University of Virginia professor Gerard Alexander has an eyeopening piece in the Washington Post about how the left condescends to conservatives and ordinary Americans on a regular basis and has been doing so since the 1950's.There is nothing new in the piece that conservatives don't already know. But perhaps just seeing one of their major critiques of the left in the Washington Post is what makes it news worthy.A sample:Finally, liberals condescend to the rest of us when they say conservatives are driven purely by emotion and anxiety -- including fear of change -- whereas liberals have the harder task of appealing to evidence and logic. Former vice president Al Gore made this case in his 2007 book, "The Assault on Reason," in which he expressed fear that American politics was under siege from a coalition of religious fundamentalists, foreign policy extremists and industry groups opposed to "any reasoning process that threatens their economic goals." This...(Read Full Post)