ARMED LIBERAL IS FIGURING SOMETHING OUT that, well, I’ve noticed too:

See, here’s the deal. I’m a liberal because I respect pretty much everyone. I was taught this by my father, who was always as polite and respectful to the poor and low as he was to the rich and powerful (in fact, maybe a bit more so). I think that the poor and powerless are typically pretty good human beings who are on the wrong side of circumstance, and that part of the job of government is to make that condition bearable, and to make sure that it isn’t structural…that you’re not on the wrong side of circumstance because your parents were, or because of your color or sex. That way their kids will have a chance at living in big houses and spoiling their children into insensibility like I do.

But at root, it comes from a feeling that the least of us are as human and worthy of dignity as the best.

But somehow, we have managed to raise an intellectual class who believe in liberalism in no small part because it allows them to feel superior to others.

Yep.