red Cross, American Cancer Society – and not just churches or religious entities.
Money and time.
Charity talks, bullshit walks. And also appears on the op-ed page of the NY Times.
SMG
Comment by psychologizer on 10/7 @ 10:44 am #
Reacting as though Krugman believes what he’s said, or that he’s afflicted by, rather than merely spreading, any such “meme,” doesn’t do anything.
That political identifications not only “attract” but fundamentally are personality types is an observation so banally self-evident it can’t be argued with.
Krugman hasn’t made it. He’s only said it.
It is not to be believed. It’s to be wielded.
Comment by narciso on 10/7 @ 11:08 am #
I’ve referred to him as Comandante Krugman, because he’s this close to
forming a guerilla group on the outskirts of Princeton; like that
other prof down in Peru.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/7 @ 11:21 am #
“”The truth is that right after 9-11 I had a pin,” Obama said. “Shortly after 9-11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security.”
No, you mental midget, patriotism means loving your country and not wanting to see it defeated.
ghod, I am so sick of that idiotic, lying meme.
Comment by sherlock on 10/7 @ 11:28 am #
What’s happening, presumably, is that modern movement liberalism attracts a certain personality type. If you identify with the downtrodden, even hypocritically, you belong. If you think ridicule is an appropriate response to other peoples’ ideas, you fit right in.
There, fixed it.
Comment by Ted Nugent's Soul Patch on 10/7 @ 11:51 am #
Don’t worry, if Hillary wins the White House, you can bet your mortgage that Krugman will magically find reasons for the military to stay in Iraq. The man is the professorial equivalent of a high school cheerleader–everything his side does is wonderful, good and correct, and everything the other side does is malicious, wrong-headed, and evil.
Krugman showed he had no philosophical spine whatsoever when, after 6 years of bashing Bush and Republicans in Congress for not being “fiscally responsible” and cutting spending, did a complete reverse after the Democrats took Congress in 2006 and began arguing that it would be irresponsible to cut spending. There was no financial basis for the sudden switch–the economy was the same as before–just a different letter in front of the party that controlled Congress.
When Krugman argues economics, at least he can make some coherent statements. I don’t entirely disagree with his Cassandra-like warnings that China could seriously fuck with our economy should they so choose. it’s when he goes beyond the only field that he knows that his single-minded religious devotion to liberalism and all its negative conceits shines through.
Comment by Merovign on 10/7 @ 12:03 pm #
If you identify with the downtrodden, you’re a liberal.
If you want the downtrodden to have the opportunity to not be downtrodden anymore, you’re a conservative.
I guess we just have different definitions of “compassion.”
As far as ridicule goes, I guess irony is like goldy or coppery, only made of iron.
Comment by sherlock on 10/7 @ 12:24 pm #
While slapping us with gratuitous insults and crude stereotypes, Prof. Krugman accuses us of gratuitously insulting and crudely stereotyping others.
The man’s arguments slice like a corncob…
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/7 @ 1:10 pm #
Charlie is executing a nice controlled demolition of his career.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 10/7 @ 1:23 pm #
I’ve said it many, many times — it’s base bigotry. Bigotry is as much about convincing yourself of your virtue as impugning that of others.
Comment by mishu on 10/7 @ 2:36 pm #
By identify, you mean favor a government program that will do the identification for you.
Comment by Patrick Carroll on 10/7 @ 7:28 pm #
Have you ever noticed just how *satanic* Krugman looks? Those eyes. It’s like he’s taking possession of your soul just by starting at you.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 10/7 @ 9:05 pm #
“If you identify with the downtrodden, even a little, you don’t belong.”
I’ll demur to this. I can’t identify with someone who insists upon having several chirren before attaining the age of majority, or who believes that recreational drug use bears no relationship to economic stability.
Sorry, Paul, I’d rather that they just knocked it the fuck off, reacquainted themselves with their lost dignity, and gotten on with their lives without the interference of really intelligent, socially retarded members of the Lollypop Guild.
Comment by injustice prevails on 10/8 @ 1:43 am #
“If you identify with the downtrodden, even a little, you don’t belong.â€Â
The people have been brutalized, many are starving and many have fled.
Women are not allowed to attend school. You can be jailed for owning a television. Religion can be practiced only as their leaders dictate. A man can be jailed if his beard is not long enough.
We are not going to allow it.
Yet the hope and prosperity that transformed other parts of the world in the 20th century has bypassed too many in the Middle East. For too long, the world was content to ignore forms of government in this region in the name of stability. The result was that a generation of young people grew up with little hope to improve their lives.
We are advancing freedom and liberty as the alternative to the ideologies of hatred and repression.
We seek a Middle East of secure democratic states that are at peace with one another, that are participating in the global markets We seek to advance a two-state solution for the Israelis and Palestinians so they can live side by side in peace and security. We seek justice and dignity and human rights for all the people of the Middle East.
The man identifing with the downtrodden above –
President George W. Bush
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