Mike Gallagher Quotes

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

I don't think I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome in a sense that I can separate the man from the White House.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.

I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable.

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Liberalism is a Mental Illness

A democracy becomes ungovernable if a substantial portion of the population lives in an alternative reality…. How do you have a rational conversation about President Obama’s policies of he believes that Obama is a spy for Iran.

We not only want to believe that our party is superior to the opposing party, but also we want to believe that we are justified in believing this to be true.

In the age of Trump, we need to be aware of emotional rhetoric and its power regardless of whether or not it's based in fact.

We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren't controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn't believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it's owned by a small group of people, we realize it's biased, etc.

I tend to personally judge issue by issue rather than sort of endorsing this football-team mentality that we fall into in this country, where it's all about the team.

We're living in interesting times, where people seem to be able to say things which are contrary to what you would call rationalism.

We live in a world where we don't really hear ideas. We just hear propaganda. That's not just boring. It's also very dangerous.