Liberal Emotionalism

Conservatives, despite their professed love of truth, can only claim the facade of genuine rationality, as their errors appear everywhere from their positions on gender stereotypes to their positions on small government (someone who consistently seeks small government would be a libertarian).  Conservative emotionalism is at least somewhat concealed by talk of rational thought.  Liberals, on the other hand, can be quite comfortable with openly revealing the emotionalistic foundation of their ideas.

Instead, they celebrate ideas that blatantly rest on subjective preferences and sheer emotion.  A clear example of this is the belief that one's gender is dictated by one's psychological status instead of one's physical status.  Whereas conservatives pretend like they are acknowledging reality by holding that a person's physical body (genitalia and chromosomes) determine his or her psychological characteristics and moral obligations, liberals pretend like a person's can be both male in spirit and a woman in body, and vice versa.

It should be readily apparent to at least every thinker who is not a slave to the fallacies of a political party that this exemplifies the illogicality and emotionalism that are behind liberal ideas about gender.  Again, staunch liberals do not even try to hide this, for to do so would be to betray the beliefs themselves!  The very beliefs are based on the premise that emotion has a far higher epistemological and metaphysical status than it does.

The fallacies of conservatives are indeed often just as asinine as those of liberals, only in different ways; the biggest difference is often one of mere presentation, with conservatives trying to rebrand their own emotionalism as either necessary to the existence of civilization or, ironically, as a love of reason and reality!  While conservatives often mistake themselves for pseudo-rationalists, liberals simply make no such claim, choosing to embrace emotionalistic decisions in the name of societal progress.

Liberal madness is not always worse than conservative madness, error for error, but it is far more overt in some cases.  It deserves to be refuted wherever it appears, without regard for the emotions of those who cling to it (as with conservatives).  Only when emotion takes its place as a slave to reason can emotion be pursued without fallacious intent.  As long as liberal emotionalism has a stronghold on Western society, there is a need for rationalists to denounce its pettiness and stupidity.