The Liberal Mindset - why?

Here's a real leader, the President of my own formative years, expounding on some important truths in a speech to evangelical leaders in 1983. In referring to the Soviets, he gives a pretty good thumbnail sketch of the liberal mindset in our own country today.

I think I'll show this to my students.

Theology - 11th grade

Andrew Klavan, from Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire organization offers some great insights in this 3-minute video:

I think we can talk about the ideological differences between liberals and conservatives until we're blue in the face, but I think how they behave with those differences is even more fascinating.  I formed this opinion almost 30 years ago, and all the time that's passed makes me more and more convinced I was right:

Conservatives just seem to want to be left alone.  They are tolerant of others' ideologies as long as it doesn't infringe on them or their rights to believe as they do.  Their feeling seems to be: "Go ahead and smoke pot, or marry your sister, or have two dudes get married, or whatever else you want.  Just leave me alone to live with my values and beliefs.  Let me keep most of what I earn, and I'll take responsibility for my family and their welfare."  I've shared that outlook for most of my adult life.  Live and let live, although I do have one caveat:  If I had a little girl, and she walked into a public restroom at the mall, and some dude walked in after her because he felt like a woman that day, I would not leave well enough alone.  That guy would have a major problem with me much larger than his gender confusion, and he'd likely really be woman before he came back out of that john.

Liberals are just the opposite.  They are absolutely convinced that they are not only more intelligent and informed than their conservative brethren, but that they are also politically and socially more highly evolved and enlightened.  They are the homo sapiens to our Neanderthals.  It's what leads to their infuriating attitudes of smugness, superiority and condescension.  Furthermore, they believe they know what is best for everyone in every situation, and they insist on forcing their beliefs down everyone else's throats for that reason.  It's their way or the highway, and they are convinced they must convert the world to their way of thinking.  Everything in America's past is shamed or undercut for the utopia they have in their minds.

I'd like the members here to tell me if I'm on to something, or if I'm full of crap.

There is not a single phrase in your post, with which I disagree. You NAILED it!

Another thing I would add: conservatives think that liberals simply have bad or mistaken ideas; we are willing to concede that they are well-intentioned (mostly). Liberals (or Leftists), on the other hand, increasingly seem to indicate that they truly believe that conservatives are not merely wrong in their prescriptions, but are evil people. We are the deplorables--the racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamaphobic neanderthals who are the only thing standing in the way of their imagined utopia on Earth.

Thomas Sowell, on the liberal mindset: