Dear American liberals, why do you so rarely actually ask questions?

[warpus]

Kind of weird to single out American liberals here. I don't see American liberals asking any less questions than Polish or German or Greek or Turkish liberals.

The problem is with the governing party, really. Are they using an evidence based approach to leadership? This does not seem to be as popular in the U.S. as it is in other western nations, no matter which party is in power. It could in part have to do with the extreme polarization of political discourse there.. and in part due to the whole American exceptionalism thing they've embraced.

 

[metatron]

one of the ways people from Groningen are described is : "they are made from peat, jenever (Dutch gin) and suspiciousness. With as joke: "if you say to someone there that it is a beautiful day, you get as answer back... hey, the day is not yet past !"
If I come from Amsterdam, from Holland, and sitting with a business customer on a table, I start with 0-3 against me

Aan de eerste de dood,
aan de tweede de nood,
aan de derde het brood.

(Just winging it (with wictionary of course). Did i stumble into Dutch?)

Kind of weird to single out American liberals here. I don't see American liberals asking any less questions than Polish or German or Greek or Turkish liberals.

Look, of course it's a gradual thing. Probably... it's worse with American liberals than with liberals accross the Anglosphere, it's worse with the latter than with, say, liberals in the Federal Republic and it's worse with those than with liberals in Poland.

But... can i maybe make an argument in such a way that i'm saying nice things about Canada? Or do you want to heckle that?

 

[warpus]

I just don't think liberals in general "ask less questions" or whatever

American politicians overall tend to buy into the whole "American exceptionalism" thing and their voters tend to think like that as well, whether they're liberal or conservative. This means less asking questions and checking case studies, and more letting your ideology lead you blindly to wherever.

From my experience it's conservative voters & politicians who ask even less questions, since they tend to rely even more on their ideology to get them where they want to go

 

[Hrothbern]

Aan de eerste de dood,
aan de tweede de nood,
aan de derde het brood.

(Just winging it (with wictionary of course). Did i stumble into Dutch?)

I didn't know that one, though there is a still popular saying near to it: De een zijn dood is de ander zijn brood.

In English:
The one metatron mentions:
To the first the death, to the second the need, to the third the bread.
The one I mentioned:
The one his death is the other his bread.
Meaning if one poor worker dies, the job (the daily bread) is for another. And in general nowadays more Darwinistic for animals or humans.

So... speculating on the one of metatron, I would guess that "to the second the need" is the remaining widow of the first. But IDK.

 

[Hrothbern]

I just don't think liberals in general "ask less questions" or whatever

American politicians overall tend to buy into the whole "American exceptionalism" thing and their voters tend to think like that as well, whether they're liberal or conservative. This means less asking questions and checking case studies, and more letting your ideology lead you blindly to wherever.

From my experience it's conservative voters & politicians who ask even less questions, since they tend to rely even more on their ideology to get them where they want to go

Yes.. something like that
My feel for many USians is that they are mostly quite religious. Whether that religious convistion faith is based on religion and/or ideologies does not really matter. Is also alligned to the popularity of self help cook books to improve (basically being more forward recipe based than backward analysis). And I really like the energy and optimism from that Something EUians can learn a lot about.
My own preference is much more based on values. Trying to apply them to the situations at hand without clear recipes how.
Sharing the "what" of values gives a lot in common where the "hows" can cause diverges.