I don't think that I've written a full entry on this topic before and the previous entry reminded me that I should.

Most liberals view themselves as humble servants; as wanting to help people; or ,perhaps, as compassionate. They are lying to themselves. Liberals are the most arrogant, self aggrandizing people that I have ever interacted with.

I am an arrogant person. In day-to-day life, I'm one of the most arrogant people that I know (case in point there). I'm actually quite good at most things that I do and that drives a certain arrogance; which I tend to embrace and, when necessary, to mock.

These liberals can't even see their own arrogance under the cover of their social goals and compassion, but it's there. Every time a liberal says "we should help X", I want you to think about what they are actually saying. They are simultaneously insulting both X and _every other person_ in their society.

To say "we should help X" means first that X cannot help themselves. It says, "while I am good enough and strong enough to have become successful without handouts, X are not and they need our help". Once in a while, a liberal might actually have been helped by one of the social programs that they push so hard for, but very often that is not even the case. More importantly, that doesn't change the facts of the case, it only paints them in an even worse light. Now they are saying, "while I needed help to even get to this station in life, I'm sure that I know exactly how to help X."

It means also that _nobody_ other than the group of liberals saying "we should help X" will possibly think to help X on their own. Moreover, it means that the group of liberals in question must be the single smartest group of people in the society. This one group _knows_ that everyone else's judgments about when and how to spend their own money are not as good as this group's judgments. This is where the true measure of the arrogance comes through. Every person in this society makes hard choices about how to spend their money every day. The liberal group says that they know better than _all_ of these individuals how best to spend that money. Most people give something to charity every year. The liberal group says that it knows better what charities need help.

Liberals are arrogant, there is absolutely no way to propose a spending of government money without being singularly arrogant and self aggrandizing. What's more appalling is that they do not even know that they are arrogant, and that it's nearly impossible to have them admit it, even when they are shown it in stark relief, with graphs, charts and examples.

It's just occurred to me that you can say the same about conservative moralism, but I'll leave that demonstration as an exercise for my readers.