Open-Minded Liberals?

Larry Elder's article "Open-Minded Liberals?" link available here

Many people falsly assume, according to Larry Elder (and others), that liberals are the open-minded ones. A quiz was taken by some Americans. They were asked to rate the "temperature" of a some politicians, meaning, 100 is the best and 0 the worst. Liberals in general rated conversatives in general unnaturally low. Also, interestingly, in 2004, sixty percent of the liberals polled gave Bush and Cheney a 0.... and Saddam Hussein received from all Americans a total average score of 8. Huh.. The point being that conservatives are seen by liberals as evil people with bad motives, but conservatives look at liberals as well-intentioned but misguided.
Larry Elder does a great job mocking liberals using their own words. For example, he recalls having a conversation at his barbershop with another customer. This other customer found out that Larry voted for Bush and he couldn't believe it. He asked Larry why, and he said something about opposition to big givernment, lower taxes, and keeping the country safe. The other customer responded with several ridiculous allegations against Bush, such as that 9/11 was an inside job set up to kill black people, that somebody intentionally ruptured a levee in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and that Bush simply serves as a puppet for others and that "they" wish to "destroy" the little people in the middle class. These allegations are ludicrous and outlandish and their supporters have basically set themselves up for ridicule. To most people in their right mind, this makes it sound like America is run by a group of terrorists.
Then again, sometimes it seems like that's exactly what liberals think of conservatives. After Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in the mid-'90s, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., compared the newly conservative-controlled House to the legislature set up by the Czar of Russia and the parliament of the German Weimar Republic that brought Hitler to power. Elder jests, "Comparing Republicans to Nazis remains a favorite pastime of some Democrats."
The article goes on to tell how the billionaire democrat George Soros said that the Bush White House displays the "supremacist ideology of Nazi Germany" and that the Bush administration does some things that remind him of his childhood in Nazi-occupied Hungary. "When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,'" Soros said, "it reminds me of the Germans." Soros fails to mention the enormous differences between the Nazis and the conservatives/Bush. Here, Larry Elder need not interject any words, because the strangeness of the liberals' own words speak for themselves. Elder goes straight on through to note that Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean described the contest between the Democrats and the Republicans as "a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good." By putting themselves on a pedestal and leaving such a tiny amount of room for the conservatives to be right, these liberals practically lose all their own credibility; that's the attitdue Elder takes the whole way through the article.