Prager

I was listening to Dennis Prager last week on the radio and he made more sentient remarks. He scolded the Left for ridiculing conservatives. He accused them of being sanctimonious, feeling justified in ridiculing conservative dummies, because to be a liberal is to be superior, and one must be inferior, stupid and likely corrupt to think and talk like a conservative.

Others are not conservative or individualist most of the time. This makes them mistaken, but not evil (unless they discriminate against us), dumb, or inferior. We want to win people over, and being sarcastic to them, demeaning them, smearing them, ridiculing them and mocking them are counterproductive. We make enemies and increase resistance to us, our cause and our ideas where it was all avoidable. If we can, without pandering or flattering others, allow them to save face while speaking truthfully, this is preferred.

Mark Levin is so right and so brilliant, but his verbal aggressiveness towards some of his callers strikes me as unfortunate. We conservatives want to win over the middle class and the ordinary people, and we cannot succeed at this by being wantonly disrespectful and derogatory towards our audience.